D5.4 Community Building Report

This deliverable reports on activities pursued in the context of Task 5.4. “Community Building”, which is a part of WP5 “Language Resource and Service Sustainability”. It also contains a summary of the “Innovation” and “Sustainability” events to be organized by the
project once every year.

Task 5.4 deals with raising awareness on the potentials of Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) driven language resources and services, beyond the consortium and related initiatives. It is complementing the dissemination strategy of Prêt-à-LLOD, which is described
in Section 2 of the deliverable on the Project Dissemination Report (D6.1.1).

A way to achieve this goal is to contribute to the extension of existing standards, or even in the creation of new ones, if needed. Partners of Prêt-à-LLOD have intensively explored their
relations to the relevant ISO and W3C committees. Further, discussions with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) community have been initiated. Such activities aim to establish a community extension across standardisation bodies. Prêt-à-LLOD standardisation activities are reported in detail for the first year of the project in the deliverable D5.1 “Report on Vocabularies for Interoperable Language Resources and Services”. From year 2 on they will be reported in the corresponding versions of the deliverable for task 5.4: D5.4.2 and D5.4.3.

A second type of activities consisted in organizing LLOD-specific hackathons or datathons and in contributing to spring and summer schools, complementing thus the T6.1 dissemination activities (see D6.1.1) with in-depth training activities.

A third type of community building efforts consisted of presenting the methodologies and results of Prêt-à-LLOD in industry events, especially those relevant to the WP4 use cases. Concerning the Government use case, Prêt-à-LLOD also contributed to a specific workshop organized in the context of the Connecting European Facilities (CEF) activities, as well as to an event organized by the European Publication Office.

Finally, Prêt-à-LLOD is engaged in cooperation with the other projects resulting from the call “ICT-29-2018: A multilingual Next Generation Internet”.

The following sections will describe in detail the activities of the project reflecting the points made above, as well as the first “Innovation” and “Sustainability” events organized by
Prêt-à-LLOD