We are happy to announce that in February 2015 Greece has joined CLARIN ! Greece states that their participation in CLARIN ERIC will enable the seamless integration of Greek content, resources and services in the European infrastructure and, vice versa, it will support the integration of
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Earlier this week, we released a new minor version of the Virtual Language Resource ( ) faceted browser. At first glance, most users will not notice many differences between the new version 3.1 and the version previously available, version 3.0.1. However, in addition to a number of small tweaks
The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH-ÖAW https://acdh.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/) is a new research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences which was set up with the declared intention of fostering digital methods in the various fields of the humanities. It is a spin-off of the Institute for
The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and the TalkBank at the Carnegie Mellon University have now been officially recognized as CLARIN B centres. As all other 14 CLARIN B centres before them, both have gone through a thorough procedure with an external assessment by the Data Seal
The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH-ÖAW) is a new research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences which was set up with the declared intention of fostering digital methods in the various fields of the humanities. It is a spin-off of the Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text
We are happy to announce that Portal has joined CLARIN ! After years of hard work, Portugal signed the necessary documents and was unanimously welcomed in the CLARIN community already at the meeting of the General Assembly in November 2014. Although considered a small country in Europe, Portugal
The Data Harvest report The famous Riding the wave report now has a successor: The Data Harvest. Enjoy the reading! Planned maintenance Tomorrow (30 January), between 8:00 and 8:30 CET the CLARIN discovery service will be unavailable due to maintenance. The component registry needs to be updated, to
The ISO TC37 Data Category Registry ( ) was created in 2008 as one of the first ISO standards delivered in the form of a database ( ISOcat). The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) has provided development, hosting, and support services and acted as the Registration Authority (RA)
The vacancies for a Java Developer and a Drupal Developer have been extended - the new deadline is 26 January. Don't miss this chance to join an international team working on state-of-the art language resource and technology infrastructure!
The Riga Summit will gather government officials, business leaders, technology developers, and language researchers, who will forge a unified vision for the multilingual digital single market. At the event, stakeholders will work together to develop a combined strategy, identify goals, establish
The Talk of Europe – Travelling CLARIN Campus project aims to facilitate and stimulate pan-European collaboration in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computer Science, based on the proceedings of the European Parliament (EP) by organising three international creative camps in 2014 and 2015. These
CLARIN legal expert Ville Oksanen unexpectedly passed away in Helsinki on Sunday morning November 23th. He was 37 years old. Ville played a key role in shaping the CLARIN resource policies from the beginnings of the CLARIN infrastructure and he actively contributed to CLARIN policies on legal
CLARIN vacancies: Executive Director and Developers The vacancy for an Executive Director has been re-opened. The new application deadline is 6 January. But that's not all: we are also in search of a Java developer and a Drupal developer (deadline: 4 December). Updated web pages There are now new
Post of CLARIN Executive Director CLARIN is one of the two big humanities pan-European research infrastructures on the roadmap with global ambitions, expected to expand rapidly in the near future. It currently has about 25 centres in 10 countries and the number is growing. At the same
Great news – within just a couple of weeks, two countries joined CLARIN ! With Sweden and Lithuania, the European CLARIN consortium gains two enthusiastic national consortia in the north and east of Europe. Each of them brings a lot of high-quality resources and special tools, and of course
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
We are happy to announce that Sweden has now joined CLARIN . Sweden has been active for several years in preparing for setting up components for a language resources infrastructure; and now has officially joined the European consortium. Sweden contributes a very strong and broad national
CLARIN welcomes 2 new members! Good news to start with - the CLARIN family has recently grown. Sweden and Lithuania have officially become CLARIN members. CLARIN congratulates these new national consortia; more details will soon be provided at the CLARIN website. Virtual Collection Registry 1.0
CLARIAH, a Dutch consortium of Humanities research institutes, is to receive a grant of 12 million euros from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The grant will fund the development of a digital infrastructure that combines diverse data sets and software tools from various