The 5th World Congress of Latvian Scientists "Research Latvia" took place in Riga from 27th to 29th June 2023. 

CLARIN-LV participated in this congress with several poster presentations. The overview of CLARIN infrastructure and CLARIN-LV offers for researchers were presented in poster presentation "Latvian language in CLARIN Research Infrastructure – Important Step towards Digital Language Equality (DLE)", while presentation "Korpuss.lv and Tēzaurs.lv for Digital Humanities and Language Technology Development" introduced to the two important Latvian language resources: National corpus collection korpuss.lv un electronic lexicon tezaurs.lv. Another important initiative Balsu talka was presented in poster "Talka – Crowdsourced Open Latvian Speech Dataset". Finally, Sanita Reinsone from the Institute of Literature, Folklore and arts (University of Latvia) participated in panel discussion "Digitalization and human".

 

The Digital Humanities workshop "Humanities in the digital age: Securing innovation and empowering democracy" took place on April 26 at the European Parliament. The event was organized by the STOA panel vice-chair MEP Ivars Ījabs, assisted by the DHELI project, in cooperation with DARIAH-EU and CLARIN ERIC research infrastructures. 

During the workshop, Maciej OGRODNICZUK (CLARIN-PL) presented multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary sessions ParlaMint, while Normunds Grūzītis (CLARIN-LV) introduced to the SELMA project and its contribution to Innovation in multilingual media monitoring. All presentations and workshop booklet is available from the workshop page.

CLARIN-LV repository has been assessed and certified as a Trustworthy Data Repository by the CoreTrustSeal (CTS) Standards and Certification Board. CoreTrustSeal is an international, non-governmental, and non-profit organization offering to any interested data repository a core level certification based on the Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements. The CTS certification is pre-requisite to become CLARIN B-centre. 

On January 2023, after finishing successfully assessment by CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board, CLARIN-LV National Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technologies in Latvia has been certified as a CLARIN B-centre. The CLARIN-LV repository was set up in March 2020. CLARIN B-centres constitute the backbone of the European Infrastructure, offering the scientific community access to resources, services and knowledge on a sustainable basis. 

The CLARIN Annual Conference took place in Prague from 10 to 12 October. During the Opening session the Steven Krauwer Award for Early Career CLARIN Researcher was awarded to the CLARIN-LV researcher Roberts Darģis. Roberts has contributed to the development of the korpuss.lv platform and CLARIN’s ParlaMint project. He also serves to Standing Committee for CLARIN Technical Centres.