Dear colleagues

... to follow up (now with web site and some additional remarks):

eTraces. Search and analysis of text reuse and transfer of knowledge in texts
of the social sciences and in German literature

Sub-project: Text reuse in German literature
http://etraces.e-humanities.net/project-partners/gcdh-etraces.html
<http://etraces.e-humanities.net/project-partners/gcdh-etraces.html>

1. Mutual Introduction
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Project Director: Gerhard Heyer, Marco Büchler (University of Leipzig)
Sub-project: Gerhard Lauer, Annette Geßner, Christian Kötteritzsch
(University of Göttingen & Leipzig)

2. Research Interests
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2.A) Time span: Which time span is of your interest?
German sources (1500-1900)

2.B) Spatial limitations: Is your project limited to specific geographical
"areas/locations" like texts from the Mediterranean Sea?
 Texts from the German speaking countries

2.C) Language(s): Which languages your project is working on?
German

2.D) Project aims/research question: What are your aims and research
questions?
The objectives of this sub project is to develop computer based methods for
the analysis of literary history. We take established questions in the study
of literary history (like secularization, the rise of aesthetic autonomy) and
try to answer them by algorithm. We have just started by analyzing the re-use
of the Bible in the corpus of German literature.

2.E) Methodology: Do you collect traces of of text re-use manually (by hand)
or what are your techniques?
 We use the digital library (the zeno.org <http://zeno.org>  corpus) of
TextGrid
(http://www.textgrid.de/en/digitale-bibliothek.html
<http://www.textgrid.de/en/digitale-bibliothek.html> ). We do it
automatically and not by hand (the scale of this corpus is to big) based on
algorithm develop by the Leipzig group (eAqua) for text mining.

2.F) Online references: What is your project website?
http://etraces.e-humanities.net/project-partners/gcdh-etraces.html

3. Missing projects&researchers
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IF you miss any project/researcher feel free to ask them to join the list:
https://groups.google.com/group/historical-text-re-use/
<https://groups.google.com/group/historical-text-re-use/>
<https://groups.google.com/group/historical-text-re-use/
<https://groups.google.com/group/historical-text-re-use/> > .

4. Ressources
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Do you think that something like a Wiki makes sense? Please me know what you
think about it? It is not a thing to establish one.
 I think we are all looking for best practice examples, tools etc. and would
like to share our findings via wiki.

Best,
           gerhard

Gerhard Lauer, Universität Göttingen, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie

Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3, D-37073 Göttingen

+49-551-39 75 26 (Phone) & +49-551-39 19556 (Fax)

www.gerhardlauer.de