We offer this issue to our readers at the half way of our project. It’s time to count some eggs, sure not yet the ducklings… This was indeed what Peter Wittenburg had in mind when writing the opening article.
Because CLARIN has become well known, in Europe at least, many people started to become nervous. Those inside the community, as they want to show to the world already some results (which would diminish somehow a certain amount of grumpy gossips about an expensive community doing nothing but travelling), and those outside the community, eager to consume what we have promised. At the half time break (before summer) Peter addresses 5 thoughts to 5 distinct communities.
We continue with two articles that present evaluation results of the two calls issued this year: the one addressing collaboration with HSS projects, article contributed by Tamás Váradi and Koenraad de Smedt, and the usage scenarios call – an article written by Valeria Quochi. As you will see, 3 and, respectively, 4 winners have been preselected in these two contests. And the game has only begun, because CLARIN will have now to prove that it can provide a kind of CLARIN-grounded workflow as solution in all cases.
The middle pages, as well as the next one, are dedicated to the very important Consortium meeting that took place in Barcelona in the second decade of May. We have invited Carla Parra and Eva Revilla, members of the host organisation – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, to make a general presentation of this extremely well organised event. Then, Frank Binder and Dan Cristea describe the training and dissemination session, in which both of us (Dan and Marko) together with 5 other colleagues have been actively involved. Although not financed in this preparatory phase, training will become a big issue in the construction and exploitation phase and therefore merits already a vivid attention.
Dieter Van Uytvanck signs two articles on page 9, the first one alone – announcing the launching of the attractively interesting Virtual Language Observatory (
VLO), an MPI achievement, and the second one, together with his colleague Florian Wittenburg – presenting briefly the Research Connection event in Prague, at the beginning of May.
The last two articles bring into focus activities in
LRT performed by an European agency and at a national level. In what way ELRA – the already 14 years old well-known association – connects to CLARIN and why such a marriage is fortunate is commented by Victoria Arranz and Khalid Choukri.
Finally, Svetla Koeva presents the Bulgarian LRT sector, including research and teaching performed in universities, state institutes and in the private sector.
Enjoy the reading!
