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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BYFqSR8spo&feature=youtu.beWe are pleased to announce that, as of 1 October 2016, Darja Fišer will take up the post of Director of User Involvement within CLARIN .

 

The CLARIN-D follow-up grant has been approved for the period of 1 October 2016 to 30 September 2020.

 
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The video recordings from the CLARIN-PLUS workshop "Working with Digital Collections of Newspapers", Leuven 2016 have been uploaded to CLARIN Videolecture.net page. Collections of newspapers in digital form are a rich source of information for researchers in a number of disciplines in the Humanities
 
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We are very pleased to announce that on 1 August 2016 Hungary officially became a member of CLARIN .

 

CLARIN is hiring a System Administrator / Linux engineer (0.6 - 1 FTE). Applications welcome before 21 September 2016. The position has since been filled.

 

CLARIN organized the session "Big Science is not just for Physics" with three excellent showcases at this year's ESOF in Manchester.

 
Sebastian Drude at DH2016

CLARIN had a high visibility at the annual conference of the Digital Humanities, which was held 11-16 July 2016 in Kraków. CLARIN was a sponsor of the conference, and ran an exhibition booth to highlight CLARIN activities and meet people, with more than one thousand attendees in total.

 

After two years of preparation, specification and implementation, the task force of CLARIN's centre committee has now made available a new version of CLARIN's metadata framework: CMDI 1.2.

 

Version 4.0 of the was released last week, and one of the primary (and probably most eye-catching) changes is the major user interface overhaul that has been carried out since the previous release.

 

Featured topics: alpha, Estonian federation, workshop material, new centre, zotero group, ePIC support, CLARIN+ report, workshop.

 

CLARIN congratulates S. Hansen-Morath who recently concluded her PhD with a dialectological study that crucially involved CLARIN tools.

 

We are happy to announce that Latvia has joined CLARIN on 1 June 2016, becoming its 18th full member.

 

A special issue of a well-known journal features research done based on the CLARIN infrastructure in seven original articles.

 

With more than 40 contributions, 7 workshops and a booth at the HLT village, CLARIN contributed lively to this year’s LREC.

 
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The video recordings from the CLARIN-PLUS Workshop "Exploring Spoken Word Data in Oral History Archives", Oxford 2016 have been uploaded to CLARIN Videolecture.net page. Oral history is a specific sub-discipline of history that has benefitted from the increased popularity of the personal narrative
 

The workshop 'Exploring Spoken Word Data in Oral History Archives' was held in at the Oxford e-Research Centre on the 18th and 19th April, and brought together researchers from a number of disciplines working with oral history collections, curators of oral history materials, along with language

 

Call for Papers for the 5th CLARIN Annual Conference is now open.

 

Centre Meeting 2016: programme available. As announced before, the Centre Meeting will take place on 10 and 11 May in Utrecht.

 

A new version of the faceted browser was released last week. The main focus during the development of this version has been the licence and availability information provided within individual metadata records.

 

CLARIN has an opening for the part-time position of Director for User Involvement.