== Overview ==

Taskforces are active and informal groups populated by people (often developers) from CLARIN centres and centre candidates. It is where the "real work" in terms of protocol specification, technical documentation writing and software development takes place. The output of these task forces goes to the [http://www.clarin.eu/sc-centers Centre Committee] that can then give e.g. a protocol specification an official status.

Everyone with an interest in CLARIN is warmly welcomed to take part in one or more taskforces. However, it should be clear that active cooperation is expected.

=== Active taskforces ===

The following task forces exist:

* [wiki:./CMDI Component Metadata (CMDI)]
* [wiki:./Curation Metadata Curation]
* [wiki:./FCS Federated Content Search (FCS)]

=== Earlier and currently inactive taskforces ===

Kept here in this list as a convenient access point to older (and possibly outdated) information:

* [wiki:./PID Persistent Identifiers (PID)]
* [wiki:./AAI Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI)]


== Mailing lists ==
The following lists can be used:

 * [https://lists.clarin.eu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev dev@lists.clarin.eu] : for technical discussions and questions, software-development related issues
 * [https://lists.clarin.eu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/all-centers all-centers@lists.clarin.eu] : for communication with all CLARIN (candidate) centres - e.g. to propose a draft of a protocol

Some taskforces have an own mailing list, see the tf-lists at https://lists.clarin.eu/mailman/listinfo