The metadata challenge for libraries: a view from Europe

The effective management of networked digital information - including resource discovery, the management of access based on rights information, long-term preservation, etc. - will increasingly rely on the effective development and use of systems that can collect and use appropriate metadata. This paper will outline an approximate typology of metadata formats and discuss the importance of metadata interoperability from the perspective of selected European metadata initiatives - including the BIBLINK, Cedars, DESIRE, MODELS and ROADS projects

Per-Fide: projeto de compilação de um corpus multilingue

[Excerto] O projeto que aqui apresentamos resulta da colaboração entre o Departamento de Informática e o Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade do Minho e tem por principal objetivo a compilação de corpora paralelos multilingues. Pretende-se, com este tipo de recurso, construir uma plataforma de investigação vocacionada para diferentes áreas, nomeadamente a linguística contrastiva, o ensino e o estudo de línguas e da tradução (Berber Sardinha, 2003), da lexicografi a bilingue, entre outras. [...]O Per-Fide, Português em paralelo com seis línguas (Português, Español, Russian, Français, Italiano, Deutsch, English), é parcialmente financiado pelo projeto PTDC/CLE-LLI/108948/2008 da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Perspectives on Text Encoding Initiative projects from current digital library managers

This study seeks to analyze the feasibility of these projects that involve the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines and standards for text encoding of scholarly material. Many libraries and other institutions are initiating digitization projects that involve text-markup. For this reason, such projects should be analyzed for feasibility and usefulness. Eighteen project managers and field professionals involved in TEI projects completed an online survey to assess the overall feasibility of their projects. Several factors were used in the assessment such as amount of funding, completion of project, satisfaction with the encoding, and user feedback

XIV Colóquio de Outono: Humanidades: novos paradigmas do conhecimento e da investigação

The present volume off ers a selection of the papers presented at the XIV Colóquio de Outono organized by the research unit Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (Universidade do Minho) in November 2012, under the global topic Humanities: New Paradigms of Knowledge and Research (Humanidades: Novos Paradigmas do Conhecimento e da Investigação). It has been the main objective of CEHUM, throughout the various Colóquios de Outono organized in just over a decade, to listen carefully to the “noise of the world” and attempt a global interpretation of the signs of the times issuing from the world around us, as vibrant echoes of many social and cultural pressing issues. This volume gathers the majority of the texts presented in the XIV Colóquio de Outono, which the authors generously off ered us for publication, and which will certainly testify of the important debate around the wide topic proposed for this years analysis and discussion. We hope that this new volume may give evidence of our concern, as a Research Centre within the Humanities which operates in a transdisciplinary structure, of the crucial role played by the Humanities in today’s world and the multidisciplinary dialogue that can be fostered by the diff erent research groups that compose it. Throughout the three days of this XIV Colóquio de Outono we had the privilege to listen to and debate the propositions of a vast number of national and international specialists in the manifold fi elds of inquiry here represented, engaging keynote speakers, project advisors, members of research teams and external researchers attached to the various research projects currently running in CEHUM, in the fi elds of literature, linguistics, philosophy, ethics, visual arts, cultural studies, music and performance. Each specifi c fi eld of studies was however never seen isolated, but always embodied in a geo-cultural context and within the scope of a wide variety of critical debates and current theories of knowledge, as a signal of our understanding of the Humanities as a rich and plural territory which engages us all, scholars, researchers, students. For these lively and thought-provoking three days of the conference we wish to thank each and every one of the colleagues present, our distinguished guests, as well as the research members of CEHUM, who so enthusiastically joined in the debate on the proposed topics of analysis. Special thanks to the Board of Directors and the research team leaders of CEHUM for the precious help provided towards the organization and the setting up of this international event. Last but not least, we wish to thank the Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, as well as the research assistants and staff of CEHUM for all the precious logistic support. Finally, our gratitude to our main sponsor, Fundação para a Ciênca e a Tecnologia (FCT), for encouraging and fi nancially supporting this yearly event and the present publication.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)UECOMPETEQRE

CLARIN. The infrastructure for language resources

CLARIN, the "Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure", has established itself as a major player in the field of research infrastructures for the humanities. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the organization, its members, its goals and its functioning, as well as of the tools and resources hosted by the infrastructure. The many contributors representing various fields, from computer science to law to psychology, analyse a wide range of topics, such as the technology behind the CLARIN infrastructure, the use of CLARIN resources in diverse research projects, the achievements of selected national CLARIN consortia, and the challenges that CLARIN has faced and will face in the future. The book will be published in 2022, 10 years after the establishment of CLARIN as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium by the European Commission (Decision 2012/136/EU)

CLARIN

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – CLARIN – for the humanities. It covers a broad range of CLARIN language resources and services, its underlying technological infrastructure, the achievements of national consortia, and challenges that CLARIN will tackle in the future. The book is published 10 years after establishing CLARIN as an Europ. Research Infrastructure Consortium

The TEI header and the documentation of electronic texts

The article gives a general introduction to the form and function of the TEI header, points out some of the reasoning of the Text Documentation Committee that went into its design, and discusses some of its limitations. The TEI header's major strength is that it gives encoders the ability to document the electronic text itself, its source, its encoding principles, revisions, and characteristics of the text in an interchange format. Its bibliographical descriptions can be loaded into standard remote bibliographic databases, which should make electronic texts as easy to find for researchers as texts in other media, including print. Its major weakness is that it does not yet provide the ability for retrieval across texts in a networked environment, which users may want now or in the future.</p

CLARIN

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – CLARIN – for the humanities. It covers a broad range of CLARIN language resources and services, its underlying technological infrastructure, the achievements of national consortia, and challenges that CLARIN will tackle in the future. The book is published 10 years after establishing CLARIN as an Europ. Research Infrastructure Consortium