TextGrid Laboratory
With the ***TextGridLab***, a free software package, you can access tools and services to create, manage and edit research data. The open source software is the entry point to the virtual research environment. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and provides differentiated access rights management within the protected research environment. The TextGridLab is optimised for XML/TEI development, e.g. in the context of digital editions.
**TextGridLab** features include, for instance:
- Editor for text and XML with WYSIWYG functionality
- Integrated unicode character table from the Unicode character set
- A Text-Image-Link Editor
- The Dictionary Search Tool
- The note editor MEISE.
The infrastructure include powerful Project and User Management, Project Browser
/Navigator, Search Tool, Metadata Editor Aggregation Composer, Import/Export Tool, revisions and collection publication (in the repository) supported by an automated metadata validation.
**TextGridLab** is used by German researchers in different research networks and edition projects,
such as:
- hybrid edition of Theodor Fontane's notebooks (Fontane Research Centre of the University of Göttingen)
- text database and dictionary of classical Maya (University of Bonn)
- the Library of Neology (University of Münster).
(see https://textgrid.de/en/web/guest/kooperationsprojekte)
**TextGrid Lab** TextGrid was a project of ten partners, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the period from June 2012 to May 2015 (reference number: 01UG1203A). Since 2016, TextGrid is part of the DARIAH-DE Research Infrastructure.