News from the Language Bank of Finland 17th June 2013
New contact person for FIN-CLARIN
The National Library’s newspaper and periodical-corpus to Korp
- During summer and autumn a large collection of newspapers and periodicals will be uploaded to Korp, where you can search e.g. for concordances. The corpus will be in public use. Korp: http://korp.csc.fi
LAT update
- The LAT system of the Language Bank of Finland will be updated in the near future. Due to the update a short maintenance break will occur. The users will be notified of the break in due time. LAT: https://lat.csc.fi
Try META-SHARE
- You can find detailed information about over 2000 language resources in the META-SHARE ”managing nodes” located in several different countries: http://www.meta-share.org/
- More than 160 language resources are already represented in the Finnish META-SHARE node. You can register and start describing your own resources there: http://meta-share.csc.fi
- We are ready to mirror for CLARIN the language resource descriptions that have been published in the Finnish META-SHARE node. A bridge to an OAI-PMH server has been developed in the Finnish Language Bank project and is now being tested.
SICStus Prolog will be removed from Hippu
- The SICStus Prolog development system on CSC:s Hippu server will be removed on 31st July 2013 due to low use. More details: ling@csc.fi.
Forthcoming events
The collections and services of the Language Bank of Finland can now be found at http://www.kielipankki.fi
Forthcoming language resources: https://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/Trash/FinCLARINFinClarinHallintoUudetKielivarat
FIN-CLARIN and the Language Bank of Finland wish you a nice summer and relaxing holidays!
Mietta Lennes and Imre Bartis
Planning Officers / FIN-CLARIN
fin-clarin@helsinki.fi
