1. Name and Location

2. Catalog

2.1 If the archive has a catalog in a standardized format, what fields does it contain? If not, what contextual information about the resources are collected? What other information would you like to collect if you could?
based on meta-descriptions (according to the meta data "standard" at the MPI)

2.2 If the electronic catalog conforms to some standard, please tell us the name of the standard.
MPI Browsable Corpus Standard

2.3 To what extent have the archived materials been cataloged electronically?
a significant amount

2.4 If there is an online public access catalog, please give its URL.
not yet

3. Holdings

3.1 What geographical regions and languages are covered?

Main Regions Covered:	Africa Americas Asia Oceania
Approx Number of Languages:
Main Languages:

3.2 Please give impressionistic estimates of the archive holdings for each of the data types.

DATA TYPE NON-DIGITAL DIGITAL Texts: large large Wordlists, Vocabularies, Lexicons, Dictionaries: large large Field Notes, Correspondence, Misc files: Descriptions (Grammars, Phonologies, etc): Audio Recordings: large large Video Recordings: large large

3.3 Please list any other data types which are not included above, or any other comments on the archive holdings:

3.4 What proportion of the holdings are unique to the archive and not available elsewhere?

4. Electronic Publication

4.1 To what extent are the archive holdings published electronically, where "published" means that there is a well-defined procedure such that anyone at all can get a standard copy of the data, either on digital media or over the internet?
nothing published

4.2 To what extent are the archive holdings accessible over the web?
nothing accessible

4.3 Is permission required before materials can be accessed?
virtually always

4.4 Is there any fee for materials?
no

4.5 How are author and/or editor defined for the electronic publications? Is there a bibliographical citation method?

4.6 Do the electronic publications have ISBN numbers?
no

4.7 What plans are there to expand the electronic publication of archive holdings?
currently starting digitising all old archive material and make it available in the MPI INTRANET

5. General Issues

5.1 Who is the legal owner of archived materials?
mostly the MPI

5.2 Beyond legal ownership, are there any asserted or perceived moral rights concerning archived materials? Do the holders of the archive see the original speakers or their representatives as controlling publication?
to a large extent the original speakers wnat control

5.3 In cases where no electronic publication is planned, why is this so? (e.g. funding, licensing, technical know-how, lack of interest).
legal aspects

5.4 Is any of the data in a proprietary format (e.g. MS Word)? If so, are there plans to transfer it to an open standard (e.g., XML)?
various formats are used (no intention to convert!

6. Do you have any other comments about digital archives of language material, or on this survey?

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