1. CLARIN ERIC and the science cloud
Franciska de Jong
CLARIN ERIC –
EOSC workshop
Rome, 5 February 2016

2. 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

3. 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)

4. CLARIN’s questions on the open science cloud
CMDI workshop
Utrecht
Added value of EOSC vs. unintegrated services?
How open is the consortium?
Who will be the biggest winners?
Are we ready for this innovation?