German Inscriptions Online
The Inscriptions of the German-Speaking Area in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Project Management: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz · Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste · Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen · Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
Project Participants: Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde an der Universität Mainz e.V. · Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
Sponsors: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
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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: Inscriptions online
The aim of the "German Inscriptions Online" (DIO) project is the digitization and online provision of the entire inscription volumes of the DI series. As part of the interacademic project “Die Deutschen Inschriften” (DI), the inscription texts that have been preserved and handed down in transcripts from the early Middle Ages to the middle of the 17th century from Germany, Austria and South Tyrol are being recorded and critically edited in DI volumes. Six German academies and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have set up their own inscription work centers, each of which is responsible for clearly defined regions that are oriented towards national borders.
The TCDH is responsible for the markup of the inscriptions in XML
The Competence Center provided the volumes recorded in the double-keying process with a fundamentally structural award, thus enabling further editorial and technical processing for the online access to the DI volumes by the Mainz office. Part of this work was the development of a Java program by Martin Sievers, which was used to convert text files and prepare them for further processing.
Topics
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.
Digital Editions
Digital editions offer a wide range of options for processing sources scientifically and making them accessible in open access.
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.
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.