Volume 60 (2013), Issue 6

The core task of the Institute for the German Language (IDS) inMannheim is the research into and documentation of the Germanlanguage. IDS collects and preserves an extensive range ofprimary data in the form of corpora in both written and...

Social science is comprised of various specialized disciplineswhich deal with inquiries into societal issues. Investigationsof social reality require data. These are acquired in a variety ofways and means and frequently made available to other...

Research data which have been collected in the course of scientificcollaboration are becoming with increasing frequency the mainresource of scientific research. For data of the so-called groupdomain, however, the requisite infrastructure is still...

Data is everywhere; it is being produced virtually by all scientific,educational, governmental, societal and commerce endeavours.Data is being generated by surveys, mobile and embedded systems,sensors, observing systems, scientific instruments,...

In the past two decades Germany’s scientific and education policieshave experienced considerable structural changes. Particularlysignificant are the so-called »pacts« which were put into effectat the beginning of this millennium and are set...