Projects in the TextGrid Repository
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The project seeks to create a digital annotation platform for one of the most important works of German-Jewish philosophy: Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption. The platform is to serve as an innovative tool for understanding the special manner in which Rosenzweig interweaves textual sources from diverse philosophical, religious, and literary traditions in the course of presenting the overarching vision of his book, and thereby for illuminating the broader German-Jewish reference culture of which Rosenzweig was a part. Aim is to create a digital annotation platform that: 1) enables side-by-side juxtaposition of the Star and its cited works; 2) facilitates the possibility for collaborative annotation to the registered community of Rosenzweig scholars; 3) produces a knowledge graph that makes use of Wikidata and displays the conceptual and cultural foci of Rosenzweig’s thought; and 4) enables flexibility and sustainability with an eye to the long-term viability of the platform from a technical and scientific perspective.
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This project involves encoding the Spanish Bible in TEI. The main focus is on structure (chapters, verses and pericopes), entities (places, people and groups), and communication (who communicates with whom and how).
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The Bildungsroman Corpus is a resource on German-language education and development novels published from the mid-18th century until the beginning of the 21st century. It includes metadata on 220 novels, as well as 126 full texts. The corpus was compiled based on secondary literature and incorporates the Backfischroman (or "teenage girl novel") genre a subcategory of the Bildungsroman.
The TextGrid Repository
The TextGrid Repository is a long-term archive for humanities research data. It provides an extensive, searchable, and reusable repository of texts and images. Aligned with the principles of Open Access and FAIR, the TextGrid Repository was awarded the CoreTrustSeal in 2020. For researchers, the TextGrid Repository offers a sustainable, durable, and secure way to publish their research data in a citable manner and to describe it in an understandable way through required metadata. Read more about sustainability, FAIR and Open Access in the Mission Statement of the TextGrid Repository.
The vast majority of the texts are XML/TEI encoded in addition to the plain text format, allowing for diverse reuse. The repository was established with the acquisition of the Digital Library and is continually evolving based on the TextGrid Community. Through numerous edition projects, which are created in the virtual research environment of the TextGrid Laboratory, manuscripts (images) as well as transcriptions (XML/TEI encoded text data) are available (such as the the Library of Neology or the project on German-French travel correspondence ARCHITRAVE).
Accordingly, the content is partly project-specific and is growing over time. The basis is an extensive corpus of world literature from the beginning of the history of printed books to the 20th century, consisting of texts by around 600 authors: the TextGrid Digital Library contains world literature written or translated in German. Nevertheless, the TextGrid Repository has no language restriction and foreign language texts are published here depending on the project context.
In addition to the advanced search, the content of the TextGrid Repository is also explorable by filtering by author, by genre, by file type, and by project.
All published content is open-access, and should be referenced as usual according to the citation suggestion provided in each case. The TextGrid Repository offers the possibility to compile individual collections via the shelf function. These can be downloaded collectively in XML or TXT formats or examined directly with a range of digital tools.
Publish Your Own Data
Would you like to publish your own TEI documents or images in the TextGrid Repository? We are happy to help you. You can find more information here.