6 Describing Research Data with CMDI—Challenges to Establish Contact with Linked Open Data

The CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) research infrastructure for the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) offers researchers access to a wide range of language-related research data and tools. The Virtual Language Observatory, for instance, gives users uniform access to nearly a million resources and tools using faceted search on metadata, and by employing Federated Content Search users can perform full-text searches across distributed databases. Additionally, WebLicht supports users to process language resources with predefined and user-defined tool workflows, while the Language Resource Switchboard helps users to connect resources with tools that can process them. The infrastructure depends on a common metadata framework that makes it possible to describe all types of resources to a fine-grained level of detail, paying attention to their specific characteristics and the needs of the many SSH communities.