Virtual Language Observatory (VLO

Versions and deployment plan

Version	​in testing (@RZG)	​in beta	​in production	Milestone	Changes
3.0 (development)	2014-05-09	2014-05-02	(planned 2014-05)	milestone	CHANGES
2.18 (current)		2014-01-17	2014-02-06	milestone	CHANGES
2.17		2013-11-12	2013-11-15	milestone	2.17
2.16		2013-10-24	2013-11-04	milestone	CHANGES
2.15		rolled back to 2.14 (memory problems)	rolled back to 2.14 (memory problems)		CHANGES
2.14		May 2013	June 2014		CHANGES

tickets

link to all open VLO tickets

deployment environments

Environment	Location	Configuration
Beta	​http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlobeta/	deleteAllFirst: true
Production	​http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/	deleteAllFirst: false maxDaysInSolr: 7

technology used

• SOLR for the backend
• wicket for the front-end
• CMDI for the input

data sources

• See CmdiDataSources
• mapping from MdCollectionDisplayName to NationalProject: https://trac.clarin.eu/browser/vlo/trunk/vlo_importer/src/main/resources/nationalProjectsMapping.xml

mapping CMDI > VLO fields and facets

see ​http://lux13.mpi.nl/isocat/clarin/vlo/mapping/

which is based on https://trac.clarin.eu/browser/vlo/trunk/vlo_importer/src/main/resources/facetConcepts.xml

White/Blacklist? as suggested by CLARIN-D centres: ManualMapping

VLO Taskforce (CLARIN-D)

VLO Taskforce?

Misc

Background

• In general: see ​this paper for an overview about how the VLO works

language codes

• old SIL codes and their ISO-639-3 equivalent: ​http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=ach
• SIL codes list: ​http://tal.univ-paris3.fr/mkAlign/mka-online/LanguageCodes.html

Demo scenario

Google Earth > Language Information > Hoava > Hoava data > lexicon > nice scanned word lists

Multimodal Corpus: VLO: search 'SVC', select 'SVC' from result list and look at Corpus information and Metadata, maybe click on first Link to landing page in BAS repo, go back to result list (Back-Button), select 'i003' from result list, scroll down in link list to the second movie link (type mpg), click on it and authentify via AAI, movie plays.

Corpus of printed historical texts (Deutsches Textarchiv): Country: Germany > Collection: Deutsches Textarchiv > Genre: Gebrauchsliteratur (= functional literature) > name: Davidis, Henriette: Praktisches Kochbuch für die gewöhnliche und feinere Küche. 4. Aufl. Bielefeld, 1849. > Follow link to Landing Page

inspiration sources

OLAC facet browser: ​http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/olac/index.html