LiRI is the technical center of CLARIN-CH, the Swiss node of CLARIN (short for Common Language Resources and Language Technology, see LiRI's CLARIN registry entry). 

CLARIN is a pan-European digital infrastructure that provides easy and sustainable access to a wide range of language data and tools. In Switzerland, CLARIN-CH addresses the needs of Swiss researchers working with language data when it comes to collecting, protecting, sharing and preserving research data in the context of Open Science and FAIR principles, providing support and fostering collaboration.

The CLARIN-CH ecosystem consists of the following components:

• CLARIN-CH Consortium of Swiss Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
• CLARIN-CH Coordination Office, hosted by LiRI
• LiRI, the UZH technology platform for linguistic research providing services and expertise that cover every stage of a research project's life cycle
• LaRS - the FAIR-compliant Language Repository of Switzerland in collaboration with SWISSUbase
• ZHAW Digital Discourse Lab - providing data, tools and expertise for multilingual discourse analysis