Building a Federation of Language Resource Repositories: the DAM-LR Project and its Continuation within CLARIN

Technologies for a Federation of Language Resource Archives

The DAM-LR project aims at virtually integrating various European language resource archives that allow users to navigate and operate in a single unified domain of language resources. This type of integration introduces Grid technology to the humanities disciplines and forms a federation of archives. It is the basis for establishing a research infrastructure for language resources which will fi...

The CLARIN Research Infrastructure: Resources and Tools for eHumanities Scholars

CLARIN is the short name for the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, which aims at providing easy and sustainable access for scholars in the humanities and social sciences to digital language data and advanced tools to discover, explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine them, independent of where they are located. CLARIN is in the process of building a networked federa...

DAM-LR as a Language Archive Federation: strategies and prospects

The Dutch LESLLA Corpus

This paper describes the Dutch LESLLA data and its curation. LESLLA stands for Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition. The data was collected for research in this field and would have been disappeared if it were not saved. Within the CLARIN project Data Curation Service the data was made into a spoken language resource and made available to other researchers.

Creating & Testing CLARIN Metadata Components

The CLARIN Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI) that is being developed in CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is a computer-supported framework that combines a flexible component approach with the explicit declaration of semantics. The goal of the Dutch CLARIN project “Creating & Testing CLARIN Metadata Components” is to create metadata components and profiles for a wide...