online language material

[Nick Thieberger]

I am wondering what language collections exist outside of the Open
Language Archives Community and how they can be included in that
wonderful search tool. For those who don't know, OLAC points at
descriptions of items in collections, see:

http://search.language-archives.org/index.html

These descriptions use a standard language code and allow you to find
all information about a particular language by using the following url
(where XXX is the language code):
http://www.language-archives.org/language/XXX

There are collections that include material in small and endangered
languages but that are not 'language archives' themselves, for
example, they may be collections of texts, or they may be state
archives or libraries that do not provide their catalogs in terms of
language content.

I have tried out a way of including descriptions as single items in
the PARADISEC catalog, for example:
http://search.language-archives.org/search.html?q=%09GG1-01

To build on this it would be great to have a team of (volunteer)
editors who could add items to this catalog. Is anyone interested?
Please write to me off-list and I'll set up an area for you to edit
the catalog.

Thanks,

Nick