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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

CMDI

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

Title

CMDI Registry/editor

Description

The 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. 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.

Project

CMDI

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

Hosted by CLARIN ERIC

Research domain

General

Tool task

editing

metadata creation

semantic registry and mapping

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Publishing Data / Software

Tool status

published

Output format

text/xml

Input Language

Language independent

Access Contact

/mailto:-/

Project Contact

/mailto:-/

Creator Contact

/mailto:-/

Documentation

Component Registry, Browser and Editor Reference Manual

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1953

Publications

Windhouwer, M, Indarto, E and Broeder, D. 2017. CMD2RDF: Building a Bridge from CLARIN to Linked Open Data. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 95–103. London:Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.8. License: CC-BY 4.0

Resource

CMDI File Link

License

unknown

Inventory Scope

local

ISOcat

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Title

ISOcat

Description

This service is no longer operational! The ISO TC37 Data Category Registry (DCR) was created in 2008 as one of the first ISO standards delivered in the form of a database (ISOcat). The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) has provided development, hosting, and support services and acted as the Registration Authority (RA) until December 2014. For users from the European CLARIN research infrastructure, the Meertens Institute develops and hosts a new registry for CLARIN relevant concepts based on the corresponding ISOcat data categories, such as those used for the Component MetaData Infrastructure (CMDI). This can be found here: http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4216. ISO 12620 provides a framework for defining data categories compliant with the ISO/IEC 11179 family of standards. According to this model, each data category is assigned a unique administrative identifier, together with information on the status or decision-making process associated with the data category. In addition, data category specifications in the DCR contain linguistic descriptions, such as data category definitions, statements of associated value domains, and examples. Data category specifications can be associated with a variety of data element names and with language-specific versions of definitions, names, value domains and other attributes. For now the entries of the Data Category Registry are still available in a static manner, i.e., can't be changed anymore. All Data Category Peristent IDentifiers, e.g., http://www.isocat.org/datcat/DC-4146 (link is external), remain resolvable. The public part of the registry can be browsed via the Guest workspace: http://www.isocat.org/rest/user/guest/workspace . new location for this data category registry is http://www.datcatinfo.net/ .

Project

ISOcat

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Research domain

General

Tool task

semantic registry and mapping

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Publishing Data / Software

Tool status

retired

Input Language

Language independent

Access Contact

/mailto:isocat@mpi.nl/

Project Contact

/mailto:isocat@mpi.nl/

Creator Contact

Menzo Windhouwer

Documentation

n.a.

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1955

Resource

CMDI File Link

License

unknown

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

CLAVAS

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

Title

CLARIN Vocabulary Service

Description

The CLARIN Vocabulary Service is a running instance of the OpenSKOS exchange and publication platform for SKOS vocabularies. OpenSKOS offers several ways to publish SKOS vocabularies (upload SKOS file, harvest from another OpenSKOS instance with OAI-PMH, construct using the RESTful API) and to use vocabularies (search and autocomplete using the API, harvest using OAI-PMH, inspect in the interactive Editor or consult as Linked Data). This CLARIN OpenSKOS instance is hosted by the Meertens Institute. Contents This OpenSKOS instance currently publishes SKOS versions of three vocabularies: - ISO-639-3 language codes, as published by SIL. - Closed and simple Data Categories from the ISOcat metadata profile. - A manually constructed and curated list of Organizations, based on the CLARIN VLO. .

Project

CLAVAS

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIAH-CORE

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Research domain

General

Tool task

semantic registry and mapping

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

web application

Research Phase

Publishing Data / Software

Tool status

released

Input Language

Language independent

Version

1.0

Access Contact

Project Contact

/mailto:helpdesk@clarin.nl/

Creator Contact

/mailto:helpdesk@clarin.nl/

Documentation

Source code

https://github.com/hennie/CLAVAS

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4223

Publications

Brugman, H. 2017. CLAVAS: A CLARIN Vocabulary and Alignment Service. In: Odijk J. & van Hessen A, CLARIN in the Low Countries, ch 5, pp 61-69. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.5

Resource

SearchService

CMDI File Link

License

GNU GPL

Inventory Scope

local

CCR

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

Title

CLARIN Concept Registry

Description

The CCR is a concept registry according to the W3C SKOS recommendation. It was chosen by CLARIN to serve as a semantic registry to overcome semantic interoperability issues with CMDI metadata and different annotation tag sets used for linguistic annotation. The CCR is part of the CMDI metadata infrastructure. The W3C SKOS recommendation, and the OpenSKOS implementation thereof, provides the means for ‘data-sharing, bridging several different fields of knowledge, technology and practice’. According to this model, each concept is assigned a unique administrative identifier, together with information on the status or decision-making process associated with the concept. In addition, concept specifications in the CCR contain linguistic descriptions, such as definitions and examples, and can be associated with a variety of labels. .