How can I publish my metadata to the Virtual Language Observatory ?

If you have many metadata records or records that frequently change:

• Use OAI-PMH
• Provide them preferrably as CMDI (click here for details about how to serve CMDI over OAI-PMH)
• If that is not possible provide them as OLAC
• Send a mail to vlw@clarin.eu to notify us about your OAI-PMH access point

If you have only a few static records and setting up an OAI-PMH access point is not feasible:

• Login at the CLARIN website (if you do not have an account yet, create one here)
• Add your records to the LRT inventory:
  
  • for data, corpora, lexica, etc: http://www.clarin.eu/node/add/resource
  • for web services and software: http://www.clarin.eu/node/add/tool
• All the records in the LRT inventory will be automatically converted into CMDI records. Note that this process can take a while.

Data provided over OAI-PMH or via the LRT inventory will be made available and searchable via the Virtual Language Observatory.