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FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow: Interoperability and Metadata Practices

26.8.2026 12-15

Tellus Stage, University of Oulu

The Fin-CLARIAH Roadshow at the University of Oulu will bring together researchers and infrastructure specialists working on metadata, language resources, and research infrastructures for the humanities and social sciences. The event focuses particularly on metadata practices and interoperability in an era increasingly shaped by large language models, machine-readable corpora, and AI-assisted research workflows. Talks and roundtable discussions will address researcher profiles, CLARIN metadata standards, TurkuNLP tools, and broader metadata desiderata across the Finnish research infrastructure landscape.

Registration:

This roadshow event is free but requires registration. Please register for the roadshow by 1 August!

In addition, you may wish to consider participating in the CMC2026 conference 27.-28.8.2026. Note that there is a registration fee for the conference.  If registering for the CMC2026 conference in ConfTool, please register for the Roadshow event and the reception there. For further information, see the website of the conference CMC-Corpora 2026.

Programme

For the latest updates, please see the event page on the website of CMC-Corpora 2026.

• 12:00 Greetings and welcome
• 12:10–12:40 Päivi Leinonen and Alina Niskanen, U. Oulu, Metadata records for researcher profiles
• 12:40–13:10 Alexander König, CLARIN-ERIC, Metadata schemes at CLARIN-ERIC
• 13:10–13:40 Veronika Laippala / Erik Henriksson, UTU, Metadata and TurkuNLP tools
• 13:40–14:00 Coffee break
• 14:00–15:00 Roundtable discussion: Metadata desiderata
  • Egon Stemle, EURAC Resesarch, Italy
  • Alexander König, CLARIN-ERIC, Netherlands
  • Mikko Laitinen / Mehrdad Salimi / Masoud Fatemi, University of Eastern Finland
  • Veronika Laippala, University of Turku, Finland
  • Andreas Witt, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache/CLARIN-D, Germany
• 18:00–19:30: Reception at Oulu City Hall with welcome words, food, drink, and music.

To register for the Roadshow, please use this form. Please register by 1 August. NOTE: If you are registering for the CMC2026 conference in ConfTool, please register for the Roadshow event and the reception there!

What is FIN-CLARIAH?

FIN-CLARIAH is the Finnish digital research infrastructure (RI) for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) connecting ten universities as well as memory organisations in collaboration with CSC to facilitate the use, refinement, preservation and sharing of research data for the SSH researchers in Finland. FIN-CLARIAH has two parts: FIN-CLARIN integrates language resources and tools for processing language data through Kielipankki – the Language Bank of Finland, and DARIAH-FI joins a network of researchers with methodological expertise from SSH to data science developing versatile analysis tools and supporting big data approaches.

Last modified on 2026-07-08