Current Projects

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RC21 Project

Reading Concordances in the 21st Century

The RC21 project focuses on developing tool-independent methodologies for reading concordances, advancing corpus linguistics by designing user-driven algorithms and exploring innovative applications of textual data analysis in the digital humanities.

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“Our Future, Our Water, Our Stories”

A story writing competition for children and young adults.

This international competition is part of ongoing research at FAU in Germany and University of Birmingham in the UK, aiming to raise awareness of the climate and water crises that urgently shape our world.

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Digital Provenance Research

Digital Provenance Research: a computer-assisted image search in auction catalogues

In a collaboration between the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies and the Pattern Recognition Lab at Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, tests were conducted to determine the extent to which image recognition methods can be used to find images in catalogues using images as search queries. This image-based search aims to provide an additional, complementary access to the source material.

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SpaceLog

SpaceLog: An app for capturing multimodal location-based data

Multi-modal, rich data on individual location-based perception can help adapt urban environments to the needs of different target groups.