The Department of Digital Humanities conducts basic and applied research in a wide range of areas of the digital humanities with a focus on:
Digital Scholarly Edition
Together with scholars from a wide range of disciplines, we work on questions of digital representation and analysis of humanities source materials of various media types.
Research Data Management
The Department of Digital Humanities has been developing and operating the Humanities Asset Management System [GAMS] for the creation, storage, provision and long-term archiving of digital resources since 2003. Based on this, we are dedicated to questions of technical infrastructure, subject-specific curation of humanities research data, including its enrichment, representation and open provision (data stewardship).
Digital Museology
This research area examines the impact of digital transformation on museums and their audiences and experiments with digital methods in the study of museological and cultural heritage.
Digital History
The range of historical data being researched at the Department of Digital Humanities as part of interdisciplinary collaborations at home and abroad extends from early medieval manuscripts, medieval documents and modern records to contemporary historical databases and places of remembrance.