Field of Focus III - Funded projects CometH

Project Leader:

Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler (Excellenzcluster Asia and Europe in a Global Contex)
Dr. Michael Winckler (Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences - HGS MathComp)

FUNDING LINE:

Core facilities

 

The Digital Humanities (eHumanities) see themselves as the sum of all approaches that aim to improve work in the humanities by researching, developing and applying modern information technologies. At the University of Heidelberg, research and teaching in Digital Humanities takes place in a large number of institutions and smaller initiatives spread across several faculties and centres, including almost all institutions involved in FoF3.

In view of the critical mass achieved, our medium-term goal is to establish a Heidelberg Centre for Computational Methods in the Humanities (CometH) with several chairs and research groups. As a core facility, CometH will combine the university's numerous interdisciplinary initiatives in computer science, computer-related subjects and the humanities and network them with the university's very active central institutions in this field (UB including specialist libraries and URZ). The aim is to ensure the integration of theoretical basic research, technical basic competence and library science expertise required for the Digital Humanities field within the framework of a research infrastructure, in order to create a solid and sustainable basis for the ideas and impulses of the "Digital Humanities" research group in FoF3.

With the help of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), a web-based DH platform "Digital Humanities at the University of Heidelberg" is continuously being developed, which makes DH projects visible at the interface of scientific computation/computer science and humanities and cultural studies, and also serves as a common infrastructure for the diverse DH activities with accompanying research and teaching.