Tour de CLARIN

The Tour de CLARIN is a new CLARIN ERIC initiative that aims to periodically highlight prominent user involvement activities of the CLARIN National Consortia.
Tour Stages at the CLARIN National Consortia
 - Finland in April and May 2017;
 - Sweden in June and July 2017;
 - Austria in August and September 2017;
 - The Netherlands in October and November 2017;
 - Poland in December 2017 and January 2018;
 - DLU/Flanders in February and March 2018;
 - Czech Republic in April and May 2018;
 - Greeece in June and July 2018;
 - Lithuania in August and September 2018;
 - Estonia in October and November 2018;
 - Latvia in December 2018 and January 2019;
 - Italy in February and March 2019;
 - Denmark in April and May 2019;
 - Slovenia in June and July 2019;
 - Hungary in August and September 2019;
 - Bulgaria in October and November 2019;
 - Norway in December 2019 and January 2020;
 - United Kingdom in February and March 2020;
 - Germany in April and May 2020;

 - South Africa in September and October 2020;
 - Iceland in November and December 2020;
 - France in January and February 2021;

 - Portugal in April and May 2021.
Each highlight includes: an interview with one or more prominent researchers who are using the national consortium’s infrastructure and can tell more about their experience with CLARIN in general; one or more use cases that the consortium is particularly proud of; any relevant user involvement activities carried out.
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Since 2019 a part of the Tour de CLARIN has been dedicated to periodically highligh the work of the CLARIN Knowledge Centres (K-Centres).
Tour Stages at the CLARIN K-Centres
 - CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Treebanking in January and February 2019;
 - CLARIN Knowledge Centre for the Languages of Sweden in March and April 2019;
 - TalkBank Knowledge Centre in May and June 2019;
 - Czech CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Corpus Linguistics in July and August 2019;
 - Impact CKC K-Centre in September and October 2019;
 - Knowledge Centre for Polish Language Technology in November and December 2019;
 - Phonogrammarchiv Knowledge Centre in January and February 2020;
 - Knowledge Centre for Atypical Communication Expertise in March and April 2020;
 - LUND University Humanities Lab Knowledge Centre in July and August 2020;
 - Spanish CLARIN Knowledge Centre in September and October 2020;

 - CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Systems and Frameworks for Morphologically Rich Languages (SAFMORIL) in June 2021;

 - French CLARIN Knowledge Centre CORLI for Corpora, Languages and Interaction in July 2021;

 - CLARIN Knowledge Centre for South Slavic Languages (CLASSLA) | November 2021.
Each highlight includes: a presentation of what the K-centre offers to researchers; an interview with either a renowned researcher who has collaborated with the K-centre or a leading developer who is part of the K-centre itself and who provided as with valuable insight into what the K-centre offers.

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Since 2021 a part of the Tour de CLARIN has been dedicated to periodically highligh the work of the CLARIN Service Providing Centres (B-Centres).

 - CLARIN B-Centre: Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage with ARCHE in April and May 2021;

 - CLARIN-PL B-Centre in December 2021.

Each highlight includes: a presentation of what the B-centre offers to researchers; an interview with either a renowned researcher who has collaborated with the B-centre or a leading developer who is part of the B-centre itself and who provided as with valuable insight into what the B-centre offers.
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The idea behind the Tour de CLARIN is that it will help to increase the visibility of the work of National Consortia and K-Centres, reveal the richness of the CLARIN landscape and display the full range of activities throughout the network.
The content ralating to the Tour de CLARIN will be disseminated through the CLARIN Newsflash, the CLARIN Blog and the CLARIN Twitter profile.
Join the Tour de CLARIN!