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LaDaD Community Workshop: From needs to solutions in language data management

November 26 @ 10:00 am - 5:30 pm

On 26 November 2026, the LaDaD project (Language Data Across Disciplines) hosts its closing community workshop in Bern. The day brings together project partners, data stewards and researchers to review what LaDaD built and to discuss the future of language data management in Switzerland. It also launches the SRDSN Language Research Data Management (L-RDM) Node.

Programme overview

10:00 Welcome and introduction (CLARIN-CH)

Part I – Where do we stand and what do researchers need? (10:15–11:15)

  • 10:15 From the field: insights from the disciplinary interviews (CLARIN-CH)
  • 10:45 From the community: results of the national survey (ZHAW)

Part II – From project to results (11:15–12:00)

  • 11:15 The LaDaD Legal & Ethical Resources: Decision Trees (ccdigitallaw)
  • 11:45 Finding the right resource: the catalogue of training resources (CLARIN-CH)

12:00–13:30 Lunch and networking

Part III – From the LaDaD project to a sustainable support community (13:30–14:30)

  • 13:30 Kick-off of the SRDSN L-RDM Node, Part I (SRDSN, CLARIN-CH)
  • 14:00 Kick-off of the SRDSN L-RDM Node, Part II: Annotated DMPs as pilot output (SRDSN, CLARIN-CH RDM WG)

Part IV – From research questions to data pipelines (14:30–16:30)

  • 14:30 Case study 1: An end-to-end language-data pipeline from audio to structured data (UZH DSI)
  • 15:00–15:30 Coffee break
  • 15:30 Case study 2: From raw text to corpus (UZH LiRI)
  • 16:00 Case study 3: Manual annotation in learner corpora (ZHAW)
  • 16:30 Closing discussion and looking ahead: From LaDaD to a sustainable language-data community

For the full programme with all session descriptions, see the detailed programme here.

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