E N D
Kurt Gärtner (University of Trier)Digital Middle High German Interlinked: A Comprehensive Digital Text ArchiveThese materials are based on a presentation by Ute Recker-Hamm (Working Group ‘Middle High German Dictionary’ of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz at the University of Trier) and Matthew Gibson (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville) prepared for the ALLC/ACH 2003 Joint International Conference at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, May 29–June 2, 2003, as part of a paper-session on „New Ways in Using and Creating Lexicographical Resources”, organized by Kurt Gärtner; see abstracts: http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/abstracts/final/abstracts.pdf
Structure • Electronic texts in and on Middle High German and the needs of academic users • ‚Middle High German Interlinked‘: Just another text archive? • Technical issues • Project demonstration • Prospects and further development
Academic users demands of historical text archives • Essential features • Reliability • Ability to be cited • Full-text search functionality • Desired features • Edition-inherent editorial material • linking the electronic texts and / or the editorial elements to external standard aids and resources
G.F. Benecke/ W. Müller/ F. Zarncke, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (1854-1861) M. Lexer, Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörter-buch (1872-1878), with supplements (1878)
K. Gärtner et al., Findebuch zum Mittelhoch-deutschen Wortschatz (1991) Dictionary Compound on the Web:http://www.mwv.uni-trier.de
K. Gärtner et al., Findebuch zum Mittelhoch-deutschen Wortschatz (1991) http://www.mwv.uni-trier.de Tauler text, (page 12, line 17): Tauler glossary:
Aim of the NSF/DFG project ‚Digital Middle High German Interlinked‘ • to digitize the 100 source texts of the Findebuch corpus with their glossaries • to set up an electronic text archive in a reliable, citational and searchable manner • to interlink the texts and their glossaries • to interlink the glossaries and the Findebuch
Links • Project Homepage at the University of Trier: http://www.mhgta.uni-trier.de • Electronic Text Center at the University of Virgina: http://etext.lib.virgina.edu • Compound of Middle High German Dictionaries: http://www.mwv.uni-trier.de