Deutsches Textarchiv (The German Text Archive)

For inclusion in the TEI Application Page

 Form posted from TEI website on 2008-11-14 Language Corpora German 14 Nov 2008 Dr. Alexander Geyken Created using newproj webform Deutsches Textarchiv (The German Text Archive) Host: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Other institutions involved: Founded by the German Research Foundation. Cooperation partner: The Digital Dictionary of the German Language (Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jahrhunderts) URL:

Description: The aim of the DTA is to establish a large balanced core corpus of the most important works in German language dating from the beginning of letterpress printing until present. In the first project phase from July 2007-June 2010 the focus is on digitising about 750 texts from the period 1780-1900, i.e. more than 250.000 pages.

Implementation description: We use a customization of TEI P5 including the following modules: corpus, drama, figures, gaiji, linking, namesdates, transcr, verse, tagdocs. In particular we removed some elements from drama and added att.coordinated to the c and w elements.

Other Related Resources: Not yet available.

Access: Open access.

Contact:

Dr. Alexander Geyken Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Jaegerstr. 22/23 10117 Germany Tel: +49 30 20370390 Email: dta@bbaw.de