Digital Transfer Platform for COVID-19 Research
At a glance
- Co-project leader : Dr. Philipp Dreesen, Prof. Dr. Peter Stücheli-Herlach
- Project team : Matthias Fluor, Ursina Ghilardi, Dr. Julia Krasselt, Klaus Rothenhäusler
- Project budget : CHF 18'000
- Project status : ongoing
- Funding partner : Public sector (excl. federal government) (Kanton Zürich / Digitalisierungsinitiative DIZH)
- Contact person : Philipp Dreesen
Description
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic force researchers to
identify and classify the many different events and developments
during the crisis period within a short period of time in order to
develop and work on targeted research questions on COVID-19. The
data and digital tools of corpus and discourse linguistics provide
various disciplines with fast and reliable insights into the
dynamics of topics, actors and selected aspects such as public
health, sustainability or public governance. In addition to media
texts, the data include texts by actors from the fields of
economics, politics and health, among others. In combination they
form a comprehensively processed data collection on COVID-19.
The project provides easy access to a digital data and analysis
platform for research teams working on research questions about
COVID-19 or its effects. For this purpose, the already
existing ORD platform swiss-al.linguistik.zhaw.ch will be
adapted in a way that it can be used as a discourse-specific
transfer platform for orientation and exploration. Starting in
August 2020, the project team will offer workshops for researchers
from all disciplines, enabling them to access research-relevant
information using data-based and data-guided methods. The transfer
platform will also strengthen the possibility of interdisciplinary
cooperation for applicants, publishers and researchers, e.g. on
social, political and health aspects.