APIs for Text-Based Digital Editions

Thursday 25 Sept 2025, 13:30 → 19:30 Europe/Berlin

Digital

Katharina Brückmann (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg), Philipp Hegel (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz), Leonhard Maylein (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg), Kilian Erasmus Hensen (GNOI)

The digital, English-language workshop on 25.09.25 will focus on interfaces, in particular APIs, for text-based digital editions. It is aimed at humanities scholars, editors and librarians as well as computer scientists and infrastructure service providers. A major motivation for the workshop is the desire to make data and metadata better and more easily available for computational access and processes, such as text and data mining as well as text analysis.

In the first part, the four services Distributed Text Services, TextAPI, TextFrame and SHINE/RISE will be presented in talks of about 20 minutes. Afterwards, the specific possibilities and limitations of these services as well as the requirements and wishes of the users will be discussed in the mentioned target groups via breakout sessions. In the second part, insights into the implementation of the DTS specification in the TEI Publisher will be provided.

In total, the workshop will take about a half-day. The aim is to publish a kind of matrix that can serve as a guide for both service providers and interested parties.

Participation is free of charge, registration is required (see below). The event is organized by Katharina Brückmann (University Library Heidelberg), Philipp Hegel (Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz), Kilian Hensen (Cologne Center for eHumanities), and Leonhard Maylein (University Library Heidelberg). It is a cooperation of Heidelberg University Library (with its FID arthistoricum.net and Propylaeum) and NFDI consortium Text+.

 

13:30 → 17:35 Criteria and Examples for Interfaces

13:30–13:45: Introduction by Katharina Brückmann (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg) and Philipp Hegel (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
13:45–14:15: SHINE/RISE Shih-Pei Chen (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin), Pascal Belouin (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin), Hou-Ieong Ho (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
14:15-14:45: Distributed Text Services presented by Hugh Cayless (Duke University Libraries) and Matteo Romanello (Universität Zürich)
14:45-15:15: UDT-ITF API presented by Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries)
15:15-15:45: TextAPI presented by Mathias Göbel (Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen) Yana Strakatova (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
15:45–16:00 Break
16:00–16:45: Breakout session for discussion of the APIs presented previously, moderated by Stefan Dumont (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Jonatan Steller (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
16:45–16:55: Break
16:55–17:35: Summary of insights gained in the breakout sessions, general summary

Speakers: Dr Hou-Ieong Ho (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), Hugh Cayless (Duke University Libraries), Jonatan Jalle Steller (Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz), Katharina Brückmann (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg), Kilian Erasmus Hensen (GNOI), Leonhard Maylein (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg), Mathias Göbel (SUB Göttingen), Matteo Romanello (Universität Zürich), Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries), Pascal Belouin (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte), Dr Philipp Hegel (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz), Shih-Pei Chen (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte), Stefan Dumont (BBAW), Yana Strakatova (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

18:00 → 19:30 Implementation of DTS in TEI Publisher

Talk and discussion of the integration of the API specification DTS into the TEI Publisher as an example.

Speaker: Wolfgang Meier (eXist Solutions)