Show and Tell: Tools, Dienste, Projekte. Eine Text+-Veranstaltungsreihe

Unter dem Titel “Show and Tell: Tools, Dienste, Projekte. Eine Text+-Veranstaltungsreihe” haben Interessierte in Text+ und darüber hinaus die Möglichkeit, Neues über laufende Projekte, Tools, Standards, Technologien und Services zu lernen sowie ihre eigene Arbeit vorzustellen und ins Gespräch zu kommen. Die Themen können dabei so vielfältig sein wie die NFDI selbst.

Thema der nächsten Veranstaltung ist AVOBMAT (s. unten).

Um eine Anmeldung wird diesmal gebeten.

We would like to draw your attention to the open beta launch of AVOBMAT (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Text), a multilingual text and metadata mining platform developed specifically for digital humanities research and teaching.

Designed in close collaboration with DH scholars, AVOBMAT supports transparent and reproducible workflows across a wide range of textual and bibliographic corpora. It handles vast datasets that are difficult or impossible to analyse with commercial LLMs, making it ideal for institutional collections and large-scale research projects. The service runs on an extensible, scalable, and modular cloud-based infrastructure, hosted on the servers of GWDG.

Key Features:

• Multilingual preprocessing, analysis, and visualization in 24+ languages
• 18 configurable preprocessing options
• Bibliographic metadata analysis with network visualizations
• Named entity recognition, disambiguation & linking
• Topic modelling, POS tagging, N-gram viewer, corpus comparison, KWIC, lexical diversity
• Export/import of configurations and results for reproducible workflows
• Support for both public and private corpora
• Integrated Help with interface overview, workflow, configuration settings, glossary and appendices

Upload templates, example corpora, and corrected/enriched metadata for ELTeC and DraCor are available on this GitHub repository.

Current content:

• 1,708 novels in 15 languages (ELTeC)
• 4,113 dramas in 12 languages (DraCor)
• Upcoming: corrected/enriched corpora including CoNSSA (Spanish novels), ECCO TCP, EEBO TCP, and Early American Imprints TCP

Free Access Until 25 March 2026:

Thanks to support from the University of Szeged, AVOBMAT is free to use during the current pilot phase.

Community & Webinars:

Webinars and tutorials for new users will be offered in cooperation with GWDG.

Explore AVOBMAT: https://avobmat.hu

Introduction article in the Journal of Open Humanities Data.

Register for updates here.

The developers warmly invite your feedback and collaboration as they continue to refine and enhance AVOBMAT in dialogue with the DH community.