Hi everyone, we are happy to officially announce the availability of the LAUDATIO-Repository Beta-Version which you can find at http://www.laudatio-repository.org <http://www.laudatio-repository.org/> ! LAUDATIO (*L*ong-term *A*ccess and *U*sage of *D*eeply *A*nnotated Informa*tio*n) has built an open access research data repository for historical linguistic corpus data. For the open access and (re-)use of historical linguistic data of the LAUDATIO repository all corpora are available with Creative Commons-License. All researchers from the academic disciplines of Linguistics, Historical Linguistics and Philology can use and re-use the corpora e.g.: * look at corpora, * search in annotations and documents, * download corpora, * upload new annotations to an existing corpus * and upload new corpora. The linguistic search and visualization tool ANNIS is integrated in the LAUDATIO-Repository infrastructure to provide complex and comprehensive search in the linguistic annotation data. The LAUDATIO-Repository is technically based on the Fedora Commons Repository Software. We use the REST-Interface for importing, deleting and viewing the data. For the graphical user interface we use the MVC CakePHP-Framework(PHP5). Furthermore, we have developed several user functionalities with jQuery, especially for the view and search part. As for indexing and searching we use the lucene-based searchengine elasticSearch. We have created a separate mapping model for TEI-P5 model and facets. For each record automatically a unique Persistent Identifer(handle) are assigned. The validation is automatically against the metadata schema as a result of the import process. When it comes to mistakes, takes a detailed error output over libXML-Library. Furthermore, we have developed several user functionalities with jQuery, especially for the view and search part. Are you intending to re-use our code or do you plan a similar project? Feel free to contact me if you have further questions. Soon we will put our code + documentation on github. Feature requests and bug reports are very welcome and can be reported to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . Best regards Dennis For the LAUDATIO team -- Dennis Zielke Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Arbeitsgruppe Elektronisches Publizieren am Computer- und Medienservice (CMS) Rudower Chaussee 26 D - 12489 Berlin Postadresse: Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin Tel. +49(0)30 2093-70004 Projekt LAUDATIO: http://www.laudatio-repository.org/ Projekt CARPET: http://www.carpet-project.net/