Abstract
This paper presents the DI-ÖSS project, a local digital infrastructure initiative for South Tyrol, which aims at connecting institutions and organizations that are working with language data. It shall serve to facilitate and increase data exchange, joint efforts in processing and exploiting data and the overall increase of synergies, and thus links to big European infrastructure initiatives. However, while sharing the overall objectives to foster standardization and increase efficiency and sustainability, on the implementation level a local initiative faces a different set of challenges. It aims to involve institutions which are less familiar with the logic of infrastructure and have less experience and fewer resources to deal with technical matters in a systematic way. The paper will describe how DI- ¨OSS addresses the needs for digital language infrastructure on a local level; lay out the course of action; and depict the targeted mid- and long-term outputs of the project.