We invite you to participate in a series of training sessions designed to introduce and deepen your knowledge of the CLARIN-CH ecosystem and its resources for language data research. Covering topics such as corpus querying, media data collection, multimodal data modeling, and data sharing, these sessions will provide hands-on insights into key tools and methodologies that may be useful for researchers working with language data.

The sessions run from March to June 2025, featuring expert speakers from the CLARIN-CH network:

• Christian Futter, Data Expert, Language Repository of Switzerland (LaRS), UZH Library
• Cristina Grisot, CLARIN-CH National Coordinator, UZH
• Maaike Kellenberger, Communication Strategist, Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI), UZH
• Julia Krasselt, professor at Digital Discourse Lab, ZHAW
• Johanna Miecznikowski-Fuenfschilling, professor at Institute of Italian Studies and the Institute of argumentation, linguistics and semiotics, USI
• Stefanie Strebel, Data Team Lead, Language Repository of Switzerland (LaRS), UZH Library
• Teodora Vukovic, post-doc, Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI), UZH
• Jeremy Zehr, application engineer, Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI), UZH

Whether you are new to these tools or looking to refine your skills, we welcome you to join us!

Sessions are held every second Monday, from 15:30 to 17:00, online (via Zoom):

• Introduction to the CLARIN-CH ecosystem of language data infrastructures in the era of Open Research Data (10 March 2025, Cristina Grisot)
• LiRI Corpus Platform: Data Model and Query (17 March 2025, Teodora Vukovic and Jeremy Zehr)
• Querying and analysing Swiss media data with Swissdox@LiRI (31 March 2025, Maaike Kellenberger)
• Data analysis with Swiss-AL for textual data (14 April 2025, Julia Krasselt)
• LiRI Corpus Platform: Data Analysis Using Text, Audio, and Video Corpora (28 April 2025, Teodora Vukovic, Jeremy Zehr)
• Modelling of Multi-Modal Data in LiRI Corpus Platform and Beyond (12 May 2025, Johanna Miecznikowski-Fuenfschilling, Teodora Vukovic, Jeremy Zehr)
• Publishing Data on the Language Repository of Switzerland (LaRS) (26 May 2025, Christian Futter and Stefanie Strebel)
• Reusing data for teaching and secondary analyses (2 June 2025, Julia Krasselt)

More information on the individual sessions will be published soon.