The COST Action "Distant Reading for European Literary History" (CA 16204) aims to create a lively and diverse network of researchers who will jointly develop the resources and methods to enable new perspectives on European literary history. In particular, an extensive, multilingual collection of literary texts is being established for this purpose (European Literary Text Collection / ELTeC). The project is coordinated by Christof Schöch and funded by the COST Association with EU funds from Horizon 2020, running from December 2017 to November 2021. Further information on the Action website at https://distant-reading.net.

The "Text+" network within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) includes more than 30 partners from university and non-university research and memory institutions. The applicant Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim is coordinating the project together with the four co-applicant institutions: the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German National Library Frankfurt/Leipzig, the Göttingen State and University Library of Lower Saxony and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. The NFDI is intended to systematically index, secure, make accessible and link research-relevant data stocks in the form of a science-driven process. In total, the federal and state governments intend to fund up to 30 consortia across all scientific disciplines.

The "Trier Center for Digital Humanities" (TCDH) at the University of Trier contributes its many years of expertise to the Text+ consortium as a participating institution in two areas. Firstly, in the area of digital lexical resources: Here we are developing solutions for the further networking of digitally available or emerging dictionaries and reference works, in particular with regard to the historical, dialectal and literary vocabulary indexing of dictionaries of Modern High German. Secondly, in the area of collections: Here, our work will focus on the principle of "derived text formats" for the use and publication of copyrighted textual materials.

The e-Humanities junior research group used quantitative methods of text analysis to work with French, Spanish and Italian literary texts. The group was based at the Chair of Computer Philology at the University of Würzburg and is funded by the BMBF from April 2014 to March 2020 (FKZ 01UG1408 and 01UG1508).

Das internationale Kooperationsprojekt hat zum Ziel, stilometrische Verfahren durch den Einsatz detaillierter Metadaten zu erweitern. Das Projekt wird von Christof Schöch koordiniert, weiterer Beteiligte auf deutscher Seite sind Fotis Jannidis und José Calvo Tello (Universität Würzburg). Die Austauschpartner in Australien sind Hugh Craig und Rebecca Beirne (University of Newcastle). Das Projekt wird vom DAAD im Rahmen des Programmes Personenbezogener Projektaustausch Australien (PPP) gefördert. Die Laufzeit des Projekts ist März 2018-Oktober 2019 (Projekt-ID 57388420).

The project is concerned with the automatic extraction, structuring and networking of specialist information from text and data collections and with the use of such information networks to answer questions in the humanities. The core objective is to develop interdisciplinary approaches to solutions, whereby conceptual, humanities, computer science, legal and infrastructural issues and processes are interlinked. The first context of application French literary history, but the transferability of the methods to other disciplines is being considered from the outset. The project takes into account different types of texts: from easily structured texts (e.g. bibliographical indexes) to non-fiction texts in the humanities (e.g. specialist literature on literary history) and literary texts (e.g. novels). The project is based at the Trier Center for Digital Humanities at Trier University. It is funded as part of the research initiative of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the period from July 2019 to December 2023. The project spokesperson is Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch, deputy spokesperson is Prof. Dr. Claudine Moulin. Further information: https://mimotext.uni-trier.de/en.