Common LAnguage Resources and technology INfrastructure (CLARIN)

The project “Common LAnguage Resources and technology INfrastructure” (CLARIN) provides researchers access to language, text, and speech resources and research tools across Europe. The services include archiving and re-use of data, as well as advice on metadata and standards. This way CLARIN stimulates the exchange of knowledge and data between linguists, historians, speech technologists, communication researchers and many others. An important aim of CLARIN is the availability and usability of resources such as lexicons and text corpora for each language within the European Union.

The “European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures” (ESFRI) has emphasised the importance of CLARIN by including the project in its Roadmap 2006. This also comprises four other important initiatives in the arts and humanities and social studies, including a similar proposal for a data infrastructure for the social sciences (CESSDA Major Upgrade) and for the arts and humanities (DARIAH). Moreover, the Dutch government has committed itself to an encompassing CLARIN-NL project. DANS participates in a number of research projects within this framework and will become a CLARIN Centre in the CLARIN infrastructure.

Contact person DANS:
Dr Marjan Grootveld T 06 1210 1514 E marjan.grootveld at dans.knaw.nl

Links:
• CLARIN-EU: http://www.clarin.eu/
• CLARIN-NL: http://www.clarin.nl/node/2
• ESFRI: http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/
• Information about the infrastructures in FP7: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/research-infrastructures_en.html

Other humanities and social studies projects on the ESFRI roadmap:
• CESSDA: http://www.nsd.uib.no/Cessda/
• DARIAH: http://www.dariah.eu/
• ESS: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/
• SHARE: http://www.share-project.org/

Partners
• In Europe: http://www.clarin.eu/members
• In the Netherlands: http://www.clarin.nl/node/7