The Dutch HLT Agency (TST-Centrale – Centrale voor Taal- en Spraaktechnologie) is the Dutch-Flemish agency for management, maintenance and distribution of Dutch digital language resources. Most resources are government-funded. The HLT Agency makes them available for education, research and development.

Information on the HLT products managed by the HLT Agency can be found under Producten in the main menu.

The Dutch HLT Agency is an initiative of the Dutch Language Union (NTU – Nederlandse Taalunie) and was set up in 2004. The HLT Agency is financed by the NTU and located at the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL – Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie).

Download the TST-Centrale brochure (pdf) in English.

Tasks

Acquisition:

• Acquisition of language resources, partly from funding programmes
• Setting up of service level agreements
• Drawing up and issuing of end user and data provider licenses

Management & Maintenance:

• Provision of data storage, backup and version control
• Filing of documentation and keeping it up-to-date
• Data conversion to standard formats
• Correction of the data
• Addition of metadata to products

Supply:

• Online product catalogue
• Hosting of web applications
• Online and offline distribution (CD, DVD, hard disk)

Service:

• Service desk for support and advice
• Facilitation of web courses, workshops and guest lectures
• Knowledge management