Text+: A National Hub Including Legacy Language Data

Florian Barth, Christoph Draxler, Jennifer Ecker, Stefan Fischer, Philippe Genêt, Alina Hemmer, Timm Lehmberg, Thorsten Trippel, Andreas Witt, Arden Zimmermann, Claus Zinn


Abstract
Text+ is the German distributed research data infrastructure for literary studies, linguistics, and spoken and written language. Its resources consist of contemporary and historical literary and media texts, deeply annotated material, transcripts of spoken and sign language, and original recordings. Text+ provides access to its resources according to the FAIR guidelines: Findable due to standard-conformant metadata, Accessible with single sign-on authentication, Interoperable via open data formats, and Reproducible through web services and extensive documentation. The 30+ partners of Text+ are archives, libraries, universities, and other research institutions. The partners are autonomous, and they differ in the amount of data and processing capabilities they provide. In this paper, we describe the hub architecture of Text+, which gives users a central and FAIR point of access to research data that continues to be distributed across the Text+ partner institutions. The architecture serves as a blueprint to evolving research infrastructures that aim at maintaining (and empowering) their research data contributors.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.654
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:
8264–8275
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-654
DOI:
10.63317/4vx5d59r6m29
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Cite (ACL):
Florian Barth, Christoph Draxler, Jennifer Ecker, Stefan Fischer, Philippe Genêt, Alina Hemmer, Timm Lehmberg, Thorsten Trippel, Andreas Witt, Arden Zimmermann, and Claus Zinn. 2026. Text+: A National Hub Including Legacy Language Data. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 8264–8275, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
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Text+: A National Hub Including Legacy Language Data (Barth et al., LREC 2026)
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