Repository details

TalkBank

Name of repository
TalkBank
Repository URL
https://talkbank.org/
Subject(s)
Description
TalkBank provides transcripts, audio and video of communicative interactions for research in spoken language communication.
Contact(s)
  • administrative: macw@cmu.edu
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.clarin.eu/blog/talkbank-clarin-knowledge-centre
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider

Dates

Started
1999

Institutions (4)

Institution name
CLARIN ERIC
Additional name(s)
  • Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Institution identifier(s)
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Carnegie Mellon University
Institution identifier(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
National ‫Science Foundation
Additional name(s)
  • NSF
Institution identifier(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1999
End date of responsibility
2004
Institution name
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Additional name(s)
  • NIDCD
Institution identifier(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1984

Funding (1)

Funder name
National Science Foundation
CrossrefFunderID
100000001
Grant identifier
SBE RIDIR 1539129
Grant identifier
SBE RIDIR 1539133
Grant identifier
SBE RIDIR 1539010

Policies (5)

Policy name
TalkBank Ground Rules
Policy name
TalkBank Code of Ethics
Policy name
TalkBank Data Preservation
Policy name
OLAC Standards
Policy name
NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (2)

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

Data licenses (1)

Data license
CC

Data upload (1)

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

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Contributing
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • hdl
Name of the repository software
  • other
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://talkbank.org/0share/citation.html
Enhanced publication
yes
Quality management
yes

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard
Repository-Developed Metadata Schemas

Remarks

Remarks
TalkBank is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. In addition to preservation at Carnegie Mellon, all TalkBank materials are included in the Nijmegen Max-Planck archive at mpi.nl and the CLARIN archives. TalkBank is harvested by Online Language Archiving Community (OLAC) http://www.language-archives.org/ OAIS standards are implemented in terms of TalkBank policies for long term preservation, data migration, metadata creation, storage practices, documentation, legal responsibilities, and data access. Metadata regarding each file is constructed in accord with the CMDI standard at https://www.clarin.eu/content/cmdi-component-metadata-infrastructure and is included in each archive TalkBank is associated as third party with CLARIN-ERIC and was a certified B and K-Centre until 2024. TalkBank was CTS certified until 2024-10-21.
Entry date
2014-07-02
Last update
2026-05-28
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re3data.org: TalkBank; editing status 2026-05-28; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R3M31S last accessed: 2026-06-05