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RIDE A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources

Factsheet

Varitext

Published
2017-09
Issue editors
Ulrike Henny-Krahmer; Frederike Neuber; Philipp Steinkrüger (managing); Bernhard Assmann (technical); Ulrike Henny-Krahmer (technical); Frederike Neuber (technical)

Reviewed resource

Title
Varitext
Published
2013
Last accessed
2017-08-15

People

Designer

  • Sascha Diversy

Editor

  • Peter Blumenthal
  • Salah Mejri

Questionnaire

Reviewing criteria

General information

Can the text collection be identified in terms similar to traditional bibliographic descriptions (title, responsible editors, institution, date(s) of publication, identifier/address)? cf. Catalogue 1.1

Answer Yes

Are the contributors (editors, institutions, associates) of the project documented? cf. Catalogue 1.3

Answer Yes

Is contact information given? cf. Catalogue 1.4

Answer Yes

Aims

Is there a description of the aims and contents of the text collection? cf. Catalogue 2.1

Answer No

What is the purpose of the text collection? cf. Catalogue 2.2

Answer research, teaching

What kind of research does the collection allow to conduct primarily? cf. Catalogue 3.1.8

Answer quantitative

How does the text collection classify itself (e.g. in its title or documentation)? cf. Catalogue 2.3

Answer corpus, database

To which field(s) of research does the text collection contribute? cf. Catalogue 2.2

Answer linguistics

Content

What era(s) do the texts belong to? cf. Catalogue 2.5

Answer contemporary

What languages are the texts in? cf. Catalogue 2.5

Answer french

What kind of texts are in the collection? cf. Catalogue 2.5

Answer articles

What kind of information is published in addition to the texts? cf. Catalogue 2.5

Answer (option)

Composition

Are the principles and decisions regarding the design of the text collection, its composition and the selection of texts documented? cf. Catalogue 3.1.1-3.1.3

Answer No

What selection criteria have been chosen for the text collection? cf. Catalogue 3.1

Answer language, country, genre

How large is the text collection in number of texts/records? cf. Catalogue 3.1.4

Answer gt1000

How large is the text collection in number of tokens? cf. Catalogue 3.1.4

Answer gt10mio

Does the text collection have identifiable sub-collections or components? cf. Catalogue 3.1.5

Answer Yes

acquisition

Answer Not answered

Has the quality of the data (transcriptions, metadata, annotations, etc.) been checked? cf. Catalogue 3.1.7

Answer Not evaluated

Considering aims and methods of the text collection, how would you classify it further? For definitions please consider the help-texts. cf. Catalogue 3.1.8

Answer corpus

Data modelling

How are the textual sources represented in the digital collection? cf. Catalogue 3.2.1

Answer (option)

In which basic format are the texts encoded? cf. Catalogue 3.2.4

Answer xml

With what information are the texts further enriched? cf. Catalogue 3.2.2

Answer annotations, information

How are the annotations linked to the texts themselves? cf. Catalogue 3.2.2

Answer stand-off

What kind of metadata are included in the text collection? cf. Catalogue 3.2.3

Answer descriptive, structural

On which level are the metadata included? cf. Catalogue 3.2.2

Answer texts

What kind of data/metadata/annotation schemas are used for the text collection? cf. Catalogue 3.2.4

Answer specific

Which standards for text encoding, metadata and annotation are used in the text collection? cf. Catalogue 3.2.4

Answer tei

Provision

Is the textual data accessible in a source format (e.g. XML, TXT)? cf. Catalogue 4.1

Answer No

Can the entire raw data of the project be downloaded (as a whole)? cf. Catalogue 4.2

Answer No

Are there technical interfaces which allow the reuse of the data of the text collection in other contexts? cf. Catalogue 4.2

Answer (option)

Besides the textual data, does the project provide analytical data (e.g. statistics) to download or harvest? cf. Catalogue 4.3

Answer Yes

Can you use the data with other tools useful for this kind of content? cf. Catalogue 4.4

Answer No

User interface

Does the text collection have a dedicated user interface designed for the collection at hand in which the texts of the collection are represented and/or in which the data is analyzable? cf. Catalogue 5.1

Answer Yes

user_interface_sub

Answer Not answered

Preservation

Does the text collection provide sufficient documentation about the project in general as well as about the aims, contents and methods of the text collection? cf. Catalogue 6.1

Answer No

Is the text collection Open Access? cf. Catalogue 6.2

Answer Yes

rights

Answer Are the rights to (re)use the content declared?

Are there persistent identifiers and an addressing system for the text collection and/or parts/objects of it and which mechanism is used to that end? cf. Catalogue 6.3

Answer URLs

Does the text collection supply citation guidelines? cf. Catalogue 6.3

Answer Yes

Does the documentation include information about the long term sustainability of the basic data (archiving of the data)? cf. Catalogue 6.4

Answer No

Does the project provide information about institutional support for the curation and sustainability of the project? cf. Catalogue 6.4

Answer No

Is the text collection completed? cf. Catalogue 6.4

Answer Yes