Recording of family members talking informally about dreams, sleeping, and visiting. Thangpuii is the main speaker, but she is interrupted by the rest of the family making small talk and offering to help with her swollen joints. Visitors and family members are talking in the background.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and narratives about spirits and shamans, elicited phrases expressing space and time, and word lists in multiple varieties labelled 'Akha' and 'Akhə.'

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives about silks, hunting, animals, illness, the Akha calendar and festivals, memorizing ritual texts, village administration, and spirits with partial English glossing.

Handwritten notes on KokBorok phonology focusing on tone and phonotactics, with phoneme inventory and comparisons to Garo. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (kinship terms, numerals, animals, agriculture, natural world, colors, physical descriptors, verbs of motion, verbs of perception, body parts, interrogatives, and time).

This paper discusses the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)'s international effort to provide distributed search and retrieval of cultural heritage information. A primary aspect of CIMI's work utilizes ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995, and American National Standard protocol for information retrieval. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently approved Z39.50 as ISO 23950. CIMI chose Z39.50 to enable uniform access to existing and emerging digital collections and the vast repositories of cultural heritage information resources. These resources include a variety of physical and digital objects--physical artifacts and digital derivatives of those artifacts, descriptive records designed for collection management, bibliographic records, full-text documents, online tools such as thesauri and authoritative lists of artists' names, and more. CIMI's application Z39.50 in the networked cultural heritage information environment is breaking new ground in distributed and integrated access to textual and non-textual digital collections.