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?

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

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

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:	Americas
Approx Number of Languages:	2
Main Languages:	So far only English, Italian, and Meerkats

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: none Field Notes, Correspondence, Misc files: small Descriptions (Grammars, Phonologies, etc): none Audio Recordings: small Video Recordings: small

3.3 Please list any other data types which are not included above, or any other comments on the archive holdings:
This is a new database, so this is still work in progress.

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?

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

4.3 Is permission required before materials can be accessed?
occasionally

4.4 Is there any fee for materials?

4.5 How are author and/or editor defined for the electronic publications? Is there a bibliographical citation method?
The contributors are the authors. No ISBN yet.

4.6 Do the electronic publications have ISBN numbers?

4.7 What plans are there to expand the electronic publication of archive holdings?
See the statement at http://talkbank.org/resources/talkbank.pdf

5. General Issues

5.1 Who is the legal owner of archived materials?
Original collector.

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?
This has not yet been resolved.

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)?

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

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