June 2025

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ | Summer School on Data Literacy with R for Students of Humanities    4 – 15 August, Prague (CZ)

This ATRIUM-supported, intensive course will focus on basic analysis skills with descriptive statistics and scientific visualisation techniques. It is a condensed version of a regular semestral course in R programming for humanities, aimed at students who do not have any programming skills, boasting a highly supportive environment for scholars who get easily intimidated by computers.

https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-newsflash-march-2025#events

CLARIN Annual Conference 2025

The conference will run from Tuesday 30 September until Thursday 2 October, 1 Closed meetings of CLARIN committees will precede the event on Tuesday between 9:00 and 15:30 CEST. 

The full programme of CLARIN2025 is not yet availablehttps://www.clarin.eu/event/2025/clarin-annual-conference-2025

DH2025 – Accessibility and Citizenship

Monday, 14 July – Friday, 18 July 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal

(https://www.clarin.eu/event/2025/dh2025-accessibility-and-citizenship

If you cannot attend the meeting, check the program of this meeting and the wide range of topics in the domain of Digital Humanities and see who is involved in areas that may also be of your interest.

CLARIN Technical Open Hour June 2025

Monday, 30 June 2025 , 11:00 – 12:00  (Virtual meeting)

https://www.clarin.eu/event/2025/technical-open-hour-june-2025

CLARIN hosts an open hour on CLARIN technology. You can join virtually and ask our developers and infrastructure specialists anything. Anyone is welcome to join!

INTERESTING NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Developing reading skills

Given the challenges regarding literacy and reading skills in the multilingual South African educational environment, researchers and developers should take note of the DART project (https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/dart-dutch-automatic-reading-tutor ) developed by the Centre for Language and Speech Technology (CLST) at Radboud University in collaboration with NovoLanguage, (https://www.novo-learning.com/language.) This company would like to link up with CLARIN partners insetting up “… a collaboration with local universities (for network, knowledge and language resources) and publishers to develop new reading tutors for other languages with the technology that NovoLanguage offers, especially for low resourced languages.”

TRAINING / COURSES

Upskilling and enhancing your skills by joining the Learning Hub of CLARIN

“The CLARIN Learning Hub gives access to open educational resources on various topics, including full online training modules to learn new skills and materials to design new university courses, training and workshops” (https://www.clarin.eu/content/learning-hub)

SADiLaR as a full member of CLARIN encourages South African scholars and researchers to make use of an introductory CLARIN Tutorial (https://www.clarin.eu/content/tutorial-intro-clarin). “This tutorial gives a basic introduction to research infrastructures and linguistic research data management, focusing on the central services provided by the CLARIN research infrastructure. The presentations have been compiled in three units:

  • Unit 1. Introduction to the Language Resources and Research Data Repositories
  • Unit 2. How to Use CLARIN for Linguistic Research
  • Unit 3. Sharing and Archiving Language Resources
  • References