The programme focus on Digital Humanities is established by a close connection to the Trier Center for Digital Humanities and its research foci in the following fields:

• Full-Text Digitisation (partic. Double Keying)
• Standardised Encoding (XML, TEI)
• Creating Data Networks
• Software Development
• Foundational and applied research in the Digital Humanities
• Digital Literary Studies
• Digital History
• Digital Lexicography
• Quantitative Codicology
• Digital Editions