The Language Archive stores over 60 terabytes of linguistic resources including audio, video, text and metadata from over 200 languages. B2SAFE aims to replicate this data and services across sites to preserve this valuable cultural heritage for current and future generations. Data replication is running in production, LAT software services are being replicated at RZG, and authorization record replication is in beta testing.

1. Replicating Linguistic Resources
B2SAFE: MPI-TLA CLARIN Center
Willem Elbers (MPI-TLA)
2nd EUDAT Conference
Date: 29 October 2013

2. The Language Archive
• Data on languages:
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about 60 Terabyte of well-described resources
about 20.000 hours of digitized audio/video recordings
about 73.000 metadata described sessions
about 4.5 million annotated segments
data on more than 200 languages
among these, data from about 60 DOBES teams
acquisition, speech, multimodal, multilingual, language and cognition,
brain imaging, ethnological and other data.
• Mission:
– Maintaining access to all stored resources for the current generation of
researchers, language communities and the interested public.
– Preserve the valuable cultural heritage for current en future generations.
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3. The Language Archive
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4. B2SAFE
• Goals
– Replication of data
• B2SAFE!
– Replication of services
• RZG providing Language Archive Technology services at
replica side
• B2SAFE Community extensions:
– Replication based on logical structure defined in the IMDI/CMDI
metadata
– Integrated with underlying SAM-FS
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6. Approx: 80TB
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7. Approx: 80TB
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8. Approx: 80TB
> 3TB
> 3TB
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9. Approx: 80TB
> 3TB
> 3TB
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10. Summary
“Cultural Heritage Data replicated for the future”
• Data replication running in production
• LAT Software stack running @ RZG (beta)
• Replication of authorization records running (beta)
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11. Questions
Thank you for your attention