Remarks
CLARIN-ERIC is a network memeber of ICSU World Data System. Letter of Agreement is pending (08.01.2019). In 2012 CLARIN gets ERIC status.CLARIN, the pan-European Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, is the second European research infrastructure to be granted with ERIC status. Eight countries are committed to the setting up of CLARIN-ERIC: Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands. The Dutch Language Union completes the list of founding members. CLARIN-ERIC will be hosted in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
The “European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures” (ESFRI) has emphasised the importance of CLARIN by including the project in its Roadmap 2006. This also comprises four other important initiatives in the arts and humanities and social studies, including a similar proposal for a data infrastructure for the social sciences (CESSDA ERIC Major Upgrade) and for the arts and humanities (DARIAH). In the preparatory phase (2008-2010) CLARIN is funded by the EU through the 7th Framework ESFRI programme. One of the objectives of the preparatory phase is to come with cost estimations for the construction and exploitation phase. The main funders will then be the national governments, with a possible minor contribution from the EU for some generic costs of the infrastructure. Clarin members: https://www.clarin.eu/content/about-eric. // CLARIN offers two central resource discovery tools, (1) the metadata-based Virtual Language Observatory which lists hundreds of thousands of individual resources, not only at CLARIN centres, and (2) the Federated Content Search, which allows searching WITHIN resources at CLARIN centres.