Trip Report: TextGrid Summit

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[edit]

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)