TextGrid was a project of ten partners, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the period from June 2012 to May 2015 (reference number: 01UG1203A). Since 2016, TextGrid is part of the DARIAH-DE Research Infrastructure.

Answering an increasing demand for digital and collective research features in the humanities, TextGrid has, since its start in 2006, established the infrastructure for a respective virtual research environment. In continuous exchange with the scientific community, TextGrid has developed a variety of tools and services available for free download in a stable version. Together with the TextGrid Repository, the virtual research environment TextGrid offers scholars in the humanities sustainable editing, storing and publishing of their data in a thoroughly tested and safe environment.

In summer 2011, the first stable version 1.0 was downloadable, followed by version 2.0 in May 2012. During the third funding period (2012-2015) the project focussed on establishing a sustainable continuous service: software, archive, and the whole variety of services offered have been put on a sound basis in collaboration with users, scholars, and discipline specific associations and in cooperation with DARIAH-DE.

A summarizing overview of the background, project periods, and future perspectives is presented in the article "TextGrid - Eine Geschichte", which was published 2015 in the anthology "TextGrid: Von der Community - für die Community. Eine Virtuelle Forschungsumgebung für die Geisteswissenschaften."

Citation recommendation

TextGrid Consortium. 2006–2014. TextGrid: A Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities. Göttingen: TextGrid Consortium. textgrid.de.

Website Realization

Patrick Heck: Design
Aspectis: Design and implementation

Target groups

• scholars of the Arts and Humanities using TextGrid for their research projects
• developers adapting TextGrid tools and services for specific scholarly needs
• academic institutions (e.g. archives, libraries) storing data in TextGrid or linking data to own data bases

The vision of a digital ecosystem is based on the open source idea, allowing free exchange of tools and data, whereby adaptation concerning discipline-specific needs is made possible. Researchers from a wide range of humanistic disciplines such as philology, linguistics, art history, Classics and musicology are actively working with TextGrid.

Are you working with TextGrid? Present your research project here! Please contact anfragen@textgrid.de, and feel free to send image files (logos, screenshots)!