forTEXT

The forTEXT Portal offers introductory, citable descriptions of methods and reviews of text collections and tools - from digitisation through annotation to interpretation and visualization of literary texts. Additionally, it provides materials for both self-learning and teaching. 

As an extension of the portal, the website articles are being published in thematic issues of the open access journal series “forTEXT Hefte” since January 2024, aiming to further establish DH teaching and encourage the exchange between DH lecturers. To this end, open calls on DH teaching materials will follow as part of the forTEXT Hefte from summer 2024.

forTEXT offers the following content:

• The forTEXT Portal (www.fortext.net)
  • A comprehensive collection of information on routines, i.e. methods as well as learning units, teaching modules and materials for classroom use (e.g. on topic modelling, named entity recognition, stylometry, network analysis, manual annotation, etc.).
  • Evaluations of digital resources (digital text collections, annotated editions) as well as the provision of self-developed resources such as video tutorials, case studies, theory-based expandable tagsets, secondary text libraries and a comprehensive glossary.
  • A directory of existing tools that support the listed routines.
• The forTEXT Hefte (https://fortext.tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/)
  • An open access platform, where the content of the portal is published in thematically bundled issues (on e.g. stylometry, topic modeling etc.) and that will be expanded in future to include external submissions of DH teaching materials (thereby becoming a true OER).
• The annotation software CATMA (https://catma.de)
  • forTEXT regards manual, digital annotation as a method inherent to the traditional humanities. With this in mind, the seventh version of the web-based annotation and analysis tool CATMA (https://catma.de) was further developed in the forTEXT project.