CLARIN Technical Infrastructure

How far are we?

Short Overview

• CLARIN is one of the 44 accepted ESFRI Roadmap Initiatives

• official start: 1.1.2008, Kick-off: June 2008

• 150 Mitglieder Institute aus 31 EU Ländern• EC Funds: 32 Partner from 22 EU Ländern (4.1 Mio, 3

J)• various national Funds (D-SPIN in D, NL until 2014, Fi, Dk, Fr, Ro, Hu, Sp, It, Pt, Ös, Mt: ca. 15 Mio)

• CLARIN is indeed European

European Map

Work Distribution

• CLARIN Executive Board - Chair: Steven Krauwer Utrecht

• WP2: Technische Infrastruktur Peter Wittenburg MPI• WP3: Humanities Projekte Tamas Varadi Akad Budapest• DARIAH Liaison Martin Wynne Oxford• WP5: Language Resources&Tools Erhard Hinrichs U Tübingen• WP6: Ausbildung, Dissemination Dan Cristea U Iasi Rumänien• WP7: Rechtliche und ethische Fragen Kimmo Koskenniemi U

Helsinki • WP8: Organisation & Funding Bente Maegaard U

Kopenhagen

Major Functions

• centres as backbones of the infrastructure hosting/offering various services

• federation of centres and trust domain

• visibility and access to LRT, virtual collection building joint metadata domain

• service oriented architecture - domain of web services

• advanced applications such as combined metadata and content in joint domain

Centre Types

• centres are the backbone of any infrastructure• 6 types of centres

• R recognized centres with a web-site etc• C centres that offer rich metadata via standard pipes • B centres that offer md and access to resources • A centres that offer infrastructure services (100% available)

(ISOcat, registries, md portal, etc)• E centres offering services but are external

(SARA: PID, execution, quality check, etc)• K centres giving advice (can be many)

• A/B: MPI, INL, Meertens

Criteria - B Type

• offer some useful services for a guaranteed period of time• explicit statements about services (availability, stability)• stability of service even when end of operation • proper repository system with clear APIs

• for a certain identifier deliver the same resource/service • clear statements about business model and IPR treatment • must participate in quality assessment • participate in CLARIN SPF• adhere to CLARIN protocols and agreements (OAI PMH) • offer a deposit service and do curation

• explicit funding statement required • centres need IT experts and setting up things requires

funds

Criteria - A Type

• borderline with B Type not that strict• centres that give services that are relevant for infrastructure and not just offering their own LRT

• ISOcat, • various registries (centres, schema, relation, etc) • md portal, • PID service • etc

• 100% availability required • strong IT group required