This paper has presented the leading ideas of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), along with its metadata set and controlled vocabularies. Language resources exhibit great diversity, and include all types of data, tools and advice. As collections of language resources proliferate, OLAC will make it maximally easy for members of the language resources community to discover each other's resources. Another dimension of OLAC, not discussed here, will permit community-agreed best practices to be identified, greatly facilitating resource re-use.
Members of the Asian language resources community are encouraged to join OLAC and contribute to the development of OLAC metadata, vocabularies, and archives.