Textgrid: community grid for collaborative editing, annotation, analysis, and publication of specialist text resources
Reference type	Organisation
URL	http://www.textgrid.de
Name of organisation	Textgrid: community grid for collaborative editing, annotation, analysis, and publication of specialist text resources
Organisation type	Data service
Country	Germany
Short summary	We would like to draw your attention to the German grid project TextGrid. TextGrid is one of the first projects in the Humanities in Germany and Europe creating a community grid for the collaborative editing, annotation, analysis, and publication of specialist text resources. Providing a computational infrastructure, a collective network, and a comprehensive and extensible toolset for text scholars, it is based on e-Science methods and forms a cornerstone in the emerging e-Humanities. TextGrid maintains a regularly updated website with detailed information on the project. Additionally we disseminate a quarterly newletter. [from email circular, Heike Neuroth 16/12/07]
Description	TextGrid – Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities eScience methods in Arts and Humanities The joint project TextGrid aims to support access to and exchange of data in the arts and humanities by means of modern information technology (the grid). In 2006 development began on a web-based platform, one which will provide services and tools for researchers for analysis of text data in various digital archives - independently of data format, location and software. TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and art historians. As a single point of entry to the virtual research environment, TextGridLab provides integrated access to specialized tools, services and content. TextGridRep is a long-term archive for research data in the humanities embedded in a grid infrastructure, which will ensure availability and access to its research data as well as interoperability. The joint research project TextGrid is part of the D-Grid initiative, and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the period starting June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012 (reference number: 01UG0901A). [source: web page 2010-09-08]