From Gary_Simons at sil.org Tue Jun 5 21:05:33 2001 From: Gary_Simons at sil.org (Gary Simons) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:05:33 -0500 Subject: Call for Review: OLAC process document Message-ID: Dear community, Since our workshop last December, we have been making steady progress toward developing the infrastructure of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). Most recently, Steven and I have completed the drafting of a process document that defines OLAC structure and governance, with primary focus given to the document process since it is through documents that OLAC will speak as a community. We have reviewed this with the OLAC Advisory Board and feel that it is now ready to be presented to the community as a proposed standard. The URL is: http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/process.html In terms of the process defined in the document, this announcement amounts to the call for review at the opening of the proposal phase. However, we do not yet have the infrastructure in place to support the voting process described in the document. Thus, this is only an informal review in which we are soliciting your feedback; in response to that feedback we would plan to revise the document. As we move toward the fall launch date that was targeted by the December workshop, we will call for the formal review that would eventually promote the document to candidate status. We will be ready for the launch when all the documents that define the basic infrastructure reach candidate status. The plan, as agreed to in the workshop, will then be to hold the documents unchanged during a one-year testing phase. At the end of that phase, the final revisions and formal voting for adoption would take place. OLAC-General is a moderated list. You may reply to the list with your feedback. We will then post your replies to the list individually or collect them into digests as seems appropriate based on size and timing. Your feedback is essential to the process of building the kind of community that we all envisioned in the workshop last December. We look forward to hearing from you! Best wishes, Gary (& Steven) ________ Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania (sb at ldc.upenn.edu) Gary Simons, SIL International (gary_simons at sil.org) OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org) From Gary_Simons at sil.org Mon Jun 18 04:04:37 2001 From: Gary_Simons at sil.org (Gary Simons) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:04:37 -0500 Subject: New draft of OLAC Metadata Set document Message-ID: Dear community, I have just posted a new draft of the document describing the proposed metadata set for the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). This is the foundational document that lays out the standards that participating archives would follow when generating XML descriptions of their language resources. The URL is: http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/olacms.html The main change in this version is that it corrects a serious omission from the previous version issued April 25. Due to an error in the stylesheet, the "Comments" section in the description of each metadata element (which were present in the April 6 version) came out blank. When I noticed that two days ago, I immediately started work on the next draft. In addition to reinstating the missing comments, it incorporates a change to Date that brings it in line with version 0.3 of the XML schema, and makes changes to the descriptions of Contributor, Relation, and Source that were prompted by feedback we received following the previous posting of the document. My apologies to any of you who tried to make use of the previous version and found that it did not give very much help in determining how to use each element. At least this latest version will give you all the information we have developed. If you still have trouble determining how to use particular elements, then please give us feedback! Also, take special note of the "To do" comments in red; if you could give some help in any of those matter we'd be happy for volunteers! We hope to hear from some of you. Your participation and feedback is essential for building a metadata standard taht will truly meet the needs of our community. Best wishes, Gary ________ Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania (sb at ldc.upenn.edu) Gary Simons, SIL International (gary_simons at sil.org) OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org) From Gary_Simons at sil.org Tue Jun 5 21:05:33 2001 From: Gary_Simons at sil.org (Gary Simons) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:05:33 -0500 Subject: Call for Review: OLAC process document Message-ID: Dear community, Since our workshop last December, we have been making steady progress toward developing the infrastructure of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). Most recently, Steven and I have completed the drafting of a process document that defines OLAC structure and governance, with primary focus given to the document process since it is through documents that OLAC will speak as a community. We have reviewed this with the OLAC Advisory Board and feel that it is now ready to be presented to the community as a proposed standard. The URL is: http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/process.html In terms of the process defined in the document, this announcement amounts to the call for review at the opening of the proposal phase. However, we do not yet have the infrastructure in place to support the voting process described in the document. Thus, this is only an informal review in which we are soliciting your feedback; in response to that feedback we would plan to revise the document. As we move toward the fall launch date that was targeted by the December workshop, we will call for the formal review that would eventually promote the document to candidate status. We will be ready for the launch when all the documents that define the basic infrastructure reach candidate status. The plan, as agreed to in the workshop, will then be to hold the documents unchanged during a one-year testing phase. At the end of that phase, the final revisions and formal voting for adoption would take place. OLAC-General is a moderated list. You may reply to the list with your feedback. We will then post your replies to the list individually or collect them into digests as seems appropriate based on size and timing. Your feedback is essential to the process of building the kind of community that we all envisioned in the workshop last December. We look forward to hearing from you! Best wishes, Gary (& Steven) ________ Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania (sb at ldc.upenn.edu) Gary Simons, SIL International (gary_simons at sil.org) OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org) From Gary_Simons at sil.org Mon Jun 18 04:04:37 2001 From: Gary_Simons at sil.org (Gary Simons) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:04:37 -0500 Subject: New draft of OLAC Metadata Set document Message-ID: Dear community, I have just posted a new draft of the document describing the proposed metadata set for the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). This is the foundational document that lays out the standards that participating archives would follow when generating XML descriptions of their language resources. The URL is: http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/olacms.html The main change in this version is that it corrects a serious omission from the previous version issued April 25. Due to an error in the stylesheet, the "Comments" section in the description of each metadata element (which were present in the April 6 version) came out blank. When I noticed that two days ago, I immediately started work on the next draft. In addition to reinstating the missing comments, it incorporates a change to Date that brings it in line with version 0.3 of the XML schema, and makes changes to the descriptions of Contributor, Relation, and Source that were prompted by feedback we received following the previous posting of the document. My apologies to any of you who tried to make use of the previous version and found that it did not give very much help in determining how to use each element. At least this latest version will give you all the information we have developed. If you still have trouble determining how to use particular elements, then please give us feedback! Also, take special note of the "To do" comments in red; if you could give some help in any of those matter we'd be happy for volunteers! We hope to hear from some of you. Your participation and feedback is essential for building a metadata standard taht will truly meet the needs of our community. Best wishes, Gary ________ Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania (sb at ldc.upenn.edu) Gary Simons, SIL International (gary_simons at sil.org) OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org)