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
• public website: ​https://www.clarin.eu/governance/standards-committee
• internal mailing list: ​standards@lists.clarin.eu

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​
• 2015-04-10, Wien (AT), minutes​
• 2015-10-15, Wrocław (PL)

Documents, wiki pages, and other resources

• ​Standards for LRT, a 2009 document provided on the CLARIN website (at the ​standards recommendations page)
• CLARIN preperatory 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