Conveners
RSE in Digital Humanities
- Adrien Reingruber (Universität Würzburg)
The Medieval-Latin-Dictionary (MLW - https://mlw.badw.de) is a research project of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It's purpose is to write comprehensive a dictionary of medieval latin taking into account scholarly (theological) as well a profane sources.
Writing Dictionaries of this kind and extend typically is an enterprise that takes many decades to complete. And the...
Introduction
In 2018, the LEO study identified approximately 6.2 million individuals between the ages of 18 to 64 in Germany with very low literacy skills. These individuals are deemed to have a literacy level that restricts their participation in crucial aspects of society. [1] Various former and recent studies, including VERA 8, PISA, ULME I-III, and IQB, have highlighted a similar...
The Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (AdW) produces a number of critical editions of cultural heritage, which become increasingly multimodal over long funding periods of 12 or more years. Historical dictionaries, for example, turn to include geodata and statistics, image archives gain contextualisations and 3D reconstructions, and letter collections require annotations as well as...
Research Software plays an increasing role in the context of Humanities and, specifically, Archaeology to support the analysis of the vast and ever-growing data. As more and more disciplines come together and perform advanced analyses (e.g., with ancient DNA analysis), the demand for reproducible and testable results becomes more serious. So far, most tools have been created ad-hoc to test a...
