3.5 Questions for Discussion

• Explore some language archives (e.g., AIILA, PARADISEC, CoRSAL). What metadata is shown in these archives?  
• What types of searches can you do? Are the search results what you expected?
• How are metadata fields to be adapted to the Indian context in terms of speaker names, localities, language names, genres?  
• What metadata might make a collection useful to different users? For example, a language teacher, a botanist, a phonetician?
• What are some of the different derivative files that might be related to a source file?