We have so many languages to communicate with others as humans. There are approximately 7000 languages in the world, and many are becoming extinct for a variety of reasons. In order to preserve and prevent the extinction of these languages, we need to preserve them. One way of preservation is to have a preservation metadata for languages. Metadata is data about data. Metadata is required for item description, preservation, and retrieval. There are various types of metadata, e.g., descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation, etc. After the literature study, the authors observed that there is a lack of study on the preservation metadata for language. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the need for language preservation metadata. We found some archaeological metadata standards for this purpose, and after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, we chose three archaeological metadata standards, namely: Archaeon-core, CARARE, and LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) for mapping metadata.

翻译：人类作为社会性生物，需通过多种语言进行沟通交流。全球约有7000种语言，其中许多正因各种原因濒临消亡。为保护并防止这些语言灭绝，我们亟需对其加以保存。语言保存的一种可行方式是建立语言保存元数据。元数据即关于数据的数据，对于对象的描述、保存与检索至关重要。元数据种类繁多，包括描述性元数据、管理性元数据、结构性元数据、保存性元数据等。通过文献研究，作者发现目前缺乏针对语言保存元数据的系统性研究。因此，本文旨在论证语言保存元数据的必要性。我们为此目的筛选了部分考古元数据标准，在应用纳入与排除标准后，最终选定三种考古元数据标准进行元数据映射，即：Archaeon-core、CARARE 及 LIDO（轻量级对象描述信息）。