Diachronic Markup and Presentation Practices for Text Edition in Digital Research Environments

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2013 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 236702990

The project is situated in the Digital Humanities area of literary criticism and textual scholarship and relates in particular to the analysis of literary works in diachronic depth under perspectives of the genesis of their texts. Here, only the digital medium allows substantial future research as well as innovative teaching in literary studies. On such premises, the project addresses three major desiderata: 1. testing, improving, and making usable diachronic markup, that is the digital representation of document sources (based on TEI), 2. tools to operate on this data in the light of research requirements, and 3. means to publish and visualize the results of these operations. The project promises to develop and publish such tools and to provide best practices for a wide range of use cases. It does soon the foundation three leading projects in digital literary studies and scholarly editing, covering different eras of German, US, and British literature: J.W. Goethe, Walt Whitman, and James Joyce."

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• International Connection: USA
• Participating Person: Professor Dr. Malte Rehbein