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OLAC

OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an initiative to create a unified means of searching online databases of language resources for linguistic research and other purposes. The information about resources is stored in XML format for easy searching. OLAC was founded in 2000. It was hosted at the Linguistic Data Consortium webserver at the University of Pennsylvania until 2026, when the hosting was moved to the University of Cologne. OLAC advises on best practices in language archiving, and works to promote interoperation between language archives.

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Article summary

OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an initiative to create a unified means of searching online databases of language resources for linguistic research and other purposes. The information about resources is stored in XML format for easy searching. OLAC was founded in 2000. It was hosted at the Linguistic Data Consortium webserver at the University of Pennsylvania until 2026, when the hosting was moved to the University of Cologne. OLAC advises on best practices in language archiving, and works to promote interoperation between language archives.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 2000 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2000". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986643

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.