deutsches-textarchiv.de

The Deutsches Textarchiv (DTA) provides free full-text access to digitised German-language texts from the 17th to the early 20th century. The texts are transcribed and structured in the TEI-P5 based DTABf format, can be read in a text-image view, downloaded, and searched with spelling-tolerant linguistic search across the whole collection.

Its users are researchers in linguistics, literary studies and lexicography who work with historical German. The texts and corpora are published under Creative Commons licences, and text analysis is available through tools provided via DWDS, including word trend curves and DiaCollo, as well as through external tools such as Voyant Tools. The core corpus comprises about 1,500 titles, and an extension corpus of about 4,000 sources has been added; the site lists 5,483 works.

The project has been run at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) in Berlin since its project funding ended in 2016, within CLARIN-D. It serves as a repository for structured historical texts within the NFDI consortium Text+ and supplies corpora for the Wortgeschichte digital project of the ZDL.

Product: Free online archive and search of TEI-encoded historical German texts, with text-image view and downloads under Creative Commons licences.