CLARIN, DSA

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES, 

     I am happy to announce that last week both the childes.talkbank.org and the talkbank.org websites received the Data Seal of Approval (dsa.org) based on the implementation of a variety of data protection and archiving standards such as persistent ids (PIDs), consistent metadata, systematic backup, documentation of methods, contribution guidelines, etc.  You can see the new DSA logos at the bottom of the CHILDES and TalkBank homepages.  
   In addition, the overall TalkBank system was today approved as a member of the international CLARIN (clarin.eu) Federation of language data centers, funded by grants from the European Union and member countries.  TalkBank is the only CLARIN center outside of the EU, but hopefully there will be others in the future.  You will also now find the CLARIN logo at the bottom of the CHILDES and TalkBank pages.
   The addition of CHILDES and TalkBank to CLARIN and the receipt of the DSA approval are based on the work that Leonid Spektor did for creating CMDI Metadata and Handle Server PIDs  and on work that Franklin Chen did to set up methods for SSL secure logon, XML validation, and InCommon federated login.  These various structures will be increasingly important in the future as CLARIN develops new web services and searching methods such as the Virtual Language Observatory.

-- Brian MacWhinney

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