CLARIN

This article is about the European research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences. For other uses, see Clarin (disambiguation).
CLARIN

Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
Formation 2012-02-29 [1]
Type IGO, ERIC
Headquarters Utrecht, Netherlands
Region served
Europe
Membership
Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden ; intergovernmental organization: Dutch Language Union; Observer: United Kingdom;
Official language
English
Executive Director
 Franciska de Jong
Main organ
 general assembly, board of directors, national coordinators forum
Website www.clarin.eu

CLARIN is a European research network working in the field of archiving and processing of language-related resources in the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN is an acronym for Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure. CLARIN is a community of scholars of various disciplines and a network of institutions. The scholars use CLARIN as a forum for joined developments and exchange of resources. They also exchange information on standards and procedures for long time archiving of research data. The institutions of CLARIN offer services in the same field. On the European level, CLARIN is an independent body operating under European law as a European Research Infrastructure Community (ERIC). CLARIN ERIC represents the CLARIN community in the public and coordinates individual efforts in the field.

CLARIN is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.[2]

Objective

CLARIN's objective is to provide a research infrastructure for researchers of the humanities and social sciences working with language related material. The network should allow the persistent storage and access to the data in an archive, to disseminate the material and to reuse it in other research contexts. By exchanging material, effects of synergy are achieved by not duplicating work and participating at each other's development. Additionally new research questions can follow and the material can be used for quality assurance in the research process. By offering depositing services, tutorials and support for archiving, special search engines for language resources and web based analysis systems the infrastructure becomes usable for the research community.

Services offered

CLARIN offers a wide range of services to the research community, for example:

In addition to such technical services, tutorials are prepared, standards and processes developed and implemented. Researchers receive support in the archiving process, for example by reference material, see for example.[6]

Membership

CLARIN ERIC currently has the following member countries:

The Dutch Language Union (DLU) is an intergovernmental organization and member of CLARIN as well.

Type of organization

The CLARIN consortium is organized as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) under European law, which is a special type of organization created for research infrastructures. It is hence part of the activities in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) context.

Government

On the European level CLARIN is governed by the following structures:

The seat of CLARIN ERIC is at the University of Utrecht with the office of the Executive Director. The staff of the office and all other institutions works distributed, the participants can be from all EU countries, and the staff may work from their home institutions.

Every member has a national CLARIN partner organization, often organized as national project networks. Every member supports at least one CLARIN centre, providing a repository for the humanities and social sciences scholar working with language oriented research data. Often these centres offer additional technical services and some webservices beyond the national community.

Scholars of the CLARIN community meet every year for the CLARIN Annual Meeting. For this every member may send delegates, experts from CLARIN centres. These meetings are also used for the committees to report on their progress and inform about new developments.

External links

References

  1. ↑ Press release of the European Commission
  2. ↑ "CLARIN entry in re3data.org". www.re3data.org. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Virtual Language Observatory
  4. ↑ Depositing Services
  5. ↑ Web based analysis tools
  6. ↑ CLARIN User handbook by CLARIN-D
  7. ↑ https://www.clarin.eu/news/hungary-joins-clarin-eric
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