The Electronic Library: Volume 40 Issue 5

Guest editorial: Digital language archives

Oksana Zavalina, Shobhana Lakshmi Chelliah

The Open Language Archives Community: a 20-year update

Steven Bird, Gary F. Simons

This paper reports on the first 20 years of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), comprehensive infrastructure for indexing and discovering language resources.

Conceptualising language archives through legacy materials

Tobias Weber

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of linguistic legacy materials within archives and databases. These data of past documentation projects are currently playing a…

Linguistic archives and language communities questionnaire: establishing (re-)use criteria

Ilya Khait, Leonore Lukschy, Mandana Seyfeddinipur

The purpose of this paper is to prepare data that can be used as a base for establishing best practices for making archival linguistic materials available for (re-)use by members…

Evaluation and analysis of digital language archives development platforms: a parametric approach

Sneha Bharti, Ranjeet Kumar Singh

While the obstacles of archiving endangered languages are significant, the question of which platform is best for building a digital language archive is constantly present. The…

Creating workflow for mediated archiving in CoRSAL

Merrion Dale

Language archiving is achieved through the detailed assessment and assemblage of various types of language data. The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is…

Using existing metadata standards and tools for a digital language archive: a balancing act

Mary Burke, Hannah Tarver, Mark Edward Phillips, Oksana Zavalina

Building a digital language archive requires a number of steps to ensure collecting, describing, preserving and providing access to language data in effective and efficient ways…

A collaboratory model for creation of digital language archives in India

Karthick Narayanan R., Meiraba Takhellambam

This paper aims to explore a model of digital language archiving based on a collaboration between under-resourced indigenous communities and an institutional library. The model’s…

Sociolinguistic repositories as asset: challenges and difficulties in Brazil

Raquel Meister Ko. Freitag

This paper aims to provide a context for Brazilian Portuguese language documentation and its data collection to establish linguistic repositories from a sociolinguistic overview.