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Creating & Testing CLARIN Metadata Components

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The CLARIN Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI) that is being developed in Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) is a computer-supported framework that combines a flexible component approach with the explicit declaration of semantics. The goal of the Dutch CLARIN project “Creating & Testing CLARIN Metadata Components” was to create metadata components and profiles for a wide variety of existing resources housed at two data centres according to the CMDI specifications. In doing so the principles of the framework were tested. The results of the project are of benefit to other CLARIN-projects that are expected to adhere to the CMDI framework and its accompanying tools.

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  1. http://www.clarin.eu/files/metadata-CLARIN-ShortGuide.pdf.

  2. http://www.isocat.org.

  3. http://www.mpi.nl.

  4. http://www.clarin.eu.

  5. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl.

  6. http://www.inl.nl.

  7. The HLT Agency (http://www.inl.nl/tst-centrale), which is an initiative of and is funded by, the Dutch Language Union, was set up to organize easy access and re-usage of language resources for the Dutch language developed with public funding.

  8. Although CMDI can also be used for creating metadata for tools and web services, in the project these were not taken into account.

  9. http://www.mpi.nl/IMDI/.

  10. http://www.clarin.eu/toolkit.

  11. http://www.clarin.eu/cmdi.

  12. The standardisation process is carried out by domain experts who evaluate data categories and work in Thematic Domain Groups. Each Thematic Domain Group focusses on a specific topic like morphosyntax, metadata or lexicology.

  13. http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry/#.

  14. http://www.isocat.org/interface/index.html.

  15. http://trac.clarin.nl/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/BestPracticeGuide-V4.pdf.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Jan Pieter Kunst (Meertens Institute) and Anna Aalstein (INL) for their valuable input during the project. The project reported on in this paper was funded by CLARIN-NL (www.clarin.nl).

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  1. Meertens Institute, Joan Muyskenweg 25, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Folkert de Vriend

  2. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Daan Broeder & Dieter Van Uytvanck

  3. Institute for Dutch Lexicology, Matthias de Vrieshof 2-3, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Griet Depoorter & Laura van Eerten

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de Vriend, F., Broeder, D., Depoorter, G. et al. Creating & Testing CLARIN Metadata Components. Lang Resources & Evaluation 47, 1315–1326 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-013-9231-6

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