Component Metadata

Start page for information about the Component MetaData Infrastructure (CMDI)

Introduction and examples

• Read the Frequently Asked Questions about CMDI
  

• There is also a FAQ on the dutch Clarin site with lots of data
  

• Examples and data sets

• Document about granularity and modelling issues with CMDI (draft)

Creating CMDI metadata

• Component Registry:

  • Component Registry (Select your organization from the list, or if that does not work, select "Clarin Guest Accounts" and use your email/password from the CLARIN site to login - email should be in lower case!)
  • Documentation for users
  • Documentation in German from the NaLiDa project: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/nalida/doku/tutorials/component-registry.html
  • Documentation for developers (REST webservice)

• Arbil metadata editor with CMDI support:

  • start link (via java webstart) or download it
  • A4 guide
  • FAQs about Arbil as CMDI editor

• using ISOcat to create data categories for CMDI:

  • the ISOcat metadata profile: as HTML table or browse via the ISOcat interface
  • start the ISOcat web application
  • information about the process and the metadata ISOcat profile
  • ISOcat support forum

Browsing, searching and using CMDI metadata

• Virtual Language Observatory:
  
  • Facet browser
  • Technical documentation about the VLO
  • How to add your metadata and how to change it once it is included

• Early-stage prototypes (limited functionality!):
  • Metadata Catalog
  • Nalida Faceted Browser
  • Meertens institute CMDI search engine
  • Virtual Collection Registry
    

Support

• please mail your questions and suggestions to cmdi@clarin.eu
• CLARIN-NL users can contact their helpdesk

• CLARIN-FR Workshop, 2011-12-02, Paris
• CLARIN-D Workshop, 2011-09-09, Nijmegen
• CLARIN-NL Workshop, 2010-05-27, Nijmegen