New search service for language resources
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It has just become a whole lot easier to search the world's language archives. The new OLAC Language Resource Catalog contains descriptions of over 100,000 language resources from over 40 language archives worldwide.
This catalog, developed by the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), provides access to a wealth of information about thousands of languages, including details of text collections, audio recordings, dictionaries, and software, sourced from dozens of digital and traditional archives.
OLAC is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources. The OLAC Language Resource Catalog was developed by staff at the Linguistic Data Consortium, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, and the University of Melbourne. The primary sponsor is the National Science Foundation.
Jason Eisner said,
February 11, 2011 @ 2:22 am
This looks great — thanks for the announcement and all the work.
When I tried to report a site error via the "contact us" email address (olac dash admin at googlegroups dot com), but got a bounce message saying that "the group you tried to contact (olac-admin) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group." Please advise.
Steven Bird said,
February 11, 2011 @ 3:07 am
Sorry about that Jason. The problem should be fixed now. Please try again.