Contribute a grammar

This page describes how to contribute a grammar to the European Language Grid.

Before you start

  • Please make sure that the grammar you want to contribute complies with our terms of use.

  • Please make sure you have registered and been assigned the provider role.

  • For this release, you can provide the data files of the grammar

    • at a remote URL and include this information in the relevant metadata element (accessLocation), or

    • if you want us to upload it at the ELG cloud area, contact us through the ELG contact form.

Step 1: create metadata

The first step is to describe your grammar using ELG’s metadata format, ELG-SHARE. Future releases of ELG will include an interactive editor for this. However, for now, you must create an XML file. Refer to the examples below for how to do this.

The elements you need are documented on the following pages:

For more information about ELG-SHARE, see:

At the ELG GitLab, you will find templates (that you can use to create new metadata records) and examples in XML format.

Example: Monolingual computational grammar for a specific domain

Tourism Italian grammar

Published at: https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/#/resource/service/ld/901

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ms:MetadataRecord xmlns="http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/" xmlns:datacite="http://purl.org/spar/datacite/" xmlns:dcat="http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#" xmlns:ms="http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/" xmlns:omtd="http://w3id.org/meta-share/omtd-share/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/ ../../Schema/ELG-SHARE.xsd">
        <ms:MetadataRecordIdentifier ms:MetadataRecordIdentifierScheme="http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/elg">value automatically assigned - leave as is</ms:MetadataRecordIdentifier>
        <ms:metadataCreationDate>2020-10-03</ms:metadataCreationDate>
        <ms:metadataCurator>
                <ms:actorType>Person</ms:actorType>
                <ms:surname xml:lang="en">Smith</ms:surname>
                <ms:givenName xml:lang="en">John</ms:givenName>
                <ms:email>username@someDomain.com</ms:email>
        </ms:metadataCurator>
        <ms:compliesWith>http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/ELG-SHARE</ms:compliesWith>
        <ms:metadataCreator>
                <ms:actorType>Person</ms:actorType>
                <ms:surname xml:lang="en">Smith</ms:surname>
                <ms:givenName xml:lang="en">John</ms:givenName>
                <ms:email>username@someDomain.com</ms:email>
        </ms:metadataCreator>
        <ms:DescribedEntity>
                <ms:LanguageResource>
                        <ms:entityType>LanguageResource</ms:entityType>
                        <ms:resourceName xml:lang="en">Tourism Italian grammar</ms:resourceName>
                        <ms:resourceShortName xml:lang="en">Tour.ita.grm</ms:resourceShortName>
                        <ms:description xml:lang="en">Tourism Italian abnf grammar, manually created. Created within the Portdial project</ms:description>
                        <ms:version>v1.0.0 (automatically assigned)</ms:version>
                        <ms:additionalInfo>
                                <ms:landingPage>https://sites.google.com/site/portdial2</ms:landingPage>
                        </ms:additionalInfo>
                        <ms:additionalInfo>
                                <ms:email>contact@someDomain.com</ms:email>
                        </ms:additionalInfo>
                        <ms:contact>
                                <ms:Person>
                                        <ms:actorType>Person</ms:actorType>
                                        <ms:surname xml:lang="en">Potamianos</ms:surname>
                                        <ms:givenName xml:lang="en">Alex</ms:givenName>
                                        <ms:email>contact@someDomain.com</ms:email>
                                </ms:Person>
                        </ms:contact>
                        <ms:keyword xml:lang="en">languagedescription</ms:keyword>
                        <ms:fundingProject>
                                <ms:projectName xml:lang="en">Portdial</ms:projectName>
                        </ms:fundingProject>
                        <ms:LRSubclass>
                                <ms:LanguageDescription>
                                        <ms:lrType>LanguageDescription</ms:lrType>
                                        <ms:LanguageDescriptionSubclass>
                                                <ms:Grammar>
                                                        <ms:ldSubclassType>Grammar</ms:ldSubclassType>
                                                        <ms:encodingLevel>http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/morphology</ms:encodingLevel>
                                                </ms:Grammar>
                                        </ms:LanguageDescriptionSubclass>
                                        <ms:LanguageDescriptionMediaPart>
                                                <ms:LanguageDescriptionTextPart>
                                                        <ms:ldMediaType>LanguageDescriptionTextPart</ms:ldMediaType>
                                                        <ms:mediaType>http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/text</ms:mediaType>
                                                        <ms:lingualityType>http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/monolingual</ms:lingualityType>
                                                        <ms:language>
                                                                <ms:languageTag>it</ms:languageTag>
                                                                <ms:languageId>it</ms:languageId>
                                                        </ms:language>
                                                        <ms:metalanguage>
                                                                <ms:languageTag>und</ms:languageTag>
                                                                <ms:languageId>und</ms:languageId>
                                                        </ms:metalanguage>
                                                </ms:LanguageDescriptionTextPart>
                                        </ms:LanguageDescriptionMediaPart>
                                        <ms:DatasetDistribution>
                                                <ms:DatasetDistributionForm>http://w3id.org/meta-share/meta-share/downloadable</ms:DatasetDistributionForm>
                                                <ms:accessLocation>http://accessURL</ms:accessLocation>
                                                <ms:licenceTerms>
                                                        <ms:licenceTermsName xml:lang="en">CC-BY-SA-4.0</ms:licenceTermsName>
                                                        <ms:licenceTermsURL>https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.html</ms:licenceTermsURL>
                                                </ms:licenceTerms>
                                        </ms:DatasetDistribution>
                                        <ms:personalDataIncluded>false</ms:personalDataIncluded>
                                        <ms:sensitiveDataIncluded>false</ms:sensitiveDataIncluded>
                                </ms:LanguageDescription>
                        </ms:LRSubclass>
                </ms:LanguageResource>
        </ms:DescribedEntity>
</ms:MetadataRecord>

Step 2: upload

Sign in to ELG, click on the Dashboard and select the “Create item” option as below:

Create item

On the item type selection page, click on “Upload” as below:

Upload icon

Now upload the file you created in Step 1:

Upload metadata XML

If there are any errors in your XML file, these will be shown to you. Fix them and try the upload again. Eventually, a success message will be shown to you and the metadata will be imported into the database.

Step 3: submit for publication

Your metadata record is now accessible via the “my items” page. We will soon make available an interactive editor where you will be able to view and edit the uploaded metadata. For now, on this page, you can select to view it and submit for publication

Actions on my items

Step 4: wait for approval

At this stage, the metadata record is only visible to you and to us, the ELG platform administrators. We will check your contribution and integrate it into the ELG catalogue if everything is in order, and contact you otherwise.