OLAC
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OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an initiative to create a unified means of searching online databases of language resources for linguistic research. The information about resources is stored in XML format for easy searching. OLAC was founded in 2000, and is hosted at the Linguistic Data Consortium webserver at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Vinony files it under Linguistics organizations and Organizations established in 2000.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- data library
- Main subject
- linguistics
- Official website
- www.language-archives.org
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- short name
- OLAC
- inception
- 2000-00-00
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OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an initiative to create a unified means of searching online databases of language resources for linguistic research. The information about resources is stored in XML format for easy searching. OLAC was founded in 2000, and is hosted at the Linguistic Data Consortium webserver at the University of Pennsylvania.
OLAC advises on best practices in language archiving, and works to promote interoperation between language archives.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OLAC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.