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.

TextGrid: Introduction and Overview

• Presentation of the TextGrid beta version
• TextGrid is the first German grid computing 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:

1. Workflow Editor
2. XML Editor
   • for the creation of transcriptions based on different schemes (e.g. TEI)
   • links the transcription (text) with the corresponding scan (image) and displays both representations next to each other
3. Text-Image-Link Editor
   • allows to link a selected part of a scan with the corresponding xml code
4. Project and User Management
5. Collation Tool
   • front end for the end user
   • next to the scans, the transcriptions will be displayed in HTML (with all connections displayed as links)

• (Newly created) data will be stored in the grid, but can also be kept locally

TextGrid: TextGrid Tools and Services

• Available services:
  1. Dictionary services
     • several dictionaries are integrated and searchable
  2. Lemmanizer
     • words can be linked directly with the corresponding entry in an integrated dictionary
  3. Search within the Grid for metadata and fulltextes
• TextGrid is a D-Grid project (D-Grid: creates a huge grid infrastructure of data in Germany)
• The aim of TextGrid is the building of a community which will put their data in TextGrid, work with the provided tools and develop new tools. They do not offer an out of the box solution

Use Cases

1. Musicology

Daniel Röwenstrunk (University Paderborn)

2. Psycholinguistics

Peter Wittenburg (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics)

• Presentation of two tool which are used by the institute:

1. Lexica
   • uses LMF (Lexical Markup Framework, standard for lexicas)
   • local tool
2. ELAN tool for annotated media (videos)
   • background: scientists shoot videos about rare cultures
   • webbased

• Both tools shall be integrated into TextGrid

Max Planck Digital Library

Service-Oriented Architecture

Extensible Markup Language

Text Encoding Initiative

Hypertext Markup Language

Global Release Identifier