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.
Extending LAUDATIO
The basis for this is a multi-layered indexing based on metadata. 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.rn.
Functionally, another development focus is on the (greater) integration of standard data and ontologies for describing and identifying entities (including people, works, places) and on the implementation of display options for plain text and XML-based data. This approach enables relevance-based searches and targeted reuse of the processed research data.
The Team
PIs
- Malte Dreyer, Computer- und Medienservice, HU Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann, Digital History, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, HU Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Anke Lüdeling, Korpuslinguistik und Morphologie, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, HU Berlin
Researchers and Student Assistants
- Leo Born, Researcher, Computer- und Medienservice, HU Berlin
- Toska Brandl, Student Assistant, Korpuslinguistik und Morphologie, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, HU Berlin
- Tsimafei Luzan, Student Assistant, Digital History, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, HU Berlin
- Paula Rebecca Schreiber, Researcher, Korpuslinguistik und Morphologie, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, HU Berlin
- Isabell Trilling, Researcher, Digital History, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, HU Berlin
Project Team
- Maik Bierwirth, Computer- und Medienservice, HU Berlin
- Rolf Guescini, Development and Technical Support LAUDATIO, Computer- und Medienservice, HU Berlin
- Thomas Krause, Developer of ANNIS and annatto, Korpuslinguistik und Morphologie, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, HU Berlin
- Carolin Odebrecht, Developer of the metadata model, Korpuslinguistik und Morphologie, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, HU Berlin
- Esra Uyanık, Korpuslinguistik und Morphologie, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, HU Berlin