Multilingual working and reading version of the "Genadendal Diaries". Part I: 1792-1800

The Genadendal Diaries describe the development of the town of Baviaanskloof/Genadendal (South Africa) from 1792 onwards. Various parts have already been published (e.g., the first two volumes by Bredekamp and Pliiddemann in direct translation into English), which are supplemented and expanded by this multilingual working and reading version. After automatic transcription, normalization, and translation (into English and Afrikaans), the diaries will be made available starting with the first volume and will be further edited in order to ultimately provide a complete corpus for further research.    The Genadendal Museum team is responsible for the primary digitization and data curation of the first three volumes (and thus the first part of the diaries from 1792-1800). The automatic transcription, normalization, and translation took place in Dresden. The project was funded from 2021 to 2025 as part of virTUos (Virtual Teaching and Learning at TU Dresden in an Open Source Context) by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education Teaching and will be continued as part of the activities of the Moravian Knowledge Network.