What are the big questions that CLARIN aims to answer?

How do we unite existing archives from all over Europe into a single federation? How can we manage the wide variability of  conventions for describing resources, in many different languages? How might we chain together existing tools and applications, with their specific expectations in terms of input and output formats? Can we help to provide a minimum level of technological coverage for all languages, irrespective of the number of speakers? How do we protect the intellectual property rights of those who have provided data or tools? How do we ensure that whatever infrastructure facilities we manage to build will be sustainable?
These questions will have an answer at the end of the CLARIN preparatory phase at the end of 2010.