BExIS++ - Modularization and Scalability of the BExIS Experiment Data Management Platform for Ecosystem Research - Phase 2

• Applicants: Dr. Jens Kattge; Professorin Dr. Birgitta König-Ries; Dr. Jens Nieschulze; Professorin Dr. Christiane Schmullius; Dr. Ulrich Schwardmann; Professor Dr. Wolfgang W. Weisser
• Subject Area: Evolution and Systematics of Plants and Fungi ; Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems ; Organismic Interactions, Chemical Ecology and Microbiomes of Plant Systems
• Term: from 2011 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 189571761

The goal of LAUDATIO II is to allow sustainable storage and re-use of historical corpora from a variety of humanities disciplines. The goal of LAUDATIO I was to support researchers using linguistically annotated historical corpora of German texts. However in other languages too, there is a need to extend annotated corpora of historical texts, which may be produced for the benefit of a particular research question in the humanities, for use in other disciplines as well as availability to a wide community of researchers. Special requirements of these groups of users, such as support for annotations between texts or exhaustive yet flexible documentation are not sufficiently supported by existing platforms. Re-use of historical texts in different disciplines via a common platform reduces unnecessary parallel work, improves the visibility of scholarly results and leads to a larger number of jointly accessible resources. These publicly available 2 resources, which are described in detailed documentation, also serve as prime examples for tested scientific methods. Thanks to a close collaboration with other fields, particularly with projects in literary studies, musicology and history, the requirements for such a common platform will be worked out and implemented. The documentation models created in the first phase of the project, as well as the infrastructure and research tools, will have to be extended to fulfil these requirements. Additionally, the operation of the already available repository will be made permanent and LAUDATIO will be extended into a trustworthy long-term archive.

• DFG Programme: Research data and software (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Harald Ziegler