Commission Decision of 29 February 2012 setting up the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CLARIN ERIC) (notified under document C(2012) 1018) (2012/136/EU)

CHAPTER 1 U.K. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1 Name, seat, location and working language U.K.

1.1. There shall be a European Research Infrastructure called the ‘Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure’, hereinafter referred to as ‘CLARIN’. U.K.

1.2. CLARIN shall have the legal form of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) incorporated under the provision of Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 and be named ‘CLARIN ERIC’. U.K.

1.3. CLARIN shall be a distributed research infrastructure located in all CLARIN ERIC member countries, as well as in other countries where CLARIN ERIC has made agreements in accordance with Article 18. U.K.

1.4. CLARIN ERIC shall have its statutory seat in Utrecht, the Netherlands. U.K.

1.5. The working language of CLARIN ERIC is English. U.K.

Article 2 Objectives and activities U.K.

2.1. The ultimate objective of CLARIN ERIC is to advance research in humanities and social sciences by giving researchers unified access to a platform which integrates language-based resources and advanced tools at a European level. This shall be implemented by the construction and operation of a shared distributed research infrastructure that aims at making language resources, technology and expertise available to the humanities and social sciences research communities at large. U.K.

2.2. To this end CLARIN ERIC shall undertake and coordinate a variety of activities, including but not limited to: U.K.

(a)

the creation of a federation of existing data and web-service centres to facilitate single sign-on access to data and to technology services provided by these centres;

(b)

the definition and maintenance of a collection of formal and de facto standards and mappings between those to facilitate interoperability between data and services;

(c)

the coordination and support of activities aimed at the acquisition and creation of new data and web-services;

(d)

the collection of user requirements and best practice in order to provide efficient support to users;

(e)

the creation of centres of expertise with a focus on the exploitation of language resources and technology for the advancement of research in the humanities and social sciences;

(f)

the organisation of training, awareness and dissemination actions in order to promote both the usage and the further evolution of the research infrastructure;

(g)

ensuring the creation and maintenance of a licensing, access and authentication framework that on the one hand ensures easy access and at the same time protects the reasonable rights of owners of data and tools and privacy of individuals;

(h)

maintaining and exploiting relationships with related organisations and infrastructures in and outside Europe with a view to collaboration;

(i)

contributing to the development of policies leading to the advancement of research in the European Research Area (ERA), both within the fields of humanities and social sciences and across disciplines;

(j)

any other related action that will help strengthening research in the ERA.

2.3. CLARIN ERIC shall construct and operate CLARIN on a non-economic basis; in order to further promote innovation as well as transfer of knowledge and technology limited economic activities may be carried out as long as they do not jeopardize the main activities. U.K.