The Metadata-Database of a Next Generation Sustainability Web-Platform for Language Resources

Georg Rehm, Oliver Schonefeld, Andreas Witt, Timm Lehmberg, Christian Chiarcos, Hanan Bechara, Florian Eishold, Kilian Evang, Magdalena Leshtanska, Aleksandar Savkov, Matthias Stark

Abstract
Our goal is to provide a web-based platform for the long-term preservation and distribution of a heterogeneous collection of linguistic resources. We discuss the corpus preprocessing and normalisation phase that results in sets of multi-rooted trees. At the same time we transform the original metadata records, just like the corpora annotated using different annotation approaches and exhibiting different levels of granularity, into the all-encompassing and highly flexible format eTEI for which we present editing and parsing tools. We also discuss the architecture of the sustainability platform. Its primary components are an XML database that contains corpus and metadata files and an SQL database that contains user accounts and access control lists. A staging area, whose structure, contents, and consistency can be checked using tools, is used to make sure that new resources about to be imported into the platform have the correct structure.
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L08-1419
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
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May
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2008
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Marrakech, Morocco
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Georg Rehm, Oliver Schonefeld, Andreas Witt, Timm Lehmberg, Christian Chiarcos, Hanan Bechara, Florian Eishold, Kilian Evang, Magdalena Leshtanska, Aleksandar Savkov, and Matthias Stark. 2008. The Metadata-Database of a Next Generation Sustainability Web-Platform for Language Resources. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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