2019-07-08-libraries-as-research-partners


CLARIN & Research Libraries:
A Very Short Introduction

Leon Wessels
Programme manager CLARIN ERIC



CLARIN in eight bullets

• CLARIN is the Common Language Resources and 
Technology Infrastructure
• ESFRI ERIC status since 2012, Landmark since 2016
• that provides easy and sustainable access for scholars in 

the humanities and social sciences and beyond
• to digital language data (in written, spoken, video or 

multimodal form)
• and advanced tools to discover, explore, exploit, 

annotate, analyse or combine them, wherever they are 
located
• through a single sign-on environment
• that serves as an ecosystem for knowledge sharing
• and: ready for integration in EOSC 



CLARIN ERIC in members and centres

A consortium of:
• 21 members: AT, 

BG, CY, CZ, DE, 
DK, DLU, EE, FI, 
GR, HR, HU, IT, 
LT, LV, NL, NO, 
PL, PT, SE, SI
• 4 observers: 

IS, FR, SA, UK;
• >40 centres



CLARIN in data types

• Newspaper archives
• Literary texts
• Social Media data
• Parliamentary records 
• Historical letters
• Oral History data
• Disciplinary libraries
• Institutional archival data
• Broadcast archives
• …



Collaboration with research libraries

• Collaboration on a national scale:
– Several national consortia include research libraries

• Collaboration on a supranational scale:
– LIBER: MoU, SSHOC
– Europeana: DSI-4



Want to know more?

Visit the CLARIN stand at the Market place  
or 

www.clarin.eu / clarin@clarin.eu

http://www.clarin.eu/
mailto:clarin@clarin.eu