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About us

Language and text-based research data are of outstanding importance in many disciplines in the humanities. Initially with the data domains Collections, Lexical Resources and Editions, Text+ addresses the requirements of a wide range of research fields that are based on a long research tradition. These data domains are linked to mature methodological paradigms that require distinctive, but also cross-disciplinary data generation, curation, and data management practices.

Text+ is not limited to existing data, but will systematically expand its portfolio in close consultation with the expert communitys involved. This also includes tools to support researchers in the FAIR creation, use and provision of data throughout the entire research data life cycle.

The usability of the data and tools combined with the legally compliant use of language and text data, which often affects the rights of third parties, are central tasks of Text +. The diversity of the data adds to the complexity, the data being heterogeneous in terms of language families (extending beyond Europe), modalities of language and writing systems. The + sign indicates that Text+ is open, for example also for language-based resources and tools for speech and for multimodal data. As a distributed infrastructure, Text+ relies on and incorporates a wide range of existing data and tools from the currently more than 30 partners in the consortium.

Goals

  • Development of a distributed infrastructure for speech language and text data
  • Support of researchers in the creation, re-use and preservation of language and text data
  • Enable innovative research through easy access to research data and tools
  • Close cooperation with the communitys involved: portfolio expansion, training, workshops

Task Areas

Text+ Task Areas
Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs

Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs

Speaker of the consortium

(Co-)applicant institutions and (co-)speakers:
  • PD Dr. Alexander Geyken, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin

  • Dr. Peter Leinen, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Speer, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf

  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Wieder,  Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen

Logo Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache

Leibniz Institute for the German Language

Applicant institution

Participating Institutions
  • Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
  • Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • German Literature Archive Marbach
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel
  • Jülich Supercomputing Centre
  • Klassik Stiftung Weimar
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  • Max Weber Foundation
  • Saarland University
  • Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History
  • Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Technical University of Darmstadt (part of Darmstadt Cooperation, DACo)
  • Technical University of Darmstadt, University and State Library Darmstadt (part of Darmstadt Cooperation, DACo)
  • Technical University of Dresden, Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing
  • University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (part of Darmstadt Cooperation, DACo)
  • University of Bamberg
  • University of Cologne
  • University of Duisburg-Essen
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Hamburg
  • University of Paderborn
  • University of Trier
  • University of Tübingen
  • University of Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs

Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs

Speaker of the consortium

Logo Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache

Leibniz Institute for the German Language

Applicant institution

(Co-)applicant institutions and (co-)speakers:
  • PD Dr. Alexander Geyken, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin

  • Dr. Peter Leinen, German National Library, Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main

  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Speer, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Düsseldorf

  • Regine Stein,  Göttingen State and University Library, Göttingen

Participating Institutions
  • Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
  • Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • German Literature Archive Marbach
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel
  • Jülich Supercomputing Centre
  • Klassik Stiftung Weimar
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  • Max Weber Foundation
  • Saarland University
  • Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History
  • Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Technical University of Darmstadt (part of Darmstadt Cooperation, DACo)
  • Technical University of Darmstadt, University and State Library Darmstadt (part of Darmstadt Cooperation, DACo)
  • Technical University of Dresden, Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing
  • University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (part of Darmstadt Cooperation, DACo)
  • University of Bamberg
  • University of Cologne
  • University of Duisburg-Essen
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Hamburg
  • University of Paderborn
  • University of Trier
  • University of Tübingen
  • University of Würzburg