#BiblioCon (largest library conference in the German-speaking area) takes place in Berlin this week. Today, there there is a talk about translating the Basic Classification into English. The TextGrid Repository contributed to it by presenting a clear use case, given that the platform is bilingual.

Congrats @antoniorojascastro.bsky.social! 👏 Last year, we imported the corpus into the TextGrid Repository using a project-specific XSLT transformation. Landing-page: textgridrep.org/project/TGPR... List of files: textgridrep.org/search?filte... Example: textgridrep.org/browse/4gbcd.0

Am Dienstag fand der Betriebsausflug der SUB Göttingen statt. Eine der Optionen war ein Lego-Tag. Wir haben unter anderem Logos und QR-Codes aus Lego gebaut. Auf dem Bild sind Ubbo und José aus dem TG-Team zu sehen. Meint ihr, ein QR-Code aus Lego funktioniert? 🤔 Ihr könnt das gerne ausprobieren!😜

What if a project doesn't have TEI, but only plain text? This was the case for the Lu Xun Corpus, with Chinese literature. For that, we created a basic TEI version with metadata and published it in the repository. Lading-page of the project: textgridrep.org/project/TGPR...

In the TextGrid Repository, not only do collections (folders) get a persistent identifier (PID) (HANDLE ID), but actually all documents get a PID: each XML-TEI document, each image, each XSLT transformation stylesheet, etc. This improves the identification of the data and makes it easier to cite.

A important project that was imported last year: GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages), a corpus of Sanskrit, Tamil and other Indian language texts. It is annotated with GND entities and Basic Classification. - Landing page: textgridrep.org/project/TGPR...

One of TextGrid’s best features: it can help you sleep better in the future! textgridrep.org/docs/publica...

Let's highlight some new projects! For example, the Folger Shakespeare in the TGR, with dramatic and poetic works, the original XSLT transformation, and facets for genre identified with GND-entities. Landing page: textgridrep.org/project/TGPR... King John: textgridrep.org/browse/48tws.0

Cool development: the Python library tg-clients. It provides direct access to all data (metadata, texts, images...) from the repository in Python, and much more. Here is the documentation with examples: dariah-de.pages.gwdg.de/textgridrep/... and here is a poster: zenodo.org/records/1070...

Over the past few years, many new projects have been added to the TextGrid Repository. One project for which we developed several features was ELTeC, which contains several corpora of novels in different European languages: textgridrep.org/project/TGPR...

'But the TextGrid Repository is only interesting for people working with German texts!' That may have been true in the past, but not anymore! We now have texts in over 100 languages! Here are the top 10 languages right now!

Oh, I forgot! We're going to have memes as well!

This is a new account to keep you informed about the latest projects and features of the good old TextGrid Repository! textgridrep.org