Consortium
The member institutions of the DARIAH-CH Consortium are the following :
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Universität Basel is represented by Prof. Dr. Peter Fornaro
The Digital Humanities Lab from the University of Basel is an interdisciplinary institution. Its task is to coordinate and promote research, teaching and infrastructure for digitisation in the humanities and social sciences. It is also a central institution in Switzerland for the theory and practice of the digital humanities and offers a Master's programme and a Doctorate in Digital Humanities. The lab has its roots in scientific photography and it was founded in 1924 as “Abteilung für Wissenschaftliche Photographie”. Besides digital editing, corpus building and virtual research environments, computational photography and imaging are still foci of the group in research and lecture.
Universität Bern is represented by Prof. Dr. Tobias Hodel
The Digital Humanities program from the University of Bern was begun in August 2013. It offers a selection of courses targeted at scholars of all levels, from undergraduates to post-doctoral researchers. Digital Humanities research is already well-established in several projects throughout the Faculty of Humanities at Bern, ranging through disciplines such as History, Philology, Linguistics, German Studies, Romance-language Studies, and Music.
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL is represented by Prof. Dr. Sarah Kenderdine
The Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) at EPFL is a transdisciplinary initiative at the intersection of immersive visualization technologies, visual analytics, aesthetics and cultural and scientific (big) data. eM+ engages in research from scientific, artistic and humanistic perspectives and promotes post-cinematic multisensory engagement using experimental platforms. eM+ has ten unique visualization systems combined with powerful sonic architectures that are benchmarks in the realms of virtual, augmented, mixed realities.
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Université de Lausanne is represented by Prof. Dr. Anita Auer
Prof. Anita Auer is a historical linguist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary research, particularly the correlation between language variation and change and socio-economic history, as well as textual history. To date, she has carried out research in several related fields, notably philology (Old English, Middle English and Modern English), corpus compilation and corpus linguistics, stylistics, dialectology, (socio-)historical linguistics, the interface between manuscript and print, and language standardisation.
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Université de Genève is represented by Dr. Ysadora Charital on behalf of the UNIGE rectorate and Prof. Dr. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunnel
The chair of Digital Humanities is directly attached to the Dean's Office, and does not depend on any department, which clearly signifies its transversal and interdisciplinary character. The aim of the Chair is to teach the use of digital technology to all human sciences, according to the methods and issues specific to the Humanities. At the same time, it encourages us to reflect on our digital practice, from its use in research to the daily presence of digital technologies in our lives. The Digital Humanities Chair was also created to federate research in Digital Humanities throughout the Faculty of Arts and beyond. Beyond the usual disciplinary silos, it aims to foster collaboration, synergy and the exchange of expertise between all the disciplines of the University, regardless of the school, faculty, or discipline.
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Université de Fribourg/ Universität Fribourg is represented by William Duba from the Center for Manuscript Research e-codices/Fragmentarium. Fragmentarium is a digital research laboratory for medieval manuscript fragments. Fragmentarium enables libraries, collectors, researchers and students to publish images of medieval manuscript fragments, allowing them to catalogue, describe, transcribe, assemble and re-use them.
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Université de Neuchâtel is represented by Prof. Dr. Mathieu Avanzi and Dr. habil. Francesco Beretta
The Digital Humanities Lab from the University of Neuchâtel gathers scholars working in the fields of archaeology, geography, history, art history, linguistics, philology and sociology.
Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI) is represented by Dr. Iolanda Pensa
The Institute of design at the Department for Environment Constructions and Design at SUPSI has a specific expertise in open cultural data and open science for arts, design and music. It has implemented research and citizen science, involving open online collaborative projects and collaborating with the communities of Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, OpenStreetMap and Creative Commons; it is active in opening content of museums and archives in the frame of OpenGLAMs and the GLAMHack. More broadly the Institute promotes research, courses and services in interaction design, open innovation, scientific communication, information design, co-design and design for inclusion.
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Università della Svizzera italiana is represented by Dr. Elena Chestnova
The Institute for the History and Theory of Art and Architecture (ISA) was recently founded at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture. The various disciplines represented at the ISA – among them the history of art and architecture, philosophy or political thought or film and photographic studies (to cite but a few of the feasible options) – attempt to develop and implement open disciplinary concepts and tools in order to improve our understanding of the physical and social context of artistic and architectural design and production. One of the recent projects carried out in the field of digital humanities is that of Semper editions.
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Universität Zürich is represented by Dr. des. Yann Stricker from the Zentrum Digitale Editionen & Editionsanalytik ZDE
The ZDE is the central coordination office for digital edition projects at UZH. The ZDE supports researchers in their editing projects from the conception phase to long-term archiving. The ZDE supports research projects in questions of long-term archiving, in particular in coordination with the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities. The ZDE is involved in two ORD projects funded by swissuniversities. The Proto4DigEdand and ORD Xplore projects aim to promote the long-term accessibility, interoperability and reusability of research data from digital edition projects.
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University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland – FHNW is represented by Dr. Linda Ludwig
The Basel Academy of Art and Design (HGK Basel) focuses on the development of positions and enhancement of competencies in Open Science and Open Research Data through various collaborative projects. Practice-based research at HGK Basel includes activities and projects on open knowledge processes and publishing – for example in the Critical Media Lab which is part of the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM). Additionally, the PhD program MAKE/SENSE in partnership with the University of Art and Design in Linz explores similar topics, and draws on a network of relevant international partners (including the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at Humboldt-University of Berlin, SciencesPo Media Lab Paris and Meta-Lab(at)Harvard).
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The Bern Academy of the Arts - HKB is represented by Dr. Fabiana Senkpiel
The HKB is positioning itself as a competent player at the intersection between the digital humanities, digital infrastructures for the heritage sector, and the digital transformation of the artistic professions. It thereby heavily draws on earlier research and practical experience of the Institute for Public Sector Transformation of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, which has played a significant role in accompanying the digital transformation of public sector organizations in Switzerland, including heritage institutions. In cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Bern, the Bern Academy of the Arts HKB operates a doctoral program Studies in the Arts SINTA, which focuses on interdisciplinary and practice-oriented research on artistic performance, design, and aesthetics.
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Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften is represented by Dr. Beat Immenhauser
The Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences is one of the most important organizations responsible for long-term research projects and infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland. These projects include dictionaries, editions, databases and other collections, as well as information preparations. They provide knowledge bases based on the principles of FAIR-Guiding and the Open Science initiative. In this way, the Academy does not itself carry out research in the digital humanities, but provides the central foundations for their development through the projects it supports. International networking - of researchers, data, ideas and institutions - plays a central role here. The ASSH also aims to provide guidance in the sometimes confusing landscape of long-term projects, infrastructures and initiatives in the field of digital humanities.