The first three volumes are available at the archive of the SAC journal.
Feb. 2010: The tables of content of the SAC yearbooks 1864-1982 are now online.
In the project "Text+Berg digital" we digitise and annotate a series of yearbooks by the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC): "Jahrbuch des S.A.C." (1864-1923) and "Alpen" (1925-today). The books constitute a precious collection of reports and essays on all aspects of alpinism as well as alpine nature and culture. Since these publications have come out continuously, they represent a unique basis for historical, cultural and linguistic research.
The 150 year sequence of the digitised books provides new opportunities for scientific investigation: it enables the quantitative analysis of diachronic language change as well as the study of typical language structures, linguistic topoi, and figures of speech. Moreover, the digital books allow for a quick access as the basis for the qualitative analysis of texts and pictures.
The project has been initiated by Dr. Noah Bubenhofer (German Department, University of Zurich) and Prof. Dr. Martin Volk (Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich). It is supported by researchers from different faculties as well as by the Swiss Alpine Club and the Austrian Academy Corpus AAC.
