Regina Below and Damien Delforge will present the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT, www.emdat.be), a global database on the impact of disasters, developed and maintained by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the Institute for Research on Health and Society (IRSS) at UCLouvain. The presentation will trace the history of the project, launched in 1988, alongside the evolution of international disaster risk management frameworks since then—from an approach focused on the reactive dimensions of relief and preparedness toward a more integrated and transdisciplinary management of contemporary risks. This trajectory is reflected in particular in the growing diversification of EM-DAT’s user base and the scientific publications that draw on the database, with applications across various social science disciplines, such as economics (e.g., https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548166241229319) and political science (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4855028).

Magali Paquot will present the possibilities offered by CLARIN, a European research infrastructure dedicated to textual data and language technologies for the humanities and social sciences. The presentation will focus in particular on the Virtual Language Observatory (VLO), which allows users to locate numerous linguistic resources and tools, and the Resource Families, which organize corpora, lexical resources, and tools by major themes (for example: parliamentary corpora, sign languages; glossaries, large language models; named entity recognition; and sentiment analysis). She will then describe the role of CLARIN centers and Knowledge Centers in sharing expertise, developing best practices, and promoting the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). The session will conclude with a review of our experience over three years of participation in the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Learner Corpora.