Le 8 mars 2013
À 10h30
Salle de Cours – Grande Coupole
Peter WITTENBURG
Nimègue, Pays-Pas
The international DOBES project on documenting endangered languages worldwide required the turn to structured data management and preservation and a certification of the repository based on clear policies. In the CLARIN research infrastructure covering about 200 European institutes data management, sharing, access and interoperability were in the focus. Structuring the landscape towards trusted and certified centers seems to be widely accepted concept and a center assessment committee is now in charge to evaluate the center candidates. The structured approach of the CLARIN community seems to make it possible to be accepted as a WDS network partner. Several of the essential components (such as persistent identifiers, distributed authentication, meta-model based metadata descriptions of data objects and tools, services etc.) that have been discussed and pushed ahead in CLARIN are now subject of discussions in the Research Data Alliance. One could claim that data management in the language area is just the same as in astronomy for example. Nevertheless, it seems not to be easy to overcome the existing barriers.