From gary_simons at SIL.ORG Thu Mar 6 04:33:06 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:33:06 -0500 Subject: Call for review of new metadata documents Message-ID: Dear community, Six months ago the US National Science Foundation awarded funding for a project named "OLAC: Accessing the World's Language Resources" which aims to greatly improve access to language resources for linguists and the broader communities of interest. If you are interested in learning more about the project, you may visit the project home page at: http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/ In the first phase of the project we are focusing on improving metadata quality as a prerequisite to improving the quality of search. To that end we have drafted some new documents that can serve as a basis for improving and measuring metadata quality within our community: Best Practice Recommendations for Language Resource Description http://www.language-archives.org/REC/bpr.html OLAC Metadata Usage Guidelines http://www.language-archives.org/NOTE/usage.html OLAC Metadata Quality Metrics http://www.language-archives.org/NOTE/metrics.html These documents have been reviewed in Draft status by the Metadata Working Group. After significant revision, they are now promoted to Proposed status and are thus ready for review by the entire community. In keeping with the OLAC Process standard, we hereby make a formal call for review. The review period will end on MARCH 31, at which point all of the comments that have been received will be processed to create revised versions of the documents. Please submit your comments by addressing a message to: olac_project at gial.edu Thank you for your interest and participation. Best wishes, Gary & Steven _______ Steven Bird, University of Melbourne and University of Pennsylvania Gary Simons, SIL International and GIAL OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org) From gary_simons at SIL.ORG Thu Mar 6 04:33:06 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:33:06 -0500 Subject: Call for review of new metadata documents Message-ID: Dear community, Six months ago the US National Science Foundation awarded funding for a project named "OLAC: Accessing the World's Language Resources" which aims to greatly improve access to language resources for linguists and the broader communities of interest. If you are interested in learning more about the project, you may visit the project home page at: http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/ In the first phase of the project we are focusing on improving metadata quality as a prerequisite to improving the quality of search. To that end we have drafted some new documents that can serve as a basis for improving and measuring metadata quality within our community: Best Practice Recommendations for Language Resource Description http://www.language-archives.org/REC/bpr.html OLAC Metadata Usage Guidelines http://www.language-archives.org/NOTE/usage.html OLAC Metadata Quality Metrics http://www.language-archives.org/NOTE/metrics.html These documents have been reviewed in Draft status by the Metadata Working Group. After significant revision, they are now promoted to Proposed status and are thus ready for review by the entire community. In keeping with the OLAC Process standard, we hereby make a formal call for review. The review period will end on MARCH 31, at which point all of the comments that have been received will be processed to create revised versions of the documents. Please submit your comments by addressing a message to: olac_project at gial.edu Thank you for your interest and participation. Best wishes, Gary & Steven _______ Steven Bird, University of Melbourne and University of Pennsylvania Gary Simons, SIL International and GIAL OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org)