TextPloring:
Interdisciplinary Exploration and Reuse of Research Data
TextPloring is a DFG project demonstrating metadata-driven access to research data across disciplines, aiming to overcome existing challenges in interdisciplinary data reuse. We are expanding LAUDATIO, a research data repository of annotated corpora established in historical linguistics, for use in historical studies.
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Aim
The aim of the TextPloring project is to expand the LAUDATIO repository, which is already well established in historical linguistics, so that other humanities disciplines can also use it for the comprehensive indexing and (re)use of historical text sources. Based on the specific requirements of historical studies, the originally subject-specific repository and its tools are being expanded to accommodate an interdisciplinary perspective and methodology.
This closes an infrastructural gap, as currently established generic humanities repositories are not designed to map and describe the diversity of historical text corpora in such a way that research data can be found systematically at the annotation, source genre, and content levels. The TextPloring project aims to enable a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of text data.
Background: LAUDATIO
LAUDATIO – Long-term Access and Usage of Deeply Annotated Information – aims to build an open access research data repository for historical linguistic data with respect to the above mentioned requirements of historical corpus linguistics. For the access and (re-)use of historical linguistic data the LAUDATIO repository uses a flexible and appropriate documentation schema with a subset of TEI customized by TEI ODD.
While the metadata available in LAUDATIO to date mainly comprises project- and language-related information, the metadata schema needs to be expanded to include contextual information—such as spatial, temporal, and personal information, as well as content-related and thematic information—for historical research.
Funded by DFG (project number 536177165) • 2025-2027