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CRDO-Aix renamed SLDR

It is a pleasure to announce that at the term of its experimental phase, our site Centre de Ressources pour la Description de l'Oral (CRDO-Aix) has been renamed "Speech and Language Data Repository" (SLDR, pronounce 'splandar'). We are now collaborating with Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (CNRTL) - another member of CLARIN - and a few major French institutions to set up a network of CLARIN centres relying on SLDR for oral resources and CNRTL for text resources.
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New Virtual Language Observatory launch

The facet browser of the Virtual Language Observatory has been replaced by a new version. It now is faster, more stable, features direct links to resources, a feature that was broadly requested in a recent survey. It now relies completely on CMDI metadata as information source.

The Google Earth overlay has been updated too: it now features links to relevant information resources per language.

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CRDO Report

Having succesfully implemented an OAIS model in cooperation with two major computing centres, CRDO-Aix is offering the possibility of dealing with 'generic' multimedia resources with almost no restriction on file formats, item structure and size. The background and main features of CRDO-Aix are presented on this slideshow:
http://crdo.fr/doc/show/CrdoPresentation-en.pdf

The advantage of a generic resource centre is that it meets the requirements of a wide diversity of disciplines including experimental linguistics, field linguistics and didactics. The inherent drawback is a lack of homogeneity in the semantics of its descriptive metadata currently restricted to the OLAC fields. Therefore, our priority this year will be to implement access to ISOcat registry and extend our metadata model to the CMDI approach.
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Digital Agenda to unlock the full value of scientific data: High-Level Group presents report

The High-Level Group on Scientific Data presented on October 6 their final report to Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda. The report "Riding the Wave: How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data" is the result of six months of intense brainstorming and consultations with experts around the world to prepare a "vision 2030" for Scientific Data e-Infrastructures.

The report can be downloaded here.
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Double issue of the CLARIN newsletter

The double issue (number 9/10) is available for download.
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CLARA Course on Treebank Annotation

In December 2010, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen is organizing a course on treebanking, in cooperation with Charles University Prague. The latter is hosting the course in Prague.

The full course title is: CLARA Thematic Training Course on Methods and Technologies for Consolidating and Harmonising Treebank Annotation.

Full information on the program, venue, registration, and contact details, see the webpage at Prague. The course is worth 5 ECTS credits.

This course is open to external participants, who are very welcome. Participation is free, but there is a charge for meals.

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Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks - CHAIN

A meeting was held at King's College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities:
 

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CLARA is starting to recruit researchers!

The CLARA project is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network in the area of Common Language Resources and their Applications.

CLARA will have vacancies for 17 researchers in specific research tasks and for specific durations.  These vacancies will be announced on the
CLARA website (http://clara.uib.no), together with instructions on how to apply.  All positions are subject to strict eligibility criteria.
There are two types of researcher positions:

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Open Access Week: Open Data Speakers Corner at DANS

DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) will host a virtual Speakers Corner during the international Open Access Week from 19 through 23 October with the aim of giving a big push to the debate on free access to research data. Famed experts are gearing up to provide contributions that will be talked about.
The Open Access Week calls for attention to the importance of free access to scientific publications. DANS, the Netherlands national institute for storage and accessibility of research data in the social sciences and humanities, seizes that week to force the free availability of research data in particular higher on the agenda. When such data become widely available for reuse, many more opportunities for innovative research will ensue.
 

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