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This article provides an overview of the dissemination work carried out in META-NET from 2010 until early 2014; we describe its impact on the regional, national and international level, mainly with regard to politics and the situation of fundingfor langauge technology topics. This paper documents the initiative’s work throughout Europe in order to boost progress and innovation in our field.

This paper presents the metadata schema for describing language resources (LRs) currently under development for the needs of META-SHARE, an open distributed facility for the exchange and sharing of LRs. An essential ingredient in its setup is the existence of formal and standardized LR descriptions, cornerstone of the interoperability layer of any such initiative. The description of LRs is granular and abstractive, combining the taxonomy of LRs with an inventory of a structured set of descriptive elements, of which only a minimal subset is obligatory; the schema additionally proposes recommended and optional elements. Moreover, the schema includes a set of relations catering for the appropriate inter-linking of resources. The current paper presents the main principles and features of the metadata schema, focusing on the description of text corpora and lexical / conceptual resources.

The idea is to use the VLO for inquiring about the quantity of grey literature which can actually be found in CLARIN. A mapping between the terminological resources contained in the GreyNet International 1992-2017 website and in particular in the GreySource Index > Document Types in Grey Literature – and those retrievable from the VLO has been performed. This work will provide a map of the documentation archived in the CLARIN infrastructure, whose purpose is to share language resources produced and managed in the various European countries but finally merged into the CLARIN data centers for allowing access, interoperability, reuse and preservation of scientific documentation as well as Grey Literature.