Making Social Sciences and Humanities' Language Datasets accessible for humans and machines | RDA

Interview with Dieter Van Uytvanck from CLARIN ERIC During the RDA 14th Plenary meeting in Helsinki in October 2019, the RDA interviewed Dieter Van Uytvanck, Technical Director at CLARIN ERIC. In the interview Van Uytvanck told the CLARIN adoption story of the RDA outputs by the Data Fabric IG where he explains the adoption process, the RDA network effect and the lessons learned.

"CLARIN ERIC is a European research infrastructure for the social sciences and humanities. Our goal is to store and make Language Data available through repositories and tools for researchers. There are lots of language data  and many tools available that can process these data. Our challenge was to document this and make it easy to access for humans AND machines. The RDA Data Fabric outputs fit well with the CLARIN ecosystem. To cross connect datasets from neighbouring communities such as DARIAH and Europeana. Making the dataflow work, ensuring interoperability."