The Open Language Archives Community
and Asian Language Resources

Steven Bird
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania
3615 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
sb@ldc.upenn.edu
Gary Simons
SIL International
7500 West Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236, USA
Gary_Simons@sil.org
Chu-Ren Huang
Institute of Linguistics
Academia Sinica
115 Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
churen@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Abstract:

The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is a new project to build a worldwide system of federated language archives based on the Open Archives Initiative and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. This paper aims to disseminate the OLAC vision to the language resources community in Asia, and to show language technologists and linguists how they can document their tools and data in such a way that others can easily discover them. We describe OLAC and the OLAC Metadata Set, then discuss two key issues in the Asian context: language classification and multilingual resource classification.