1. CMDI Virtual Language Observatory Faceted Browsing Patrick Duin Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Patrick.Duin@mpi.nl 2011

2. www.clarin.eu Purpose/Use Cases  Allow faceted browsing based on cmdi metadata. Provide simple and easy access to resources Faceted Browsing: Intuitive searchable and browse-able interface, based around facets. Facets are aspects of the data that is searchable:

3. www.clarin.eu Faceted Browser in VLO

4. www.clarin.eu Issues  Based on IMDI metadata not CMDI  Cannot get to resources quickly  Very unstable and slow

5. www.clarin.eu New VLO Faceted Browser  Data analyzed is CMDI format  Currently IMDI, OLAC and LRT cimdified metadata  Stability issue solved and performance improved  You can get to resources directly from search results

6. www.clarin.eu Demo http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/vlo/

7. www.clarin.eu Still to come… A faceted browser is as good as its data, so curation steps are needed Add more CMDI metadata Add some more facets e.g.: year We are going to replace the old faceted browser so it will be available from the VLO: http://www.clarin.eu/vlo/ Until then please visit: http://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/vlo/ Questions/Remarks sent to: cmdi@clarin.eu