[All] CLARIN newsflash April 2014

[Zwan, A.C. van der (Arwin)]

CLARIN NEWSFLASH April 2014



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Call for Papers: Annual Conference 2014



CLARIN ERIC is happy to announce the 3rd edition of the CLARIN Annual Conference and calls for the submission of papers. The Call for Papers can be found here: https://www.clarin.eu/news/call-papers-clarin-annual-conference. This year's conference will take place in Soesterberg, the Netherlands. More information on this event will be published here: https://www.clarin.eu/event/2014/clarin-annual-conference-2014-soesterberg-nl.



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CLARIN ERIC hires technical staff



In order to accelerate the construction of the CLARIN infrastructure, CLARIN ERIC has added two people to their technical staff: Twan Goosen will be working on the overhaul of the VLO and the Virtual Collection Registry, while Sander Maijers will take care of the Service Provider Federation and the Centre Registry.



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New certified centres



As a result of the second centre assessment LINDAT-Clarin (Czech Republic) and The Clarin center at University of Copenhagen have received the official CLARIN B centre certificate: https://www.clarin.eu/news/clarin-welcomes-two-new-b-centres. There are now 11 certified B centres in the CLARIN infrastructure. A third assessment round is planned in the spring of 2014.



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Legal committee on EU copyright reform



In response to a consultation from the European Commission, the CLARIN Legal Issues Committee (CLIC) has submitted its vision on copyright reform. Krister Lindén and Erik Ketzan explain why this is such an important topic: https://www.clarin.eu/news/clarins-vision-copyright-reform-eu



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News from the CLARIN ERIC Members



In 2014 CLARIN-D and the European Summer School in Digital Humanities will organize a joined summer school. From July 21st to August 2nd 2014 the summer school "Digital Humanities & Language Resources" will be conducted in Leipzig, Germany: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/



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External news



The 13th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT13) will be held in Tübingen on 12-13 December, 2014. Submissions are invited for papers, posters, and demonstrations. For more information: http://tlt13.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/



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