CLARIN ERIC and the science cloud Franciska de Jong CLARIN ERIC – www.clarin.eu f.m.g.dejong@uu.nl EOSC workshop Rome, 5 February 2016
CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure European (ESFRI) Research Infrastructure; ERIC status since February 2012 18 member countries, 33 centres Aim: to provide easy and sustainable access for scholars in the humanities and social sciences to digital language data (in written, spoken, video or multimodal form) to advanced tools to discover, explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine them
CLARIN architecture A distributed architecture: (http-accessible) files, web applications and web services spread all over Europe some of them password-protected (licenses, privacy, …) User base: spread over Europe (and rest of the world)
CLARIN’s questions on the open science cloud CMDI workshop Utrecht 2013-10-14 www.clarin.eu Added value of EOSC vs. unintegrated services? How open is the consortium? Who will be the biggest winners? Are we ready for this innovation?