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Building an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI foundation

Gary Simons (Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at SIL International, Dallas, Texas, USA.)
Steven Bird (Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Senior Research Associate at the Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, USA.)

Library Hi Tech

ISSN: 0737-8831

Article publication date: 1 June 2003

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Abstract

The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources. The Dublin Core (DC) Element Set and the OAI Protocol have provided a solid foundation for the OLAC framework. However, we need more precision in community‐specific aspects of resource description than is offered by DC. Furthermore, many of the institutions and individuals who might participate in OLAC do not have the technical resources to support the OAI protocol. This paper presents our solutions to these two problems.

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Simons, G. and Bird, S. (2003), "Building an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI foundation", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 210-218. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830310479848

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