Project lead: Mag. Dr. Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer MA,
Univ.-Prof. Manfred Kern, Bakk.techn. Peter Färberböck MA BA, Dr. MA Alan Lena van Beek
Institution: Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank (MHDBD), Fachbereich für Germanistik, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
Project duration: 1.11.2022 – 30.11.2023
The Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB) is a freely accessible, complex search engine for medieval and early modern literature. It provides access to the most important works of Middle High German poetry and numerous other texts from a variety of perspectives via an extremely versatile search function. The MHDBDB was founded in the early 1970s, has been online as an information system since 1995, has been maintained at the University of Salzburg since 2002, and was donated to the University of Salzburg in 2016. Currently, a complete redesign and migration is under development; this project is a part of that process. The existing texts will be converted into the XML-TEI format and metadata managed according to RDF standards. A new query language will make the complex searches intuitive to use. The website will have a responsive design and become faster. The linkage with external data sources (e.g. the Semantic Web like LOD) as well as the export of the data into the most different formats and the full access to most texts will be possible in the future. As of August 2019, there are 666 texts in the corpus of the MHDBDB.
The current frontend is past its prime and is in urgent need of general renovation. Therefore preparations are already being made for a relaunch, for which, however, neither the required financial nor the human resources have been made available to date. The aim of the project is to provide the necessary IT and development basis to enable interoperability, accessibility, re-usability and sustainability of existing data.
Keywords: Middle High German, TEI, database, RDF, SKOS, OWL, ontology, semantic web vocabularies, semantic web, LOD, german studies, middle ages, literary studies
(intermediary) Outcomes
- Marco Heiles und Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer: Poster: MHDBDB-Textreihentypologie. Ein kontrolliertes SKOS-Vokabular zur Annotation mediävistischer Datenbestände (Version 1.0.1). 2023. Für die Tagung „Archäologie der Handschrift – Erschließung, Präsentation und Forschung im digitalen Raum“, Freiburg im Breisgau, 9.-11. Oktober 2023. http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.13381
- Alan Lena van Beek, & Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer. (2023). Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank 2023. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8375554
- Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer and Marco Heiles: Eine digitale Textreihentypologie für deutschsprachige Texte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Showcase eines kontrollierten Vokabulars in SKOS, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte 6 (2023), S. 6–39, DOI: https://doi.org/10.26012/mittelalter-30680.
- Marco Heiles and Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer: Textreihen. Eine digitale Textreihentypologie der historischen Wissens- und Gebrauchsliteratur als LOD. Vortrag im 7. HWGL-Abendkolloquium des Netzwerks Historische Wissens- und Gebrauchliteratur e.V., digitale Veranstaltung über Zoom, 22.06.2023, 18.00 Uhr: https://hwgl.hypotheses.org/2277.
- Workshop “Schnittstelle Mediävistik” (co-funding with CLARIAH-AT and DFG): https://clariah.at/workshop-interface-of-medieval-studies/;
https://offenesmittelalter.org/2023/04/26/arbeitstreffen-4-schnittstelle-mediaevistik/;
Keynote Prof. Andrea Rapp (TU Darmstadt): https://unitv.org/beitrag.asp?ID=1142. - Alan Lena van Beek and Luise Borek: Workshop “Schnittstelle Mediävistik” im Rahmen des DFG-Netzwerks ”Netzwerk Offenes Mittelalter” zu Linked Open Data, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, 18. Mai 2023. https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/30356.
