CLARIN

CLARIN

Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
Formation	2012-02-29
Type	IGO, ERIC
Headquarters	Utrecht, Netherlands
Region served	Europe
Membership	Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden ; intergovernmental organization: Dutch Language Union; Observer: United Kingdom;
Official language	English
Executive Director	Franciska de Jong
Main organ	general assembly, board of directors, national coordinators forum
Website	www.clarin.eu

CLARIN is a European research network working in the field of archiving and processing of language-related resources in the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN is an acronym for Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure. CLARIN is a community of scholars of various disciplines and a network of institutions. The scholars use CLARIN as a forum for joined developments and exchange of resources. They also exchange information on standards and procedures for long time archiving of research data. The institutions of CLARIN offer services in the same field. On the European level, CLARIN is an independent body operating under European law as a European Research Infrastructure Community (ERIC). CLARIN ERIC represents the CLARIN community in the public and coordinates individual efforts in the field.

CLARIN is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.

CLARIN's objective is to provide a research infrastructure for researchers of the humanities and social sciences working with language related material. The network should allow the persistent storage and access to the data in an archive, to disseminate the material and to reuse it in other research contexts. By exchanging material, effects of synergy are achieved by not duplicating work and participating at each other's development. Additionally new research questions can follow and the material can be used for quality assurance in the research process. By offering depositing services, tutorials and support for archiving, special search engines for language resources and web based analysis systems the infrastructure becomes usable for the research community.

CLARIN offers a wide range of services to the research community, for example:

In addition to such technical services, tutorials are prepared, standards and processes developed and implemented. Researchers receive support in the archiving process, for example by reference material, see for example.

CLARIN ERIC currently has the following member countries:

The Dutch Language Union (DLU) is an intergovernmental organization and member of CLARIN as well.