  We have so many languages to communicate with others as humans. There are
approximately 7000 languages in the world, and many are becoming extinct for a
variety of reasons. In order to preserve and prevent the extinction of these
languages, we need to preserve them. One way of preservation is to have a
preservation metadata for languages. Metadata is data about data. Metadata is
required for item description, preservation, and retrieval. There are various
types of metadata, e.g., descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation,
etc. After the literature study, the authors observed that there is a lack of
study on the preservation metadata for language. Consequently, the purpose of
this paper is to demonstrate the need for language preservation metadata. We
found some archaeological metadata standards for this purpose, and after
applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, we chose three archaeological
metadata standards, namely: Archaeon-core, CARARE, and LIDO (Lightweight
Information Describing Objects) for mapping metadata.
