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.