Repository details

The Language Archive

Name of repository
The Language Archive
Additional name(s)
  • TLA
Repository URL
https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/
Subject(s)
Description
The Language Archive at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen provides a unique record of how people around the world use language in everyday life. It focuses on collecting spoken and signed language materials in audio and video form along with transcriptions, analyses, annotations and other types of relevant material (e.g. photos, accompanying notes).
Contact(s)
Content type(s)
Certificate(s)
CoreTrustSeal
Start date
2022-03-23
End date
2025-03-22
CLARIN certificate B
Start date
2022-03-22
End date
2025-03-22
Keyword(s)
Repository size
about 130 Terabyte of well-described resources; about 20.000 hours of digitised audio/video recordings; data on more than 250 different languages from around the world.
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/mission
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider

Institutions (5)

Institution
CLARIAH
Additional name(s)
  • Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
Country
Netherlands
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
CLARIN-ERIC
Additional name(s)
  • Common Language Resources and Technology Insfrastructure - European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology
Institution
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Additional name(s)
  • MPI-PL
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik
Institution
Country
Netherlands
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Additional name(s)
  • Max Planck Society
  • MPG
Institution
Country
Germany
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
World Data System
Additional name(s)
  • formerly: International Council for Science WDS
  • formerly: ICSU World Data System
Institution
Country
International
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (4)

Policy Name
Bylaws
Policy Name
Access Permissions
Policy Name
Collection Development Policy
Policy Name
World Data System Constitution

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Database licenses (1)

Database License
other

Data access (2)

Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data licenses (3)

DataLicense
CC
DataLicense
other
DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (2)

Data upload license name
Depositor-Archivist Agreement DOBES-DAA-V1
Data upload license name
DOBES Code of Conduct v2
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • hdl
Name of the repository software
  • Fedora
  • other
Versioning
yes
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

Type
OAI-PMH
Url
https://archive.mpi.nl/oai2?verb=Identify

Remarks

Remarks
TLA uses the CMDI metadata standard and additionally provides Dublin Core and OLAC metadata for harvesting.
Entry date
2013-03-27
Last update
2025-03-12
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re3data.org: The Language Archive; editing status 2025-03-12; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3CP50 last accessed: 2025-04-28