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The SSH Open Marketplace is a discovery portal for digital tools, services, and methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), with an emphasis placed on placing these resources in their research context. It is the SSH component of the EOSC Marketplace. Previous initiatives have shown that curation of content is the key element to maintain the attractiveness and the utility of a discovery portal like the SSH Open Marketplace.1 Thus at each stage of the development of the Marketplace, from the first ingestion of existing catalogues to the curation sprint, curation has been at the heart of conception. This emphasis, based on previous examples and the work done throughout the SSHOC project, has led to profound changes in the data model, definition of quality criteria, standardization of the content as the team adapts the machinery of the Marketplace based on lessons learned. This continuous work has laid the foundation of the development of Editorial Guidelines which will be used by future curation actors as well as the definition of their different curation roles and the organisation of their relationship.

The objectives of WP6 are: 1. To set up a set of tools and services enabling cross-discipline interoperability; 2. To share tools and services across different communities. This document reports on the status of actions carried out towards achieving those two objectives in the context of three tasks: Task 6.2 - Tools and services enabling interoperability This task addresses the provision of interoperability tools/services to the PARTHENOS research communities and contributes to the first objective of WP6. The provision status of tools and services for interoperability is summarised in Table 1 (page 12). Task 6.3 - Sharing specialized tools This task addresses the provision of tools/services for manipulating, presenting and publishing similar data within the disciplinary domains (or possibly outside) and contributes to the second objective of the WP. A selection of specialised services that will be considered for integration in the PARTHENOS infrastructure are provided in Table 3 (page 30) and the options to perform the integration are discussed. Task 6.5 - Resource discovery tools This task will deliver a number of tools for the discovery of resources available in the PARTHENOS ecosystem, thus contributing to the second objective of the WP with an API and GUI for the cross-communities and cross-discipline discovery of PARTHENOS resources. An overview of resource discovery tools is given in Section 5.3. This deliverable is an interim report. The final version of the report will be delivered in M45 as D6.4 report/deliverable. Outline of the report The document is organised into five main sections. Section 2 describes the methodology adopted by T6.2 and T6.3 for the selection and the delivery of relevant tools and services to the PARTHENOS community. Section 3 describes the integration status of services and tools for interoperability into the PARTHENOS infrastructure (T6.2). Section 4 discusses 9 the available options for integrating specialised tools into the PARTHENOS infrastructure and presents a selection of tools that that will be considered for integration (T6.3). Section 5 describes requirements and desiderata for setting up advanced resource discovery tools (T6.5). Section 6 concludes the deliverable with the description of the NERLIX use case, which will be used to test, and prototypically synthesize the various technical aspects of the PARTHENOS endeavour - resource aggregation & discovery, metadata mapping, integration of processing and visualisation services.

In the European CLARIN infrastructure a growing number of resources are described with Component Metadata. In this paper we describe a transformation to make this metadata available as linked data. After this first step it becomes possible to connect the CLARIN Component Metadata with other valuable knowledge sources in the Linked Data Cloud.

Measuring the quality of metadata is only possible by assessing the quality of the underlying schema and the metadata instance. We propose some factors that are measurable automatically for metadata according to the CMD framework, taking into account the variability of schemas that can be defined in this framework. The factors include among others the number of elements, the (re-)use of reusable components, the number of filled in elements. The resulting score can serve as an indicator of the overall quality of the CMD instance, used for feedback to metadata providers or to provide an overview of the overall quality of metadata within a reposi-tory. The score is independent of specific schemas and generalizable. An overall assessment of harvested metadata is provided in form of statistical summaries and the distribution, based on a corpus of harvested metadata. The score is implemented in XQuery and can be used in tools, editors and repositories

Within scientific institutes there exist many language resources. These resources are often quite specialized and relatively unknown. The current infrastructural initiatives try to tackle this issue by collecting metadata about the resources and establishing centers with stable repositories to ensure the availability of the resources. It would be beneficial if the researcher could, by means of a simple query, determine which resources and which centers contain information useful to his or her research, or even work on a set of distributed resources as a virtual corpus. In this article we propose an architecture for a distributed search environment allowing researchers to perform searches in a set of distributed language resources.