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Any expansion of the TEI beyond its traditional user base involves a recognition that there are many diering answers to the traditional question "What is text, really?" We report on some work carried out in the context of the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History (CA16204), in particular on the TEI-conformant schemas developed for one of its principal deliverables: the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). The ELTeC will contain comparable corpora for each of at least a dozen European languages, each being a balanced sample of one hundred novels from the period 1840 to 1920, together with metadata concerning their production and reception. We hope that it will become a reliable basis for comparative work in data-driven textual analytics.The focus of the ELTeC encoding scheme is not to represent texts in all their original complexity, nor to duplicate the work of scholarly editors. Instead, we aim to facilitate a richer and betterinformed distant reading than a transcription of lexical content alone would permit. At the same time, where the TEI encourages diversity, we enforce consistency by permitting representation

In this corpus-based study we explore three measurements of L2 fluency – articulation rate, filler particles, and pauses –, both within and between two registers of spontaneous dialogues spoken by Polish learners of German. The measurements are assessed both in toto (as calculated over the whole dialogue) and in parte (as calculated for specific sections). The sections are identified on a quantitative tier that divides the dialogue into four parts, and qualitatively on two linguistically-informed tiers, comprising sections based on dialogue move and task. We challenge the assessment of fluency as an average measurement over the entire dialogue, showing that a sectionwise analysis offers a better understanding of similarities and differences both within and between the two registers.

Zusammenfassung Forschungsdatenmanagement ist seit den ersten Anforderungen der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 2015 zu einem Bestandteil guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis geworden. Hochschulen sind dadurch aufgefordert, Forschende bestmöglich zu unterstützen. Seit 2013 erfolgten deutschlandweit Umfragen, um Desiderate bei Infrastruktur- und Serviceleistungen zu ermitteln. Eine Evaluation der Bedarfsäußerungen fand bisher jedoch kaum statt. Der Artikel fasst Entwicklungen und Handlungsfelder auf Basis von zwei Bedarfserhebungen der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zusammen.