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VLO

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:55 +0000

Title

VLO: The Virtual Language Observatory

Description

The VLO is a faceted browser that shows the metadata records harvested from within the CLARIN joint metadata domain. Next to that it also shows part of the Language Resource metadata that can be harvested from the OLAC domain. The Virtual Language Observatory (VLO) is meant to be the open market place where users can find metadata descriptions of all language resources and tools/services which we can harvest from any useful and trusted source. Currently VLO contains more than 230.000 resources and more than 400 tools already. Different user interfaces are maintained to allow users to find and select resources such as a GoogleEarth overlay for geographic browsing, a facetted browser for easy search and browsing along major criteria and a normal cata- logue. The VLO machinery is ready to harvest various types of metadata that is offered via the OAI-PMH pro- tocol. It currently is harvesting data from OLAC, DFKI Tool registry, DOBES, DELAMAN partners, MPI registry, ELRA catalogue and the CLARIN Language Resource and Technology inventory which was meant as a simple registry for resources and tools from CLARIN members. VLO is based on the principle that metadata needs to be open.

Project

VLO

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Hosted by CLARIN ERIC

Research domain

General

Tool task

browsing

searching

semantic registry and mapping

Country

Netherlands

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1954

Publications

Van Uytvanck, D., Stehouwer, H., and Lampen, L. (2012). Semantic metadata mapping in practice: The Virtual Language Observatory. In N. Calzolari (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, May 23rd-25th, 2012 (pp. 1029-1034). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Resource

SearchPage

CMDI File Link

License

unknown

Inventory Scope

local

Taalportaal

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:55 +0000

Title

Taalportaal, the linguistics of Dutch, Frisian and Afrikaans online.

Description

Taalportaal (or Language Portal) is an interactive knowledge base about Dutch, Frisian and Afrikaans. It provides access to a comprehensive and authoritative scientific grammar for these three languages.

Project

Taalportaal

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Dutch Language Institute

Research domain

Linguistics

Linguistic Subject

Syntax

Morphology

Phonology

Tool task

searching

browsing

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Obtaining Data / Software

Browsing and Searching

Consulting Literature

Tool status

published

Input Language

Dutch

(West) Frisian

Afrikaans

Version

1.2

Access Contact

/mailto:servicedesk@ivdnt.org/

Institute for the Dutch Language

Project Contact

/mailto:info@taalportaal.org/

/mailto:navraag@viva-afrikaans.org/

Creator Contact

Jenny Audring

Ian Bekker

Frits Beukema

Geert Booij

Lande Botha

Hans Broekhuis

Jac Conradie

Crit Cremers

Siebren Dyk

lse Feinauer

Carlos Gussenhoven

Vincent J. van Heuven

Eric Hoekstra

Gerhard van Huyssteen

Evelien Keizer

Gerbrich de Jong

Anna Kirstein

Johanita Kirsten

Björn Köhnlein

Ernst Kotzé

Haidee Kruger

Kathrin Linke

Marc van Oostendorp

Nina Ouddeken

Bertus van Rooy

Koen Sebregts

Piet Swanepoel

Lize Terblanche

Willem Visser

Truus de Vries

Joke Weening

Daan Wissing

Ton van der Wouden

North-West University, South Africa

Meertens Institute

Leiden University

Documentation

Frequently Asked Questions

Help

About

Source code

not specified

Publications

van der Wouden, T, Bouma, G, van deCamp, M, van Koppen, M, Landsbergen, F and Odijk, J. 2017. Enriching a Scientific Grammar with Links to Linguistic Resources: The Taalportaal. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 299–310. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.24. License: CC-BY 4.0

Resource

LandingPage

CMDI File Link

License

unknown

Inventory Scope

local

MIGMAP

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

MIGMAP: Detailed interactive mapping of migration in The Netherlands in the 20th century.

Description

MIGMAP is a web application that can show migration flow between Dutch municipalities. The user first chooses generation (forward or backward in time) and gender, while subsequently the migration map of The Netherlands related to an interactively pointed municipality (or other aggregation unit) is shown. The data underlying the migration maps originate from the first name selection from the Civil Registration, acquired by Utrecht University and the Meertens Institute in 2006. These concern 16 million records from persons with Dutch citizenship, alive in 2006, and in addition 6 million persons deceased before 2006, but mentioned in other records – mainly as parents. The records include identifiers by which family relations can be reconstructed. After considerable efforts in data clearing and reconstruction of older generations, the data provide an almost complete overview of the Dutch population, born after 1930, and a fairly good sample from the period 1880-1930 (>25%). The user will be given options to choose generation (places of birth of the current population, their parents, grandparents grand-grandparents, or starting with the persons born between 1880-1900: the current places of residence of their children, grandchildren), and gender. Each map will be made available as a .csv record with municipality number and percentage as fields, and thus can be used by users in correlation studies with other variables. Utrecht University and the Meertens Institute have the signed permission of the "Basisadministratie voor Persoonsgegevens en Reisdocumenten, The Hague" to use the data for scientific purposes. The migration maps present the data in an aggregated way, and do not violate privacy requirements (no individual can possibly be identified from the maps). However, the underlying data containing information about individual persons and their family relations cannot be made available for reasons of privacy.

Project

MIGMAP

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Research domain

Linguistics

History

Linguistic Subject

Dialectology

Onomatology

Sociolinguistics

Tool task

searching

browsing

visualisation

analysis

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Data analysis

Tool status

published

Output format

text/csv

Input Language

Dutch

Access Contact

/mailto:info@meertens.knaw.nl/

Project Contact

/mailto:info@meertens.knaw.nl/

Creator Contact

dr. ir. G. Bloothooft

Documentation

Background information - Instructions for use

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1930

Publications

Bloothooft, G, Onland, D and Kunst, J.P. 2017. Mapping Migration across Generations. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 351–360. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.29. License: CC-BY 4.0

Ekamper, P. en Bloothooft, G. (2013), "Weg van je wortels. De afstand tussen overgrootouders en achterkleinkinderen", DEMOS 29, 2, p8.

Resource

CMDI File Link

License

Creative Commons (non-commercial)

Inventory Scope

local

DSS

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

DSS: Dutch Ships and Sailors

Description

A tool chain and methodology for converting legacy datasets in the area of maritime history. Set up to facilitate over 25 data sets, the initial population consists of 4 selected maritime-historical datasets. The maritime industry has been central to regional and global economic, social and cultural exchange. It is also one of the best historically documented sectors of human activity. Many aspects of it have been recorded by shipping companies, governments, newspapers and other institutions. In the past few decades, much of the data in the preserved historical source material has been digitized. Among the most interesting data are those on shipping movement and crew members. The Dutch Republic in the 17th and 18th centuries had to rely to a large extent on immigration to man its fleet. Especially in Asian waters, it also relied on Asian crews. Often information that deals with the same shipping movements and crew composition is spread over several historical sources and hence over several databases. The data often refers to the same ‘places’, ‘ships’, ‘persons’ and ‘events’. By linking the different available databases, the data complements and amplifies each other, and new research possibilities open up. Ideally, we would want to follow a ship from port to port, and crew members pursuing their careers from ship to ship. The Dutch Ships and Sailors project provides a tool chain and methodology for converting legacy datasets. The infrastructure includes common vocabularies to normalize and enrich existing data. Links are established between the datasets and to other relevant datasets. In doing so, Dutch Ships and Sailors builds a (semantic) web-based structure that aims to function as a future platform and infrastructure for maritime historical datasets. Initially, this portal contains the following datasets: - Historische Kranten of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek; - The Monsterrollen databases contains elaborate data on the crew composition of ships from the Northern Netherlands (c. 1800-1930) and provides information on the sailors involved, such as the places of origin, wage and age; - The databases VOC Opvarenden, providing extensive data on crews of VOC ships leaving the Republic; - The database Dutch-Asiatic Shipping, providing data on all inter-continental voyages of VOC ships; - The database Generale Zeemonsterrollen, providing data on the crew composition and sometimes location of VOC ships stationed in Asia and not engaged in inter-continental shipping.

Project

DSS

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Research domain

History

Tool task

semantic registry and mapping

searching

browsing

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Browsing and Searching

Tool status

released

Input Language

Dutch

Access Contact

V. de Boer

Project Contact

Prof. dr. Lex Heerma van Voss (Huygens ING)

Creator Contact

/mailto:-/

Documentation

Viewing the Data

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4189

Publications

Victor de Boer, Jur Leinenga, Matthias van Rossum and Rik Hoekstra. Dutch Ships and Sailors Linked Data Cloud. AcIn Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), 19-23 October, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2014.

A. Bravo Balado. Information extraction on newspaper archives for historical research. a dutch maritime history case study. M.Sc. thesis VU University Amsterdam (forthcoming), 2014.

Andrea Bravo Balado, Victor de Boer, and Guus Schreiber. Linking historical ship records to a newspaper archive. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (workshops). LNCS. ed. Luca Maria Aiello, Daniel McFarland, 2014.

R.Ponstein. Reconciling dutch ships and sailors. M.Sc. thesis VU University Amsterdam, 2014.

Resource

LandingPage

CMDI File Link

License

unknown

Inventory Scope

local

CMD2RDF

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

CMDI to RDF conversion

Description

There is growing amount of on-line information available in RDF format as Linked Open Data (LOD) and a strong community very actively promotes its use. The publication of information as LOD is also considered an important signal that the publisher is actively searching for information sharing with a world full of new potential users. Added advantages of LOD, when well used, are the explicit semantics and high interoperability. But the problematic modelling by non-expert users offsets these advantages, which is a reason why modelling systems as CMDI are used. The CMDI2RDF project aims to bring the LOD advantages to the CMDI world and make the huge store of CMDI information available to new groups of users and at the same time offer CLARIN a powerful tool to experiment with new metadata discovery possibilities. The CMD2RDFservice was created to allow connection with the growing LOD world, and facilitate experiments within CLARIN merging CMDI with other, RDF based, information sources. One of the promises of LOD is the ease to link data sets together and answer queries based on this ‘cloud’ of LOD datasets. Thus in the enrichment and use cases part of the project we looked at other datasets to link to the CLARIN joint metadata domain. We used the WALS N3 RDF dump for one of the use cases. Although it is in the end relatively easy to go from a specific typological feature to the CMD records via a shared URI, it still showcased a weakness of the Linked Data approach. One has to carefully inspect the property paths involved. And in this case the path was broken as there was no clear way to go from the WALS feature data to the WALS language info except for extracting the WALS language code from the feature URI pattern and insert it the language URI pattern. This showcases that although the big LOD cloud shows potential for knowledge discovery by crossing dataset boundaries, design decisions in the individual datasets can still hamper algorithms and manual inspection is needed. The CMD2RDF service was developed at the TLA/MPI for Psycholinguistics and DANS and later moved to Meertens Institute where the expertise remains.

Project

CMD2RDF

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIAH-CORE

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Research domain

General

Tool task

searching

browsing

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Publishing Data / Software

Tool status

released

Input format

text/xml

Output format

text/xml

Input Language

Language independent

Access Contact

Menzo Windhouwer

Project Contact

/mailto:menzo.windhouwer@meertens.knaw.nl/

Creator Contact

/mailto:menzo.windhouwer@meertens.knaw.nl/

Documentation

Manual

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4225

Resource

LandingPage

SearchPage

SearchService

CMDI File Link

License

GNU GPL

Inventory Scope

local

Arthurian Fiction

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

Arthurian Fiction

Description

This research tool provides information on medieval Arthurian narratives and the manuscripts in which they are transmitted throughout Europe. The tool discloses a database consists of linked records on over two hundred texts, more than thousand manuscripts and two hundred persons. The database is work in progress: a considerable number of records have yet to be completed, while fresh discoveries of narratives and manuscripts invite new entries. The compilers of the database hope that this tool will contribute to further research into Arthurian fiction as a pan-European phenomenon. The Arthurian Fiction web application enables searching for manuscripts, narratives and persons from the Arthurian Fiction narratives and manuscripts metadata database Arthurian Fiction Data. Each of these object types can be searched for using facets specific to the object type. These include: - for manuscripts: institute, date, origin, physical form, extant leave, leaf sizes, illustration type, scripts, scribe, patron and several more; - for narratives: date, origin, languages, cycle, manuscript, author, patron, verse type, meter, length, intertextuality properties and many more; - for persons: name, gender, subtype, background, manuscript, and narratives. The user can, if desired, select a subset of the facets to work with. In addition, keyword search is possible for all fields, query results can be sorted by a variety of keys and queries can be saved. There is also a web service with an API for the Arthurian Fiction narratives and manuscripts database. This web service makes use of SOLR queries via HTTP POST requests.

Project

Arthurian Fiction

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Research domain

Literary Studies

Tool task

searching

browsing

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Browsing and Searching

Tool status

published

Input Language

Language independent

Access Contact

/mailto:helpdesk@clarin.nl/

/mailto:info@arthurianfiction.org/

Project Contact

/mailto:-/

Creator Contact

Dr. Bart Besamusca

Documentation

Arthurian Fiction User Scenario Screencast

Show Case Arthurian Fiction

Arthurian Fiction Project Movie

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1910

Publications

Besamusca, A.A.M. and Quinlan, J. (2012). The Fringes of Arthurian Fiction. Arthurian literature, 29, 191-241.

Boot, P. (2012), Manuscripten koning Arthur op tafel, E-Data & Research 7(1), 2012.

Dalen-Oskam, K. van and Besamusca, B. (2011), Arthurian Fiction in Medieval Europe: Narratives and Manuscripts, presentation held at the CLARIN-NL Kick-off meeting Call 2, Utrecht, February 9, 2011.

Dalen-Oskam, K. van (2011), ArthurianFiction, presentation held at the Call 3 information session, Utrecht, August 25, 2011.