ILC4CLARIN
CLARIN B–Centre
for Social Sciences and Umanities
ILC4CLARIN is the first B-Centre of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) born under the aegis of CLARIN-IT, the Italian Consortium of the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CLARIN ERIC).
ILC4CLARIN was set up by the Institute for Computational Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli” (CNR-ILC) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), which constantly works to foster the sharing and accessibility of language resources and technologies.
Since October 2015 CNR-ILC has been the Executing Institution of CLARIN-IT and, since October 2021, it has also participated in DiPText-KC, the CLARIN K-Centre for Digital and Public Textual Scholarship.
ILC4CLARIN is a CLARIN Centre for the provision of linguistic data, tools and services aimed at scholars of the Social Sciences and Umanities community.
The ILC4CLARIN Repository is accessible through a Single Sign-On (SSO) system and provides the reference community with language resources and tools appropriately described through ‘machine readable’ metadata in a stable and persistent way.
Organizations that join CLARIN-IT can use either the ILC4CLARIN Repository or a Repository compliant with the CLARIN guidelines created by them as part of a new CLARIN Centre (initially for the provision of linguistic data only):
- to deposit metadata relating to resources and tools available at their premises, in order to allow them to be harvested and retrieved in the CLARIN Central Catalogue (VLO), which helps to identify resources in their entirety, and through the CLARIN Federated Content Search (FCS), which provides string-based search access to resources and also retrieves resource citation information;
- to deposit resources and tools, protected by appropriate end-user license agreements, in order to allow them to be maintained and preserved in the long term.
It allows to deposit data, ensuring that they are stored securely and can be found, used and cited correctly (giving credits).
It allows to cite data appropriately in order to make citations as simple and consistent as possible.
The linguistic services provided by ILC4CLARIN include access to the resources stored by it and to the tools deployed at it via specific and CLARIN-compliant interfaces in a stable and persistent way.
The offer is in progress and currently includes services for browsing and/or querying textual data, services for converting formats, services for extracting and/or acquiring linguistic information, services for editing lexicons, services for merging lexicons and services for annotating and/or analyzing texts.
Highlights
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
Dalai Lama XIV
