CLARIN Goal

CLARIN is committed to establish an integrated and interoperable research infrastructure of language resources and its technology. It aims at lifting the current fragmentation, offering a stable, persistent, accessible and extendable infrastructure and therefore enabling eHumanities.

• integrated: the resource and service centres are connected via Grid technology and form a virtually integrated domain
• interoperable: the resources and services will be based on Semantic Web technologies to overcome format, structure and terminological differences
• stable: the resources and services are offered with a high availability
• persistent: the resources and services are planned to be accessible for many years so that researchers can rely on them
• accessible: the resources and services are accessible via the web; different access methods and training possibilities are offered tailored to the needs of the communities making use of them
• extendable: the infrastructure is open so that new resources and services can be added easily

Communities to serve

CLARIN is offering its services to

• the different communities of linguists to optimize their models and the tools to the benefit of all using language material
• the humanities scholars in the broad sense to facilitate access to language resources and technology
• the society to enable lower thresholds to multicultural and multilingual content

eEurope

CLARIN is devoted to create a Pan European infrastructure that will

• boost humanities research in a multicultural and multilingual area as Europe is,
• facilitate a multilingual and multicultural education in schools, colleges and universities

CLARIN is aware of the necessity to address the challenges of an increasing interest in electronic and multimedia communication. If we want to preserve cultural identity on the one hand, but make younger generations ready for the global competition on the other hand we have to improve their multilingual and multicultural awareness. CLARIN wants to make essential contributions.