In two meetings (January 2010 at the Meertens Institute and May 2011 at the MPI for Psycholinguistics) of the so-called EDC (European Demonstrator Case) EU and national CLARIN partners have committed to creating a common federated content search infrastructure as demonstrator of the power of the emerging CLARIN infrastructure. The Dutch Search & Develop CLARIN NL subproject, that has the same ambitions, takes part in this effort and contributes with its four CLARIN NL centers in this infrastructure.

At the last EDC meeting a prototype was demonstrated that connected search engines from four prospective CLARIN centers with a simple UI allowing different corpora housed by the contributors to be selected for searching. At the meeting new contributors offered to participate: OTA, BAS, University of Tuebingen, IDS. Also new functional enhancements for the prototype were decided: default keyword search mode integration with metadata search (CMDI)

The work is currently coordinated by: Daan Broeder (MPI for Psycholinguistics), Matej Durco (ICTTS), Marc Kemps-Snijders (Meertens Institute)