Credits
In its current form, the website was mostly developed as part of two research projects granted by the Special Research Fund of the University of Antwerp, under the direction of Prof. J. Van Loon:
- “Een gelemmatiseerd, diachroon, elektronisch tekstcorpus van de Germaanse talen, inzonderheid het Nederlands” [a lemmatized, diachronic corpus for Germanic languages, especially Dutch] (BOF, New Research Initiative 2002-2004)
- “Hoe deflecteert een taalsysteem? Morfologische systeemveranderingen in het Duits-Nederlandse overgangsgebied eind 15e - begin 16e eeuw’ (SFO, 1998-2002)
Text entry of the Gothic Bible, however, dates back to volunteer efforts by different persons in 1997–1998. The following people contributed to the project, in alphabetical order:
- Tom De Herdt
- Research assistant at University of Antwerp on the projects mentioned above (1998-2008). Currently software developer at VUB University Library. — Webmaster. Started the project in 1997 by posting fragments of the Gothic Bible to a student website; created the database, TEI edition, digital facsimile editions and morphological software; text entry of Streitberg's dictionary.
- Frank Kinnaer
- Historian, currently doing archeological work in Mechelen, Belgium. — Tagged the names, dates and other content elements in the diary of Christiaan Munters.
- David Landau
- Department of Information Technology, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. His own website, the Database of the Gothic Language, focuses on digitizing the manuscripts and text heritage in general. — Contributed to text entry of the Gothic Bible (John, Nehemias).
- Robert Tannert
- Software developer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). Completed his Ph.D. in Germanic philology at the University of Tennessee; produced several electronic editions of Middle High German works in his dissertation project. — Contributed to text entry of the Gothic Bible (Epistles, Luke, parts of John, Skeireins: i.e. the greater part of the extant text).
- Steven Van Assche
- Civil Engineer. Completed his Ph.D. at Ghent University, with a thesis on lossless image compression. — Developed a C++ prototype of the morphological software and entered a significant part of Streitberg's dictionary.
- Jozef Van Loon
- Ph.D. in Germanic Languages K.U.Leuven 1979. Taught German and Dutch Language and Linguistics at the University of Antwerp; member of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature and of the Royal Historical Commission. Author of the books: Principles of Historical Morphology (2005), De ontstaansgeschiedenis van het begrip ‘stad’ (1999), Endogene factoren in de diachrone morfologie van de Germaanse talen (1996), Historische fonologie van het Nederlands (1986), Morfeemgeschiedenis en -geografie der Nederlandse toenamen (1981). — Director of the UA research projects.
Thanks to S. Bolotov, Richard Budelberger, Matthew Carver, Sean Crist, Reimar Müller, Mustafa Karakus, Christian Petersen, G. Taylor, Peter Tunstall, J. Wright, and others for pointing out errors and/or providing valuable comments on the project.