CLARIN, l’infrastruttura europea delle risorse linguistiche per le scienze umane e sociali e il suo network italiano CLARIN-IT

i abstracts. Each submission was reviewed by at least three reviewers, all of whom scientists with rich experience and significant achievements in Language Technology and/or Digital Humanities. 24 submissions were accepted as a result of the two reviewing and correction rounds: 13 for oral presentations, the remaining ones as posters. The selected contributions were published online in the Book of Abstracts: https://www.clarin.eu/content/abstracts-overview-clarin-annual-conference-2017.After the conference, the authors of all accepted presentations were invited to prepare significantly expanded versions of their abstracts as full paper proposals. The authors were strongly encouraged to take into account the outcome of the discussion of their presentations during the conference, as well as their further work performed after conference. 12 papers were submitted and reviewed by the Program Committee. Each paper was reviewed by two reviewers, during two iterations. The process was completed by a final review with the aim to check if all the requested changes had been introduced. On the basis of the improved versions sent after the second reviewing iteration, all 12 papers were accepted and included in this volume.The accepted papers represent an overview of the most important topics discussed during the conference. The first two papers (Nicolas et al.) and (Parisse, et al.) report on the process of the formation of national consortia and their initial development.Next, Durco et al. revisit an important problem of constructing mapping between metadata formats from the point of view of building links between the CLARIN CMDI metadata standard and the metadata system in the PARTHENOS project. One of the goals of this project is to build a platform linking several major research infrastructures related to the area of SS&H. Metadata mapping is also close to a very challenging issue of the curation of metadata content.Zinn presents further development of the Switchboard systems for effortless and automated linking of resources with language tools, as well as processing chains on the basis of resources content. A new mechanism of directly linking EUDAT's B2DROP cloud service to Switchboard is the main focus of the paper.The next papers, namely of Sugimoto and Monachini et al., are about a problem of great importance for CLARIN (and every research infrastructure), i.e. studying and discovering users' needs. Sugimoto analyses users' behaviours through the observation of their activities in the already existing infrastructure and its systems. Monachini et al. report on an interesting surveybased study among the researchers in Classics Studies on the actual and intended use of digital methods. The results and conclusions are also illustrated by a mock-up prototype of a future system.The papers of Fišer & Lenardič and Borin et al. are devoted to the enrichment of language resources in CLARIN on the basis of the already existing resources in a way focused on the identified users' needs. Fišer & Lenardič report on the results of a...

Section: Motivations For a Clarin-it Survey Of Digital Classicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021

Piasecki¹

2022

“…As for the infrastructure, the CLARIN-IT national data centre hosted in Pisa, ILC4CLARIN (Monachini and Frontini, 2016), will implement new experimental approaches to preservation, management and access to audio data and metadata. The experimental activity aims to adopt the model and the highperformance computing and archiving services of the new GARR network infrastructure, built along the Cloud paradigm 13 .…”

Section: The Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Community-Based Survey and Oral Archive Infrastructure in the Archivio Vi.Vo. Project

Calamai¹,

Pretto²,

Stamuli³

et al. 2021

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Audio and audiovisual archives are at the crossroads of different fields of knowledge, yet they require common solutions for both their long-term preservation and their description, availability, use and reuse. Archivio Vi.Vo. is an Italian project financed by the Region of Tuscany, aiming to: (i) explore methods for long-term preservation and secure access to oral sources, and (ii) develop an infrastructure under the CLARIN-IT umbrella offering several services for scholars from different domains interested in oral sources. This paper describes the project's infrastructure and its methodology through a case study on Caterina Bueno's audio archive.

“…25 In addition, we can consider that an experience like the Tour de CLARIN (in Italy from 1 st February to 31 th March 2019, see http://www.ilc.cnr.it/it/content/tour-de-clarin-it) can spread knowledge and can be fundamental for the dissemination of research projects. 20 See Monachini and Frontini (2016). 21 See .…”

Section: Clarin-it and Dea Project: Data And Metadatamentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction

2020

Language Resources and Technology aimed at supporting researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and beyond in their use of language data and technologies. CLARIN works towards lowering barriers in doing research by giving access to language resources distributed across the countries involved in the infrastructure and by offering advanced, user-friendly and effective applications that enable the analysis of textual data, speech recordings, as well as multimodal material in a wide diversity of research tasks.Since the establishment of the ERIC in 2012, CLARIN has grown ins size considerably. Currently there are 21 member countries, 3 observers, and more than 100 associated research institutions who are all encouraged and supported to be represented at the annual conference which is meant to be a central event for CLARIN community and which is one of the crucial instrument for CLARIN to function as a knowledge hub. At the conference, consortia from all participating countries and the various communities of use meet, in order to exchange ideas, experiences and best practices in using the CLARIN infrastructure. The conference covers a wide range of topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that are or could be on offer, its actual use by researchers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. The aim is to attract researchers from all the various SSH fields that work with language materials, i.e. the people who are the raison d'être for CLARIN.For the 8 th edition of the CLARIN Annual Conference the special topic was "Humanities and Social Science research enabled by language resources and technology". Early in 2019 a call 2 was issued for which 56 abstracts were submitted.All submissions were reviewed anonymously by three reviewers (PC members and reviewers invited by PC members). Out of the 56 submitted abstracts 44 submissions were accepted for presentation at the conference (acceptance rate 0.79). The three topics that attracted the most of proposals were (a) language resources and tools, (b) design and construction of the CLARIN infrastructure, and (c) Interoperability and technical issues. This year 14 papers with a link to the special topic were accepted. Three of them had the special topic as the main focus, and thus formed the core of the plenary session devoted to it, while the others were presented either in other oral sessions or as posters. The accepted contributions were published in the online Proceedings of the Conference 3 . Several papers reported collaborative efforts by researchers from different institutes, either from one country or from institutional nodes in multiple countries. Some of the papers describe work that was carried out together with researchers from countries outside of Europe, such as South Africa, Japan, and Russia.Following the well received novelty introduced at the 2018 edition of the CLARIN Annual Conference, a student poster session was o...