摘要
1.PREFACE Coming from an institute that was devoted to analysing data streams of different sorts from its beginning to understand how the human brain is processing language and how language is supporting cognition,building efficient data infrastructures of different scope was a key to research excellence.While first local infrastructures were sufficient,it became apparent in the 90s that local data would not be sufficient anymore to satisfy all research needs.It was a logical step to first take responsibilities in setting up the specific DOBES(Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen)infrastructure focussing on languages of the world。