Manuscripts in Motion: Tools for Documenting, Analysing and Visualising the Dynamics of Textual Topographies (GP01-G)

• Subject Area: Humanities
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191249397

The guest project develops methods and software for automatic measurement, documentation and visual analysis of layout features of manuscript or book pages. In close cooperation with selected projects the GP identifies properties of (units in) books which are relevant for the analysis of movements and its modes, i. e. 'transfers', and the de- and recontextualisation of knowledge items in books and corpora that can be subjected to automatic image processing. The results are seamlessly integrated into the digital infrastructure of the collaborative research centre.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 980: Episteme in Motion - Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Co-Applicant Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie; Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Andrea Rapp; Dr. Rainer Stotzka