Twan Goosen
The Language Archive, CLARIN ERIC
Menzo Windhouwer
The Language Archive, Meertens Institute, The Netherlands
Oddrun Ohren
National Library of Norway, Norway
Axel Herold
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Thomas Eckart
Leipzig University, Germany
Matej Ďurčo
Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, Austria
Oliver Schonefeld
Institute for the German Language, Germany
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Published in: Selected Papers from the CLARIN 2014 Conference, October 24-25, 2014, Soesterberg, The Netherlands
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 116:4, p. 36-53
Published: 2015-08-26
ISBN: 978-91-7685-954-4
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This article reports about the on-going work on a new version of the metadata framework Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI), central to the CLARIN infrastructure. Version 1.2 introduces a number of important changes based on the experience gathered in the last five years of intensive use of CMDI by the digital humanities community, addressing problems encountered, but also introducing new functionality. Next to the consolidation of the structure of the model and schema sanity, new means for lifecycle management have been introduced aimed at combatting the observed proliferation of components, new mechanism for use of external vocabularies will contribute to more consistent use of controlled values and cues for tools will allow improved presentation of the metadata records to the human users. The feature set has been frozen and approved, and the infrastructure is now entering a transition phase, in which all the tools and data need to be migrated to the new version.
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