The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Language and Linguistics

See also texts by language (for example, French Texts) Literature: General Works and specific time periods for literature.

• FirstVoices Aboriginal Language Resource (First Peoples' Cultural Foundation, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) is a Web-based language training tool featured multimedia content contained within phrasebooks for various languages. Date accessed: 2002-05-15. Date added: 2002-05-15.
• The Linguist List. Michigan: Eastern Michigan University Wayne State University. Gateway to a wide variety of linguist and language resources. The Linguist List, in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA),  also operates the Endangered Languages Homepage.  Date accessed: 2002-02-04. Date updated: 2002-02-04.
• Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). An " international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources, ... OLAC was founded at the Workshop on Web-Based Language Documentation and Description in Philadelphia in December 2000" . In addition to developing an XML-based schema for language Web resources metadata, OLAC uses the Open Archives Initiative for metadata harvesting. OLAC was formally launched in January 2002. Date accessed: 2002-02-04. Date updated: 2002-02-04.
• Rosetta Project (The Long Now Foundation) is constructing a " near permanent archive" of 1,000 languages in online and hardcopy formats (micro-etched nickel disk and a book). Volunteer contributions to the language archive are welcome. Date accessed: 2002-02-04. Date added: 2002-02-04. Date updated: 2002-05-15.
• Text Encoding Initiative: Projects Using the TEI [by language]. Bergen, Norway: TEI Consortium. List and links to  digital collections and corpus projects by language that use the SGML Text Encoding Initiative. Date accessed: 2004-04-03. Date added: 2004-04-03.
• Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI). A " pan-European alliance of currently 28 focal national language (technology) institutions with the emphasis on Central and Eastern European and NIS countries." The TRACTOR (TELRI Research Archive of Computational Tools and Resources) service is a database of " monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual corpora and lexica in a wide variety of languages" along with various software tools. Date accessed: 2002-02-04. Date updated: 2002-02-04.

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