Foreword

My final remark is that, as with any new development, it is important on one side to leave space to the free rise of new ideas and methods inside the collaborative paradigm, but is also important to start organising its future. There must be a bold vision and an international group able to push for it (with both researchers and policy makers involved) and to organise some grand challenge that, via a distribution of efforts and exploiting the sharing trend, involves the collaboration of a consistent portion of our community. Could we envision a large "Language Library" as the beginning of a big Genome project for languages, where the community collectively deposits/creates increasingly rich and multi-layered LRs, enabling a deeper understanding of the complex relations between different annotation layers/language phenomena