ProjectCRC933 Material Text Cultures - Subproject INF

Providing support to the CRC service project with information management and information infrastructure

The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) “Material Text Cultures” studies and investigates the connection between texts and the text-bearing objects, as well as the spaces surrounding these objects and the actions performed on them. The artefacts are from time periods ranging from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the modern day and are varied in their type and character: pillars, stelae, portals, gravestones, clay tablets, pottery shards, amulets, scrolls, papyri, parchment codices, etc.

The structured digital collection of artefact inventories and the complex questions placed to and arising from the heterogenous data require well-founded and tailor-made technological solutions. These solutions are being developed and secured by the service project INF on information management and information infrastructure. The shared data platform MTK-Online also enables specific data entries, queries and analyses. In addition, artifacts are networked according to diverse criteria and presented in context when published on the internet.

Close integration with the university's overarching concept for IT services is achieved through cooperation with the URZ. This enables the Collaborative Research Centre to be optimally equipped, particularly in the areas of virtualization, sustainable archiving and publication of research data.