Awesome Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI)
A curated list of services, tools and documentation for CLARIN's Component Metadata Infrastructure
Contents
Web pages
Web pages about CMDI:
- CMDI home page - An introduction to CMDI and usage description for metadata modellers, authors and repository managers.
- FAQs - Frequently asked questions about metadata in CLARIN.
Guides and tutorials
CMDI services
Core services
Essential services that form the operational core of the Component Metadata Infrastructure:
- Component Registry - Registry and editor for CMD components and profiles.
- CLAVAS - CLARIN's vocabulary service used in CMDI.
- CCR - CLARIN's concept registry used in CMDI.
Central services
CMDI based services that are maintained and hosted centrally by CLARIN ERIC:
- VLO - The Virtual Language Observatory offers metadata based search and discovery for language resources and tools.
- Curation dashboard - Metadata quality control with up-to-date link checking.
- OAI-PMH harvest viewer - Latest harvest results for the VLO.
Tools
General
- CMD Toolkit - Contains the schemata, stylesheets and scripts that form the basis of CMDI.
Validation
- Component validator - A library ("CMDValidate") for validating CMD component specifications using XSD and Schematron.
- Instance validator - Java based utility for validating CMDI records.
Editing
- COMEDI - A web-based editor for CMDI records with storage and distribution facilities.
- CLARIAH CMDI Forms - A tweakable, web based editor for CMDI records (sources, runnable via Docker).
Conversion
Distribution
- OAI harvest manager - Solution for harvesting a predefined set of endpoints, with support for flexible XSLT based processing pipelines and integration with the CLARIN centre registry.
- CLARIN OAI-PMH providers - List of endpoints of registered CLARIN centres that provide metadata.
Repository systems
- CLARIN DSpace - Adaptation of DSpace that supports CMDI and other CLARIN requirements and conventions, developed at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics of the Charles University.
- TLA FLAT - Repository solution based on Islandora, developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Specification Documents
CMDI 1.1
- XSD Schemas - Common schemas for CMDI 1.1.
CMDI 1.2
- CMDI specification - Complete specification for CMDI 1.2.
- ISO 24622 - Language resource management.
Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI)
- XSD Schemas - Common schemas for CMDI 1.2.
Publications
Contribute
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