OLAC Compliance and the Survey

[Steven Bird]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 08:22, Marc Ettlinger wrote:

> I'm not sure if there's a standard established or what the mediating
> authority is for the metadata on data archives.

A very coarse standard exists for archive description, as specified in
section 3 of the OLAC Repositories standard [1].  There is a more
detailed questionnaire about language archives [2] that this group might
like to take over as a kind of outreach activity.

[1] http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/repositories.html
[2] http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/survey.html

-Steven Bird