LODinG is dedicated to the use of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the humanities, with a focus on linguistics, literature, cultural studies and media studies. The basic intention is to collect, model, link and make freely available information in a machine-readable, standardized form. Entities such as persons, places, organizations and topics are provided with unique identifiers through standard data in order to record rich, contextualized information in machine-readable statements and to be able to expand them collaboratively. Further information on the project page.

Computational Literary Studies (CLS) as a sub-field of Digital Humanities has a long tradition, but has also opened up numerous new fields of activity and new methods in the last 5-10 years. The aim of the European joint project CLS INFRA is to support the development of this innovative field of work, particularly in its European, multilingual dimension. The project promotes the consolidation, integration and further development of national, regional and institutional efforts to achieve joint and sustainable access to high-quality data, tools and knowledge for CLS. Within the joint project, Trier is in charge of work package 3 on Methodological Considerations of CLS. The project is coordinated by Christof Schöch and is based at the TCDH. Further information can be found on the project homepage.

HERMES establishes places for learning, research and networking where data skills in the humanities and cultural studies are taught, developed and critically reflected upon. HERMES is designing and testing a range of different formats for this purpose.

In Trier, the partners Servicezentrum eSciences and Trier Center for Digital Humanities are helping to develop and implement the following offers:

Bring-your-own-data labs: Advanced researchers who have access to specific datasets need data skills and exchange opportunities tailored to their individual research projects. In the bring-your-own-data labs, this advice and mediation is therefore practice- and research-oriented, either individually or in small groups. The format enables researchers to deepen their knowledge of certain methods or learn about new approaches and apply them directly and with support to their research topic. As an advisory and support format that can be used at the beginning or further on in the research cycle, this offer is ideal for post-graduate students with research questions and data sets for specific research projects.

Hermes Hub: The HERMES Hub will be the central communication platform of the Data Competence Center. As a central facility, it is both a technical and a social platform that serves to provide information about the activities and offers of the DKZ, but above all to network and exchange ideas with all stakeholders in the field of teaching and developing data skills in the humanities. The platform is intended to do justice to the open science understanding of HERMES in order to strengthen the networking of all actors (producers as well as consumers of HERMES services) and to bring them into a lively, mutually beneficial exchange on data science methods and research data management in the humanities and their communication.

More information on the project page!

The project is dedicated to the problem of modeling pre-modern Jewish personal data. The solution is based on the systematic differentiation of name (reference) and reconstructed person in the data model. The first aim of the project is to develop and implement such a model and make it available to the FOR as a user-friendly tool. At the same time, the data model must comply with the international standards of the DH and offer a meaningful extension of existing ontologies. In the long term, the project aims to analyze the collected personal data with regard to their network structures and to develop an algorithmic heuristic that supports the reconstruction of personal profiles from a set of names. In this way, the project will contribute both to the refined modeling of personal data in the digital humanities as a whole and to the reconstruction of Jewish lifeworlds in the pre-modern period.

This project is lead by Christoph Cluse and Christof Schöch and is part of the DFG Research Group Aschkenas in neuen Lebenswelten led by Stephan Laux.

Die Workshop-Reihe „Strategien für die Nutzbarmachung urheberrechtlich geschützter Textbestände für die Forschung durch Dritte“ wird von Prof. Benjamin Raue (IRDT) und Prof. Christof Schöch (TCDH) organisiert und schließt an die Tagung zum Thema "Text und Data Mining in Wissenschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft vom Mai 2018 an. Die Workshops haben am 28.11.2019 und 17.01.2020 in Trier stattgefunden und wurden durch die DFG im Rahmen des LIS-Programms gefördert.

The project analyzes Beccaria's 1764 treatise Dei delitti e delle pene on the basis of its Italian editions and German, French and English translations in the 18th century. The project is coordinated by Falk Bretschneider, EHESS/CNRS Paris, Rainer Maria Kiesow, EHESS/CNRS Paris and Claudine Moulin, TCDH, University of Trier, with the participation of Christof Schöch, TCDH / University of Trier. Funding is provided by the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris) and the Villa Vigoni - Centro Italo-Tedesco per l'eccellenza Europea (Menaggio).