  The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is a new project to build a
worldwide system of federated language archives based on the Open Archives
Initiative and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. This paper aims to
disseminate the OLAC vision to the language resources community in Asia, and to
show language technologists and linguists how they can document their tools and
data in such a way that others can easily discover them. We describe OLAC and
the OLAC Metadata Set, then discuss two key issues in the Asian context:
language classification and multilingual resource classification.
