Centre assessments
Next assessment round
The deadline of the next B-centre assessment round is 28 March. If you wish to participate but did not express this earlier on, please inform your national centre committee representative so that we can inventorize the total amount of requests on 7 March.
Updated checklist
The newest version (6) of the B-centre checklist is now available. There are no major changes, this is mostly an update to replace the Data Seal of Approval by the CoreTrustSeal and to update some URLs.
The CoreTrustSeal
As communicated around the end of 2017, there is now clarity about the CoreTrustSeal fee requirement. We have reached an agreement with the on quantum discounts; CLARIN will pay the fee for all candidate B centres from member and observer countries in 2018. After one year we will evaluate the CoreTrustSeal procedure and decide on the potential continuation of this model.
Protocol validator services
The following services have recently been updated:
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The FCS endpoint validator now supports the newest version of the Federated Content Search protocol. Thanks to the colleagues at IDS and Språkbanken to make this possible!
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The OAI-PMH validator which is kindly hosted by the CLARIN-PL colleagues has been updated to a newer version and some other issues were addressed as well.
Various roadmaps and work plans
Recently, the following plans have been made and published:
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CE-2018-1175 – EOSC-hub: Task 7.1 roadmap
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CE-2017-1147 – Europeana DSI-3 (task 3.2.7) work plan
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CE-2017-1099 – Centre Committee workplan 2018
Maintenance
The software behind the CLARIN Identity Provider, UnityIDM, will be updated on Thursday 1 March, between 14:00 and 14:30 CET (more details on the nature of the update). The expected downtime is about 5 minutes. Please sysops [at] clarin.eu (contact us) if you think this timeslot is problematic. As always, announcements like this are also available at www.clarin.eu/status
Hackathon in Berlin, 19-20 March
Reminder: CLARIN and IEEE are co-organizing a Hackathon. Read more about it on our website.