“From Leipzig into the Romania” - Environment for collaborative annotation and knowledge creation

Abstract

In this paper, we present an environment for collaborative annotation and knowledge creation which was created in the framework of a project on the Neogrammarians and their influence on Romance Linguistics. In this environment, which is made available via the Web-Portal "From Leipzig into the Romania" the different aspects of digitized texts can be annotated collaboratively, information extracted from these texts can be ordered into knowledge domains, relations between individual knowledge domains can be set and visualized in form of ontology. The environment allows, furthermore, the writing of new texts exploiting the already gathered information. By presenting this environment we hope to show which type of resources are needed if we want to integrate Digital Humanities and existing curricula in the Humanities and to allow students to actively contribute to ongoing research.