The ACDH hosted the CLARIN-PLUS workshop ‘Facilitating the Creation of National Consortia: Tools & Services’ in Vienna on June 2-3 2016. CLARIN-PLUS is dedicated to enhancing the CLARIN network by inviting members of established CLARIN institutions to speak to new members of the CLARIN infrastructure.
The goal of this workshop was—in line with the CLARIN-PLUS series Facilitating the Creation of National Consortia—to share experience and know-how about development and provision of tools and services between the national consortia and teams within the CLARIN community. Representatives from established consortia showcased the tools and services developed in the context of CLARIN—both basic infrastructure services and domain-specific NLP services. This gave the new consortia the opportunity to gain insights into the CLARIN ecosystem and showed them how their local/national situation can contribute to and profit from it. The workshop was meant as lively two-way exchange, therefore one session was dedicated to new consortia presenting their local solutions, allowing the CLARIN community to get to know the newcomers. Given the scope, the workshop was mainly oriented towards the (more technical) persons who are responsible for building up the national infrastructures, providing the tools and services. To ensure a sustainable effect, the findings of the workshop also served as input for a Guide on Tools & Services that was delivered within the Best Practice series of the CLARIN-PLUS project.
Program
Thursday, 2 June 2016
13:00–14:30 CLARIN + CLARIN PLUS: Introductory Panel
13:00 Karlheinz Mörth: Welcome
13:15 Lene Offersgaard: Facilitate Development of Tools and Services for National CLARIN Consortia, Including Lessons Learnt in CLARIN-DK
13:45 Dieter van Uytvanck: CLARIN’s Central Infrastructure
14:30–15.00 Coffee Break
15:00–18:00 Service showcases from established infrastructures
15:00 Matej Durco: ‘The Right Toolbox’
15:40 Marc Kemps-Snijders: Nederlab (Written Text Resources)
16:20 Florian Schiel: WebMAUS (Spoken Language Resources)
17:00 Discussion on methodical issues—best practices in software development, standards, project management, provision of services (chair: Matej Durco)
19:30 Social Dinner at ON Restaurant
Friday, 3 June 2016
09:30–12:30 Putting the + in CLARIN PLUS (chairs: Lene Offersgaard, Matej Durco)
09:30 Franciska de Jong: Observations From a Newcomer
10:00 Coffee Break
10:15 Local situation reports from new consortia, Patrice Bellot, Tomaž Erjavec, Francesca Frontini, Ondřej Košarko, Martin Matthiesen, John McCrae, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Johann Petrak
12:00 Closing session - take away message, recommendations, final remarks
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:00 Bazaar, informal exchange about approaches, solutions, possible collaborations
Attachments
Dieter Van Uytvanck: CLARIN’s central infrastructure
Matej Ďurčo: The right toolbox
Florian Schiel: CLARIN Webservices (CLARIN Repos)
Franciska de Jong: Observations from a newcomer
Tomaž Erjavec, Cyprian Laskowski: CLARIN SI