CLARIN Café on Text+: A New Research Data Initiative in Germany

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Introduction to Text+ (Erhard Hinrichs)

Text+ is part of the German national research data infrastrastructure (German: Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, or short: NFDI). Within the NFDI, Text+ focuses on language and text data and will initially concentrate on digital collections, lexical resources and editions. These are of high relevance for all language and text-based disciplines, especially for linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, classical philology, anthropology, non-European cultures and languages, as well as language and text-based research in the social, economic, political and historical sciences.

The first presentation will offer  an introduction to Text+ and provide the context for additional data and services that are also part of the European SSH-landscape of research infrastructures.

Involving the Text+ Community: SCCs & OCC (Thorsten Trippel)

Text+ has an elaborate structure involving the communities of interest in its developments. The Scientific Coordination Committees (SCCs) of Text+ are a platform for learned societies and experts to evaluate the ongoing development of Text+ and allow the extension of the portfolio of data and services provided by Text+. The SCCs may recommend partner projects to be integrated into the Text+ infrastructure, with additional funding provided from within Text+. These partner projects are available according to a defined review cycle.

Using a Distributed Technical Infrastructure (Marie Hinrichs)

Text+ builds on infrastructure developed in other contexts. As a distributed network of data and tools, one of these tools is a distributed architecture and environment to create

Natural Language Processing

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing

processing pipelines where the users select the tools available from the infrastructure according to their needs. We will showcase WebLicht, which provides a web service based infrastructure for multiple tools and languages and allows processing of texts provided by users.

Standards Information System (SIS) (Eliza Margaretha Illig)

In a FAIR infrastructure, interoperability and reusability depends on the use of recommended standards and formats. Hence, standards play a key role in this endeavour, but for users and data providers these standards are often opaque and hard to access if they are not already part of the infrastructure community. This presentation will address a tool that assists users and infrastructure providers to maintain an overview of standards, especially with regard to international standards such as those provided by ISO.

Sustainability by Forming a National Legal Entity (Andreas Witt)

In the field of research, funding of infrastructure often is organised by means of individual projects that are designed to develop data and services. As projects are intended for a limited timespan, sustainability of services is at stake. In Germany, various projects joined to create a sustainability perspective by forming their own (national) legal entity that forms the organisational umbrella for the national nodes of European infrastructures and builds the bridge to individual providers of tools, data, and services. We will present this organisational architecture which has been formed in Germany.

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