Virtual Language Observatory

The Virtual Language Observatory (VLO) can be characterized as a search engine or a metadata-based portal for language resources. It uses the information about data and tools harvested right at the respective resource providers via the OAI-PMH protocol and is completely based on the Component Metadata (CMDI) and ISOcat standards. After conversion and post-processing, such data are provided in user-friendly form via the VLO web portal. At the time of writing (March 2013) about 360000 resources are available through the VLO facet browser.