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The earlier it is done within a project, the richer the links to be discovered. At the Enrichment step, every tag, every color, and every commentary can also be put in a fitting RDF “box” from the start. “boxes” or “files” to put the information in can already be imported from the ontologies created by NIE-INE, and these can be enriched and customised. This solves the problem of infinite corrections, enrichment and corresponding tracking of changes and versioning. Even collecting data can be formalised from the start, that is, every piece of data, a manuscript, a verse, a citation, can be called as such and receive an IRI that will accompany this information for the whole duration of the project and even beyond it. Let us briefly explain this important point. With SWT one can bring the research project to a different level (compare to a non-RDF based project) in every single step that we have listed for Inseri. Potentially, a whole literature belonging to a single language can be mapped with its links and historical developments within a few years, and every new e-text coming up just enriches the structure and makes it more precise.Īt the same time, it allows the scholar to ask very complicated questions that would require massive human and computer resources to answer without the machine reasoning. The whole network of internal and external (to the text) connections that were discovered, is made available openly so that the next project can build upon those networks already manifested and visualised. In this case, every single element of data (line/word/text depending on the projects) has its own identifier (IRI), and those IRIs can be used to search for and mark the parallels, and other traces of influences within the other texts. Inseri, however, does not suggest any particular data format therefore, RDF shall be mentioned as one of the possible options. By means of (Computational) Corpus Linguistics, we eliminate the remaining incoherencies from the text, basically transforming the text into a stable database. Inseri includes as micro-services semi-automatic procedures belonging to the domain of Corpus Linguistics (Python implemented, R under development). This is also the best approach to the data traceability (not to copy, but to link to the original), resolving potential legal issues. Users can access all their project data in one place, be these e-books or scanned manuscript pages, and comment on them. Instead that structure is replaced “live” queries. There is no copy-paste, upload, reformatting, and printing out-a classical workflow in the humanities. The same input can be addressed by multiple applications, for example for visualisations. Each Inseri app (more than 30 have been developed so far) supports multiple inputs, for example, using a locally editable JSON and a JSON-tree coming from a third-party online resource, and the user can control how the inputs are connected based on their needs. Inseri is organised in an innovative way, oriented towards working with online resources within a single platform, and it integrates various types of them with ease (IIIF, SPARQL queries, RDF), and it can bring the project directly into the context of the Linked Data. All the addresses above are a mine of information on digitally available resources, IT training, DH colloquiums, publications, and successful projects.

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The project called e-codices, hosted by the University of Fribourg, makes the manuscript materials of excellent quality available online free of charge. The University Libraries in Switzerland created and provide access to e-publications, creating digital access to virtually any item possible.

There are a large number of successful critical edition projects supported by NIE-INE, universities of Basel, Bern, and Zurich.

University of Zurich is hosting many Digital Humanities research projects, in PhF and Computer Linguistics in particular, there is also SARI and DSI. To mention just few, LADHUL at the University of Lausanne, includes teaching from BA to MA level, DHLAB in EPFL, Masters in Digital Humanities in EPFL, DH Basel, DH Bern. Many Swiss universities have incorporated various organs dealing with the Digital Humanities (DH).

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