Good work!

Is there anything we need to do about this or about the debate before we
go? Any more thoughts about gifts for the speakers? Anything else?

-- ylva

On 25/05/2011 16:31, Martin Wynne wrote:
> Discovering Babel Workshop: 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.
>
> Please use the short form at the location below to sign up for this free
> workshop:
>
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/discovering_babel
>
> Subscribers to the CLARIN-UK list are particularly encouraged to come
> along and contribute a short presentation! Also please feel free to
> forward this call to other lists. I will be posting it to Corpora and
> Trellis lists.
>