It is of paramount importance for Lithuania to join CLARIN for a number of reasons common to most member states. i.e.
- for the possibility to share tools and resources,
- to get the know-how and the most recent updates in the field of language technologies,
- to adopt common standards and legal standpoints,
- to be able to communicate in the field of SSH research
- to start new projects with the members of CLARIN community, as well as to provide young researchers and doctoral students with a networking possibility.
Reasons that are very specific for a small country like Lithuania include quality control of home-made tools and resources, better visibility and co-operation with similar minded as in our own country we lack critical mass of people in this field. Last and not least the requirement for its members to build a national consortium in a member state is a good impetus to pool our effort and resources for the national CLARIN centre.
The Lithuanian language is the most conservative of the living Indo-European languages, thus the Lithuanian language resources will enrich the CLARIN infrastructure with some interesting linguistic data.