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"Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources" is the topic of a workshop to be held July 13-15 at Stanford University in conjunction with the 2007 LSA Summer Institute. It will capitalize on the momentum of two workshops held in conjunction with the 2006 LSA Summer Meeting at Michigan State University: the Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics (DTSL), and the E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data) workshop on digital language documentation, which focused on "Tools and Standards: The State of the Art." A major aim of both E-MELD and DTSL has been to involve an interdisciplinary group of researchers in the resolution of pressing issues in linguistic data management. E-MELD has primarily stimulated the development, evaluation and amelioration of guidelines and standards for annotation, computer-assisted lexicography, ontologies, and extant tools; DTSL focused on catalyzing the development of the next generation of tools for linguistic inquiry. In focusing on interoperability, the TILR workshop will exploit the momentum of E-MELD and DTSL to involve an even more diverse group of researchers in addressing a critical issue in the development of cyberinfrastructure for linguistics. This meeting is intended to encourage tool developers to coordinate outputs of existing tools and to plan new tools that are extensible, modular, and renewable. If tools developed by one project can be readily adapted for other similar projects, this will not only conserve development time and effort, but also constitute major progress towards the ultimate goal of creating sustainable and accessible digital resources. Organizing Committee Sponsors Arienne Dwyer (U of Kansas), Co-Chair Helen Aristar-Dry (Eastern Michigan U), Co-Chair Anthony Aristar (Eastern Michigan U) Emily Bender (U of Washington) Steven Bird (U of Melbourne) Phil Cash Cash (U of Arizona) Christopher Cieri (Linguistic Data Consortium) Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon U) Geoffrey Rockwell (McMast

Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One W3C Recommendation 15 December 2004 This version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/ Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ Previous version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-webarch-20041105/ Editors: Ian Jacobs, W3C Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Authors: See acknowledgments (§8). Please refer to the errata for this document, which may include some normative corrections. See also translations. Copyright © 2002-2004 W3C ® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply. Your interactions with this site are in accordance with our public and Member privacy statements. Abstract The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures, and media. In an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as the technologies evolve, this architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web. They are identification of resources, representation of resource state, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents and resources in the space. We relate core design components, constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties they support. Status of this document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/. This is the 15 December 2004 Recommendation of "Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One." This document has been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and is endorsed by the Directo

Preserving While Documenting Documentation is the key to preserving endangered languages. Linguists are trying to document as many as they can by describing grammars and structural features, by recording spoken language and by using computers to store this information for study by scholars. Many endangered languages are only spoken; no written texts exist. So it is important to act quickly in order to capture them before they go extinct. To help preserve endangered languages, E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Language Data) aims to boost documentation by: * duplicating and digitizing high-quality recordings in an archival form; * emphasizing self-documenting and software-independent data; * giving linguists a toolkit to analyze and compare languages; * developing a General Ontology for Linguistic Description (GOLD) to allow interoperability of archives, and comparability of data and analysis. In another kind of archiving, Joel Sherzer, Anthony Woodbury and Mark McFarland (University of Texas at Austin) are ensuring that Latin America's endangered languages are documented through The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA). This Web-accessible database of audio and textual data features naturally-occurring discourse such as narratives, ceremonies, speeches, songs, poems and conversation. Using their Web browsers, scholars, students and indigenous people can access the database, search and browse the contents and download files using free software. Documentation is the right thing to do for both cultural and scientific reasons. According to NSF program director Joan Maling, we must explore as many different languages as we can to fully understand this uniquely human capacity-"Language" with a capital L. "Just as biologists can learn only from looking at many different organisms, so linguists and language scientists can learn only from studying many different human languages," she says. "Preserving lingu