Introduction to the CLARIN Technical Infrastructure

Abstract

This chapter provides an introduction to the design of the CLARIN technical infrastructure, with a focus on the Netherlands part. It provides a basic introduction to the techniques behind PIDs, CMDI-metadata, authentication and authorisation (AAI), semantic interoperability related to CMDI-metadata, and search. Search covers searching for data through metadata with the VLO and the Meertens metadata search application, as well as federated content search activities in the Netherlands. The chapter ends with an introduction to the chapters of Part I on the technical infrastructure of CLARIN.