[Corpora-List] Resource discovery workshop, Oxford, 24th June 2011

[Martin Wynne]

Discovering Babel: How to make your language resources discoverable

Acland Building, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford (next door to Oxford University 
Computing Services)

Friday 24th June 2011 9:30-17:00

The Oxford Text Archive will host a one-day workshop on Friday June 24th 
entitled 'How to make your language resources discoverable', as part of
the JISC-funded 'Discovering Babel' project. The workshop is aimed at 
researchers who create and use corpora and other digital language resources.

Speakers will introduce Discovering Babel and the CLARIN Virtual 
Language Observatory, as well as the work that has been done in the OTA 
to make it easier for users to find and use the language resources 
there, and how this work might help support other creators and providers 
of resources and services. A 'show-and-tell' session will allow 
participants five minutes each to showcase the resources that they wish 
to share, or would like to have access to. Discussion will then focus on 
how to go beyond the discovery of resources to providing the tools that 
we need for online access to a variety of corpora and lexical datasets.

The workshop will conclude with a round-table discussion launching 
CLARINET, a UK-wide network for researchers and technologist in the 
language resources domain. A longer presentation of the background and 
goals of the workshop is at:

  http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/martinw/2011/05/25/how-to-make-your-language-resources-discoverable/

Please use the short form at the location below to sign up for this free 
workshop:

   http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/discovering_babel

While the prime audience for this workshop is UK-based researchers, it 
is open to all, and an international perspective to our discussions 
would be most welcome!

-- 
Martin Wynne
Research Technologies Service&
Oxford e-Research Centre

Oxford University Computing Services
7-19 Banbury Road
Oxford
UK - OX2 6NN
Tel: +44 1865 283299 or +44 1865 610677
Fax: +44 1865 273275
martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk


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