Working Group for Open Data in Linguistics: Status Quo and Perspectives

Since its formation in 2010, the Open Linguistics Working Group (OWLG) has been steadily growing and the direction the working group is heading has been clarified (although a number of issues remain open). We concentrated on the identification of goals and directions to pursue, and in this paper, we summarize results of this process, and talk about the current status of this working group as well as the main challenges and problems, we have identified so far. 1 Discussion results An important result of our discussion are the seven points described in the next section, which define the purpose of the working group. In the next section, we summarize four major problems and challenges of the work with linguistic data. Such problems will become a primary topic of the Working Group. Thereafter, we give an overview of the current status and activities of the group and provide some suggestions for how to get involved.