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Press Release - Immediate
Paris, France, September 24^th , 2009
The ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources at OLAC
In the framework of its ongoing collaborative work with the OLAC
community and in order to improve its compliance with OLAC standards,
ELRA is pleased to announce that the OLAC archive of its Catalogue of
Language Resources has been updated. According to OLAC standards, the
ELRA Catalogue archive achieves the maximum rate of 5 stars on the OLAC
scale.
The ELRA Catalogue has been exported into OLAC standards by means of
associating the ELRA metadata for describing Language Resources with the
OLAC metadata. Daily updates are performed through the automatic
harvesting of the ELRA Catalogue which is carried out by the OLAC server.
With this work, ELRA aims at rendering its catalogue more visible to the
wider community and it contributes to sharing information on Language
Resources through standardized metadata sets.
To visit the ELRA Catalogue: http://catalogue.elra.info
<http://catalogue.elra.info/>
and the corresponding OLAC archive:
http://www.language-archives.org/archive/catalogue.elra.info
*** About ELRA ***
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and
promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT).
To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: http://www.elra.info
*** About OLAC ***
OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, 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.
To find out more about OLAC, please visit the following website:
http://www.language-archives.org <http://www.language-archives.org/>.
From that website, ELRA resources can be searched, alongside resources
from 40 other language archives.
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