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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear National Coordinators, dear Centre Leaders, der User-Involvement Experts,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(excuses for cross-posting),<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please have a look at the message below regarding the CLARIN-PLUS project work on improving the usability of CLARIN, in particular the website.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you have people among your team that have experience with usability studies and improvement, the team working on the Task 3.3 would be delighted to get in contact with them and possible welcome them at a dedicated pre-CLARIN-2016-conference workshop in France in October.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please make sure the relevant people get the message below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks a lot,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sebastian and Dieter<o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are working on a usability testing of the CLARIN website and guided tours in the CLARIN Plus project.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps you would like to contribute? In case you are engaged in usability testing, usability scaling and contributing to the better presentation of CLARIN advantages to the users both locally and globally, we are interested to get in contact with you. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In particular, if you have any thoughts, feedback from users or materials to share or to discuss, we will be glad to receive them. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We would also like to invite you to a workshop on usability and guided tours testing. The workshop is going to be held in conjunction with the <a href="http://clarin.eu/event/2016/clarin-annual-conference-2016-aix-en-provence-france">CLARIN Annual Conference 2016 in Aix-en-Provence, France. </a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The topics covered at the workshop are going to be: <o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>testing and giving feedback to the guided tours (i.e., for the Virtual Langugage Observatory, Federated Content Search and CLARIN usage showcases)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>feedback to the implementation of user interface guidelines.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Again, we are also here open to your contributions and proposals. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you think you can contribute, please contact Kadri Vare at the Centre of Estonian Language Resources, <a href="mailto:kadri.vare@ut.ee">kadri.vare@ut.ee</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>CELR team<o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>PD Dr. Sebastian Drude, CLARIN ERIC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Drift 10, 3512 BS, Utrecht, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Email: </span><a href="mailto:Sebastian.Drude@clarin.eu"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none'>Sebastian.Drude@clarin.eu</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> – Phone: (+31) 6-5378.3579<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.mpi.nl/people/drude-sebastian"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none'>http://www.mpi.nl/people/drude-sebastian</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>