Infrastructures
ILC participates in the Italian nodes of two research infrastructures of pan-European interest identified by ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) and classified as ESFRI Landmarks SSH RI in the ESFRI Roadmap 2016: CLARIN and DARIAH.
CLARIN-IT
It is the Italian node of CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure), whose grand vision it shares.
ILC was already an active participant in the CLARIN preparatory phase project (2008-2011).
On 1st October 2015 Italy became the 16th Full Member of CLARIN ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium), the CLARIN governance and coordination body at the European level.
The CLARIN Italian Consortium, represented by ILC and coordinated by Monica Monachini, is being formed and is expected to include the major universities and research institutes of the country, such as departments and institutions of language and literary studies, Philology and Computer Science, as well as groups mostly involved in the field of Digital Humanities and in the sectors of documentation, digitalization and language technologies for the Humanities.
ILC realized CLARIN-IT, a Web site devoted to the CLARIN Italian Consortium, established ILC4CLARIN, a CLARIN Metadata Providing Centre (of Type C), that is the 1st CLARIN-IT National Centre, and realized a Web site devoted to it.
On 18th April 2018 the Trusted Digital Repository 'The ILC4CLARIN Centre at the Institute for Computational Linguistics' acquired the 2016 Core Trust Seal.
On 3rd May 2018 ILC4CLARIN was officially recognized as a CLARIN Service Providing Centre (of Type B).
Together with the Venice Center of Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) of the Department of Humanities (DSU) of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice (UniVE), ILC then established DiPText-KC,
officially recognized as a CLARIN Knowledge Centre (of Type K) on 13th October 2021. The Web site dedicated to it was realized by ILC.
DARIAH-IT
It is the Italian node of DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), whose core mission it shares.
It seeks to provide advanced services based on the use of Information and Communication Technology to researchers in the field of Arts and Humanities, combining technological development with education and training, promoting collaboration and joint research, communication and dissemination, sharing of experiences and tools in the fields of Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural Heritage.
It also aims to develop tools to connect and reuse the wealth of scientific material available, while ensuring interoperability, preservation and data security across different academic contexts and communities.
The digital revolution showed the huge potential of technology in transforming the research in the field of Arts and Humanities.
DARIAH-IT provides state-of-the-art digital research tools and promotes their use from a wide and multidisciplinary community of researchers.
ILC has been a Partner of DARIAH-IT since 2015.