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[edit]

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:

Workflow Editor
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
Text-Image-Link Editor
Project- and Usermanagement