The Language Data Across Disciplines (LaDaD)

The Language Data Across Disciplines project aims to strengthen Open Research Data (ORD) practices in Switzerland for all researchers working with language data. By bridging disciplinary boundaries, LaDaD promotes FAIR-aligned, ethical, and sustainable approaches to collecting, processing, analyzing, sharing, and preserving language data.

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Description

LaDaD is a one-year ORD project (January-December 2026) co-funded through swissuniversities Open Science II programme that brings together researchers and data stewards across Switzerland who rely on language data — whether in medicine, business, finance, journalism, history, theology, law, or other disciplines.

The project evaluates current skills and practices related to handling language data, identifies gaps in knowledge, and develops tailored open training materials following the Open-by-design approach.

Combining community building with empirical assessment, the project integrates national surveys, case studies, and focus groups to understand real-world practices, challenges, and expectations. It then transforms these insights into practical resources that support both independent learning and teaching.

LaDaD also highlights how NLP and data-driven methods can complement qualitative approaches and open new research perspectives.

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Projectlead

Prof. Dr. Julia Krasselt

Project team

Maike Fischer, Dr. Elsa Liste Lamas, Dr. Maren Runte

Project partners

Universität Zürich UZH; CLARIN-CH – Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure Switzerland; Università della Svizzera italiana USI / Competence Center in Digital Law; Universität Bern / Universitätsbibliothek

Project status

ongoing, started 01/2026

Institute/Centre

Institute of Language Competence (ILC)

Funding partner

Federal government

Project budget

336'900 CHF