These shortguides date from the preparatory phase (2008-2011) and are kept here for reference.
Short, double-sided A4 pages that explain some basic concepts from the CLARIN project.
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Centres | About the building stones of CLARIN's distributed service architecture. |
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Centre Criteria | About the requirements to become a CLARIN centre |
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Concept Registry | About a central store for concepts, to ensure semantic interoperability within a variated data landscape |
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Component Metadata | About a modular and flexible way of describing linguistic resources. |
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Persistent Identifiers | About sustainable bookmarks to linguistic (and other) resources. |
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Longterm Preservation | About how to ensure today's research data will still be avilable for the next generations. |
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Standards & Best Practices | About how common agreements can lead to enhanced interoperability. |
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Trust Domain | About giving researchers access to services and resources with less bureaucratic and juridical hurdles. |
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Virtual Collections | About how to share personalized data collections. |
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Standards for Text Encoding | Advice about how to create text corpora in a CLARIN-compatible way. |
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Create Metadata Now | About how to provide CLARIN-compatible metadata right away. |
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REPLIX | About a pilot project on data replication and synchronization. |
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Service Oriented Architecture | About a web-service based research environment. |
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Initial Service Provider Federation | About a prototype of the CLARIN Service Provider Federation. |
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Virtual Language Observatory | About the low-barrier portal for Language Resources and Technology. |
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Web Services Interoperability | About web services and how to interconnect them. |