CLARIN has an opening for the position of member of the Board of Directors (20% fte) who will work closely together with the other directors. The application deadline is 4 June 2019.
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Denmark has been a member of CLARIN since February 2012 and is one of its founding members.
Read about the workshop "Twin Talks: Understanding Collaboration in DH" that took place during the 4th Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries Conference
In this Tour de CLARIN blog post, we present an in-depth interview with Susanne Nylund Skog, an ethnology and folklore researcher who collaborates with the SWELANG K-centre in the TillTal project.
Read the most recent CLARIN Newsflash: April 2019 here
We are pleased to announce that the IDS Mannheim in Mannheim and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen have been assessed again according to the current criteria and are re-certified as CLARIN B-centres. CLARIN congratulates the centres and thanks all persons involved, in particular those
To further the construction and integration of its technology components, CLARIN is looking for a System and Software Engineer (0.6 - 1 FTE). Application deadline: 29 May.
STAY TUNED TO THE FUTURE. Impact of the research infrastructures for social sciences and humanities.
In January 2018, the Strategy Working Group on Social and Cultural Innovation took the initiative to organize a conference on impact of research infrastructures, held in Bologna, at the Foundation for Religious Studies. The proceedings of the conference: STAY TUNED TO THE FUTURE. Impact of the
In 2017, CLARIN carried out a pilot exploring the possibilities of integrating Europeana Collections’ material into its infrastructure and thus opening up new possibilities for the discovery and linguistic processing of textual cultural heritage content for a social sciences and humanities research audience.
In this edition: Upcoming assessment round, Centre meeting 2019: updated programme, New C-centre: SADiLaR, Review CoreTrustSeal, Virtual Language Observatory 4.6, Virtual Collection Registry 1.3, Data & Service announcements from our centres, Best Practices guide: updated version available, Past issues, Maintenance announcements
The CLARIN Mobility Grant made it possible for Wilbert Heeringa to visit Sprakbanken, compare tools and exchange knowledge and ideas. The visit took place from 28 January to 1 February 2019. Read about it in his blog post
The SWELANG knowledge centre is an information service offering advice on the use of digital language resources and tools for Swedish and other languages spoken in Sweden, as well as other parts of the intangible cultural heritage of Sweden.
The CLARIN Federated Content Search, CLARIN-FCS 2.0, has been released. This is a new major release, that brings groundbreaking new features and capabilities to the linguistic search of corpora. The goal of CLARIN-FCS is to introduce an interface specification that makes it possible to search different repositories of text within a unified framework by decoupling the search engine functionality from its exploitation and to allow services to access heterogeneous search engines in a uniform way.
CLARIN-PL representatives Justyna Wieczorek and Jan Wieczorek visited UNISA and SADiLaR, South Africa. The main purpose of their visit was to conduct a workshop on the use of the WordNetLoom tool for the development of the African Wordnet.
Tour de CLARIN highlights prominent User Involvement (UI) activities of a particular CLARIN national consortium. This time the focus is on Italy and Beatrice Nava, a PhD student who uses digital methodologies in Classical Studies.
Since CLARIN-IT was established in 2016, its members have been organising a series of roadshow events aimed at the Italian Digital Humanities and Social Sciences community.
The call for nominations for the Steven Krauwer Awards is now open!
Read the most recent CLARIN Newsflash: March 2019 here
Read about LexO, a collaborative web editor used for the creation and management of (multilingual) lexical and terminological resources as linked data resources.
The CLARIN Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages (CLASSLA) has been officially recognized as a CLARIN Knowledge Centre.