From Gary_Simons at SIL.ORG Fri Jul 25 03:39:17 2008 From: Gary_Simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:39:17 -0500 Subject: Call for Implementation, OLAC Version 1.1 Message-ID: Dear implementers, As you know, version 1.0 of OLAC metadata has been around since 2002 and there has been an extended period of stability during which you have been able to develop and operate your interfaces to OLAC. Now that ISO 639-3 has been formally adopted and the set of language codes has been revised, we would like to reflect this in OLAC metadata. After all, accurate language identification is the cornerstone of our whole enterprise. With your input we have now completed the development of OLAC Version 1.1 metadata schemas. As part of this change we have taken the opportunity to improve the top-level description of OLAC repositories, to permit an archive's submission policy to be documented, and to permit more flexible identification of archive administrators, again with your input. Thus, we now have version 1.1 of the OLAC archive description schema. Additionally, we have developed new services for assessing the quality of OLAC metadata, and automatically scoring the quality of OLAC records relative to OLAC's new usage guidelines. In time, we hope to be able to get greater consistency of metadata usage across all participating archives. With a solid foundation based on quality metadata, OLAC will be able to move to the next phase of building improved search services and expanding coverage by attracting more participating archives and by implementing gateways to other aggregators. This will feed into our shared goal of helping end-users find the language resources they are looking for. CALL FOR IMPLEMENTATION A set of new documents is now ready for testing by participating archives. In accordance with the OLAC Process, these documents have gone through community review and have now been promoted to Candidate status by the OLAC Council. For a complete list of the candidate documents, see the OLAC document index at: http://www.language-archives.org/documents_by_status.html#Candidate These involve changes to the OLAC standards that define the new version 1.1 of the OLAC metadata and repository schemas. A call for implementation is now issued during which all participating archives are asked to implement the changes. The implementation period will close on 1 OCTOBER 2008. Please post all feedback to the OLAC-IMPLEMENTERS list, or if you want to communicate privately, to olac_project at gial.edu. The updates to the OLAC schemas and infrastructure being tested in this candidate release involve three main areas: * Updating to version 1.1 of the metadata and repository schemas * Updating the OLAC-Language vocabulary * Improving metadata quality See the following web page for more details on how to implement the needed changes: http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/Call_for_1.1 The focus of recent OLAC development work has been improving metadata quality and we have implemented infrastructure (explained in the above web page) for improving quality. As part of the current research project we are also able to offer metadata consulting; a professional archivist is available to review your current metadata records and give advice about what should be done to improve their quality. If you are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, please send a request to olac_project at gial.edu. At the close of the implementation period on 1 OCTOBER 2008, all feedback concerning the documents and current implementation will be processed by the Coordinators and Council to arrive at final adopted versions, or if necessary, new Candidate versions will be prepared for further review. The new version of the Participating Archives page and the metrics pages will be released to the public site when all of these documents achieve Adopted status. Thanks for your participation in OLAC and in this task of updating the XML format and improving metadata quality. 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 Tue Jul 29 04:24:27 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:24:27 -0400 Subject: Correction to candidate OLAC Repositories standard Message-ID: Dear implementers, We've had our first instance of a problem being found by the testing during the current Call for Implementation. It has to do with the "email" attribute of the new element in the description of the Identify response. The documentation in the OLAC Repositories standard said that the value must be a mailto: URI. However, it also required that one of the participant emails matches the value of (which is part of the OAI standard), and that value is just the email address, not a mailto: URI. Therefore the OLAC Repositories standard (and the olac-archives.xsd schema) have been corrected to specify a plain email address for the "email" attribute. We are anticipating a series of minor changes like this and do not want to create a new document release for every such change. Therefore, we are not updating the Candidate version that is posted on the site, but will be updating a pending new version that is stored in the SVN repository of our development site at SourceForge. The URL for this new version (and all subsequent revisions during this testing phase) is: http://olac.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/olac/web/OLAC/repositories-new.html The link to "OLAC Repositories" in the Call for Implementation on the project wiki site has been updated to this very latest version: http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/Call_for_1.1 Please report any other problems you find to this list so that we can get them fixed. -Gary From Gary_Simons at SIL.ORG Fri Jul 25 03:39:17 2008 From: Gary_Simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:39:17 -0500 Subject: Call for Implementation, OLAC Version 1.1 Message-ID: Dear implementers, As you know, version 1.0 of OLAC metadata has been around since 2002 and there has been an extended period of stability during which you have been able to develop and operate your interfaces to OLAC. Now that ISO 639-3 has been formally adopted and the set of language codes has been revised, we would like to reflect this in OLAC metadata. After all, accurate language identification is the cornerstone of our whole enterprise. With your input we have now completed the development of OLAC Version 1.1 metadata schemas. As part of this change we have taken the opportunity to improve the top-level description of OLAC repositories, to permit an archive's submission policy to be documented, and to permit more flexible identification of archive administrators, again with your input. Thus, we now have version 1.1 of the OLAC archive description schema. Additionally, we have developed new services for assessing the quality of OLAC metadata, and automatically scoring the quality of OLAC records relative to OLAC's new usage guidelines. In time, we hope to be able to get greater consistency of metadata usage across all participating archives. With a solid foundation based on quality metadata, OLAC will be able to move to the next phase of building improved search services and expanding coverage by attracting more participating archives and by implementing gateways to other aggregators. This will feed into our shared goal of helping end-users find the language resources they are looking for. CALL FOR IMPLEMENTATION A set of new documents is now ready for testing by participating archives. In accordance with the OLAC Process, these documents have gone through community review and have now been promoted to Candidate status by the OLAC Council. For a complete list of the candidate documents, see the OLAC document index at: http://www.language-archives.org/documents_by_status.html#Candidate These involve changes to the OLAC standards that define the new version 1.1 of the OLAC metadata and repository schemas. A call for implementation is now issued during which all participating archives are asked to implement the changes. The implementation period will close on 1 OCTOBER 2008. Please post all feedback to the OLAC-IMPLEMENTERS list, or if you want to communicate privately, to olac_project at gial.edu. The updates to the OLAC schemas and infrastructure being tested in this candidate release involve three main areas: * Updating to version 1.1 of the metadata and repository schemas * Updating the OLAC-Language vocabulary * Improving metadata quality See the following web page for more details on how to implement the needed changes: http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/Call_for_1.1 The focus of recent OLAC development work has been improving metadata quality and we have implemented infrastructure (explained in the above web page) for improving quality. As part of the current research project we are also able to offer metadata consulting; a professional archivist is available to review your current metadata records and give advice about what should be done to improve their quality. If you are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, please send a request to olac_project at gial.edu. At the close of the implementation period on 1 OCTOBER 2008, all feedback concerning the documents and current implementation will be processed by the Coordinators and Council to arrive at final adopted versions, or if necessary, new Candidate versions will be prepared for further review. The new version of the Participating Archives page and the metrics pages will be released to the public site when all of these documents achieve Adopted status. Thanks for your participation in OLAC and in this task of updating the XML format and improving metadata quality. 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 Tue Jul 29 04:24:27 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:24:27 -0400 Subject: Correction to candidate OLAC Repositories standard Message-ID: Dear implementers, We've had our first instance of a problem being found by the testing during the current Call for Implementation. It has to do with the "email" attribute of the new element in the description of the Identify response. The documentation in the OLAC Repositories standard said that the value must be a mailto: URI. However, it also required that one of the participant emails matches the value of (which is part of the OAI standard), and that value is just the email address, not a mailto: URI. Therefore the OLAC Repositories standard (and the olac-archives.xsd schema) have been corrected to specify a plain email address for the "email" attribute. We are anticipating a series of minor changes like this and do not want to create a new document release for every such change. Therefore, we are not updating the Candidate version that is posted on the site, but will be updating a pending new version that is stored in the SVN repository of our development site at SourceForge. The URL for this new version (and all subsequent revisions during this testing phase) is: http://olac.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/olac/web/OLAC/repositories-new.html The link to "OLAC Repositories" in the Call for Implementation on the project wiki site has been updated to this very latest version: http://olac.wiki.sourceforge.net/Call_for_1.1 Please report any other problems you find to this list so that we can get them fixed. -Gary