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This chapter describes a collaborative project between e-scientists and humanists working to create an online repository of linguistic data sets and tools. Corpora, dictionaries, and a thesaurus are brought together to enable a new method of research. It combines our most advanced knowledge in both computing and linguistic research techniques.Keywords: online repository, corpora, dictionaries, thesaurus, Enroller, interoperability, collaborationLanguage scholars make use of a variety of language resources to conduct their research. Such resources include dictionaries, thesauri, corpora, audio and video collections. At present most of these resources are distributed, non-interoperable, and licence-protected. As a result researchers typically conduct their research through direct access to independent data sets using multiple browser windows and multiple authorisations. This approach results in non-scalable and less productive research, and can lead to incomplete or non-verifiable results. The JlSC-funded project, An Enhanced Repository for Language and Literature Researchers (Enroller) addressed these issues through development of a targeted web-based research environment.1 The project ran from 2009 to 2011 and continues to add data sets and enable corpus-based research.Humanities scholars are creating a growing amount of digital data. We are told that Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research projects which produce some kind of digital output account for half their funding budget.2 Digital data relevant to linguistic research are also produced outside Higher Education, for example dictionaries published by commercial companies and individual scholars' collections of texts, often from specific geographical areas. This is also the case for Scots, Scottish, and English materials. The Enroller project hypothesis was that bringing related data sets together in one online resource gateway - aggregating them - brings major benefits to researchers and makes better use of the national funding which helps us to create data sets.ChallengesThere are challenges in using digital data for research. Reports have shown that awareness and use of digital resources in the arts and humanities is low,3 but opinions sought during conferences and workshops show that there is a great interest in learning more about advanced computing technologies and in sharing resources. Our participation in conferences and in meetings such as the SCOTS Symposium and the Enroller Colloquia in Glasgow has enabled us to identify data sets and functional requirements of interest to our linguistic colleagues and the challenges involved for them.4Multiple identitiesResearchers typically conduct their research through direct access to independent data sets using multiple browser windows and multiple authorisations requiring multiple identifiers and passwords to be remembered. At a practical level it is tedious and it can be discouraging to have to remember different passwords and to register to obtain permissions for many resources. We need methods of logging on and being recognised as bona fide researchers with one permanent (or at least long-lasting) identifier and password. The Enroller e-science team members endeavoured to find a solution to this problem.Hidden dataMany data sets are held by individual scholars and are inaccessible to the community. We need to create systems which will allow the easy uploading of data to online platforms by resource creators who do not have the necessary programming skills or computing infrastructure to publish their data themselves. Data can be given to the Oxford Text Archive, but the OTA provides a limited search facility and does not have easily useable online access.5Many data sets are deposited in national archives such as the OTA or local archives but are not known and therefore not used by the community. We need to create resource gateways which contain data sets and functions that scholars in particular fields want and that are easy for them to find. …

Enroller: An Experiment in Aggregating Resources