All information provided in the Catalogue is referenced to its original source (e.g. journal article, book, personal communication, etc.
Users of the Endangered Languages Project website are encouraged to contribute suggestions for improving the information in the Catalogue.
The structure of ELCat was designed during the National Science Foundation-funded workshop on the Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure Project (ELIIP), held at the University of Utah in 2009.
[1] From 2017 onward, the data in ELCat will be supervised by an International Board of Directors, a group of scholars with expertise in endangered languages, currently chaired by Bill Palmer (University of Newcastle, Australia).
This includes processing and implementation of user suggestions and feedback, as well as addition of information from newly available sources about endangered languages.