TextGrid Summit
At the TextGrid Summit we will present our Virtual Research Environment for text scientists and other specialists in the arts and humanities.
International initiatives and the emerging German e-Humanities infrastructure will be discussed. You will learn how TextGrid works practically and technologically and you will be able get acquainted with developing TextGrid tools and services in a Developers' Workshop.
The TextGrid Summit takes place on January 21 and 22 at Göttingen State and University Library:
- 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
On Thursday, 22 January, there will also take place a workshop completing the e-Humanities project "Conception of an e-Humanities Research Infrastructure for Germany" (DFG). At this workshop, the wider framework of a German e-Humanities environment and the integration of projects like TextGrid will be discussed. To the website of the e-Humanities workshop.
Event Review
About 130 academics from several European countries attended the TextGrid Summit held on 21 - 22 January. Academic researchers from the humanities and information scientists discussed the virtual research environment developed by the project partners and TextGrid's prospects.
Tobias Blanke (King's College London) and Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin) shared their experiences in building infrastructures for the e-Humanities in the UK and Ireland and discussed possible connections with the TextGrid infrastructure.
The demonstration of the TextGridLab - a comprehensive research environment with various tools for researchers who work with texts - was highly appreciated by the audience. The discussion which followed addressed the integration of functionalities for specific research topics, for which TextGrid is well-suited since it is based on open standards.
Use cases in the field of musicology and psycholinguistics were presented by Daniel Röwenstrunk (Edirom) and Peter Wittenburg (MPI for Psycholinguistics).
At the developer workshop on 22 January, 20 participants with IT expertise learned about TextGrid concepts and architecture. They developed their own plugin-in a hands-on session.
Downloads
- The presentations are now available in pdf format (linked in the agenda). Some of the presentations are also available as video recordings thanks to the support of the D-Grid project SuGI.
- A beta version of the TextGridLab was made available online during the TextGrid Summit. You are invited to download and install it on your system. In this way you will be able to access the grid and to test the virtual research environment.
- The new video demo that was prepared for the TextGrid Summit and is now available here.
Agenda - Symposium on Wednesday (21 January 2009)
Venue: Pauliner Church (Paulinerkirche) in Göttingen
| 9:30 | Registration | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Welcome Address | Heike Neuroth (SUB Göttingen) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Keynote I [PDF] [Video] | Tobias Blanke (Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre, Centre for e-Research, King's College London) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | TextGrid: Introduction and Overview [PDF] | Jens Mittelbach (SUB Göttingen) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:00 - 12.45 | TextGrid: TextGrid Tools and Services [Video] | Fotis Jannidis (TU Darmstadt) |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Discussion | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Use Cases (à 15 min.) | Daniel Röwenstrunk (University Paderborn) |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Discussion | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Keynote II [PDF] | Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Prospects/TextGrid's Embedding [PDF] | Fotis Jannidis (TU Darmstadt), |
| 16:00 | Champagne reception and buffet supper with Mediterranean finger food | |
We kindly ask for a service charge of € 10,00.
Developers' Workshop on Thursday, 22 January 2009
The workshop took place at the new building of Göttingen State and University Library with around 20 participants.
Presentations
- TextGrid concepts and architecture - Andreas Aschenbrenner
- TextGrid Services - Christoph Ludwig
- Contributing to the TextGridLab - Thorsten Vitt
- Developers' Tutorial
Download PDF
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2009_01_15_TextGrid-Summit_Agenda_en.pdf Agenda in PDF format for printing |
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Guided city tour
You are invited to take part in a guided city tour featuring the history of the University Göttingen including a walk through the historical old town and a visit of the "Universitätsaula" (Great Assembly Hall) and "Karzer" (University prison).
Duration: 1.5 hours (5.30-7.00 pm)
Conference Venue
The Symposium on Wednesday, 21 January, takes place at Paulinerkirche in Göttingen. Paulinerkirche is a part of the historic building of Göttingen State and University Library. It is situated in the city centre only a few minutes away from Göttingen train station. (How to reach the Historial Building)
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Historisches Gebäude (Paulinerkirche)
Papendiek 14
37073 Göttingen
The Developers' Workshop on Thursday, 22 January, takes place at the new buildinig of Göttingen State and University Library. It is situated on the university campus approx. 10 minutes outside the city centre. (How to reach the New Library Building)
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1
37073 Göttingen
Deutschland
Accomodation
Hotel booking is to be made on an individual bases. Several hotels agreed to special rates, reserved until 18 December 2008 (booking code "TextGrid Summit"). If you want to book one of these hotels, please contact the hotel directly and mention the code.
Hotel Stadt Hannover: Goethe-Allee 21, +49 (0)551 547960
- InterCityHotel: Bahnhofsallee 1A, +49 (0)551 52110
- Hotel Central: Jüdenstraße 12, +49 (0)551 57157
If you want to find more hotels contact the Tourist Information Göttingen.
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Have you got any questions?
We would be pleased to answer your questions: konferenz@sub.uni-goettingen.de