VLO Taskforce (CLARIN-D)

Organizational information

• mailing list address: VLO-Taskforce <clarin-vlo-tf@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
• VLO tickets in the Trac
• partly related: Metadata curation tickets in the Trac
• Summary of VLO metadata quality issues and curation plans​ as of January 7, 2014

Current points of discussion

• Facet selection and description/definition
• Representation and exploitation of relations among resources
• Dealing with controlled vocabulary
• Propose a set of recommend profiles and components
• Feedback of the F-AGs

VLO documentation

The Taskforce is going to provide a comprehensive documentation for users and data providers.

Some published information already exists elsewhere:

• ​Virtual Language Observatory: the portal to the language resources and technology universe (LREC 2010)
• ​Semantic metadata mapping in practice: the Virtual Language Observatory (LREC 2012)
• CmdiVirtualLanguageObservatory (Trac wiki)

The VLO-WG provided recommendations for the VLO facets. These evolved from a ​Google doc; an earlier version of the document is also attached to this page.

Meetings

• October 15, 2014, Berlin
• November 27, 2014, virtual
• December 15, 2014, virtual
• February 18, 2015, virtual
• March 19, 2015, virtual
• April 23, 2015, virtual
• Feedback of the FAGs, May 2015

Related Work

In CLARIN:

• CMDI taskforce
• Metadata curation taskforce

Elsewhere:

• ​DataCite has similar goals as CLARIN: sharing and persistently identifying research data.

For the description of it uses a fixed schema, which is somewhat inspired by Dublin Core. In terms of CMDI, the schema comprises both, facets and relationships. For more information see the ​DataCite Schema Repository.