Short presentation for UKRI event on making Horizon Europe proposals for the Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries sectors, focussing on how to include the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium in your proposal.
1. CLARIN – supporting language
resources and technologies in
Horizon Europe proposals
Martin Wynne
martin.wynne@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
National Coordinator, CLARIN-UK
Horizon Europe for Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries sectors – 2022 Calls
Thursday 3rd February 2022
Webinar
http://www.clarin.eu/
2. CLARIN – a short summary
• CLARIN is the Common Language Resources and Technology
Infrastructure
• a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) since 2012
• which 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 exchange
• and ready for integration in EOSC (European Open Science Cloud; link)
CLARIN Value Proposition: https://www.clarin.eu/content/value-proposition (link to pdf)
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3. CLARIN ERIC in members and centres
A consortium of:
• 21 members: AT, BG, CY, CZ, DE,
DK, EE, FI, GR, HR, HU,IS, IT,
LT, LV, NL, NO, PL, PT, SE, SI
• 3 observers: FR, UK, ZA
• >60 centres
(incl. 24 certified data centres)
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4. CLARIN and Horizon Europe
• CLARIN offers to help, support and participate in projects involving digital
language resources and technologies
• As an official ERIC, CLARIN’s involvement can strengthen proposals in the
eyes of the European Commission, and present easy solutions for
connectivity and sustainability
• CLARIN will consider partnership to offer research infrastructure services
without additional funding
• CLARIN can delegate funded tasks to contracted third parties
• CLARIN is a partner in a number of Horizon Europe projects: link
• CLARIN offers seed grants for preparing proposals: link
• CLARIN collaborates with Europeana: link
• CLARIN offers ready integration in EOSC (European Open Science
Cloud: link
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5. CLARIN and Open Science
• Promoting the sharing and re-use of data through sustainable data registries
• All integrated datasets available in open access for research purposes
• Adherence to the FAIR data principles
- Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable
- Interoperability through a common metadata framework
• Promotion of responsible data science
• Support for linguistic diversity
- Data covering more than 1500 languages
- Tools for many languages
- Language resources in all modalities
• Strengthening the support for 500,000 professional SSH researchers
CLARIN: Towards FAIR and Responsible Data Science Using Language Resources." In: Proceedings of the
Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), May 2018, 3259-
3264.
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