Difference between revisions of "Trip Report: TextGrid Summit"

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Event: TextGrid Summit

Göttingen, 21.-22. January 2009

Wednesday, 21 January: Symposium with international speakers, TextGrid demo, use cases, and discussion of prospects in the e-Humnanities (conference language: English)
Thursday, 22 January: Developers' Workshop and Hands-On-Session

Participants MPDL: Heike, Melanie, Kristina

For details, please check the Agenda for the Symposium.

Presentation of the TextGrid beta version
TextGrid is the first German grid compution project for the eHumanities
Goal of the project:
- to develop a virtual research infrastructure (based on distributed resources)
- to develop generic grid services, which can also be used by other grid projects
The basis is to modulate a service orientated infrastructure (SOA) with user interfaces and the usage of standards when ever that's possible.
Live demonstration of the TextGrid Lab:
Different tools are available:

for the creation of transcriptions based on different schemes (e.g. TEI)

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 == TextGrid: Introduction and Overview ==
+* Presentation of the TextGrid beta version
+* TextGrid is the first German grid compution project for the eHumanities
+* Goal of the project:
+** to develop a virtual research infrastructure (based on distributed resources)
+** to develop generic grid services, which can also be used by other grid projects
+* The basis is to modulate a service orientated infrastructure (SOA) with user interfaces and the usage of standards when ever that's possible.
+* Live demonstration of the TextGrid Lab:
+*: Different tools are available:
+::# Workflow Editor
+::# XML Editor
+::: for the creation of transcriptions based on different schemes (e.g. TEI)
+::# Project- and Usermanagement
 == TextGrid: TextGrid Tools and Services ==