About TextGrid

The TextGrid Virtual Research Environment consists primarily of two components:

1. The TextGrid Repository, a long-term archive for research data in the humanities, embedded in a grid infrastructure, will ensure long-term availability and access to its research data as well as interoperability. The TextGridRep will be further developed during the duration of the project.

2. The TextGrid Laboratory, a single point of entry to the virtual research environment, will provide integrated access to both new and existing tools and services via a user friendly software. The TextGridLab will be improved according to the suggestions of the TextGrid user communities and supplemented by integrating new tools such as optical character recognition for Gothic print during the term of the project. The TextGrid Lab will be advanced continuously, enhanced with new features and regularly applied to public beta tests: Download TextGridLab Beta

TextGrid as an infrastructure project has several target groups:

a) faculty, who use TextGrid for their research projects,
b) developers, who integrate services and tools in TextGrid,
c) and content providers, who allocate data into TextGrid.

This vision of a digital ecosystem is based on the open source idea, which enables free exchange of tools and data, whereby services adaptation is made possible according to requirements of the discipline-specific needs.

New academic communities from art history, classical philology and musicology have joined the TextGrid consortium in the second phase of the project and another discipline will be involved during the project term. In addition, TextGrid will implement a community specific legal form for integration in the D-Grid business model.