  As language data and associated technologies proliferate and as the language
resources community rapidly expands, it has become difficult to locate and
reuse existing resources. Are there any lexical resources for such-and-such a
language? What tool can work with transcripts in this particular format? What
is a good format to use for linguistic data of this type? Questions like these
dominate many mailing lists, since web search engines are an unreliable way to
find language resources. This paper describes a new digital infrastructure for
language resource discovery, based on the Open Archives Initiative, and called
OLAC -- the Open Language Archives Community. The OLAC Metadata Set and the
associated controlled vocabularies facilitate consistent description and
focussed searching. We report progress on the metadata set and controlled
vocabularies, describing current issues and soliciting input from the language
resources community.
