Select List of Projects by our Stakeholders

The Forum Editorik Göttingen offers a framework for exchange and networking between various projects in the field of scholarly editing and in related disciplines, as well as with dictionaries. databases, and corpora. The projects listed below are not projects carried out or financed by the forum itself, but projects of participating individuals and institutions. The descriptions mostly are quotations from the linked homepages of the projects themselves or are our own translations of this content (both in in quotation marks).

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony:

“The Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament is a long-term project at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. It fills a huge lacuna, as no modern edition of the Bible in Coptic exists. The project aims to provide a complete documentation of the manuscript evidence, digital editions of all OT manuscripts, critical editions of all OT books, corpus-linguistic analyses and translations into English, German, and Arabic.”

“The Early New High German Dictionary describes the vocabulary of High German (Upper German, Central German and North German) from the mid-14th to the mid-17th century. It is a historical language stage dictionary that was designed by Oskar Reichmann in 13 volumes in the 1980s and about 70% of which has now been published (in volumes or sub-volumes as well as individual deliveries). Since January 1st 2013, the dictionary has been continued as a research project of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. With its completion in 2027, the large gap that still exists between the dictionaries of Middle High German and those of New High German will be closed. In addition to the continuation of printed deliveries, an electronic version of the dictionary was also developed in this context, which has been freely accessible worldwide at fwb-online.de since 2017.”

“The DFG long-term project ‘Complete critical edition of the writings and letters of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt’ has been supervised by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since October 1st 2015. The aim of the twelve-year project, which started in 2012 at the University of Göttingen, is the edition of all writings and letters by Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486-1541) in digital and printed form. The digital edition is created in cooperation with the HAB Wolfenbüttel.”

Website of the project:https://karlstadt-edition.org/
Digital edition: http://diglib.hab.de/edoc/ed000216/start.html

“The Prize Papers go back to hijackings, which were part of the war strategy of the sea powers in the course of the early modern period. Martial law required the clarification of the legality of hijacking before a tribunal or admiralty court, for the purpose of which the entire ship’s cargo (private and business records, ship’s papers, newspapers, personal belongings, commercial registers) was seized. In the NATIONAL ARCHIVES Kew, London, in the High Court of Admirality (HCA), this prize item, mainly from the period 1664-1817, together with the associated case files, survives largely untouched and unsorted to this day as the only surviving inventory of this type in Europe. [...] The aim of the project is the complete digitization of the prize papers, taking into account the material dimension of the holdings, the archival initial and in-depth indexing, the generation of research-oriented metadata and finally the presentation of the digital copies and the metadata in a research database. Not only is the material made accessible to scholarship in its entirety, but the contextualization and synchronization of documents and the information contained therein, which is so crucial for research, is now possible for the first time. The project is based with a team of young researchers at the Carl von Ossietzky University and works closely with the National Archives, London, the Historical Institute London and the IT experts of the VZG Göttingen.”

www.prizepapers.de

Georg August University of Göttingen:

Barockpoetik.de: “An Internet platform for all German-language baroque poetics, which currently contains two corpora, each resulting from DFG projects.”

“The Biblical Online Synopsis (BOS) aims to establish an open-access online synopsis of the Hebrew Bible. It will provide access to the various textual traditions, and enable complex searches and analytic tools. BOS seeks to offer a central platform for various editorial projects related to the Hebrew Bible. Our growing group of collaborators includes 30 projects or researchers.”

ECHOE: “With support from the Anneliese Maier Research Award (2015-2020) and a grant from the European Research Council (2018-2023), Professor Susan Irvine and Professor Winfried Rudolf have been able to launch an ambitious project opening up the anonymous and Wulfstanian Old English homilies for online research. The project resides at echoe.uni-goettingen.de; enquiries may be directed at echoe@uni-goettingen.de.”

“Interaktionale Sprache bei Andreas Gryphius – datenbankbasiertes Arbeiten zum Dramenwerk aus linguistisch-literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive,In cooperation with Universität Hamburg and University of Duisburg-Essen; funded by the German Research Foundation.”

“KELLIA (the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance) is a partnership between digital Coptic projects and Copticists in Germany and the United States. Kellia’s goals are to establish standards for digital Coptic projects, including for transcription of Coptic and metadata curation, and to create or adapt open-source tools for linguistic analysis and annotation. Kellia is funded by a bilateral NEH/DFG-Grant grant.”

Manifesto Project: For an English description of the MARPOR project, please visit https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/.

“The Ugarit-Portal Göttingen is the platform of Ugaritic Studies in Göttingen. It is hosted at the Old Testament seminar under the direction of Prof. Reinhard Müller.”

“Since spring 2020, Prof. Dr. Birgit Abels explores, together with her team, the sound knowledge of music in the Western Pacific Island World. Funded with a 5-year Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC), ‘Sound Knowledge: Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World’ (SoundKnowledge), aims to rethink music in terms of the procedural knowledge inherent in and specific to music-making by exploring the latter as knowledge practices in Micronesia.”

Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel:

For a list of further edition projects hosted at the HAB see:
https://www.hab.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hab-digitale-bibliothek-wdb-digitale-editionen.pdf.

Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen