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How we see ourselves

The Task Area Editions is an association of 18 institutions that are involved in Text+. It is coordinated by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in collaboration with the Technical University of Darmstadt.

We are developing an infrastructure of services for a community of researchers, scholars and students in whose research field and practice scholarly editions play an essential role.

The Task Area Editions also views itself as an advocate for this community in the development of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), which is to become a hub of networked services based on the FAIR principles. We act as a multiplier and as an open platform that relies on the participation of all actors in the field of scientific editions. We therefore cordially invite you to help shape the following services that will be created as part of our work programme.

Open Edition Directory as part of Text+ Registry

Task Area Editions is developing an open directory for printed, hybrid and digital editions and edition projects as well as their tools – based on standardised descriptions and including tutorials. The focus is on interoperability with existing directories and catalogues as well as the provision of interfaces for linking with relevant information systems and infrastructures.

The directory is based on various sources:

  • Databases of funding bodies, library indexing systems, existing catalogues, information from Specialist Information Services (=Fachinformationsdienste).
  • Users also have the option of registering editions via a form and adding or correcting existing catalogue entries.
  • Task Area Editions organises “edit-a-thons” for this purpose, during which editions can be registered with live support.

The Open Edition Directory is part of the overarching Text+ Registry, which connects the resources of all partners of Text+.

Text+ Registry

 

Folgende Publikationen bieten eine konzeptionelle und technische Gesamtdarstellung:

  • Fruth, Leon, u. a. „Cataloguing Editions and Other Resources in One Unified System: The Case of the Text+ Registry“. Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2024, 2025, https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2024/fruth-et-al/.
  • Genêt, Philippe, u. a. „F wie Registry. Die Text+ Registry als Hilfsmittel zur Auffindbarkeit von Ressourcen“. Tübingen, FORGE 2023.
  • Gradl, Tobias, Christoph Kudella, und Daniela Schulz. „Die Registry der TA Editions – Datenmodell und Prototyp“. Mannheim, Text+ Plenary 2022 (TextPlusPlenary), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7244134.
  • Gradl, Tobias, Leon Fruth, u. a. „The Text+ Registry: Federating Research Data Catalogues for the Digital Humanities“. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, herausgegeben von Wolf-Tilo Balke u. a., Bd. 16097, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026, S. 378–94. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05409-8_22.
  • Gradl, Tobias, Christoph Kudella, Harald Lordick, u. a. „Towards a Registry for Digital Resources – The Text+ Registry for Editions“. Datenbank-Spektrum, Juni 2024. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-024-00479-0.
  • Lordick, Harald. „Mehr Raum für Datenperspektiven – ›Minimal Editions‹ mit Hypotheses, Gitlab, Text+ Registry und Co.“ Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte digital, 13. Juni 2024, https://djgd.hypotheses.org/2474.
  • M1 der Task Area Editions. „Datenmodell Editionenregistry (Text+)“. Juli 2024, https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12090590.
  • Schulz, Daniela, Philipp Hegel, u. a. „Editionen - digital“. Workshop. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
  • Schulz, Daniela. „Enjoy the RIDE – IDE Und Text+ Veröffentlichen Ersten Gemeinsamen Rezensionsband Mit FAIR-Schwerpunkt“. Text+ Blog, 9. März 2023, https://textplus.hypotheses.org/3911.
  • ———. „Die Editionsregistry (ERY) und das zugrundeliegende Datenmodell – Dokumentation und Spezifikation“. August 2024, https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12801930.
  • ———. „Nutzen und Grenzen der Erfassung und Kategorisierung digitaler Editionen. Oder: Fifty Shades of Grey?“ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6458066.
  • ———. „Text+ @ FORGE 2023 – Die Text+ Registry“. Text+ Blog, 16. Oktober 2023, https://textplus.hypotheses.org/7916.
  • Schulz, Daniela, Tobias Gradl, Thomas Eckart, u. a. „Text+ Registry: Data model Editions, Approach of Text+ towards Ontology Harmonization“. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14833110.
  • Schulz, Daniela, Tobias Gradl, Leon Fruth, u. a. „The Text+ Registry: Facilitating Cross-Domain Resource Discovery“. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.20036812.
  • Schulz, Daniela, und Tobias Gradl. „Cataloguing Editions and Other Resources in One Unified System. The Text+ Registry“. [Sheffield], 2024, Digital Humanities Congress 2024, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13729848.

Consulting

Task Area Editions establishes the Text+ Consulting as coordinated, personalised and confidential consultancy service.

We offer advice on all matters relating to publications – from guidance on grant applications and general enquiries about research data management (RDM), through discussions of research ideas and processes, to specific editorial issues across the entire data lifecycle. Through the FDM Consultation Hour Humanities@NFDI, Text+, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Objects and NFDI4Memory offer a joint consultation service for the humanities.

Text+ Consulting

 

Community Activities

Task Area Editions organises workshops, informative and networking events and training courses. We also develop curricular recommendations, tutorials and handouts on standards such as the FAIR principles as well as on all phases of editing and all data layers of an edition.

  • The Task Area Editions in Text+ features a tutorial directory that offers a collection of learning materials and tutorials relevant to working with digital editions.
  • Link to the Tutorial Collection

Kolleginnen und Kollegen der TA Editions

Martin Sievers
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz
photo: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Astrid Garth
Alexander Czmiel
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
 
Martin Fechner
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
 
Jörg Wettlaufer
Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
 
Torsten Roeder
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
 
Daniela Schulz
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
 
Gerrit Brüning
Klassik Stiftung Weimar
 
Annika Wienert
Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland
photo: Marcin Kluczek
Melina Jander
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
 
Christoph Kudella
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
 
Lukas Weimer
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
 
Jonathan Blumtritt
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
 
Elisa Cugliana
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
 
Nils Geißler
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
 
Tessa Gengnagel
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
 
Kilian Hensen
Koordination TA Editionen
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
 
Claes Neuefeind
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
 
Andreas Speer
Sprecher TA Editionen
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
 
Harald Lordick
Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte an der Universität Duisburg-Essen
 
Uwe Kretschmer
Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
 
Andrea Rapp
Technische Universität Darmstadt
 
Edit Piaf
Maskottchen
Text+ TA Editionen
 

Participating institutions