[All] CLARIN newsflash May 2015

Wed May 27 16:03:09 CEST 2015

CLARIN newsflash May 2015

Knowledge Centres in CLARIN

The CLARIN Infrastructure is not only about technology and language
resources, it is also about knowledge. Many centres inside and also outside
CLARIN have not only technical expertise, but are also able to provide
knowledge on other topics relevant in the context of languages and language
technology.

As we have announced last month, we have now our first
<https://www.clarin.eu/content/knowledge-centres> Knowledge Centre, the
<https://www.clarin.eu/news/congratulations-our-first-clarin-knowledge-centr
e> Spanish K-Centre. Two other centres have already applied and are in the
pipeline to be approved shortly.

We herewith encourage centres in and outside CLARIN member countries to
apply for being recognized as a K-Centre (or, if the scope is limited to a
certain region or country, L-Centre). This is possible independently of
whether the centre is already a CLARIN A, B, C, or T Centre.

<https://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/CE-2015-0504-Knowledge-Centres-Ap
pl-Instr.pdf> The application procedure is simple and does not require much;
usually two or three A4-pages answering the criteria points are sufficient.
For details, please see the page on  <https://www.clarin.eu/node/4061>
Knowledge Centres.

CLARIN Mobility Scheme

Applications are invited for researchers and developers for funding for
short visits (usually one week long) between centres to collaborate on
building and using the CLARIN infrastructure. The mobility grants aim to
foster:

*         sharing of expertise between CLARIN centres and countries;

*         integration of resources, tools, services and centres in European
countries not currently in the CLARIN ERIC;

*         collaboration between CLARIN developers and researchers in the
humanities and social sciences.

 <http://www.clarin.eu/news/clarin-mobility-scheme> Read more

A Bazaar at the CLARIN Conference 2015

Do you have a cool new CLARIN webapp or software application that you want
to demonstrate? Are you looking for collaborators for a new research
project? Have you had a good idea for user engagement? Have you been
experimenting with a new approach? Then sign up for the CLARIN bazaar!

The CLARIN bazaar will be an informal space at the next CLARIN conference
<http://clarin.eu/event/2015/clarin-annual-conference-2015-wroclaw-poland>
where you can meet people from other centres and countries, find out about
their work in progress, exchange ideas, and talk to people about future
collaborations.  <https://www.clarin.eu/node/4113> Read more

CLARIN ERIC signs The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the
Digital Age

CLARIN ERIC
<http://thehaguedeclaration.com/the-hague-declaration-on-knowledge-discovery
-in-the-digital-age/> has signed the declaration because it very much
reflects our main considerations when we
<https://www.clarin.eu/news/clarin-withdraws-licences-europe-dialogue>
decided to pull out of the Licenses for Europe dialogue about Text and Data
Mining.

We would recommend that you have a look at the declaration and then decide
for yourself or for your organization whether or not you
<http://thehaguedeclaration.com/> want to sign it. We feel that it is
important that many people sign, in order to show to the EC that this call
for a revision of existing legislative frameworks is broadly supported.

CLARIN services available to Swedish and Austrian users 

Since last week, all
<https://www.clarin.eu/content/easy-access-protected-resources> CLARIN
services with federated login are also available to the Austrian and Swedish
academic community.

CLARIN lectures and workshops for humanists and sociologists in Poland

It is a busy spring for CLARIN in Poland! CLARIN-PL has launched a series of
intensive workshops, tailored to the needs of researchers in the humanities
and social sciences, and of translators. The workshops will teach the
practical use of digital tools for the quantitative and qualitative analysis
of texts in natural languages.

The first series of lectures and workshops “CLARIN-PL in research practice:
digital language analysis tools for the humanities and translation” took
place in April 2015 at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish
Academy of Sciences. Three days of sessions saw over 40 participants,
scientists and students, from such areas as history, sociology, psychology,
lexicography, and literary theory.
<http://clarin.eu/blog/clarin-pl-workshops> Read more

New service: OAI validator 

Thanks to the  <http://www.clarin-pl.eu/> CLARIN-PL colleagues, there is now
a  <http://oai.clarin-pl.eu/> mirror available of the OAI repository
explorer. As  <http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/> the original is often unavailable or
slow, we hope this can be useful for centres preparing the centre assessment
and the assessment committee.

Beyond the Digital Humanities 

The NeDiMAH Conference ‘
<http://nedimah.eu/events/beyond-digital-humanities-final-network-event>
Beyond the Digital Humanities’ was held at the School of Advanced Study,
University of London, on Tuesday 5th May 2015. NeDiMAH is the final project
of the European Science Foundation, backed by research funders in a large
number of European countries. This four-year long project has explored the
digital methods of practitioners in the arts and humanities, and the outputs
of the project include the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO), to be sustained
by DARIAH, and the Methodology Map of DH in Europe.

The day's proceedings raised a number of interesting issues relating to
possible tensions between the constantly creative, innovative and changing
nature of digital methods, and the ambition to create large-scale
infrastructures to support them. If the methods are constantly subject to
critique, modification and change, then is it possible to provide stable
tools and datasets which are adequate for digital scholarship?
<http://clarin.eu/blog/beyond-digital-humanities> Read more

Going Digital: Creating Change in the Humanities Report launch in Brussels

Going Digital: Creating Change in the Humanities was launched 7th May 2015
in Brussels by DRI's Dr. Sandra Collins and Dr. Natalie Harrower, to
representatives of the EC and stakeholders of the European scientific
community, at a roundtable event organised by Professor Günter Stock,
President of ALLEA. 

The report is the output of the ALLEA Working Group on E-Humanities, chaired
by Dr Sandra Collins, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the
Royal Irish Academy. Edited by Dr. Natalie Harrower, the report was
co-written by experts in the Digital Humanities from six Academies across
Europe. 

The report discusses the state of the art of Digital Humanities research and
support structures in Europe, and makes key recommendations for the
innovations required to foster the continued growth and excellence of the
digital humanities in Europe, focusing on digital archiving, long-term
preservation, digital research tools, sustained e-infrastructures and
research networks. Structured around the data life-cycle, the report is
aimed at a range of stakeholders, from humanities researchers to those
working with data, and from university administrators to HSS and ICT funding
bodies.
<http://dri.ie/going-digital-creating-change-humanities-report-launch-brusse
ls> Read more

Events

LaTeCH workshop 

The 9th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social
Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015
which will take place in Beijing, China, July 26 – 31.

The LaTeCH workshop series aims to provide a forum for researchers who are
working on developing novel information technology for improved information
access to data from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage.
<https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-2015/> Read more

RDA Sixth Plenary Meeting 

The 6th RDA Plenary will be hosted in the Conservatoire national des arts et
métiers (Cnam),  Paris from 23-25 September 2015. 

The theme of the Meeting will be Enterprise Engagement with a focus on
Research Data for Climate Change. As a part of this focus Cap Digital & RDA
have created a special Challenge designed to connect Climate Change related
Data Sets with startups, SMEs and larger organizations with practical
application for these data.
<https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html>
Read more

Vacancies

Position in Computational Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany 

The Division of Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen,
Germany is involved in the construction of research infrastructures for
language resources and technology at the local, national, and European
levels. See  <http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/en/ascl/projects.html>
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/en/ascl/projects.html for more information.

For the CLARIN and CLARIN-D projects, The University of Tübingen is
searching for a computer scientist or computational linguist with expertise
and experience in one or more of the following areas: 

*         (scalable) web services, web applications, linked data, user
interface design and implementation, including usability and user
experience.

*         Programming experience in Java (or another object-oriented
language) are required. Good command of German and good communication skills
in English are expected.

*         An M.Sc. in Computer Science or a Ph.D. in Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or related field is required.

<https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/news/job-advertisements/newsfullview-job-ad
vertisements/article/computer-scientist-or-computational-linguist.html> Read
more

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