CLARIN-NL

1. CLARIN-NL Jan Odijk CLARIN-NL Kick-off Meeting Utrecht, 27 May 2009

2. Overview • CLARIN Goals • CLARIN-NL Goals+Activities • Phasing • Work Plan for 2009 • Governance • Budget & Funding • Caveats

3. CLARIN Goals • Research Infrastructure for HSS researchers • Design • Construction • Validation • Exploitation •  eScience working environment

4. CLARIN Goals • Research Infrastructure includes • Language data that are needed for carrying out research • Software operating on data for • Enriching them • Accessing them for exploration • Selecting information from them • Visualizing (selections of) data • Metadata and views on metadata so that the existence and properties of resources are easily determined • All distributed, web-based and accessible • in an interoperable way

5. CLARIN Goals • So that • Researcher can work from anywhere • Researchers can create ‘virtual collections’ by combining parts of existing data sources • Researchers can apply software in the form of ‘web services’ operating in combination • User-friendly, i.e. no technical skills

6. CLARIN Goals • Make the community aware • Enable the community to use it • Dissemination activities • Training Sessions • Educational Programme

7. CLARIN-NL Goals • Focus on humanities (esp. linguistics) • NL-Line • EU-Line

8. CLARIN-NL Goals (NL-Line) • Ensure compatibility of CLARIN-prep specifications with needs of the national research community by • Making an inventory and analyzing national needs • Broad NL participation in standards definition • Conducting validation projects to establish the requirements • Build and exploit the NL part of CLARIN as a best practice example for other CLARIN partners • Act as a world class service centre in two domains • Set up CLARIN-NL national coordination point and support office

9. CLARIN-NL Activities (NL-Line) • technical prototype infrastructure as specified by CLARIN-prep • building the grid-based structure • providing the generic services • operating and validating the prototype • data infrastructure • surveying existing data and specifying the essential data set • constructing the essential set by means of conversion or (if needed) new digitization actions, and in parallel developing tools to facilitate this process for other resources of the same type. • agreeing on representation standards within CLARIN-prep • validating the prototype on the basis of concrete usage cases • arranging for NL-specific IPR issues, especially related to existing data with IPR restrictions

10. CLARIN-NL Activities (NL-Line) • language technology service infrastructure • specifying a set of essential tools and services • constructing the essential set by means of encapsulation or (if needed) porting or building • agreeing on inter-operability standards • establishing user needs • surveying current practice in the Netherlands • carrying out pilots and demonstrators with humanities researchers, preferably in an international setting • establishing governance procedures for eliciting, prioritising and selecting extensions and improvements

11. CLARIN-NL Activities (NL-Line) • creation and operation of two centres of expertise • creation and operation of dissemination, education and awareness facilities • setting up and operating national coordination point and develop a business model that guarantees the long term sustainability of the CLARIN infrastructure

12. CLARIN-NL Goals (EU-Line) • Consolidate NL’s leading position • Seamless transition from preparatory phase to construction phase • NL a main hub in the European infrastructure • Position CLARIN-NL outside of EU

13. CLARIN-NL Activities (EU-Line) • implement and host the governance structure recommended by CLARIN-prep • set up and host a main CLARIN Office • set up and host a main European CLARIN Technical Centre to build and maintain the technical infrastructure

14. CLARIN-NL Activities (EU-Line) • set up and host the central CLARIN Coordination point for • development and maintenance of standards • harmonization of IPR issues • education, dissemination and promotion • set up an international example infrastructure, e.g. with • Germany (MPG/MPI-link) • Flanders & South Africa (via the Dutch Language Union) • maintain close connections with other relevant players (EU and non-EU)

15. Phases • 2009-2010 Preparation Phase • 2011-2012 Construction Phase • 2013-2014 Operation Phase

16. Preparation Phase • Technical • Requirements (from actual use cases) • Specification, design (user-centered) • Initial prototype • Organisational • Relation with other EU-countries • Role of NL in the CLARIN infrastructure • Governance structure

17. Construction Phase • Technical • Implementation • Initial Operation • Extensive testing • Validation • Evaluation by user groups • Organisational • Strategy for sustainability after project end

18. Operation Phase • Technical • Exploitation of the infrastructure • Extending the infrastructure with new data / tools/ services should be normal business • Maintenance and updating for new developments / new requests • Organisational • Implement sustainable structure

19. Work plan for 2009 • Technical • Plan for prototype building and general services • Initials steps in its implementation • Active participation in the first network of centres on a European scale (MPI, INL, Meertens, …) • Data • Open Call for projects on data conversion and curation • Support for influencing determination of CLARIN standards and best practices • Support for evaluating CMDI metadata proposal • Support for the inclusion of all existing NL data and tools in CLARIN data and tool repositories.

20. Work plan for 2009 • Tools & Services & User Needs • Open call for Demonstration projects • Inventory of user needs to get to a specification of a set of essential tools and services • National Coordination Point • The national coordination point will be set up. • The governance structure will be implemented.

21. Work plan for 2009 • Education, Training and Awareness • Plan being elaborated • Events • Launching Event, Brokerage activities • Possibly IPR-event (in conjunction with STEVIN) with publishers and content-owners • … • Support for events related to CLARIN-NL or CLARIN (workshops, conferences, master classes. …) • Website and Wiki • Newsletter

22. Governance • Executive Board • Executes • Board • Decides • National Advisory Panel • Advises (national perspective) • International Advisory Panel • Advises (international perspective) • Partners • Carry out subprojects

23. Executive Board - Composition • Jan Odijk (UIL-OTS) • director • Hans Bennis (Meertens) • chair & representative of the users • Peter Wittenburg (MPI) • technical director • Arjan van Hessen (Twente/UIL-OTS) • dissemination, training, education

24. Board - Composition • ‘Senior researchers and experts in the field and in governance’ • Members • Geert Booij (LUCL, Leiden) • Lou Boves (CSLT, RU Nijmegen) • Peter Doorn (DANS, Den Haag) • Martin Everaert (UIL-OTS, Utrecht) • Jaap van den Herik (TiCC, Tilburg) • Aafke Hulk (ACLC, Amsterdam) • John Nerbonne (CLCG, Groningen)

25. Board - Composition • Observors / Advisors • CLARIN Europe Coordinator • Steven Krauwer • CLARIN-NL Programme Director • Jan Odijk

26. NAP – Composition (1) • ‘representatives from Linguistics and the Humanities’ • Members • Willem Adelaar (LUCL, Leiden) • Sjef Barbiers (Meertens, Amsterdam) • Jeannine Beeken (INL, Leiden) • Antal van den Bosch (TiCC, Tilburg) • Gosse Bouma (CLCG, Groningen) • Hennie Brugman (B&G, Hilversum) • Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens, Den Haag) • Paul Doorenbosch (KB, Den Haag) • Willemijn Heeren (Twente)

27. NAP – Composition (2) • Members (cont.) • Kees Hengeveld (ACLC, Amsterdam) • Marc Kemps-Snijders (MPI, Nijmegen) • Nelleke Oostdijk (CSLT, RU Nijmegen) • Reinier Salverda (FA, Leeuwarden) • Ted Sanders (UIL-OTS, Utrecht) • Piek Vossen (VU, Amsterdam) • Paul Wouters (VKS, Amsterdam) • Joris van Zundert (Huygens, Den Haag)

28. IAP - Composition • prominent and experienced researchers in the relevant fields outside NL • Members • To be determined

29. Partners - Composition • Universiteit van Utrecht (UU) • Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS (UIL-OTS) • Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde (LOT) • Max Planck Instituut voor Psycholinguïstiek (MPI) • KNAW • Meertens Instituut • Huygensinstituut • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) • Fryske Akademy (FA) • Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) • Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL) • Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL)

30. Partners - Composition • Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU) • Centre for Language and Speech Technology (CLST) • Centre for Language Studies (CLS) • Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) • Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) • Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam) • Universiteit van Groningen • Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) • Universiteit van Leiden • Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)

31. Partners - Composition • Universiteit van Tilburg • Tilburg Centre for Creative Computing (TCCC) • Universiteit van Twente • Human Media Interaction Group (HMI) • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) • Katholiek Documentatie Centrum (KDC) • Veteraneninstituut • Kennisinstituut Sociale en Psychische Gevolgen van Oorlog, Vervolging en Geweld (COGIS) • Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging (IIAV) • Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB)

32. Budget & Funding • Funding by NWO • Budget: 9.01 M Euro • 2009: 1.35M Euro • 2010: 1.35M Euro • 2011: 1.90M Euro • 2012: 1.90M Euro • 2013: 1.25M Euro • 2014: 1.25M Euro

33. Caveats • Partners must sign cooperation agreement that will be circulated soon! • NWO still has to send its official commitment letter…..

34. Thanks for your Attention

35. Do NOT Go beyond this point

36. Definitions • eScience: • computationally intensive science • carried out in highly distributed network • ±that uses huge data sets requiring grid computing • ±using technologies enabling distributed collaboration