North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (NRW Akademie)
Type of center: data center/competence center
The Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) at the University of Cologne is the Central Coordination Office Digital Humanities of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (AWK NRW) as co-applicant of Text+.
In the context of Text+ and NFDI, the CCeH acts as a competence center of the AWK NRW. It leads the Task Area Editions and concentrates on the areas of Text+ Consulting, Community Activities and Text+ Registry.
In collaboration with the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH), the DCH acts as a data center for the AWK NRW with a focus on an archiving workflow for Task Area Editions.
Highlights of provided data and services
- The AWK NRW coordinates the Task Area Editions, a group of Text+ partners that are developing an infrastructure of services for a community of researchers, teachers and learners in whose research field and practice scholarly editions play an essential role. An overview of our services can be found here.
- Egyptian everyday life online: Digital edition of the “Kölner Papyri”, one of the most important papyrus collections in Germany
- Averroes-Edition: A multi-generational project: Critical edition of 18 works by the early pioneer of the European Enlightenment Ibn Rušd alias Averroes
Third-party data reception
The AWK NRW co-operates with the Language Archive Cologne (LAC) for archiving purposes. The Language Archive Cologne has the explicit mission to preserve digital audio and video data, annotations, and other digital language data in the long term, and to promote and disseminate these resources.
For any questions or consultation, please feel free to contact the Text+ Helpdesk or visit our “Research Rendezvous”. This open consultation hour takes place every fortnight and does not require registration.
Contact
Contact for Text+: dch-datensicherung@uni-koeln.de