correspSearch v2 – New ways of exploring correspondence Dumont, Stefan Sascha Grabsch Jonas Müller-Laackman unknown date Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Austria Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Austria GAMS - Geisteswissenschaftliches Asset Management System Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 2019 Graz o:tei2019.123

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correspSearch v2 – New ways of exploring correspondence

The webservice correspSearch has been developed since 2014 to aggregate correspondence metadata and offers it to the scientific community for research and retrieval. The data is obtained in the TEI-XML-based "Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format" (CMIF) - developed by the TEI Correspondence SIG. A prototype was presented at the TEI Conference in Lyon in 2015.

Since 2017, the web service has been further developed in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). At the same time, the data quantity increased from around 25,000 to over 52,000 letters - many editions offer letter metadata in CMIF by now. In order to enable even small edition projects to deliver data in CMIF and to simplify the capture of letter metadata from printed editions, the CMIF Creator was developed in 2018 to allow a convenient browser-based input and processing of metadata into CMIF.

Over time, the development of the web service focused on both, the system architecture and the improvement of the search, which now - in accordance with the ongoing development of CMIF - for the first time does capture letter content as well. In addition, several different editions of one letter can be linked to each other or connected to associated archives. To add on that, correspSearch does offer a map-based, geographical search for writing and receiving locations by now. The API interfaces and networking possibilities of correspSearch have also been extended. With csLink, a JavaScript-based widget to present correspondence networks is now available on GitHub as open source software that can be integrated into any digital edition.

The article will present and discuss the further development of the web service, as well as the community’s experiences with the aggregation of metadata. During the presentation, the second version of correspSearch will be released as public beta.

Bibliography

Dumont, Stefan: „correspSearch – Connecting Scholarly Editions of Letters“, Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative Issue 10 (2016), http://journals.openedition.org/jtei/1742

TEI Correspondence SIG (Hrsg.): „Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF)“, 2018.2015, https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF