Returning to our presentation at the Annual Conference 2025: “Towards FAIR Metadata for Specialised Corpora: A Community-Informed Empirical Study of Schema Development in Two Communities” (slides), I wanted to link relevant Topics (from this forum):
- What metadata scheme is used within CLARIN?
- If there is no single metadata scheme, how should I describe my resources in order for them to be compatible with the CLARIN infrastructure?
- What are the guidelines for creating good quality metadata?
- How do I create a new CMDI metadata file?
- What software is available for authoring CMDI metadata?
but also emphasise that the usability of the annotated data is unclear - community-specific metadata, with its domain-specific complexity:
- should it be integrated into existing infrastructures like the VLO?
- (how) can it be integrated into/connected to the Resource Families?
- how can it be made accessible (displayed/searched/browsed/…) to end users without reducing it to a common denominator?
and since this will (potentially) become relevant for a few more communities (~= K-centres, and likely C-Centres that would host the metadata - or B-centres) the question still remains:
How can CLARIN (ERIC / B,C,K-centres) support each other and the community efforts [for community-specific metadata]?