The TextGrid Team
University of Goettingen, Goettingen State and University Library (Project Management)
Main Responsibilities: development of digital research infrastructures (TextGrid Repository, WP1) and project management (WP 8).
Expertise: sustainable organisation with focus on long-term preservation of analog and digital academical objects; enduring appropriation of research infrastructure and services; experience in managing consortial projects.
Current TextGrid Projects: development of research data archives (WissGrid, BMBF), development of research infrastructures for the humanities (DARIAH, EU), development of publication infrastructures (Driver, EU)
DAASI International GmbH, Tübingen
Main Responsibilities: development of the TextGridRep and its integration with Fedora (WP 1), technical mapping of license agreements and terms of use (WP 3) as well as coaching and training (WP 4).
Expertise: development and operation of IT infrastructure, especially in grid and identity management; distributed authentication and authorization based on Shibboleth, PKI; managing of access rights with RBAC and XACML; compilation of business plans; organization of technical workshops and trainings.
Current TextGrid Projects: SLC-GAP integration of short lived credentials in the D-Grid infrastructure, in particular in the TextGrid architecture.
Institute for the German Language, Mannheim
Main Responsibilities: organizational sustainability (WP 3), linguistics (WP 6.3)
Expertise: enduring appropriation of research infrastructure, data and services
Current TextGrid Projects: creation of a center for "Digital Research Resources in German Philology" (BMBF); a German language resources infrastructure D-SPIN (BMBF); WissGrid; interaction between linguistic and bioinformatic action, techniques and algorithms; modelling and mapping variance in language and genome.
Max Planck Digital Library, also as representative for the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and the Max Planck Institute for Art History (Florence, Italy)
Main Responsibilities: concepts for the integration with eSciDoc (WP 1) and coordination of tool development for the Max Planck institutes involved (WP 6).
Expertise: development of research infrastructures and subject-specific tool-development.
Current TextGrid Projects: eSciDoc as an eResearch infrastructure, subject-specific tool-development (ViRR / MPI for European History of Law, Faces / MPI for Human Development)
University of Applied Sciences, Worms
Main Responsibilities: development of tools, infrastructure / TextGridLab, assistance and sustainability of the developer-community
Expertise: theory and practice of distributed architecture in the eHumanities and eGovernment, development of complex software systems, administration and syndication of large distributed registries, development of data models.
Current TextGrid Projects: CEN/ISSS eGov Share: specification for metadata syndication in heterogeneous ambiances; Isidorus: Open Source Topic Map Engine - reference implementation for the eGov Share specification; arrangement of the eHumanities session and tutorials in the IEEE DEST; regular practical projects with students in the range of distributed applications.
University of Kaiserslautern
Main Responsibilities: development of an OCR service for identification of Gothic type letters and integration in TextGrid; appropriation of tools for working with OCR results (WP 6.8)
Expertise: figure comprehension and design detection; document analysis; layout analysis; statistic speech models
Current TextGrid Projects: OCRopus Open Source OCR System (Google); Decapod Book Capture Project (Mellon Foundation).
University of Munich
Main Responsibilities: advancement of the TEI encoding; subject-specific tool-development (AP 6).
Expertise: digital editions of commented texts in relation to reference texts; annotation of texts; networked text databases
Current TextGrid Projects: „Editing Glosses/Glossenedition" (LMUexcellent); "Textkorpusbezogene Edition" (Persius-Scholien) and "Textgenetische Edition" (Martianus Capella)
University Paderborn, Musicology Seminar Detmold/ Paderborn
Main Responsibilities: development and integration of subject-specific solutions for music editions (WP 6); coaching and training (WP 4)
Expertise: conception and testing of models for digital music editions; supervision of external edition projects such as the OPERA-Projekt, Bayreuth, the Reger-Werkausgabe Karlsruhe and the Weber-Gesamtausgabe Berlin/Detmold; participation in the TEI SIGs correspondence and music; the creation of project-specific databases, such as for the preparation of letter and diary editions.
Current TextGrid Projects: development of tools for digital music editions (DFG); Digital Music Notation Data Model and Prototype Delivery System (NEH/DFG bilateral Digital Humanities program).
University of Trier, Competence Centre for Electronic Text Processing and Publication in the Humanities
Main Responsibilities: tool development (WP 2 and WP 6); coaching and training (WP 4)
Expertise: digitalization of standard works in the humanities (especially dictionaries and editions); development of distributed work environments (Tares - an article compilation system for the Middle High German dictionary; researching network and database system FuD; project INF for the SFB 600; Europäische Geschichte Online - EGO); appropriation of sustainable research infrastructures and services.
Current TextGrid Projects: WissGrid; interaction between linguistic and bioinformatic methods, techniques and algorithms: modelling and mapping of variance in language and genomes.
University of Würzburg
Main Responsibilities: coordination of the tool development (WP 6); development of tools for philologists
Expertise: digital editions, annotation of texts, software for philologists
Current TextGrid Projects: the software requirements of the Faust edition (DFG) will contribute to the development of the TextGrid tools as a user requirement; the creation of a center for digital editions and cooperation with projects in Würzburg, e.g. the longterm intent of the Jean-Paul-Edition; interaction between linguistic and bioinformatic action, techniques and algorithms; modelling and mapping of variance in language and genome.