Mainzed (German pronunciation: [ˈmaɪntsɛt]; stylized in all lowercase; acronym for Mainzer Zentrum für Digitalität in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, i.e. Mainz Centre for Digitality in the Humanities and Cultural Studies) is a joint initiative of six scientific institutions to promote digital methodology in the humanities and cultural sciences in Mainz, Germany. It was founded in the context of the academic annual celebration of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz on 6 November 2015. Partners of Mainzed are the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (ADW), the Mainz University of Applied Sciences (HS Mainz), the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz (IGL), the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz (IEG) and the Romano-Germanic Central Museum Mainz – Archaeological research institute (RGZM).
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History
Mainzed is based on several long-term cooperations between larger institutions in Mainz including the six partners from the founding phase. The collaborations already began in 1997 between the Institute for Spatial Information and Surveying Technology (i3mainz) and the RGZM by operating the Competence Centre for Spatial Information Technology in the Humanities. This center is hosted at the HS Mainz together with the i3mainz. The Digitale Akademie was founded in 2009 as research and development institution for digital humanities of the ADW. It is connected to the Institute of Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz, the Leibniz Institute of European History and the universities of Mainz. In autumn 2013, the informal Network DHMainz was created with the help of the Mainz Research Alliance. The network prepared the Digital Humanities Day 2014 in Mainz where first drafts for the continuation of the initiative were made, which lead to the founding of Mainzed in 2015.
Tasks
Mainzed was founded in order to accompany and practically implement the transformation of the humanities and cultural studies in the course of digitisation in Mainz.
Mainzed works in research, the support of research, qualification and transfer. Furthermore, it constitutes a social research infrastructure by offering a network of scientific exchange with regard to the development of projects and research foci for scientists of all qualification levels.
Range of competences represented in the network:
3D data
Art history
Computer science
Content management
Digital archaeology
Digital Scholarly Editions
Digital history
Geographic information system
Grammatical Variation
Historical geographic information system
Musicology, music informatics
Natural-language processing
Prosopographical network
Open data, linked data
Religious studies
Semantic modeling, Semantic Web
TUSTEP / TUSCRIPT
Web development
Organizational structure
Mainzed is organized into an executive board composed of the founding director Kai-Christian Bruhn as well as his deputy Klaus Pietschmann, a scientific advisory board with representatives of the partner institutions and an executive office.