CMDI Registry/editor
SummaryThe CMDI Registry/Editor allows metadata modelers and editors to share and reuse CMDI metadata schema or build new ones (partly) based on previous work. CMDI is the metadata framework adopted by CLARIN.
Background
Metadata for language resources and tools exists in a multitude of formats. Often these descriptions contain specialized information for a specific research community (e.g. TEI headers for text, IMDI for multimedia collections).
To overcome this dispersion CLARIN has initiated the Component MetaData Infrastructure (CMDI). It provides a framework to describe and reuse metadata components that are pieces of the completemetadata schema. Such components can be grouped into a ready-made description format (a “profile”). Both are stored and shared with other users in the Component Registry to promote reuse. Such metadata profiles (equivalent to a metadata schema) can be used to instantiate metadata descriptions that describe language resources. The CMDI approach combines architectural freedom when modeling the metadata with powerful exploration and search possibilities over a broad range of language resources.
The CMDI Registry development was supported by both the Dutch and German national CLARIN projects. After being earlier housed at the MPI for Psycholinguistics, the CMDI Registry is now under direct responsibility of the CLARIN ERIC
- Project leader/developer: various
- CLARIN center: CLARIN ERIC
- Help contact : cmdi@clarin.eu
- Web-sites: http://www.clarin.eu/content/component-metadata
- User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
- Manual: http://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/ComponentRegistryReferenceManua...
- Tool/Service link: http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry/
- Publications: Daan Broeder, Marc Kemps-Snijders, Dieter Van Uyt- vanck, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter Withers, Peter Wittenburg, and Claus Zinn. 2010. A Data Category Registry- and Component-based Metadata Framework. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pages 43–47, Valletta, Malta.