Foundations of Modern Language Resource Archives

TL;DR

This paper discusses the fundamental principles and structure necessary for modern language resource archives to ensure long-term preservation, accessibility, and integration of linguistic data for researchers.

Contribution

It formulates the essential principles and organizational framework that language resource archives should follow to meet research needs and facilitate federation.

Findings

Defines core principles for language resource archives.

Proposes a federated model for resource sharing.

Highlights importance of long-term preservation and access.

Abstract

A number of serious reasons will convince an increasing amount of researchers to store their relevant material in centers which we will call "language resource archives". They combine the duty of taking care of long-term preservation as well as the task to give access to their material to different user groups. Access here is meant in the sense that an active interaction with the data will be made possible to support the integration of new data, new versions or commentaries of all sort. Modern Language Resource Archives will have to adhere to a number of basic principles to fulfill all requirements and they will have to be involved in federations to create joint language resource domains making it even more simple for the researchers to access the data. This paper makes an attempt to formulate the essential pillars language resource archives have to adhere to.