CMDI Virtual Language ObservatoryFaceted Browsing

Patrick DuinMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Patrick.Duin@mpi.nl

2011

www.clarin.euPurpose/Use Cases

Allow faceted browsing based on cmdi metadata. Provide simple and easy access to resources

Faceted Browsing:

Intuitive searchable and browse-able interface, based around facets.

Facets are aspects of the data that is searchable:

www.clarin.euFaceted Browser in VLO

www.clarin.euIssues

Based on IMDI metadata not CMDI Cannot get to resources quickly Very unstable and slow

www.clarin.euNew VLO Faceted Browser

Data analyzed is CMDI format Currently IMDI, OLAC and LRT cimdified metadata

Stability issue solved and performance improved You can get to resources directly from search results

www.clarin.euDemo

http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/vlo/

www.clarin.euStill to come…

• A faceted browser is as good as its data, so curation steps are needed• Add more CMDI metadata• Add some more facets e.g.: year

We are going to replace the old faceted browser so it will be available from the VLO: http://www.clarin.eu/vlo/

Until then please visit: http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/vlo/

Questions/Remarks sent to: cmdi@clarin.eu