Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun (DRG)

The Development of the Digital Dictionary of the Romansh of the Grisons

DRG

Project Management: Institut dal Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun (IDRG) · Universität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)

Sponsors: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (SAGW)

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Contact person (TCDH): Dr Thomas Burch

Research Area: Software Systems and Research Infrastructure, Digital Edition and Lexicography

Keywords: Retro Digitization, TUSTEP

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Website of the Project: DRG online

The DRG is the largest encyclopedia on Romansh of the Grisons, a Romansh language threatened with extinction, which is only alive today in the Swiss canton of Grisons. Founded in Chur in 1904 by the Societad Retorumantscha and the Indo-Europeanist Robert von Planta, the dictionary covers the entire Romansh vocabulary with all its dialects that has been handed down since the 16th century. The aim of the project is to create the digital dictionary of Romansh of the Grisons.

The TCDH is implementing the retro-digitization of the 13 volumes published so far with an external service provider in China and is performing the XML labeling of the dictionary articles on site in Trier, in accordance with the international TEI standards. This created the basis for making the DRG freely available as an online dictionary and linking it to other dictionaries on the Internet. A Romansh television team accompanied the work for a documentary on the Romansh dialect dictionary and shot on 02.02.2017 at the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH). A 25-minute documentary 2018 was broadcast on RTR to match the online DRG.

Open Dictionary

Topics

Neural Networks

Data Retrieval

Structures in terms of content and logic are developed formally and modeled independently of the system in data collections via computer-aided methods.

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Developing Software Systems

The software systems we develop together with humanities and cultural scholars are ergonomic and goal-oriented solutions to support individual and dynamic research projects effectively.

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Digital Lexicography

Via the digital merging of several dictionaries, comprehensive searches can be easily achieved.

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Full Text Digitization

High-quality full-text digitization in form of a diplomatic copy is a decisive requirement in order to store basic works in databases and, thus, to make them searchable and connectable.

Technological concepts

Implementing Research Projects Digitally

We model text data and multimedia objects, apply our tools and establish procedures, design websites and ensure sustainable research data management.

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Managing Research Data

You can achieve your research goals with professional data management.

Network

Networked Research

We rely on scientific cooperation and targeted network building in international research associations.

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Open Science

Open Access, Open Source, Open Data as well as other terms represent a research sector with transparent approaches and freely available results.

Project management

Project Management

We consider our work processes to be an interface between technical expertise, knowledge-based services and humanities research in the range of Digital Humanities.

Data preparation

XML / Web-Technologies

We consistently use generally accepted methods for the modeling, development and transformation of information.