From sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu Mon May 20 16:10:48 2002 From: sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Steven Bird) Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:10:48 EDT Subject: News from the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) Message-ID: Dear Community, The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) has seen some significant developments since our last general news update in December. Here is an update on the ongoing activities. EUROPEAN LAUNCH ON 29 MAY AT LREC OLAC will be officially launched in Europe at an OLAC symposium to take place at the 3rd Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, in Las Palmas, Spain, Wednesday 29 May 2002 (14:40-16:40). The symposium will include presentations from Antonio Zampolli, Helen Aristar-Dry, Gary Simons, Hans Uszkoreit, Martin Wynne, Laurent Romary, Steven Bird and Nicholas Ostler. Also at LREC there will a series of discussions on OLAC controlled vocabularies, to take place on Thursday 30 May, as follows: 1. Language codes 9:45-10:45 2. Type.functionality 11:00-13:00 3. Type.linguistic 14:40-16:40 For each session we will meet at the east end of the foyer, then find a suitable location (unfortunately the organizers could not assign us a room in advance). NEW ARCHIVES JOIN OLAC Several more language archives are now participating in OLAC, bringing the total to 19. The new archives are: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Fran�aise Curators: Laurent Romary and Zina Tucsnak (ATILF) Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Curators: Leanne Hinton and Laura Buszard-Welcher (UC Berkeley) Academia Sinica archives of Formosan and Early Mandarin Curators: Chu-Ren Huang, Arthur Ya-Ning Chen, Sophy Chen (Academia Sinica) TalkBank: A Multimodal Database of Communicative Interaction (includes the CHILDES database) Curators: Brian MacWhinney, Romeo Anghelache (CMU) Rosetta Project 1000 Language Archive Curators: Jim Mason (Long Now Foundation) For more information about participating archives, please see: http://www.language-archives.org/organization.html OLAC SERVICES SOON TO BE LAUNCHED ON LINGUIST SITE LINGUIST List will shortly announce their new OLAC search engine and metadata editor. The service incorporates the OLAC harvester and repository editor developed by Eva Banik and Alan Lee at the LDC. You can try out the repository editor prototype (ORE) at: http://www.language-archives.org/tools/ore/ LANGUAGE CODES WORKING GROUP: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The OLAC Working Group on Language Codes will create OLAC standards concerning language code vocabularies and their management. In scope are all human languages, living, recently extinct, ancient and constructed. Constructed languages include proto languages and artificial languages. Out of scope is the classification of languages into language families. The group has three working drafts: 1. LINGUIST Codes for Ancient and Constructed Languages (A. Aristar) 2. SIL Three-letter Codes for Identifying Languages: Migrating from in-house standard to community standard (G. Simons) 3. Managing LINGUIST Codes for Ancient and Constructed Languages (A. Aristar) The group will conduct its work on the EMELD-CODES mailing list which is hosted on the LINGUIST site. To learn more and to join the group, please see: http://www.language-archives.org/wg/language-codes/ REGISTRATION FOR OLAC ARCHIVES A new validation and registration service has been set up for would-be archives, which automatically checks the requirements of the OLAC Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. For more information, please see: http://www.language-archives.org/register/archive.html For full details and more news, please consult the OLAC website at http://www.language-archives.org/ Best wishes, Steven & 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 sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu Mon May 20 16:10:48 2002 From: sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Steven Bird) Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:10:48 EDT Subject: News from the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) Message-ID: Dear Community, The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) has seen some significant developments since our last general news update in December. Here is an update on the ongoing activities. EUROPEAN LAUNCH ON 29 MAY AT LREC OLAC will be officially launched in Europe at an OLAC symposium to take place at the 3rd Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, in Las Palmas, Spain, Wednesday 29 May 2002 (14:40-16:40). The symposium will include presentations from Antonio Zampolli, Helen Aristar-Dry, Gary Simons, Hans Uszkoreit, Martin Wynne, Laurent Romary, Steven Bird and Nicholas Ostler. Also at LREC there will a series of discussions on OLAC controlled vocabularies, to take place on Thursday 30 May, as follows: 1. Language codes 9:45-10:45 2. Type.functionality 11:00-13:00 3. Type.linguistic 14:40-16:40 For each session we will meet at the east end of the foyer, then find a suitable location (unfortunately the organizers could not assign us a room in advance). NEW ARCHIVES JOIN OLAC Several more language archives are now participating in OLAC, bringing the total to 19. The new archives are: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Fran?aise Curators: Laurent Romary and Zina Tucsnak (ATILF) Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Curators: Leanne Hinton and Laura Buszard-Welcher (UC Berkeley) Academia Sinica archives of Formosan and Early Mandarin Curators: Chu-Ren Huang, Arthur Ya-Ning Chen, Sophy Chen (Academia Sinica) TalkBank: A Multimodal Database of Communicative Interaction (includes the CHILDES database) Curators: Brian MacWhinney, Romeo Anghelache (CMU) Rosetta Project 1000 Language Archive Curators: Jim Mason (Long Now Foundation) For more information about participating archives, please see: http://www.language-archives.org/organization.html OLAC SERVICES SOON TO BE LAUNCHED ON LINGUIST SITE LINGUIST List will shortly announce their new OLAC search engine and metadata editor. The service incorporates the OLAC harvester and repository editor developed by Eva Banik and Alan Lee at the LDC. You can try out the repository editor prototype (ORE) at: http://www.language-archives.org/tools/ore/ LANGUAGE CODES WORKING GROUP: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The OLAC Working Group on Language Codes will create OLAC standards concerning language code vocabularies and their management. In scope are all human languages, living, recently extinct, ancient and constructed. Constructed languages include proto languages and artificial languages. Out of scope is the classification of languages into language families. The group has three working drafts: 1. LINGUIST Codes for Ancient and Constructed Languages (A. Aristar) 2. SIL Three-letter Codes for Identifying Languages: Migrating from in-house standard to community standard (G. Simons) 3. Managing LINGUIST Codes for Ancient and Constructed Languages (A. Aristar) The group will conduct its work on the EMELD-CODES mailing list which is hosted on the LINGUIST site. To learn more and to join the group, please see: http://www.language-archives.org/wg/language-codes/ REGISTRATION FOR OLAC ARCHIVES A new validation and registration service has been set up for would-be archives, which automatically checks the requirements of the OLAC Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. For more information, please see: http://www.language-archives.org/register/archive.html For full details and more news, please consult the OLAC website at http://www.language-archives.org/ Best wishes, Steven & 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)