These slides give an overview of the new version 2 of the Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF, see https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF). Please note that the slides reflect the state of development as of 6.9.2023.

In 2023 we will be looking at the theme of ‘Exploring Climate Solutions’. We will develop an understanding of environmental issues such as green energy, food systems, reforestation and soil regeneration. To date, this course has been focused on work that diagnoses environmental problems, such as the extinction crises, long-term pollutants and…[Read more]

The long-term Academy project Travelling Humboldt–Science on the Move publishes the American, Russian-Siberian and European Travel Journals of the Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). The journals are accompanied by thematically related letters from his world-spanning correspondence network as well as man…[Read more]

The web service correspSearch aggregates correspondence metadata from digital and printed editions (or scholarly catalogues of correspondence) and offers them for central search and retrieval. The web service is based mainly on the Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF), which is being developed within the TEI Correspondence SIG. The…[Read more]

The project establishes a co-operative network and creates a representative digital collection of already edited and printed 18th-century letters. As an infrastructure project in the DFG funding program “Digitisation and Indexing”, PDB18 does not itself pursue a research question of its own, but will enable research on epistolary exchange in the…[Read more]