CATMA workshop at the DHd 2016 in Leipzig | 02 Mar 2016
The CATMA team offers a hands-on workshop as part of the DHd 2016 in Leipzig. The workshop is already sold out but if you are interested in a CATMA workshop at your place, don't hesitate to contact us.
CATMA's new look | 22 Jan 2016
We released a preview for the upcoming CATMA 5 which already includes a new look and some other UI improvements. The final release will contain additional functionality, so stay tuned.
CATMA workshop at Bristol University | 14 Dec 2015
On 27th November 2015 the CATMA team gave a workshop with scholars from a wide range of disciplines including literature, history, linguistics and more. The workshop provided an introduction to CATMA, a hands-on session and the showcasing of two larger projects that where executed with the help of CATMA.
Thanks to Roy for organizing this event!
If you are also interested in a CATMA workshop and want us to come over, please contact us!
CATMA on German television | 02 Jun 2015
CATMA and heureCLÉA are featured in the television show "Hamburgs Beste". The topic of this episode is "digitization". Digitization in the humanities, and with it CATMA and heureCLÉA, is addressed in the second part, starting at 6:50.
CATMA at DH 2014 in Lausanne | 04 Jul 2014
We are giving a workshop on a collaborative, indeterministic and partly automatized approach to text annotation including a hands on session with CATMA. We'll be around througout DH 2014, so even if you can not make it to the workshop do not hesitate to contact us if you want to know more about CATMA.
Picturing Texts: A Workshop on the Value of Visualizations in the Humanities, 14 – 16 November 2013, University of Hamburg | 31 Oct 2013
Texts are often the primary objects of interest in literary studies and in the Humanities in general. Though it getting increasingly common to use computational methods for analyzing texts, methods of visualization could not yet prevail. This issue is subject to a workshop that is held within the frameworks of the TransCoop project
DCI – The Digital Commons Initiative
which is funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation. The workshop is organized by the DCI team in cooperation with the team of the eHumanities project heureCLÉA around Prof. Jan Christoph Meister. The invited academics from different countries and continents hold expertise in computer science, linguistics, literary studies, and historial science. Together, they will discuss how the results of textual analysis can fruitfully be processed through data visualization. The envisaged outcome of the workshop is to develop visualization-prototypes that are adjusted to the specifics of different types of text analytical research questions. This methodologically informed preselection of practical visualizations will enable newcomers to benefit from the value of visualizations.
Transistion to new hardware completed | 17 Aug 2013
CATMA 4 now runs on stronger hardware which will bring a bit of relief as far as the performance is concerned. However we will also make changes to the CATMA architecture during the next weeks which will improve things further.
CATMA maintenance | 16 Aug 2013
CATMA will be moving to new hardware this weekend, so expect downtimes on Saturday August 17 2013. We will keep the downtime as short as possible.
CATMA 4 released | 15 Feb 2013
The CATMA team is proud to announce that CATMA 4 is now ready for use. CATMA 4 is implemented as a web application and can be found under the following link:
www.digitalhumanities.it/catma
The release of CATMA 4 entails the relaunch of this website, which is now fit to present the newest version of CATMA. It is to be noted though that, at the moment, not all of the planned features of the application are available yet.
Cooperation with Google | 21 Dec 2011
The CATMA team is very pleased to announce that Google funds the further development of CLÉA (Collaboratve Literature Éxploration an Annotation Environment) with 50000 USD. CLÉA will be a CATMA based web application for the annotation and exploration of large corpora of texts such as Google Books.
Interdisciplinary cooperation | 13 Jul 2011
We are happy to announce a new joint initiative with the research teams of Prof. Angelika Redder and Prof. Kristin Bührig from the HZSK (Hamburg Centre for Speech Corpora, www.corpora.uni-hamburg.de) at Hamburg University who - among other - are engaged in the linguistic research of narratives. Our joint focus lies on the transdisciplinary and computer aided research of factual and fictional narratives. We are currently preparing a joint workshop on discipline specific practices in the annotation and exploration of narratives. Our workshop will be open to other researchers with an interest in speech and narrative corpora and is scheduled to take place in July 2012, probably in the context of the upcoming DH 2012.
Talk on tagging time with CATMA in Wuppertal/Germany | 06 Jul 2011
Wuppertal's second narratological panel for postgraduate students "Zeit(en) erzählen. Narrative Verfahren – komplexe Konfigurationen" (July 7-9, 2011) includes the talk "Tagging in a 'huge meadow of time' - Analysen der Zeit mit Hilfe des Programmes CATMA" ("Analyses of time with the help of CATMA") by Lena Schüch. The talk illustrates how the temporal structure of William Faulkner's short story "A rose for Emily" can be described by using combined queries for tagged relative dates and tenses.
Please click here to see the conference schedule.
CATMA 3.2 released | 04 May 2011
The CATMA team announces the release of CATMA 3.2. Besides containing various bugfixes and improvements the release is mainly driven by a collaboration between the team of Prof. Dr. Meister (Hamburg University) and the team of Prof. Dr. Sinclair (McMaster University) at Hamilton (ON), Canada. CATMA offers now the possibility to export user generated data to the web-based text analysis environment Voyeur to enable the user to take advantage of the rich visualisations provided by Voyeur. A short report gives an insight on what has been implemented and how it can be used.
Google European Digital Humanities Award | 20 Dec 2010
The CATMA team is very pleased to announce that Google will support the development of CLÉA (Collaborative Literature Éxploration and Annotation Environment) with an award of $50000 USD. CLÉA will be a CATMA based web application for the annotation and exploration of large corpora of texts such as Google Books.
CATMA in use at the University of Hamburg | 23 Nov 2010
CATMA is currently used in, among other, an MA textual analysis seminar on the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. Schnitzler, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud's, introduced into German narrative prose the narrative technique of so-called 'internal focalization', i.e. psychological introspection into characters. With CATMA students tag and analyse surfcae markers as well as deeper level semantic attributes in Schnitzler's texts to identify the specific patterns of introspection in his narratives.
Using CATMA for meta data atomization | 23 Nov 2010
An example for using CATMA to markup a spreadsheet containing historic oceanographic data has been supplied by Alexander Dorsk. Instead of having to manually tag over 500 occurrences CATMA was used to execute a regular expression based tagging routine, reducing a task of some 10 hours to a minute or two. A detailed description plus a screencast give more information on the individual steps and provide a good demo of CATMA use in practice (thanks, Alex!).
