[Standards] https://www.clarin.eu/content/standards-and-formats

[Dieter Van Uytvanck]

Dear Florian,

thank you very much for the feedback. I fully agree it would be good to
include recommendations on media files and annotation formats. Therefore
I am including our standards committee, which is responsible for this
matter.

In the meantime there is also quite a good bottom-up list of formats as
recommended by various CLARIN centres that are hosting
multimodal/multimedia datasets:

https://trac.clarin.eu/wiki/FormatRegistry

For those without access to the trac, I am including them inline:

http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Bas/BasFormatseng.html
http://sldr-test.lpl-aix.fr/phpwiki/index.php/Formats
https://cocoon.huma-num.fr/exist/crdo/formats.htm
http://fedora.clarin-d.uni-saarland.de/ressources/AcceptedFormats.en.pdf
https://corpora.uni-hamburg.de/drupal/en/corpus-hosting
http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/html/lamus2/apa.html
http://agd.ids-mannheim.de/uebernahme.shtml

(more for brainstorming:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tjmp_sEZDHIqnFAU1erx2VtzyYdjbKdM7RQGNIUbWhs/edit)


It would be great if these guidelines could be somehow integrated into
the Standards an Formats page and the Standard guidance website.

best,
Dieter


On 30/06/2017 09:56, Florian Schiel wrote:
> This regards CLARIN-wide standards and formats:
> 
> Looking at the overview
> https://www.clarin.eu/content/standards-and-formats is is remarkable
> that no standards/formats of media files or media annotation files are
> included. I also looked at the more extensive docu in
> http://clarin.ids-mannheim.de/standards/ but to no avail, except the
> mentioning of ELAN's standard EAF for video annotation.
> 
> The German CLARIN-D 'Benutzerhandbuch' contains a small but useful
> chapter 'Multimodal Corpora'
> (https://www.clarin-d.net/de/sprachressourcen-und-dienste/benutzerhandbuch)
> that could be adopted ...
> 
> I regard this of importance since we receive more and more 'corpus data'
> from users based on proprietary file formats that are not even
> convertible outside the scope of certain OS or software environments.
> 
> Maybe you can forward this to the authors of the overview, thanks.
> 
> 
> Florian Schiel


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