Sonja FriedrichsText+ User Story Corpus of Low German plays of the 15th to 18th century Michael Elmentaler (University of Kiel) DFG subject area: 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation Since the entire development of language before the invention of the phonograph (1877) is only indirectly accessible to us via written language testimonies or meta-linguistic language testimonies, the reconstruction … Read more
Text+ User Story Attitudes towards regional language forms in the city: Low German in Hamburg (NiH) Ingrid Schröder (Universität Hamburg) DFG subject area: 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation Since the 1990s there has been a trend towards the analysis of qualitative research data on language attitudes and language biographies. Previous studies on the status … Read more
Text+ User Story Good and better speeches Thorsten Trippel (Universität Tübingen) DFG subject areas: 104 Linguistics, 105 Literary Studies, 111 Social Sciences Text+ data domain: Comprehensive Motivation Speeches are part of many social and societal processes and functions. However, a practical question is, which speech is “good” or how a speech can be “improved”. Apart from external … Read more
Text+ User Story Data Archiving Support Claus Zinn (Universität Tübingen) DFG subject areas: Interdisciplinary Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation I am a linguist of many decades of experience and have accumulated rich collections of research data. Also, I am aware of the need for a proper management of research data. Consequently, I have tried to put some order into … Read more
Text+ User Story Roman Social History Marietta Horster (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) DFG subject area: 101 Ancient Cultures, 102 History Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation I am an ancient historian, and I am very much interested in sociolinguistics as an area that might change research in the field of Roman social history. Inscriptions are the most important source to detect … Read more
Text+ User Story Humanist Computer Interaction under Scrutiny Marcel Frey-Endres, Torsten Schenk (Technical University of Darmstadt), Tim Geelhaar, Anna-Lena Körfer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) DFG subject areas: 101 Ancient Cultures, 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation The project Humanist Computer Interaction under Scrutiny (short: Humanist) is a joint project of the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Applied Sciences … Read more
Text+ User Story Enhancing the Corpus of German Literature from ca. 1750–1920: Re-publishing canonical and forgotten (Women) Writers online and in Print Andreas Hungeling DFG subject areas: 105 Literary Studies Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation As former scientist (geophysics, polar explorer) with more than 25 years of work experience in the German petroleum industry, I came across authors … Read more
Text+ User Story French “Connaisseur” Marietta Horster (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) DFG subject areas: 101 Ancient Cultures, 102 History, 103 Fine Arts, Music, Theatre and Media Studies, 111 Social Sciences Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation I am an ancient historian. I just have given to a professional digitising entrepreneur in Berlin a notebook of a French “Connaisseur” (dated circa 1870), who had copied, … Read more
Text+ User Story Bibliotheca Arabica at the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften Boris Liebrenz (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities) DFG subject area: 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation The academy project Bibliotheca Arabica, based at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, works towards a comprehensive bio-bibliographical collection of Arab literary history up to the 19th century, a period … Read more
Text+ User Story Multi-Lingual Archives and Small Fields of Study Hartmut Leppin, Philip Michael Forness (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) DFG subject areas: 101 Ancient Cultures, 102 History, 104 Linguistics, 106 Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, 107 Theology Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation The fields of classics, (101–02), history (101–03, 102), historical linguistics (104–03), … Read more