The Language Archiving Technology portal

The Language Archiving Technology portal

"eScience is about global collaboration in key areas of science and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it" (John Taylor).

The Language Archiving Technology (LAT) is meant to contribute to the sort of infrastructure that will be required in eHumanities. Its design will finally help to boost research in the humanities and to attract indigenous communities and the interested public to use the rich information in the language archive. It focuses on open accessibility of language resources; it supports dynamic and continuously enriched collections according to the Live Archives ideas; it stresses the need for long-term archiving of our digital collections covering unique material about languages that will probably become extinct in a few decades and it follows the trend towards service oriented architectures.

LAT components are being developed and maintained by the Technical Group of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics with the clear intention of maintaining them in the future. All LAT products are or will become available under an Open Source license, and will be usable free-of-charge in academic research. 

http://www.mpi.nl/lat