CLARIN-ERIC

The European Research Infrastructure Consortium CLARIN has established a network of European data repositories, service centres and centres of expertise focusing on easily accessible digital language resources.

The pan-European infrastructure CLARIN-ERIC (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure—European Research Infrastructure Consortium) aims at providing easy and sustainable access to digital language data and advanced tools to discover, annotate, analyse or combine this data, irrespective of its physical location or its format. The data involved in CLARIN is made up of a wide range of different types of language resources: there are representations of written and spoken language, some are text, others are offered as sound or video files. The target audience of CLARIN-ERIC are scholars in the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN-ERIC has established a networked federation of European data repositories, service centres, and centres of expertise. Most of them are accessible via a single sign-on.

Tanja Wissik (ACDH-CH, Austrian Academy of Sciences) is functioning as the national coordinator of the Austrian CLARIN activities, working towards the establishment of a common organisational and technical framework for language resources in Austria. As one of the main facilitators and promoters of digital humanities in the country, the ACDH-CH motivates, invites and cooperates with researchers and scientific institutions to share infrastructures and thus to use CLARIN for their projects.

The ACDH-CH also contributes to numerous of CLARIN-related activities. It participates in the National Coordinators Forum (NCF), the Standing Committee on CLARIN Technical Centres (TCC), the Standards and Interoperability Committee (SIC) and the User Involvement Committee (UIC).   

The ACDH-CH is operating a certified CLARIN B-Centre with ARCHE.

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