Göttingen, TextGrid Summit 21.01.2009

(see also ​official page)

• Tobias Blanke (King's College, London) - With and Beyond Text - Current Practices and Future Possibilities in e-Humanites
  • Introducing the Grid
    • The aim is to connect the ressources being stored by institutions all over Europe. The DARIAH project is going to provide an infrastructure for the preservation of these ressources and to make them digitally available.
• Jens Mittelbach/ Andrea Rapp/ Wolfgang Pempe
  • What is TextGrid? A community of Arts & Humanities. A virtual research infrastructure.
  • People are going to work with the TextGridLab, a tool based on Eclipse with the following features
    • Search
    • XML-Editor
    • Alignment of Image+Text
    • Workflow Editor
    • Creation of new TextGrid object (Fedora)
    • Dictionary search
    • Linking editor (dictionaries, encyclopedias)
    • Lemmatizer/ POS
  • New features can be integrated into the Lab by simply writing Plugins.
  • Questions:
    • Scalability? - Not yet tested
    • Usability? - Tests running
    • Stability of links? - The links to dictionaries seem to be stable.
• Edirom (Digital musicology)
• Peter Wittenburg - Use Case Linguistics
  • Annotation of multimodal sources with tools from the MPI Psycholinguistics (ELAN, IMDI, LAMUS).
  • integration into TextGrid: LMF (lexicon markup), LEXUS (web application).
• Susan Schreibman
  • NINES - Networked Infrastructure for 19th Century Electronic Scholarship