centre news

In this issue: Latvia and Poland in SPF,

Component Metadata Infrastructure

See: http://www.clarin.eu/cmdi

1.2 spec, Metadata Harvesting schedule, Software Development Guidelines, CLARIN-PLUS Deliverables, Workshops

Featured topics:

Virtual Language Observatory

See: http://www.clarin.eu/vlo

alpha, Estonian federation, workshop material, new centre, zotero group, ePIC support, CLARIN+ report,

Research Data Alliance

See: http://www.rd-alliance.org/

Persistent Identifier workshop.

Centre Meeting 2016: programme available. As announced before, the Centre Meeting will take place on 10 and 11 May in Utrecht.

Redundant setup for Discovery Service. The CLARIN Discovery Service is now running on two independent servers, with a failover setup. In practice this means that maintenance (restarting the server, updates, etc.) can be done while the service in question remains available. A similar setup is planned for the CLARIN Identity Provider.

As of today, the 71 Italian Identity Providers have been added to the Service Provider Federation. This means that all users with an account at one of these academic organisations can use federated login to access the password-protected CLARIN services, e.g. the recently added Corpuscle corpus analysis system.

As announced at the latest centre committee meeting, the deadline to participate in the 6th assessment round is 19 November. Please note that the B-centre checklist has been slightly revised (some URLs were updated). If you have not started yet, please use the latest version of the checklist.

Upcoming Centre meeting: please register!

For the Centre Meeting at 28 and 29 May we would like to remind you to register before next Friday. After that date we cannot guarantee...

New CLARIN members

Recently, both Portugal and Greece have joined CLARIN. A warm welcome to our new consortia and centres!

New B-centres

Huygens ING and Talkbank have been award...

The Data Harvest report

The famous Riding the wave report now has a successor: The Data Harvest. Enjoy the reading!

Planned maintenance

• Tomorrow (30 January), between 8:00 and...

CLARIN vacancies: Executive Director and Developers

The vacancy for an Executive Director has been re-opened. The new application deadline is 6 January. But that's not all: we are...