Project Participants

The focus of the Junior Professorship igital Humanities at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is on high-caliber, international as well as interdisciplinary research and teaching on image- and object-based knowledge media and processes in the fields of Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural Heritage. The range of topics includes the study of information behavior, information systems as well as aspects of museum mediation and pictorial knowledge representation. The junior professorship also deals with the theoretical reflection and systematization of the Digital Humanities as well as teaching research in order to build digital competencies.

Prof. Dr. Sander Münster (Project Leader)

His fields of work are digital 3D reconstructions, 3D digitization of cultural heritage, information systems for 3D models, science analysis and informetrics and the field of visual research processes and visual perception.

Clemens Beck (Project Management)

His main research interests are in the field of Digital Humanities/Digital History and Historical Network Analysis as well as in the field of Medieval History and Basic Historical Sciences.

The Institute of Architecture of the University of Applied Science Mainz focuses on the requirements of a scientific documentation of a computer-aided 3D modeling on the one hand, and on the web-based visualization of digital 3D models of destroyed or unrealized buildings on the other hand. The FAIR data principles are in the foreground of the work.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Piotr Kuroczyński (Project Leader).

Since 2001 he has been working on computer-aided 3D reconstruction of cultural heritage. His focus is on data modeling, interoperability and visualization of scientific (digital) findings.

The Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) is one of the largest academic libraries in Germany. As a classical state library, it comprehensively collects and archives publications about Saxony as well as publications subject to delivery in Saxony. As the library of the Technische Universität Dresden, it is responsible for the information supply of a research-intensive comprehensive university with a particularly broad spectrum of subjects. As a state library, the SLUB fulfills important coordination and service functions for the libraries in the Free State of Saxony and beyond.

Marc Mosch (Project Leader)

Head of Unit 2.1 Digital Presentation of the IT Department of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)

Sebastian Meyer (Project Coordination)

Project coordinator for externally funded projects in the IT department and staff unit for IT strategy. Since 2009, developer of the DFG-Viewers and the underlying framework Kitodo.Presentation  as a reference implementation of METS-based application profiles of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft.