We are thrilled to announce that LaRS (Language Repository of Switzerland) and LiRI (Linguistic Research Infrastructure) have been officially awarded the joint CLARIN B-centre certification. Together, they form a distributed centre: LiRI serves as the technical hub providing specialized expertise, while LaRS — utilizing the SWISSUbase platform — manages the dedicated repository required by CLARIN. This milestone recognizes their combined infrastructure as a trusted, robust, and fully compliant centre for the long-term preservation and open access of language data.
Achieving B-centre status is a rigorous process that evaluates a repository’s technical infrastructure, data management practices, and commitment to Open Science. This certification ensures that researchers in Switzerland and across Europe can confidently deposit, discover, and reuse linguistic data in a sustainable and standardized environment.
This accomplishment would not have been possible without the incredible dedication and collaborative spirit of our partners and members of the consortium. We want to extend our deepest gratitude and congratulations to the teams at LaRS@SWISSUbase, LiRI, and SWISSUbase. Their technical expertise, strategic guidance, and commitment to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles were instrumental in reaching this goal.
We also want to express our sincere appreciation to the CLARIN Central Hub, Technical Centres Assessment Committee and Technical Centres Committee. Their continuous support, clear guidelines, and constructive feedback throughout the assessment process were invaluable.
This certification is a testament to what we can achieve through national and international collaboration. We look forward to continuing our work together to provide all Swiss research communities with access to language data in a FAIR manner, in line with internationally established best practices.
