Third Call for Abstracts CLARIN Annual Conference 2025 CLARIN2025 is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there is a need, its actual use by researchers and teachers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. We are pleased to welcome authors of accepted papers, members of national consortia and representatives of CLARIN centres, representatives from partner organisations, and many others who are interested in becoming part of the CLARIN community.
IMPORTANT DATES
* 4 April 2025: Submission deadline * 16 June 2025: Notification of acceptance * 1 September 2025: Final version of the abstract * 30 September - 2 October 2025: CLARIN Annual Conference
CONFERENCE TOPICS We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure:
* Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond * Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services * Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use cases * Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science, information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI * Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to CLARIN Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure:
* Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure * Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing * Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms * Access, including authentication and authorisation * Search functions, including Federated Content Search * Web applications, web services and workflows * Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services * Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including curation, migration financing and cooperation * Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure. CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination:
* User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs) * CLARIN portals and outreach to users * Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures * Knowledge centres. CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives:
* SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAHhttps://www.dariah.eu/ and CESSDAhttps://www.cessda.eu/ and the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Clusterhttps://www.sshopencloud.eu/news/sshoc-ssh-open-cluster, etc. * Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as https://www.clarin.eu/glossary#EUDAT EOSChttps://eosc.eu/about-eosc, Europeanahttps://www.europeana.eu/, Language Data Spacehttps://language-data-space.ec.europa.eu/, etc. * Projects such as ATRIUMhttps://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-atrium, EOSC Focushttps://www.clarin.eu/content/factsheet-clarin-eosc-focus, ERIC Forumhttps://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-eric-forum-2, EOSC Futurehttps://eoscfuture.eu/, FAIRCORE4EOSChttps://faircore4eosc.eu/, OSCARShttps://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-oscars, OSTrailshttps://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-ostrails * National and regional initiatives. Education and Training:
* Using CLARIN language resources and services in teaching and training activities targeting audiences from different sectors (academia, GLAM, industry) and lessons learnt * The impact of the DH Course Registry (e.g. development of the DH curricula, student exchange programmes) * Guidelines and best practices for using CLARIN in the university curricula * Developing new courses reusing existing materials from the CLARIN Learning Hub (e.g. UPSKILLS)
SUBMISSIONS The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be submitted as extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archivehttps://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t0y7zfm7fc2ubo01gawo4/ABS07ggkXbYm9yAZPfHAfpk?rlkey=fm7di983ihtivq02fbssfwrav&st=mmwwallp&dl=0, Overleafhttps://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f template). Authors can choose whether to submit on an anonymous or non-anonymous basis. Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant to CLARIN’s activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also eligible. Authors are not required to be or have been directly involved in national or cross-national CLARIN projects. For more information and to access the submission system, please visit: https://www.clarin.eu/content/call-extended-abstracts-clarin-annual-conferen...