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[Chu-Ren Huang]

Dear All:

I agree witih Heidi.

Chu-Ren

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:44:13 -0400, Heidi Johnson wrote
> Nick Thieberger wrote:
> >Dear OLAC implemeenters
>
> >I write to ask if the metadata discusssion is ongoing or is it now
closed? As we
> >develop our archive we are adding to our controlled vocabularies and
wonder if the
> >OLAC (that is, the community) want to add these to the standards, or
prefer to have
> >metadata extensions for each small repository.
>
> >It seems to me that enhancing the OLAC standard would be preferable, so
we are
> >suggesting that 'song' and 'instrumental_music' be added to the
datatypes.
>
> >We also ask that 'isTranscriptof', 'isTranscribedby' be added as
attributes of the
> >relation element.
>
> What did we decide about a revision schedule for metadata terms? Did
> we decide anything? Maybe we should have something like an annual
> revision protocol, whereby we discuss revisions on the list for a
> month or so and then adjust the docs? Would that make sense?
>
> We certainly need to change the controlled vocabularies from time to
> time. I remember that our goal during the workshops was to keep the
> lists as short as possible, but my personal feeling is that they
> should be allowed to grow as needed. 100 terms is a lot to display
> on a menu, but it's not particularly troublesome to search. Archives
> might not need all of them, but as a group we will surely end up
> needed a largish set of, for example, genre terms.
>
> I've already added 'chant' to AILLA's genre keywords, even though
> it's not in either OLAC or IMDI. But every second thing from
> Amazonia is a chant, and all the experts agree that a chant is a
> chant is a chant: it's not speech+song, or whatever. We also have
> 'song', so I second Nick's amendment, and agree that we need
> 'instrumental_music' as well.
>
> I think we were being too strict about whether a genre is linguistic
> or not. In documenting endangered languages, we get all kinds of
> materials that properly belong in the same corpus, although they may
> not be linguistic data. instrumental music is certainly one such;
> teaching materials are another. We are getting more and more of this
> kind of thing (calendars, illustrated encyclopedias, primers, etc.)
> at AILLA and we strongly encourage archiving and disseminating
> these things broadly, because they are so useful for helping
> everyone think of better ways to revitalize and support these
> languages. So, we need genre terms for this stuff, too. Any ideas?
>
> I haven't seen any attributes of the Relation element: is there a
> document for that? I would also second Nick's 'isTranscriptof',
> 'isTranscribedby'. Perhaps then we would also want
> 'isTranslationof', 'isAnnotationof'?? The standard companion texts,
> in other words.
>
> I think it's worth being fully descriptive rather than strictly
> parsimonious with terms.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> Heidi Johnson

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Chu-Ren Huang (churen at sinica.edu.tw)
http://corpus.ling.sinica.edu.tw/member/churen/
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
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