OLAC Metadata Standard: Call for review

[Ru-Yng Chang]

Re: OLAC Metadata Standard: Call for reviewI'm sorry. I'm late.
I have some comments and information.

1.
I agree to include additional element or refinement under the DC element,
too.
Giving an example in the document would be better.

2.
There are some inconsistent update dates between "Recommended metadata
extensions" and each document of extension.
eg.
Code for Discourse Types(Recommended metadata extensions,
http://www.language-archives.org/REC/olac-extensions.html)-- Date:
2002-11-21.
OLAC Discourse Type
Vocabulary(http://www.language-archives.org/REC/discourse.html)--Date
issued: 2003-01-27

3.
Avoid reduplicating the vocabulary item of the OLAC extension and the
third-party extension.
The member of OLAC will be notified as soon as there is any change in the
OLAC extension.

4.
I have completed the Chinese translation for OLAC Metadata(2003-05-31) ,OLAC
Linguistic Subject Vocabulary(2003-01-21), OLAC Linguistic Data Type
Vocabulary(2002-12-12),
but these documents have not yet been carefully proofread.
I will continue to translate related documents into Chinese.
I will give feedback to OLAC as soon as the mission is accomplished.

Thanks.

Ru-Yng Chang

----- Original Message -----
From: Nicholas Thieberger
To: OLAC-IMPLEMENTERS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: OLAC Metadata Standard: Call for review




Having gone through a long process of implementation of the OLAC metadata
set I appreciate the work that has gone into developing it.


I also appreciate that it is possible to include additional metadata under
the appropriate <dc:...> element and so this metadata standard is not as
restrictive  as it first appeared (to me anyway).


One issue in the current version: Is the following true? From the PARADISEC
experience it seems that every element needs to have a namespace declared:
By convention the namespace prefix olac is used, and the DC namespace is
declared to  be the default so that the metadata element tags need not be
prefixed.


Thanks for the opportunity to comment


Nick




Hi folks,

We haven't heard any feedback on the metadata document.  Please send any
comments this week (i.e. by Friday 17 October).  If you think it is ok as it
is, please let us know, thanks.

  http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/metadata.html

Steven (& Gary)

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Dear implementers of the OLAC Metadata standard,

At our last workshop in December 2002 we established version 1.0 of
the OLAC Metadata set.  This document defines the format used by the
OLAC repositories for the interchange of metadata within the framework
of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). The metadata set is based on
Qualified Dublin Core, but the format allows for the use of
extensions to express community-specific qualifiers ("OLAC extensions").

At present there are five OLAC extensions in use, for Discourse Types,
Language Identification, Linguistic Field, Linguistic Data Types, and
Participant Roles.  Four of these are now documented as draft OLAC
Recommendations, thanks to Heidi Johnson, Helen Aristar Dry and
Michael Appleby [http://www.language-archives.org/REC/olac-extensions.html]

OLAC Metadata is currently in Candidate status, and we feel it is now
time to do the final processing to promote it to Adopted status.
According to the OLAC Process, we are now issuing a call for review
``in which the community members who have actually put the document to
use are invited to describe their experience and comment on whether it
is ready to advance to adoption, potentially with changes they might
recommend.''

Would you please read the OLAC Metadata document once more and direct
feedback to this list or directly to us?  Is it ready for adoption as
an OLAC Standard, i.e. as a set of specifications that archives must
follow when implementing an OLAC-compliant repository?  Please respond
by Friday 10 October at the latest.

After this deadline, the OLAC Council will review your feedback and
determine any final wording changes. If there is a consensus that the
document is ready, the Council will approve it for adoption as an OLAC
Standard.

The document can be found at:


  http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/metadata.html


Thanks,


Steven & Gary




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