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?
accents of english. the archive contains recorded speech from over 120 native and non-native speakers of english. each subject reads the same paragraph. data is transcribed into IPA and presented along with demographic information about each speaker.

2.2 If the electronic catalog conforms to some standard, please tell us the name of the standard.
IPA

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.

3. Holdings

3.1 What geographical regions and languages are covered?

Main Regions Covered:	Africa Americas Asia Europe
Approx Number of Languages:	120
Main Languages:	50 native languages. but all recorded in english

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

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

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?
a significant amount

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?
a small amount

4.2 To what extent are the archive holdings accessible over the web?
virtually everything

4.3 Is permission required before materials can be accessed?
no

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?
ongoing.

5. General Issues

5.1 Who is the legal owner of archived materials?
george mason university

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?
none

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

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)?
html. quicktime.

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

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