Digitization of the Ordbog over det Danske Sprog (ODS)
Digitization of the Historical Danish Dictionaries from 1700 to around 1950
Project Management: Gesellschaft für dänische Sprache und Literatur [Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab (DSL)], Kopenhagen
Project Participants: Universität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)
Sponsors: Kulturministeriet/Kultusministerium, Kopenhagen, Carlsbergfondet/Carlsberg-Stiftung, Kopenhagen
Running time: -
Contact person (TCDH): Dr Thomas Burch
Research Area: Software Systems and Research Infrastructure, Digital Edition and Lexicography
Keywords: Retro Digitization, TUSTEP
Website of the Project: Dictionary of the Danish Language
Between autumn 2004 and spring 2005 the TCDH organized the retrospective digitization of the “Ordbog over det danske Sprog” (ODS).
ODS is a historical dictionary. It was published in 28 volumes in 1918-46 and has since been supplied with 5 additional volumes. The dictionary includes the Danish lexicon from 1700 to around 1950. A digital version has been available on the Internet since 2005, but it is not yet complete. The 5 additional volumes are not available and search facilities are still being improved.
The dictionary, which comprises 27 volumes and a volume of sources, was recorded in cooperation with the Trier Center for Digital Humanities and the Chinese recording office TQY DoubleKey in Nanjing using the double-keying process. The particular challenge was the extremely complex typeface and the very heterogeneous orthography of the ODS.
Topics
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.
Digital Lexicography
Via the digital merging of several dictionaries, comprehensive searches can be easily achieved.
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.
Historical Manuscript and Book Studies
Virtual reconstructions and research of medieval and modern manuscripts and historical library holdings.
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.
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
We consider our work processes to be an interface between technical expertise, knowledge-based services and humanities research in the range of Digital Humanities.
Typography
The TCDH can look back on many years of experience in the field of typography - for print and for publication on the Internet.
XML / Web-Technologies
We consistently use generally accepted methods for the modeling, development and transformation of information.