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Collection metadata are the
information linguists and librarians need to archive your data.
Think of it as the card catalogue information of the 21st century.
All linguists, especially those working with endangered languages,
should archive their data for
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permanence
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accessibility.
Your collection metadata are the kinds of
public information that would ordinarily appear in the introduction
and bibliography of a book, monograph, or major article on the
languages covered by the collection. Your personal identifier is
automatically filled in from your Wordcorr user metadata.
OLAC, the Open Language Archives
Community. The terminology for metadata comes from both the
linguistically specific OLAC metadata standard and the broader Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative, which provides the framework
libraries now use for handling and searching for all types of data
including bibliographies via the Internet.
The collection metadata use the set of
precise categories defined by OLAC. There is also a Remarks
field for information that is useful but doesn't fit the metadata
framework. Variety metadata are stored
in the Varieties panel of Wordcorr, but their name and ISO/DIS
639-3 code elements are transmitted to OLAC as one kind of
<subject> element.
Example. Here is an example of
Wordcorr's information categories, with the metadata for the
SulSel12 test data collection as an example. The creator's initials
and email are supplied automatically from the user's metadata. You
fill in the rest on the Collection panel of Wordcorr, as shown
below.
When you're ready, you can go directly
to speech varieties:
| Creator's identifier: |
JG |
| Creator's email: |
joe_grimes@sil.org |
| Creator's role: |
transcriber |
| Other
contributor(s), if any: |
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| Collection
title: |
South
Sulawesi |
| Short title: |
SulSel12 |
| Primary
glossing language: |
English |
Its code: |
eng |
| Secondary
glossing language, if any: |
Bahasa
Indonesia |
Its code: |
inz |
| Keywords for
searching: |
Austronesian
languages, Sulawesi, historical linguistics |
| Description: |
Twelve
languages of the southern peninsula of Sulawesi Island,
Indonesia, collected by Charles and Barbara Grimes and
Francis Dawson in the mid 1980s. |
| Remarks,
optional: |
Transcription conventions require replacing ASCII
'B%rN' with
IPA (not reproducible here), then replace 'Ry' with 'rj'. |
| Published
source(s), if any: |
Grimes,
Charles E. and Barbara D. Grimes. 1987. Languages of South
Sulawesi. Pacific Linguistics Series D, volume 78, i-viii,
1-208. |
| Unpublished
source(s), if any: |
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| Geographic area
covered: |
Southern
peninsula of Sulawesi, north to the Toradja and PUS areas |
| Stable copy
located at: |
Research
School for Pacific Studies, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia |
| Rights
management: |
Open Content, Common Content, or GNU
documentation (choose one) |
| Year copyright
asserted: |
1987
(blank if not asserted; asserted does not mean registered) |
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