Swiss-AL: Plattform für Sprachdaten zur Analyse öffentlicher Kommunikation in der Schweiz - Publizistik

The paper presents Swiss-AL (= Swiss-Applied Linguistics), a platform for research on public communication in Switzerland, which is developed and provided at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). Swiss-AL contains around 4.5 billion words in four languages (German, French, Italian, Romansh). It includes texts published online from the fields of journalistic media, politics & administration, business, science, and civil society. Swiss-AL was developed for discourse studies but is equally an important database for communication and media studies, for example for quantitatively oriented/standardised media content research. Swiss-AL is currently being developed into an open research data resource for the applied sciences. This includes the further development of a browser-based workbench (access: www.swiss-al.linguistik.zhaw.ch ) that allows access to the data and meets the requirements of data and copyright protection in Switzerland and the EU. The article presents the aggregating analysis options that this workbench currently provides and that are particularly applicable to content analysis questions. The article concludes with an outlook on future developments in the area of Open Research Data and outlines planned implementations of FAIR principles.