CLARIN

CLARIN[2] stands for "Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure". CLARIN is a distributed digital infrastructure, with participating institutes all over Europe, such as universities, research centres, libraries and public archives. The participating organizations have in common that they provide access to digital language data collections, to digital tools, and training material for researchers to work with the resources.

This article is about the European research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences. For other uses, see Clarin (disambiguation).
CLARIN
Formation2012-02-29[1]
TypeERIC, IGO
HeadquartersUtrecht, Netherlands
Region served
Europe and beyond
Membership
Member countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden; Observers: France, South Africa, United Kingdom; Third Party: Carnegie Mellon University
Official language
English
Executive Director
Prof. dr. Franciska de Jong
Main organ
General Assembly, Board of Directors, National Coordinators Forum
Websitewww.clarin.eu
CLARIN ERIC logo

Mission and Vision

CLARIN is a research infrastructure that was initiated from the vision that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond are accessible through a single sign-on online environment for the support of researchers in the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN offers long-term solutions and technology services for deploying, connecting, analysing and sustaining digital language data and tools. CLARIN supports scholars who want to engage in data-driven research, contributing to a multilingual European Research Area.[3]

Services offered

CLARIN offers a wide range of services,[4] some of which are integrated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).[5]

The main services offered to the research community by CLARIN are listed below:

  • Virtual Language Observatory (VLO);[6] an easy to use search and discovery interface for a large number of resources from a wide variety of disciplinary domains and for many languages.
  • The Language Resource Switchboard;[7] a tool that helps you to find a matching language processing web application for your data.
  • Depositing Services;[8] to help researchers to store their resources in a sustainable and persistent way. Many of CLARIN centres offer a depositing service. They are willing to store the resources in their repository and assist with technical and organizational details.

Membership

The majority of operations, services and centres of the CLARIN infrastructure is provided and funded by the CLARIN ERIC membership (member, observers and linked third parties). Members and observers can be countries or intergovernmental organizations. They set up a national consortium, typically consisting of universities, research institutions, libraries and public archives, of which at least one has the status of CLARIN centre (see overview of CLARIN centres[9]). The contribution expected from the membership is to create and provide access to digital language data collections, digital tools and expertise for researchers to work with the resources.

Below is the list of current CLARIN ERIC members,[10] observers and third parties:

Members National Consortia (NC)
Austria Digital Humanities Austria
Bulgaria CLaDA-BG
Croatia HR-CLARIN
Cyprus CLARIN-CY
Czech Republic LINDAT/CLARIN
Denmark CLARIN-DK
Estonia CLARIN Estonia
Finland FIN-CLARIN
Germany CLARIN-D
Greece clarin:el
Hungary HunCLARIN
Iceland CLARIN Iceland
Italy CLARIN-IT
Latvia CLARIN-LV
Lithuania CLARIN-LT
The Netherlands CLARIAH-NL
Norway CLARINO
Poland CLARIN PL
Portugal PORTULAN CLARIN
Slovenia CLARIN.SI
Sweden SWE-CLARIN
Observers National Consortia (NC)
France Huma-Num
South Africa SADiLaR
United Kingdom CLARIN-UK
Third parties Names
Carnegie Mellon University (USA) TalkBank

Type of organization

CLARIN's governance and coordination body is an ERIC,[11] that is, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium.[12] CLARIN ERICs members are governments or intergovernmental organizations.

CLARIN is one of the Research Infrastructures that were selected for the European Research Infrastructures Roadmap by ESFRI,[13] the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. In the 2016 ESFRI Roadmap CLARIN was listed as Landmark.

Governance

The General Assembly[14] represents the members of CLARIN ERIC and is the highest decision-making body of CLARIN ERIC. It is assisted by an international Scientific Advisory Board.[15] The day-to-day management is in the hands of the Board of Directors[16] chaired by the Executive Director Prof. Franciska de Jong[17] and supported by the CLARIN Office.[18]

The largest effort towards the further integration of data, tools and expertise stems from the activities in the national consortia. The National Coordinators’ Forum is responsible for the coordination of the collaboration across countries. Various committees and working groups, as well as regular workshops and conferences bring together experts from the CLARIN community to discuss and solve problems of common interest.

Knowledge Infrastructure

One of the missions of the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure is to ensure that the knowledge and expertise available throughout the CLARIN infrastructure is accessible in an organized way, easy to navigate for the CLARIN community and for the Social Sciences and Humanities research community at large. A cornerstone of the CLARIN knowledge sharing ecosystem are the Knowledge Centres,[19] institutions with expertise in one or more aspects of the domain covered by the CLARIN community.

Tour de CLARIN[20] is an initiative that reinforces the knowledge sharing agenda by periodically highlighting prominent activities of a particular CLARIN national consortium or Knowledge Centres targeting specific communities of use. Tour de CLARIN enhances the visibility of the national consortia and Knowledge Centres and reveals the richness of the CLARIN landscape.

References
  1. Press release of the European Commission
  2. Official Website of CLARIN
  3. CLARIN Value Proposition
  4. CLARIN services
  5. European Open Science Cloud
  6. Virtual Language Observatory
  7. The Language Resource Switchboard
  8. Depositing Services
  9. Overview of CLARIN centres
  10. Participating consortia in CLARIN
  11. European Commission definition of ERIC
  12. CLARIN ERIC status
  13. European Commission definition of Research Infrastructures (RIs)
  14. CLARIN General Assembly
  15. CLARIN Scientific Advisory Board
  16. CLARIN Board of Directors
  17. CLARIN Executive Director
  18. CLARIN Office
  19. CLARIN Knowledge Centres
  20. Tour de CLARIN
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