From gary_simons at SIL.ORG Tue Aug 26 20:51:16 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:51:16 -0400 Subject: Progress on implementation Message-ID: Dear implementers, This is a reminder that our Call for Implementation for upgrading to version 1.1 of the OLAC metadata schema has another 5 weeks to go. As announced in the original notice on this mailing list, the implementation period will close on 1 OCTOBER 2008. For the original notice, see the list archives: http://lists.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0807&L=olac-implementers#1 The document with instructions for how to upgrade is found on the OLAC Wiki at: http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/Call_for_1.1 This would be a good week to work on your upgrade since Haejoong Lee (the OLAC infrastructure programmer at LDC) is working on the project this week and will be able to give attention to problems you might encounter with the new infrastructure. To see the new infrastructure (which is still behind wraps until the implementation period is over) go to this page: http://www.language-archives.org/archives-new.php One new feature is the green check mark or the red X which indicates whether the archive is successfully harvesting or not. It turns out that 7 of our archives (or nearly 20%) are not harvesting (e.g. because the static repository file is no longer there or is invalid). You will want to look into that if your archive shows an X. Click on the Metrics link to see summary statistics for your archive. If it reports any Known Integrity Problems, you will want to click on the link to see what they are. The two most prevalent kinds of problems are broken URL references and invalid code values. You will also want to click on the Comparative Archive Metrics tab to see a table showing how your archive compares with the others on the basic metrics. Back on the Archives page, click on the Sample Record link to see an analysis of what you could do to improve the quality of the metadata descriptions in your repository. As I mentioned in the original Call for Implementation, if you would like help thinking through what your archive could do to improve its metadata quality, we have a professional archivist who is available to review your current metadata records and give advice about how to improve their quality. If you are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, please send a request to olac_project at gial.edu. Best, -Gary ____ 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 Fri Aug 29 22:45:07 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:45:07 -0400 Subject: OLAC milestone achieved Message-ID: Today we have reached a milestone in the life of OLAC -- the Audio Archive of Linguistic Fieldwork (of the Berkeley Language Center) has become the first participating archive to achieve a five-star rating on our new comparative metrics page: http://www.language-archives.org/metrics/compare (Click on the "overall Rating" heading to order the archives by overall rating.) Kudos to Susan Stone for her work on implementing the static repository for this collection. Let me remind you that we have a professional archivist on the project who is available to review your current metadata records and give advice about how to improve their quality. If you'd like to take advantage of this, please let us know at olac_project at gial.edu. Best, -Gary ____ 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 Tue Aug 26 20:51:16 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:51:16 -0400 Subject: Progress on implementation Message-ID: Dear implementers, This is a reminder that our Call for Implementation for upgrading to version 1.1 of the OLAC metadata schema has another 5 weeks to go. As announced in the original notice on this mailing list, the implementation period will close on 1 OCTOBER 2008. For the original notice, see the list archives: http://lists.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0807&L=olac-implementers#1 The document with instructions for how to upgrade is found on the OLAC Wiki at: http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/Call_for_1.1 This would be a good week to work on your upgrade since Haejoong Lee (the OLAC infrastructure programmer at LDC) is working on the project this week and will be able to give attention to problems you might encounter with the new infrastructure. To see the new infrastructure (which is still behind wraps until the implementation period is over) go to this page: http://www.language-archives.org/archives-new.php One new feature is the green check mark or the red X which indicates whether the archive is successfully harvesting or not. It turns out that 7 of our archives (or nearly 20%) are not harvesting (e.g. because the static repository file is no longer there or is invalid). You will want to look into that if your archive shows an X. Click on the Metrics link to see summary statistics for your archive. If it reports any Known Integrity Problems, you will want to click on the link to see what they are. The two most prevalent kinds of problems are broken URL references and invalid code values. You will also want to click on the Comparative Archive Metrics tab to see a table showing how your archive compares with the others on the basic metrics. Back on the Archives page, click on the Sample Record link to see an analysis of what you could do to improve the quality of the metadata descriptions in your repository. As I mentioned in the original Call for Implementation, if you would like help thinking through what your archive could do to improve its metadata quality, we have a professional archivist who is available to review your current metadata records and give advice about how to improve their quality. If you are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, please send a request to olac_project at gial.edu. Best, -Gary ____ 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 Fri Aug 29 22:45:07 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:45:07 -0400 Subject: OLAC milestone achieved Message-ID: Today we have reached a milestone in the life of OLAC -- the Audio Archive of Linguistic Fieldwork (of the Berkeley Language Center) has become the first participating archive to achieve a five-star rating on our new comparative metrics page: http://www.language-archives.org/metrics/compare (Click on the "overall Rating" heading to order the archives by overall rating.) Kudos to Susan Stone for her work on implementing the static repository for this collection. Let me remind you that we have a professional archivist on the project who is available to review your current metadata records and give advice about how to improve their quality. If you'd like to take advantage of this, please let us know at olac_project at gial.edu. Best, -Gary ____ Steven Bird, University of Melbourne and University of Pennsylvania Gary Simons, SIL International and GIAL OLAC Coordinators (www.language-archives.org)