Project
As part of the M.Sc. Digital Humanities at the University of Trier, a project seminar is planned to transfer the skills learned into practice. We students are entrusted with the selection of a project topic and its independent implementation in the team. After compiling several options, we decided to collect the legends of the region of our place of study and prepare them digitally. Our original settlement in the subjects of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics (Digital Humanities focus), History, German Studies, Journalism and Communication Science as well as Business Informatics contributed to this decision.
Over the course of the project, we defined various milestones that were to represent the stages of our project and set clear goals. The coordination of milestones was indispensable for us because we wanted to structure the progress of our work and ensure the success of the overall project.
Milestones
Topic Selection
Brainstorming
Preference formation
Selection of a suitable topic
Requirements analysis
Determination of project goal
Identification of sub-projects and target group
Decisions on the tools needed
Conception (rough)
Outline of the course of the project
Definition of deadlines
Planning buffer
Working phase
Tracking of the defined workflow
Exchange within the group
Final presentation
Project review
Discussion of the results
Submission of project report
Documentation of the project
Self-reflection
The Team
The project team consisted of eight people. Due to the different educational backgrounds, our expertise was very diverse and complementary. Each of us brought unique knowledge and skills that allowed us to look at complex problems from different perspectives and find innovative solutions. This diversity of expertise led to a dynamic and productive working environment where we could learn and grow from each other.
In the following, we would like to briefly introduce ourselves to you and describe our own motivation towards the project.
Dennis Binz
Study program:
B.Sc. Language, Technology and Media (Digital Humanities focus)
Area of responsibility:
Parser, TEI
Quote:
Executing the Parser-Scripts: “Ab geht er, der Peter”! (Meaning: ‘Here we go!’)
Tingyi Chen
Study program:
B.A. German Studies
M.Sc. Digital Humanities
Area of responsibility:
OCR, Website
Quote:
“奇文共欣賞，疑義相與析”——陶淵明
“Read outstanding texts and discuss different points of view.”
Ben Conrad
Study program:
B.A. History and Political Science
M.Sc. Digital Humanities
Area of responsibility:
Website, Database, TEI
Quote:
“Never again Typo3!”
Magdalena Damrath
Study program:
B.Ed. Music Education and German Studies
M.A. German Studies and M.Sc. Digital Humanities
Area of responsibility:
Website, Content
Quote:
“Preserving cultural assets and making them accessible.”
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Xinyi Liu
Study program:
B.A. Journalism and Communication Studies
M.Sc. Digital Humanities
Area of responsibility:
OCR, Website
Quote:
“Become the person who would attract the results you seek” 🙂
Meizi Meng
Study program:
B.Sc. German Studies
M.Sc. Digital Humanities
Area of responsibility:
OCR
Quote:
逝者如斯夫！不舍昼夜。—孔子
“Time passes by like this, flowing away day and night.” – Confucius
Phillip Schmitz
Study program:
B.Sc. Business Informatics
M.Sc. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and M.Sc. Digital Humanities
Area of responsibility:
Webseite, Datenbank, Protocol
Quote:
“I’m glad it worked out. Si, si, oui, oui! (relieved)”
Jingyi Zhang
Study program:
B.Sc. German Studies
M.Sc. Digital Humanities
Area of responsibility:
OCR
Quote:
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