1. CLARIN-NL: Dealing with ISOcat Ineke Schuurman

2. ISOcat and CLARIN Projects call 1 CLARIN-NL Joint Flemish/Dutch pilot Whenever relevant, elements are to be defined in ISOcat (PoS, syntax, audio, coreference, …) Turned out to be rather problematic

3. ISoCat and CLARIN (2) More recent projects Projects call 2, 3 … (Netherlands) Call B-projects (Flanders) => Need for ISOcat-coordinator –Organisational issues (who is doing what) –Practical issues (workshops/tutorials, ‘help desk’, guidelines-booklet (do’s & don’ts)) –ISOcat issues (ISOcat being work-in- progress!)

4. ISOcat coordination Practical issues Series of workshops/tutorials (English) At start: – introduction in ISOcat itself –Guidelines (do’s and don’ts) After +/- 5 months –discussion of ISOcat issues in the respective projects

5. (cont.) Examples of “Do’s / don’ts”: ‘General description’: should be language/theory/project neutral (don’t mention Dutch, HPSG, D-Coi) –Use note/explanation/language/linguistics sections for such remarks Should not be too vague (‘empty’) => useless for CLARIN ! Describe ALL ‘elements’ (also values, notions used in description, etc)

6. ISOcat issues (taken care of by Menzo Windhouwer) ISOcat: Work in progress => several kinds of technical issues Additions in pipeline: RELcat: in need of mechanism to relate DCs (‘VNW’, ‘pers’ == ‘personal pronoun’) Search facilities (Google) SCHEMAcat

7. Future We would like to collaborate with other CLARIN-groups in order to solve all kinds of ISOcat issues, so please contact me! ineke.schuurman@ccl.kuleuven.be

8. Near future [decided during the discussion after the ISOcat presentation] 1.CLARIN-NL will organize a new tutorial for the international CLARIN community in October 2011 2.We will also make our “do’s and don’ts” guide available for the whole CLARIN community (September/October 2011)