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Semantic metadata mapping in practice: The Virtual Language Observatory

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Van Uytvanck,  Dieter
The Language Archive, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Stehouwer,  Herman
The Language Archive, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Lampen,  Lari
The Language Archive, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Van Uytvanck, D., Stehouwer, H., & Lampen, L. (2012). Semantic metadata mapping in practice: The Virtual Language Observatory. In N. Calzolari (Ed.), Proceedings of LREC 2012: 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 1029-1034). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-85EE-8
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.