The first round of renewal of the certificate for established B-Centres has been successfully concluded: all nine German CLARIN B-Centres have been assessed again according to the current criteria. In an process identical to the first assessment of new B-Centres, all nine CLARIN-D Centres have gone through a thorough procedure with an external assessment by the Data Seal of Approval and a more technical assessment by CLARIN's assessment committee.
The new certificate is now valid for three years (until July 2018).
The German CLARIN B-Centres are:
- Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Abt. Computerlinguistik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- ASV - Institut für Informatik, Abt. Automatische Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Leipzig
- BBAW - Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
- IMS - Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart
- IDS - Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
- BAS - Bayerisches Archiv für Sprachsignale, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- TLA - The Language Archive at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- HZSK - Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora, Universität Hamburg
- UdS - Englische Sprach- und Übersetzungswissenschaft, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
CLARIN ERIC congratulates all the centres and thanks all persons involved in particular those responsible at the new centre and the members of the assessment committees.