About the Text+ Architecture

Over 30 institutions are involved in the distributed infrastructure of Text+. This inevitably leads to complexities when it comes to visualising the structure of the network.

The visual representation of the architecture is a view of Text+ that shows the key technical components along their functions. The architecture consists of three levels - user, frontend, backend - and is read from top to bottom starting from the user or a new dataset/new data center.


Access to the Text+ Infrastructure
Access for Users (human, machine) to
Text+ Data Space / Federated Research Data Infrastructure, individual services, information, APIs
Use Cases: Find Data, Provide Data, Use Services, Find Information, Support
Access to the Text+ Infrastructure...
SSH Open Marketplace
SSH Open Marketplace
Authority Files
Authority Files
Access , Use, Transfer Data
Access , Use, Transfer Data
User Support

Consulting, Mailinglists, Helpdesk, ...

User Support...

New Data / Resources

Might be: new data, new functionality
of a pre-existing service

New Data / Resources...
Frontend
Frontend
User
User
Backend
Backend

Computing Centers, Infrastructure facilities

Virtual Machines, Hosting, HPC, Storage, Basic Services

Computing Centers, Infrastructure facilities...
Access and Presentation
Access and...
Data
Data
Applications / Services
Applications / Services
Community Relations
Blog, Portal content,
Community Outreach, ...

Community Relations...
Processing Pipelines
MONAPipe, JupyterNotebooks, DTF Tool
Processing Pipelines...
Ingest
Ingest
Search & Retrieval
Search & Retrieval

External Data Center

Might be: FCS endpoint, provider of metadata, 

Might become: Text+ Center

External Data Center...
Scientific Services
Scientific Services

Architecture
v2.0 5/2025

Architecture...
Basic Infrastructure
Basic Infr...
Metadata
Metadata
Data, Metadata,
Services
Data, Metadata,...
Search Integration Portal
Search Integration Portal
Integration
in Text+ Portfolio
Integration...
Text+ Registry
Text+ Registry
Technical Interfaces
Technical Interfaces
Federated Content Search
Federated Content Search
Resource
Content
Resource...
Metadata
Metadata
Knowledge Graph
Metadata, Data
Knowledge Graph...

GND-Agentur / entityXML
GND-Agentur / entityXML
Data enrichment
Data enric...
Data enrichment / DTF
Data enrichme...
Search Support / Interlinkage
Search Support /...
LLM-Hub
Training data, Models, ...
LLM-Hub...
Training data, Models
Training dat...
Data enrichment / DTF
Data enrichme...
Search Results
Search Results
Text+ Centers
Scientific Expertise, Repositories (Metadaten, Data), Archive, Interfaces, LLM (Models, Training data, Search Integration)
Text+ CentersScientific Expertise, Repositories (Metadaten, Data), Archive, Interfaces, LLM (Models,...
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Content
Support
Support
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Ingest of External Resources
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In the center (red) is the Text+ portal, i.e. the consortium’s website. Below it are central Text+ services such as consulting, the search for data and services and the option of submitting research data to the consortium. However, many other services and topics are of central importance for the functioning of Text+.

A special feature of this presentation is that the individual components are linked. For example, you can find the direct path from the Registry to the corresponding page. In this respect, it is not just a mapping of functions, but the mapping itself is functional. Depending on your browser/device, deep zooming is enabled for the figure.

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