Text+ Registry: Data model Editions, Approach of Text+ towards Ontology Harmonization

Presentation for the working group Ontology Harmonization of the memorandum of understanding-group of NFDI consortia held on February 10th 2025. Our presentation gives:

• an overview of the status quo in Text+ towards ontology harmonization,
• contributions of Text+ to such activities within the NFDI,
• a technical introduction into the Text+ Registry as a service, and
• an introduction into the editions data model as data domain-specific implementation, as example for this scalability of the registry.

Executive summary

• Text+ consortium (and infrastructure) as locally distributed RI with a strong family tree of institutions distinguishing themselves with established services (search & retrieval) and resources (repositories) (=federated data and metadata infrastructure)
• Text+ Registry as THE means to provide overview and access to the resources of the data partners, and thus the infrastructure component to harvest for overall NFDI services
• focus on the Integrated Authority File (GND) as means for enrichment of research data

References

• Text+ Architecture: https://text-plus.org/ueber-uns/architektur/ feedback always welcome via the helpdesk
• Text Registry: https://registry.text-plus.org/ Drop an issue for the Text+ Registry: https://gitlab.gwdg.de/groups/textplus/registry/-/issues/ 
• Schulz, D. (2024, September 7). Cataloguing editions and other resources in one unified system. The Text+ Registry. Digital Humanities Congress 2024 (DHC 2024), Sheffield. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13729849 
• Gradl, T., Kudella, C., Lordick, H., Schulz, D. Towards a Registry for Digital Resources – The Text+ Registry for Editions. Datenbank Spektrum 24, 151–160 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-024-00479-0