TextGrid

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TextGrid

TextGridLab 2.0.3 under Windows 7
TextGridLab 2.0.3 under Windows 7
Basic data

developer TextGrid
Publishing year 2011
Current  version 3.2.0
(May 20, 2016)
operating system GNU / Linux , macOS , Windows
programming language Java
category Edition science
License LGPL 3
German speaking Yes
www.textgrid.de

TextGrid is a research association with the aim of creating a virtual research environment for humanities and cultural scholars. Modern information technology should be made usable for digital edition projects. The project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for nine years until May 2015 . TextGrid is a project by D-Grid GmbH and part of WissGrid .

Project phases

Work on TextGrid started in February 2006. In the first phase of the project until May 2009, the development of the software began, creating the infrastructure for the virtual research environment. In the following funding phase (June 2009 – May 2012) the system was ready for production and the user base was expanded. The aim of the third funding phase (June 2012 – May 2015) with the subtitle “Institutionalization of a virtual research environment in the humanities” was the transfer to continuous operation that is financially, legally and technically secure.

The following institutions were involved in the third project phase:

software

With the software developed by TextGrid, humanities and cultural scholars can work alone or together on text-based research data. An infrastructure is available for this, which primarily consists of two components:

  • The TextGrid Repository is a specialist archive in which digital research data can be stored. It is intended to ensure their long-term availability and accessibility as well as the best possible networking among scientists.
  • The TextGrid Laboratory is the client software of the virtual research environment and combines various services and tools in one intuitive user interface. The TextGridLab can be expanded and is therefore of interest to scientists from various disciplines. It is available for download for all common operating systems.

additional offers

TextGrid users have the opportunity to get in touch with developers and other parties involved. Open mailing lists are available for this purpose. User meetings are also held at regular intervals. Training courses and workshops are also offered.

User projects

There are now a large number of edition projects that work with TextGrid or have worked in recent years, for example:

  • The Theodor Fontane office at the Georg August University of Göttingen is working on a genetically critical and annotated hybrid edition of the writer's notebooks.
  • The edition project "Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - online" of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen will make more than 1,000 publications by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) accessible in electronic form and identify the objects from Blumenbach's collections mentioned therein and make them available digitally. One of the aims of the project is to demonstrate the interdependence of collection and research dynamics. The source situation for this is particularly favorable because of the continuity of university collecting in Göttingen: Much of what Blumenbach has compiled and investigated is still detectable - even if it is scattered - and is part of various collections at the University of Göttingen. In many cases, the documents on the origin and history of the objects are still available. The online edition will contain digital facsimilia and TEI-coded versions of the texts as well as high-resolution photographs, stereoscopic recordings and 3D animations of the objects. The result is a text edition with images of a scope and quality that would not be achievable in printed editions. In the texts, 16 formal and content-related features are coded according to TEI and thus made accessible for evaluation with digital tools. Identifications, metadata, data on provenance and ownership history are supplied to the objects, which can be searched independently of the texts according to area of ​​origin, donors, time periods and scientific classifications. In this way you create a new type of access to Blumenbach's world of thought from the side of the concrete collection objects. By comparing the objects mentioned by Blumenbach in his publications with the - appropriately developed - other collection material from his time, it will also be possible to analyze how Blumenbach used the material available to him, what choices he made, what he left out, what he used for kept conspicuous and what he neglected. Within the scope of these tasks, the project "Johann Friedrich Blumenbach -online" of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen was a cooperative project partner (with staff positions) in "TextGrid" from 2010 to 2015.
  • The medieval manuscripts from the St. Matthias Benedictine Abbey in Trier are being digitized by the "St. Matthias Virtual Scriptorium" project.
  • The project text database and dictionary of classical Maya (North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts: University of Bonn) digitally makes the epigraphic and object-historical content of all hieroglyphic texts from the 3rd century BC accessible. Until the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th. On the basis of this data, both a database and a comprehensive dictionary of the classical Mayan language will be created and published.

literature

  • TextGrid. In: Heike Neuroth, Martina Kerzel, Wolfgang Gentzsch (eds.): The D-Grid Initiative . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-940344-01-4 , pp. 64-66 ( online ).
  • Heike Neuroth, Felix Lohmeier, Kathleen Marie Smith: TextGrid. Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities. In: The International Journal of Digital Curation. 6, No. 2, 2011, ISSN  1746-8256 , pp. 222-231 ( online ).
  • Heike Neuroth, Andrea Rapp, Sibylle Söring (eds.): TextGrid: From the community - for the community. A virtual research environment for the humanities. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2015. ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Download and installation . Information on the TextGrid website. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ TextGrid: Institutionalization of a Virtual Research Environment in the Humanities (PDF; 387 KB) . Application for the third funding phase of TextGrid. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ TextGrid Support - online help: online help, manual, mailing list . Further information on the TextGrid website. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ Genetic-critical and annotated hybrid edition of Theodor Fontane's notebooks based on a virtual research environment . Edited by Gabriele Radecke . Website of the Theodor Fontane Notebook Project. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - online . Blumenbach project website. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ St. Matthias virtual scriptorium . Website of the St. Matthias Project. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  7. ^ Text database and dictionary of Classical Maya . Website of the TWKM project. Retrieved March 30, 2015.