ISBN numbers and OLAC

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES Contributors,

    We have now assigned ISBN numbers to each of the CHILDES corpora.
These numbers will be particularly interesting for the people who have
contributed the respective corpora, since you can now use the ISBN
number in your bibliographies and resumes to cite the corpus as a full
publication.  To locate each ISBN number, just download the relevant
corpus and look at the beginning of the directory listing for a file
called 0metadata.cdc.  Within that file, you will see a line called
"Identifier".  This is the
ISBN number.  While checking for this number, you can also review the
other information listed for your corpus.  These fields are designed to
all web-based accessed to the corpora through a system called OLAC
being designed by the Open Language Archives Community
(http://www.language-archives.org).  Here is a sample set of entries
from
one corpus in the bilingual section of the database.  The two-letter
codes for the languages are taken from published standards.  We
consider the Creator to be the Contributor in all of our corpora.

--Brian MacWhinney

Title:	Navracsics Corpus
Creator:	Navracsics, Judit
Subject:	child language development
Subject.olac:linguistic-field:	language_acquisition
Subject.olac:language:	en
Subject.olac:language:	fa
Subject.olac:language:	hu
Subject.childes:participant:	age="2 - 5"
Description:	Persian, English, Hungarian trilingual children
Publisher:	TalkBank
Contributor:	
Date:		2004-03-30
Type:	text
Type.olac:linguistic-type:	primary_text
Type.olac:discourse-type:	dialogue
Format:		
Identifier:	1-59642-141-X
Language:	
Relation:
Coverage:
Rights: