Digital infrastructure for Language Data in Switzerland: current state and perspectives

The members of the one-year project “Moving towards a national FAIR-compliant ecosystem of Federated Infrastructure for Language Data” (FAIR-FI-LD, swissuniversities ORD program) invite interested researchers and data stewards to attend a workshop dedicated to the existing infrastructure for language data in Switzerland and future perspectives of development. The project members will present their findings and dialogue with further invited speakers to address epistemological and technical challenges of managing and interconnecting digital infrastructure for language data. The presentations will regard three topics: (1) the design of corpus infrastructure to suit diverse language data and different research paradigms in linguistics and beyond; (2) case studies featuring recent linguistic corpora collected in Switzerland; (3) interoperability issues regarding metadata, formats, database design and query languages. For more details see the workshop schedule.

The workshop is organised by Johanna Miecznikowski and Elena Battaglia (USI) on behalf of FAIR-FI-LD and will take place at Università della Svizzera italiana, West Campus, room SI003 (“Black building”) on Monday, June 23rd, 2025, 10:30 – 17:30. The event can be attended on site. Please register here by June 9th, 2025.

FAIR-FI-LD is led by the University of Zurich (LiRI) and involves CLARIN-CH, ZHAW (Digital Discourse Lab) and USI (Istituto di studi italiani, E-Lab) as further partners. More information about the project can be found at https://www.liri.uzh.ch/en/projects/FAIR-FI-LD.html.