LAT News is a useful blog with discussions of language archiving technology run by the MPI.
Digitisation
Advice about digitising analog data (February 2010) from the ILAT discussion list can be found here.
File-naming conventions
File-naming — This link offers a range of advice on file-naming conventions.
Metadata guidelines & software
Archive Builder (ARBIL) is an application developed by MPI for arranging research material and associated metadata into a format appropriate for archiving. It is basically the successor to the IMDI Editor.
Archon is software (developed by U Illinois) for archivists and manuscript curators which automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website.
Arts and Humanities Data Services (AHDS), UK, Metadata for your Digital Resource 2004.
Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) (an initiative of the European Science Foundation) is committed to establish an integrated and interoperable research infrastructure of language resources and its technology. Semantic data description and descriptive metadata are vital factors for determining if the data can be reused in the future.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes.
Endangered Languages Archive Metadata (ELAR) offers guidelines on the preparation of metadata.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format which is playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.
Field Helper is a desktop application (developed at Sydney U) that enables you to quickly view and categorise groups of related digital files and then submit the resulting package to a repository for long term preservation and access.
ISLE Meta Data Initiative (IMDI) is a metadata standard developed by MPI to describe multi-media and multi-modal language resources. It is now being superceded by ARBIL.
Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) metadata set defines the format used by the OLAC for the interchange of metadata within the framework of the Open Archives Initiative OAI.
Archives
Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA)
Academia Sinica Digital Repository, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
African Language Materials Archive
Alaska Native Language Center Archives, University of Alaska at Fairbanks (ANLC)
Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas at Austin, USA (AILLA)
Archive of Maori and Pacific Music, University of Auckland, New Zealand (AMPM)
Berkeley Language Center, Language and Music Archives, University of California, Berkeley, indigenous language and music archive
Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archive Network (DELAMAN)
Documentation of Endangered Languages, Max Planck Institute (DoBeS)
Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data (EMELD)
Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)
Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale, CNRS, Paris, France (LACITO)
Leipzig Endangered Languages Archive (LELA), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive, created by the Warumungu community, Tennant Creek, N.T. Australia
National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
Open Languages Archive Community (OLAC)
Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
Rosetta Project, Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, indigenous language and music archives
Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
University of the Saarland, GENIE, corpus of spoken Niedersorbisch/Wendisch