CLARIN

CLARIN is committed to establish an integrated and interoperable research infrastructure of language resources and its technology. It aims at lifting the current fragmentation, offering a stable, persistent, accessible and extendable infrastructure and therefore enabling eHumanities.

• integrated: the resource and service centres are connected via Grid technology and form a virtually integrated domain
• interoperable: the resources and services will be based on Semantic Web technologies to overcome format, structure and terminological differences
• stable: the resources and services are offered with a high availability
• persistent: the resources and services are planned to be accessible for many years so that researchers can rely on them
• accessible: the resources and services are accessible via the web; different access methods and training possibilities are offered tailored to the needs of the communities making use of them
• extendable: the infrastructure is open so that new resources and services can be added easily

http://www.clarin.eu/external/