Data Management

• Data Collection
  • Form and Size of the Data (standardised, non-proprietary formats; plain text with XML markup; png-images)
  • Text selection and digitisation
• Documentation and Metadata (for instance as part of XML headers of single corpus files)
• Ethics and Legal Compliance
  • Data Sensitivity and Accessibility (low level of sensitivity; open access)
  • Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues (no copyright issues for grammar texts; certain restrictions apply to images; Creative Commons licence)
• Data Storage and Data Preservation
  • Data Storage and Data Security during Research (Servers provided by the Computing Centre at Heidelberg University; regular backups and integrity checks; trained personnel)
  • Long-term Data Preservation (via heiDATA)
• Data Sharing (website; git repositories; heiDATA)

For additional information do not hesitate to contact us.