With the release of the Transcription+ Website, the Transcription+ project was concluded in October 2026.
The Transcription+ project was a cooperation of the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Text+ consortium of the German National Research Data Infrastructure NFDI. The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg, the Center for Sustainable Research Data Management at the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg Center for Language Corpora (HZSK) were partners from the Text+ consortium supporting Transcription+.
The project’s aim was to improve documentation and tool support for the standard ISO 24624:2016 Language resource management — Transcription of spoken language. To this end, existing documentation was revised, completed and published. Resources like XML schemas, XSLT stylesheets and other code were gathered from different sources, harmonized, documented and assembled in a GitHub repository. An improved version of the multilingual EXMARaLDA demo corpus was made available in the standard format.
The demo corpus was also made accessible through a new instance of the ZuMult platform. An set of web services, serving to convert, normalize, annotate or visualize transcript documents in the ISO/TEI format, was developed.