From gary_simons at SIL.ORG Wed Sep 24 21:26:44 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:26:44 -0400 Subject: Testing quarterly report to participating archives Message-ID: Dear Implementers, One of the points in our current plan for improving the OLAC infrastructure is: 1.1e Quarterly reporting: Develop an automated quarterly report to be emailed to curators to inform them of their metadata quality and currency and their usage statistics. We are happy to announce that this is ready for testing and a test report for each participating archive will be emailed within hours to the designated adminEmail for the archive, as well as the curatorEmail. We trust that this will help you to keep track of what is happening with your OLAC data provider and will encourage you to roll up your sleeves to bring it up to date. If you find errors in the report or have any other feedback on it, feel free to discuss that on this list if your comments seems applicable to the community as a whole or, if not, send them to just olac_project at gial.edu. I also want to remind you that our Call for Implementation for upgrading to version 1.1 of the OLAC metadata schema ends in another week. As announced in the original notice on this mailing list, the implementation period will close on 1 OCTOBER 2008, after which time we will move forward on making the new archives directory and metrics pages part of the public site. For the original notice concerning the call, 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 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 Wed Sep 24 21:26:44 2008 From: gary_simons at SIL.ORG (Gary Simons) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:26:44 -0400 Subject: Testing quarterly report to participating archives Message-ID: Dear Implementers, One of the points in our current plan for improving the OLAC infrastructure is: 1.1e Quarterly reporting: Develop an automated quarterly report to be emailed to curators to inform them of their metadata quality and currency and their usage statistics. We are happy to announce that this is ready for testing and a test report for each participating archive will be emailed within hours to the designated adminEmail for the archive, as well as the curatorEmail. We trust that this will help you to keep track of what is happening with your OLAC data provider and will encourage you to roll up your sleeves to bring it up to date. If you find errors in the report or have any other feedback on it, feel free to discuss that on this list if your comments seems applicable to the community as a whole or, if not, send them to just olac_project at gial.edu. I also want to remind you that our Call for Implementation for upgrading to version 1.1 of the OLAC metadata schema ends in another week. As announced in the original notice on this mailing list, the implementation period will close on 1 OCTOBER 2008, after which time we will move forward on making the new archives directory and metrics pages part of the public site. For the original notice concerning the call, 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 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)