CLARIN Standards Committee (CSC)

The main responsibility of the CSC is to advise the Board of Directors on the adoption of standards to be supported by CLARIN ERIC.

Committee organization

• ​bylaws
• position paper Wrocław, October 2015​
• public website: ​https://www.clarin.eu/governance/standards-committee
• internal mailing list: ​standards@lists.clarin.eu ​archives

Pages/sites/repositories under the CSC's supervision

• ​https://www.clarin.eu/content/standards (the committee's 'visiting card').
• ​https://www.clarin.eu/content/standards-and-formats
• ​http://www.clarin.eu/content/standard-recommendations
• ​https://www.clarin.eu/faq/what-standards-are-recommended-clarin
• ​https://github.com/clarin-eric/standards

Meetings

• 2012-10-27, Sofia (BG)
• 2013-10-21, Praha (CZ), minutes​
• 2014-06-23, Berlin (D), held at DIN jointly with members of ISO TC32/SC4 minutes as PDF​
• 2015-04-10, Wien (AT), minutes as PDF​
• 2015-10-15, Wrocław (PL)
• 2016 Aix
• 2017-09-18, Budapest (HU), ​agenda and notes
• 2018 Pisa ​agenda and minutes
• 30.09.2019 CAC Leipzig ​minutes as PDF
• 2019.12.03 telco ​minutes as PDF
• 2020.03.09 telco ​notes ​minutes as PDF
• 2020.06.04 telco ​notes
• 2020.07.01 telco ​notes

Since 2019.09.30, the minutes documents are also linked from the CSC Dashboard at clarin.eu: ​https://www.clarin.eu/group-page/standards-committee-dashboard

Documents, wiki pages, and other resources

• ​Standards for LRT, a 2009 document provided on the CLARIN website (at the ​standards recommendations page)
• CLARIN preparatory phase deliverable D5.C-3: Interoperability and Standards​
• ​an overview of recommended CLARIN standards on the CLARIN website
• an overview of standard related resources​ (compiled by Maik Stührenberg in 2014 with input from the CSC)
• ​CLARIN standards guidance hosted at the IDS
• ​What standards are recommended by CLARIN? is a CLARIN website FAQ item
• Center Committee's list of standards (​a Google spreadsheet)
• ​experimental CLARIN-D data management wizzard (includes a format chooser based on the Center Committee's list)
• a recent (2015) survey on formats accepted by German CLARIN centers
• ​CLARIN User guide (in German)
• DFG Handreichung: Empfehlungen zu datentechnischen Standards und Tools bei der Erhebung von Sprachkorpora​ (​hosted at the DFG website; there is an unofficial English translation in preparation: Recommendations for Technical Standards and Tools for Building Language Corpora)
• An overview of the existing TEI variants
• A proposal for shared format variants for use by CLARIN web services
• CLARIN-ISO liaison
• CSC: Monthly reports
• CSC: Members' involvement
• "Interoperability in CLARIN" by Jan Odijk (2017)

ISO documents shared under the liaison

Standards documents shared under the liaison between CLARIN-ERIC and ISO TC37SC4 are available from a dedicated page: ISO_TC37SC4_Standards_in_preparation. We need to bear in mind that this is expected to be a mutual exchange: CLARIN gets early access and the possibility to influence the outcome, while TC37SC4 experts receive feedback, either directly, or -- during the ballot process -- in the form of comments. The latter is very important for keeping the liaison in force: there should be a formal trace of CLARIN involvement in the ISO process, or else the liaison can be terminated.

Namespaces

• Proposal to the BoD​
• (temporary and restricted document) draft of SynAF part 2​
• request by ISO TC37 SC4 WG6 (SynAF 2)
• request by ISO TC37 SC4 WG4 (LMF-4)
• request by ISO TC37 SC4 WG6 (CQLF-2)