New publication: Harmonising Language Data – Standards for Linguistic Resources
On 15 December 2025, the book
Bański, Piotr; Heid, Ulrich; Herzberg, Laura (eds.): Harmonising language data: Standards for linguistic resources
was published by De Gruyter.
The work is a collaborative effort by the Text+ community and offers a comprehensive overview of standards that are crucial for the sustainable use and interoperability of language-related data. Topics covered include:
- Metadata standards for research data
- Annotation and exchange formats for text, speech and multimodal resources
- Persistent identifiers and their role in long-term archiving
The book is aimed at researchers, developers and anyone who works with linguistic resources, and shows how standardisation strengthens collaboration and reusability in science.
Importantly, the book is available open access and can be downloaded free of charge.