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cross-posting]</span></p>
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Press
Release - Immediate<br>
Paris, France, September 24<sup>th</sup>, 2009<br>
<br>
The ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources at OLAC<br>
<br>
In the framework of its ongoing collaborative work with the OLAC
community and
in order to improve its compliance with OLAC standards, ELRA is pleased
to
announce that the OLAC archive of its Catalogue of Language Resources
has been
updated. According to OLAC standards, the ELRA Catalogue archive
achieves the
maximum rate of 5 stars on the OLAC scale.<br>
<o:p> </o:p><br>
The ELRA Catalogue has been exported
into OLAC standards by means of associating the ELRA metadata for
describing
Language Resources with the OLAC metadata. Daily updates are performed
through
the automatic harvesting of the ELRA Catalogue which is carried out by
the OLAC
server.<o:p><br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">With this work, ELRA aims at rendering
its catalogue more visible to the wider community and it contributes to
sharing
information on Language Resources through standardized metadata sets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>To visit
the ELRA Catalogue: <a href="http://catalogue.elra.info/">http://catalogue.elra.info</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">and the
corresponding OLAC archive: <a
href="http://www.language-archives.org/archive/catalogue.elra.info">http://www.language-archives.org/archive/catalogue.elra.info</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">*** About
ELRA ***<br>
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making
organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
mission of
providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human
Language
Technologies (HLT).<br>
<br>
To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: </span><a
href="http://www.elra.info"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">http://www.elra.info</span></a><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><br>
<br>
*** About OLAC ***<br>
OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an international
partnership of
institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual
library of
language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current
practice for
the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a
network of
interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such
resources. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">To find out
more about OLAC, please visit the following website: <a
href="http://www.language-archives.org/">http://www.language-archives.org</a>.
>From that website, ELRA resources can be searched, alongside resources
from 40
other language archives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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