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

• Musicology
• Psycholinguistics

Max Planck Digital Library

Service-Oriented Architecture

Extensible Markup Language

Text Encoding Initiative

Hypertext Markup Language

Global Release Identifier