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| Title | Semantic metadata mapping in practice: the Virtual Language Observatory |
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| Authors | Dieter van Uytvanck, Herman Stehouwer and Lari Lampen |
| Abstract | In this paper we present the Virtual Language Observatory (VLO), a metadata-based portal for language resources. It is completely based on the Component Metadata (CMDI) and ISOcat standards. This approach allows for the use of heterogeneous metadata schemas while maintaining the semantic compatibility. We describe the metadata harvesting process, based on OAI-PMH, and the conversion from several formats (OLAC, IMDI and the CLARIN LRT inventory) to their CMDI counterpart profiles. Then we focus on some post-processing steps to polish the harvested records. Next, the ingestion of the CMDI files into the VLO facet browser is described. We also include an overview of the changes since the first version of the VLO, based on user feedback from the CLARIN community. Finally there is an overview of additional ideas and improvements for future versions of the VLO. |
| Topics | Metadata, LR Infrastructures and Architectures, Standards for LRs |
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Semantic metadata mapping in practice: the Virtual Language Observatory |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{VANUYTVANCK12.437, author = {Dieter van Uytvanck and Herman Stehouwer and Lari Lampen}, title = {Semantic metadata mapping in practice: the Virtual Language Observatory}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |