An Enhanced Federated Content Search Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Abstract

The general idea and implementation of a federated search infrastructure component that allows querying both full text resources and their linguistic annotations is a prominent part of the CLARIN project and is closely interconnected with the other components of its decentralised European-scale research data infrastructure. Since its beginnings, the Federated Content Search (FCS) has been continuously improved and by now fulfils its original goals that were formulated more than 12 years ago. During the last years, development of the FCS has accelerated massively with newly formulated application scenarios, newly opened up user groups and newly developed tools and user interfaces. This paper gives a summary of the developments of recent years and the topics that are currently being worked on. In addition to the further development of existing modules, this includes in particular the consideration and implementation of new requirements reflecting a rapidly evolving research infrastructure landscape.