Competence center for electronic cataloging and publication processes in the humanities
| Competence center for electronic cataloging and publication processes in the humanities Trier | |
|---|---|
| Carrier: | University of Trier , Department II |
| Type of research: | EDP-based publication |
| Management: | Claudine Moulin |
| Homepage: | http://www.kompetenzzentrum.uni-trier.de/ |
The competence center for electronic cataloging and publication processes in the humanities is a scientific institution at the University of Trier . The competence center carries out all the work steps necessary to create an EDP-based publication. This includes the retro-digitization of older works including reprinting up to the publication of new basic works including the IT infrastructure. Among other things, the data acquisition, the conversion of legacy data, the document analysis, the SGML-compliant labeling, the publication on CD-ROM, on the Internet or in books, the development of graphical user interfaces, the elaboration of networked structures, the support of search strategies and the Development of working environments, also for spatially distributed projects with several workplaces.
history
On April 1, 1998, the competence center “New Forms of Publication and Indexing Processes for Fundamental Humanities” was established at Trier University and funded until December 31, 1999 with funds from the Central Chapter 1516. On the initiative of the Department of Older German Philology at the University of Trier in conjunction with the Academy of Sciences and Literature , the application for the establishment of a competence center was drawn up and, together with various institutions and central facilities at and in the University of Trier, the Center for Scientific Electronic Publishing , the university library and the university computer center. Since July 1, 2000, this competence center has been expanded and institutionalized through the funding of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate from funds from the central chapter 1512 as a “competence center for electronic cataloging and publication processes in the humanities”. It will continue to be supported by the above-mentioned institutions.
Core projects
The core projects of the competence center include:
- Dictionary network
- German dictionary by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm on CD-ROM and on the Internet
- Middle High German dictionaries on CD-ROM and on the Internet
- Digital network of dictionaries of German-speaking dialects
- LexicoLux - Development and networking of lexicographical knowledge about Luxembourgish
- Digitization of the Goethe dictionary
- Digitization of the 'corpus of old German original documents up to the year 1300'
- Digitization of the Weimar edition of Goethe's works
- Virtual scriptorium St. Matthias
- Digitization of the Biblicum Repertory
- Multimedia teaching and learning materials for an introduction to historical linguistics
- Image and text databases in art history
- Indexes on Latin Literature of the Renaissance
Cooperation projects
In addition, the competence center cooperates with many scientific facilities and institutes. The following projects have emerged from these collaborations:
- Digitization of Luxembourgish dictionaries
- Retrospective digitization and electronic publication of the Lessico Etimologico Italiano (LEI)
- Digitization of the Uyghur dictionary
- Animals in Medieval Literature - An Interdisciplinary Lexicon
- Heinrich Heine Portal , an integrated information system
- Grabbe portal
- Interactions between linguistic and bioinformatics procedures, methods and algorithms
- Hartmann von Aue portal
- Cusanus portal: Electronic publication of the Opera Omnia of Nikolaus von Kues with Cusanus lexicon, translations and bibliography on the Internet
- Digitization of Arno Peters ' synchronized optical world history
- Information network on the history of the Rhine-Maas area
- Research network and database system - a network-based working platform in the SFB 600 (FuD)
- TextGrid
- Digital Middle High German text archive
- Internet-based article editing system for the production and publication of dictionaries in decentralized workplaces (TAReS)
- Alberti Magni Opera Omnia on CD-ROM
- Corpus of the Minoan and Mycenaean seals
- Hittite research
- Workspace for Collaborative Editing
- XML print
- European History Online , a website with scholarly contributions on European history