TextGrid-Workshops
The workshops, which TextGrid has begun to offer to developers, users and content providers this year, meet with very positive response in the communities. Up to now, the following workshops have taken place:
- TUSTEP developer-workshop
To deepen the co-operation with the TUSTEP-community, the first developer-workshop for experienced TUSTEP- users took place at the university of Trier on 18/19 January 2010. Within this context the integration of own macros into the TextGrid environment was first theoretically illustrated and afterwards practically implemented. On the second day Tobias Ott introduced his concept of a XML-based TUSTEP-syntax which might replace the TUSTEP user interface which is perceived as out of date. As a conclusion the workshop seemed to be affected by this future-oriented idea and a positive atmosphere in total. - User-workshops in Frankfurt and Munich
The first two courses of instruction for experts were hosted on 17 February 2010 in Frankfurt/Main in context of the conference of the “workgroup for German language Edition” as well as on 17 March 2010 organized by and held at the University of Munich by the Munich Centre for Textual Scholarship (MüZE). These predominantly interactive arranged courses should give experts of areas such as edition philology and librarianship an understanding of the concept of TextGrid and basics of the TextGridLab. Also, participating experts should get the opportunity to ask questions about the introduced topics and beyond these. At this juncture the positive resonance in spite of the beta-stage of the software about it was just as pleasant as the contact to academics and scientist who are interested in further co-operation - Content-Provider-Workshop in Goettingen
Representatives of research projects and libraries attended the first TextGrid content provider workshop in Goettingen an 22 April 2010. The topics covered the possibilities of providing and archiving data in the TextGridRep.In the first part of the event, TextGrid showed how data is fed into and held accessible in the TextGridRep. Several models of long-time archiving were introduced as well as the new metadata application profile. Moreover, Ralf Stockmann of the Center for Retrospective Digitization in Goettingen presented a prototypically developed visualisation tool. In the second part, the participants voiced their expectations about TextGrid in several short preasentations. While Jutta Weber of the State Library Berlin and Thomas Stäcker of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel focused on the exchange and accessibility of data, Daniel Graepler of the project Archaeo 18 as well as Martina Kerzel and Annina Böhme of the project Blumenbach-Online made convrete demands on tools, possibilities of visualisation and support of project specific metadata.
TextGrid will respond to the general interest in a similar event with the second content provider workshop on 22 June 2010, where the specific needs of the projects Archaeo 18 and Blumenbach-Online will be highlighted.