Launch of the FAIR-FI-LD project
Publication Date: 2024-08-19
CLARIN-CH has played an important role in bringing together higher education institutions in Switzerland to work on building a FAIR-compliant ecosystem of federated infrastructure for researchers and professionals using language data. Examples include the Linguistic Research Infrastructure (UZH), the Swiss-AL Platform (ZHAW), a national repository for the publication and long-term preservation of language data LaRS@SWISSUbase (UNIL, UZH), and various smaller tools and services.
Current efforts are focussing on rendering these platforms interoperable both at the national and at the European level, an endeavour for which CLARIN-CH has now received funding from the swissuniversities programme for the implementation of the national ORD strategy.
The FAIR-FI-LD project has officially started in July 2024 with a total duration of 12 months, during which the following steps will be realized:
- Prototyping:
- interoperable underlying software using NLP techniques and exploratory AI techniques
- harmonized metadata between the existing Swiss infrastructure components and the European CLARIN infrastructure
- the CLARIN federated content search technology (FCS) to query each component of the infrastructure
- a FCS multilingual landing page hosted on the CLARIN-CH website
- a frontend of the VIAN-DH@LiRI environment to visualize, query and analyze multimodal talk-in-interaction data, hosted at USI
- Producing:
- documentation and training to support the use of the infrastructure and inform about legal and ethical issues related to language data in the context of Open Science
- Planning the future collaboration with further stakeholders and aggregation of further tools and services