summary pages

[Anthony Aristar]

Not quite true, Steven.  For example, if you choose an extinct language 
like, for example, Messapic (cms), or a language which has been recently 
discovered, like Dahalik (LL local use code qc1) , you will often find 
no resources, or simply a reference to the LL language record.

On 11/3/2010 7:16 PM, Steven Bird wrote:
> Its nice to see some activity on this mailing list!
>
> A page of ISO-639-3 codes for which no information is available would
> be empty, thanks to the Ethnologue.
>
> We could speculate about frequency-sorted lists, but any
> implementation would run into problems for languages where IMDI is
> providing metadata for individual sessions, contravening OLAC's
> granularity requirement "A metadata repository should treat resources
> with a single provenance as constituting a single unit with respect to
> OLAC metadata and should, therefore, describe them within a single
> record. " (http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/repositories.html#Guidelines%20concerning%20relevance%20and%20granularity).
>   For example:
>
> http://www.language-archives.org/language/bea
>
> I propose that you describe a few such reports in more detail as a
> feature request in the OLAC Issue Tracker at:
> http://code.google.com/p/olac/issues/entry?template=Feature%20Request
>
> Thanks,
> -Steven Bird
>
> On 4 November 2010 09:53, Nick Thieberger<thien at unimelb.edu.au>  wrote:
>> I really like using the OLAC pages which summarise information
>> available for any language based on the aggregated metadata
>> (http://www.language-archives.org/language/[XXX]). This in itself is a
>> powerful argument for using OLAC standards (as I will be arguing next
>> week at the CTLDC meeting in Tokyo).
>>
>> I am wondering if there is also a way of generating pages based on the
>> amount of information available, so that it would be possible to see a
>> page of ISO-639-3 codes for which there was no information available?
>> Or a list of all languages for which only descriptions occur but not
>> other material?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nick
>>

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