PR: ELRA, LDC, and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA announce the opening of the ISLRN Portal

[ELRA ELDA Information]

/Press Release - Immediate - Paris, France, April 3, 2014/

*Opening of the ISLRN Portal*
*ELRA, LDC,  and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA announce the opening of the 
ISLRN Portal @ www.islrn.org.*

Further to the establishment of the International Standard Language 
Resource Number (ISLRN) as a unique and universal identification schema 
for Language Resources on November 18, 2013, ELRA, LDC and 
AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA now announce the opening of the ISLRN Portal 
(www.islrn.org). As a service free of charge for all Language Resource 
providers and under the supervision of a steering committee composed of 
representatives of participating organisations, the ISLRN Portal 
provides unique identifiers using a standardised nomenclature.

_Overview_
The 13-digit ISLRN format is: XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-X. It can be allocated to 
any Language Resource; its composition is neutral and does not include 
any semantics in reference to the type or nature of the Language 
Resource. The ISLRN is a randomly created number with a check digit that 
validates a Verhoeff algorithm 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verhoeff_algorithm>.

Two types of external players may interact with the ISLRN Portal: 
Visitors and Providers. Visitors may browse the web site and search for 
the ISLRN of a given Language Resource by its name or by its number if 
it exists. Providers are registered and own credentials. They can 
request a new ISLRN for a given Language Resource. A provider has the 
possibility to become certified, after moderation, in order to be able 
to import metadata in XML format.

The functionalities that can be accessed by Visitors are:

- Identify a language resource according to its ISLRN 
<http://www.islrn.org/resources/identify_islrn>
- Identify an ISLRN by the name of a language resource 
<http://www.islrn.org/resources/identify_name>
-          Get information about ISLRN <http://www.islrn.org/about>, FAQ 
<http://www.islrn.org/faq>, Basic Metadata 
<http://www.islrn.org/basic_metadata>, Legal Information 
<http://www.islrn.org/legal_info>
-          View last 5 accepted resources ("What's new" block on home 
page <http://www.islrn.org/>)
-          Sign up to become a provider

The functionalities that can be accessed by Providers, once they have 
signed up, are:

- Log in <http://www.islrn.org/login/?next=/login/>
- Request an ISLRN according to the metadata of a given resource 
<http://www.islrn.org/login/?next=/resources/submit_resource/>
-          Request to become a certified provider so as to import XML 
files containing metadata
-          Import one or more metadata descriptions in XML to request 
ISLRN(s) (only for certified providers)
-          Edit pending requests
-          Access previous requests
-          Contact a Moderator or an Administrator
-          Edit Providers' own profile

ISLRN request is handled by moderators within 5 working days.
*Contact: islrn at elda.org*

_Background_
The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) is a unique 
and universal identification schema for Language Resources which 
provides Language Resources with unique identifier using a standardised 
nomenclature. It also ensures that Language Resources are correctly 
identified, and consequently, recognised with proper references for 
their usage in applications in R&D projects, products evaluation and 
benchmark as well as in documents and scientific papers. Moreover, it is 
a major step in the interconnected world that Human Language 
Technologies (HLT) has become: unique resources must be identified as 
they are and meta-catalogues need a common identification format to 
manage data correctly.

The ISLRN does not intend to replace local and specific identifiers, it 
is not meant to be a legal deposit, not an obligation, but rather an 
essential and best practice. For instance a resource that is distributed 
by several data centres will still have the "local" data-centre 
identifier but will have a unique ISLRN.

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About ELRA
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit 
making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the 
mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and 
promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT). To find out more about 
ELRA, please visit www.elra.info.

About LDC
Founded in 1992, the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is an open 
consortium of universities, companies and government research 
laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text 
databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development 
purposes. The University of Pennsylvania is the LDC's host institution. 
To find out more about LDC, please visit www.ldc.upenn.edu.

About AFNLP
The mission of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing 
(AFNLP) is to promote and enhance R&D relating to the computational 
analysis and the automatic processing of all languages of importance to 
the Asian region by assisting and supporting like-minded organizations 
and institutions through information sharing, conference organization, 
research and publication co-ordination, and other forms of support. To 
find out more about AFNLP, please visit www.afnlp.org.

About Oriental-COCOSDA
The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of 
Speech Databases and Assesment Techniques, Oriental-COCOSDA, has been 
established to encourage and promote international interaction and 
cooperation in the foundation areas of Spoken Language Processing, 
especially for Speech Input/Output. To find out more about 
Oriental-COCOSDA, please visit our web site: www.cocosda.org
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