Göttingen, e-Humanities Abschlußworkshop 22.01.2009

(see also ​official page)

• Heike Neuroth
  • There are already two journals in Germany that publish research data very quickly.
• Fotis Jannidis
  • Road map:
    • more digitalization facilities
    • archive for research data
    • lack of standards in humanities (even after 25 years of TEI)
    • generic software
    • catalogue of the most important things
    • platform for services
  • Question: who should take care of storage? Libraries, archives, MPG, something new?
• Panel discussion
  • Integration of IT into humanities:
    • IT is expensive and needs trained people
    • Hard to find IT experts to work in such projects, because the industry pays better.
• Bottom line
  • There is still much work to do, before projects like TextGrid and DARIAH can be in full bloom. This is due to the fact that
    • there is no real infrastructure for working with large bodies of data
    • there are few standards in the humanites (even after 25 years of TEI)
    • IT knowledge is expensive and the industry offers better jobs