Federated Content Search ( ) is a technology to access and search resources that are available at different locations. Using a common search page, someone can search simultaneously over the resources available at various places. Technically this means that each location has a search service for
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On May 17th interested representatives from several European institutions met in Utrecht to discuss the potential of OpenSKOS for European collaboration concerning vocabularies for the linguistic domain. OpenSKOS is a publication and exchange platform for vocabularies that can be mapped to the SKOS
On April 24, 2013 I attended the workshop on Federated Content Search ( ) at CST, Copenhagen. Federated Content Search aims to make it possible to search for data in multiple datasets that can reside on different locations via a single query and without requiring detailed knowledge about the
Asking researchers with fascinating data for options to reuse their data often results in a Contact-me-if-you-are-interested-in-my-data reply. Scholars often do not mind other scholars to have access to their unfinished, raw data as long as they know the other personally, being able to brief them
On February 29, the CLARIN has been officially established. Details are available in the press release of the European Commission and the official journal of the EU.
Sign language research is a small branch of linguistics. Wouldn't it therefore be extra easy for people to share and exchange resources? That was the thought that drove a recent workshop on sign language lexicons. With the recent stream of efforts to build sign language corpora, the creation of sign
On Monday September 3, Steven Krauwer received a plaquette for CLARIN . The plaquette confirms the EU status of the research infrastructure CLARIN. In the presence of, amongst others, Yvonne van Rooy (parting chair of the Board of Governors of Utrecht University) and Wiljan van den Akker (dean
Since the beginning of this academic year the CLARIN is officially established. The Board of Directors ( ) already had some real and virtual meetings, but no general meeting was hold so far. It was decided therefore that is was time to have a general meeting in order to stimulate