CLARIN Metadata Infrastructure

These pages describe the current status of the CMDI design & implementation

General pages

• Overview of CMDI
• Terminolgy used in CMDI
• CLARIN metadata schemas and formats
• Presentations?
• Events?
• News about CMDI
• CMDI Interoperability
• CMDI Tool overview

Special subjects and issues

• Proposal and 'working document' for the upcoming version of CMDI 1.2
• Proposal for the CmdiBestPracticeGuide
• Work in progress:
  • Versioning of metadata and resources
  • Recommended components
  • CLARIN metadata and collections
    • Some proposals on how to flag collections in CMDI
  • How to deal with nil values for CMDI elements
  • Container Data Categories (todo)
  • Combine multiple CMDI records
  • CLAVAS integration
  • Component versioning
• Past issues:
  • CMDI XSD Issues
  • Ambiguous tag names
  • Proposal on tagging CMDI files
  • Generic XSLT for CMDI to HTML conversion

Software component descriptions and specifications.

• Software Components Overview and work division
• Component Registry and Editor
• CLARIN Metadata Editor
• CLARIN Relation Registry
• CLARIN Central Metadata Repository
• CLARIN metadata services
• Virtual Collections
• VLO planning

Data Sources

• CMDI Data Sources