University of the Peloponnese joins CLARIN:EL Research Infrastructure, the open network of repositories, members of which are actively involved in Language Resources and Technologies.
Linguistic resources such as digital collections and corpora created by University members, as well as language technology applications which are developed as part of the University's research activity will soon be integrated in the Institutional Repository of the University of the Peloponnese, thus contributing to the enrichment of the CLARIN:EL Infrastructure. Procedures for the creation of the Institutional Repository of the University of the Peloponnese are completed. Georgia Fragaki, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Philology of the University of the Peloponnese has been appointed as the Scientific Responsible of the Institutional Repository.
So far, CLARIN:EL network counts 15 members including Universities and Research Centers. The Greek infrastructure for the collection, documentation and distribution of high quality language resources for the Greek language aims at expanding its reach, through the cooperation with other members at national level and the interconnection with the CLARIN ERIC European network.