About CLARIN-CH
CLARIN-CH is the Swiss national node of CLARIN, the pan-European Common Language Research Infrastructure. It aims to provide Swiss researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to digital language resources, tools, and services. Furthermore, CLARIN-CH facilitates language-related research by offering technical and organizational support, fostering collaboration, and ensuring the integration of Swiss language resources into the broader European CLARIN network.
To read more about the members of CLARIN-CH, you can visit the following pages:
Organization
CLARIN-CH is organized around five key entities that together form a robust national research infrastructure:
- CLARIN-CH Consortium of Swiss HEIs − the kernel of the national network
- CLARIN-CH Coordination Office − in charge with the operation of CLARIN-CH and its driving force
- Linguistic Research Infrastructure − the technical data and service providing center
- ZHAW Digital Discourse Lab − providing data, tools and expertise for multilingual discourse analysis
- LaRS@SWISSUbase − the FAIR-compliant national repository
The strong collaboration between these entities ensures Switzerland’s active participation in CLARIN while fostering an ecosystem that supports researchers in managing language data according to Open Science and FAIR principles.
Roadmap
CLARIN-CH is currently on the road to becoming a full member of CLARIN-ERIC. Much has happened since the creation of the CLARIN-CH Consortium in December 2020, such as the creation of our Working Groups, the first national CLARIN-CH Day, which took place in September 2024, and the launch of the new LiRI corpus platform (LCP) in December 2024, to mention only a few examples. We are looking forward to reaching our next milestone soon!
CLARIN-CH Consortium
The consortium agreement has recently been renewed and is now valid from 2025 until 2028: CLARIN-CH consortium agreement
The statutes of CLARIN-CH as well as the current value proposition provide further information on the purpose of CLARIN-CH:
If you would like to stay in the loop about recent developments at CLARIN-CH, our mailing list is the best option. We are also regularly sharing updates and events on LinkedIn, or organizing events like the Update Hour and the CLARIN-CH Day to spread the news and keep our members involved.