Hi Martin,
Thanks for this. Unfortunately no one from the Survey will be able to attend on this occasion, but do please keep us in the loop!
Thanks,
Bas
Bas Aarts
Professor of English Linguistics
Department of English Language and Literature
UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel.: 020 7679 3130
Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
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From: Clarin-UK <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Martin Wynne <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 07 August 2014 16:05
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Subject: Re: Meeting in Sheffield
The meeting of the 'CLARIN-UK' group will take place in Sheffield at
10-11am on the morning of Thursday 4th September, at the Digital
Humanities Congress venue, in a room called High Tor 3 and at The Edge
conference centre where the rest of the conference will be taking place.
You don't have to register for the conference to attend the meeting. The
conference organizers know about the meeting, and they should be able to
point you in the right direction if necessary. More details about the
conference and venue at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri/dhc.
I have made a first attempt at a (very basic, still a work in progress)
webpage setting out what we have to offer, as suggested in my earlier
email (see below), and you can see this at
http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/clarin-uk/. Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Everyone is still welcome to attend this meeting, even if you haven't
been in touch yet.
Best wishes,
Martin
On 03/07/14 11:44, Martin Wynne wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who got in touch. I would like to propose a meeting
> in Sheffield at 10-11am on the morning of Thursday September 4th, and
> everyone is invited. The conference programme is not published at
> http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri/dhc. Delegates can book extra nights'
> accommodation separately at:
> http://withus.group.shef.ac.uk/conferencewithus/bookingpage/. I'll be
> able to confirm the room for the meeting soon for those who can
> attend. Please let me know if you're coming and pass this message on
> to anyone who you think might be interested.
>
> I propose the following agenda, and further comments and suggestions
> are welcome:
>
> 1. Making the pitch to policymakers and funders: what are we asking
> for and whom do we ask?
> 2. Who are the other people, centres and departments who we should
> invite to get involved?
> 3. Creating a CLARIN-UK portal, a gateway to UK language resources and
> tools: what should we include?
> 4. Next steps
>
> In my opinion, the basic pitch to funders should be that we have lots
> of excellent resources, tools, and centres of expertise, and lots of
> research projects with short-term funding. But there is a gap between
> the research funding schemes and the generic computing and repository
> services, and many of our research outputs are falling into this gap.
> Once we've created something, who is responsible for distribution and
> promoting re-use of data, training and supporting users, combination
> of datasets and tools, sustainability and long-term preservation,
> managing access and authorization, integration with resources and
> services in other countries, etc.? Most of our resources are supported
> on a best-efforts basis by individuals and institutions, and despite
> many success stories and heroic efforts, we are failing to reach or to
> satisfy many potential users, and failing to achieve maximum impact
> with our digital outputs. CLARIN is a European initiative to address
> these problems, and the UK could benefit from the ongoing large
> investments in infrastructure in other countries and at the European
> level, and from future European funding streams available if we were
> to join the CLARIN consortium.
>
> As a starting point for discussion, one way to proceed would be (i) to
> form a loose lobby group, asking individuals and organizations to sign
> up to some basic principles (e.g. the points above), (ii) to create an
> online portal to highlight language resources, tools, services and
> events in the UK, as an aid to users and service providers, and to
> show funders the extent and importance of our offerings, and then
> (iii) ask for a meeting with funders.
>
> As an initial starting point, I have started map out a list of things
> to feature in the portal. This would include language resources and
> tools and services to promote and support them, based primarily in the
> UK. Here's the outline so far:
>
> - online corpus search interfaces (BNCweb, Intellitext, CQPweb,
> SketchEngine, SCOTS. CLiC, etc.)
> - list of tools available under licence (e.g. GATE, NLTK, CLAWS,
> NACTEM tools, ICECUP, etc.)
> - list of resources of UK origin made available in repositories (e.g.
> ELDA, OTA, CHILDES, ELAR, SCOTS, Survey of English Usage, etc.)
> - list of key resources not currently made easily available as
> language resources, but which are of potential use if there was
> support for granting access to them (e.g. audio archives, orphaned
> resources)
> - training courses, events and other sources of support (e.g.
> Lancaster summer school & MOOC, Englicious)
>
> Apologies for all of the obvious and important things which I have
> overlooked or not cited as examples. Please send me more suggestions,
> and I'll bring a demo portal to show at the meeting. It would be
> difficult to maintain such a portal and to keep it up to date, but I
> think that it will be sufficiently useful just in the short term for
> it to be worth the effort.
>
> Please let me know if you are able to attend the meeting in Sheffield,
> and any other comments and suggestions are welcome. Please use this
> email list for points and discussion.
>
> Best wishes,
> Martin
>
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Martin Wynne
IT Services, University of Oxford
Oxford e-Research Centre
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC
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