What are CLARIN technical centres?

Centres of the type B, C and E:

• B is probably what most CLARIN centres will try to become. It is integrated into the infrastructure with all necessary building blocks: a stable repository with
  Component Metadata Infrastructure
  See: http://www.clarin.eu/cmdi
  metadata, PIDs,
  Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
  See: Federated Identity
  -access for protected resources, a classification of its licenses based on the PUB/ACA/RES system,
  Web Services Description Language
  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Language
  /
  Web Application Description Language
  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Language
  descriptions for web services (next to the web service core model CMDI files).
• An E centre offers a service to other CLARIN centres but is not a part of the national CLARIN consortium.

The C centre is the bare minimum: a centre that has web-accessible resources that provides

Open Language Archives Community

See: http://www.language-archives.org

or CMDI metadata about these over

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_Harvesting

.