Project description

The use of digital cultural data is a key competence for research and teaching in the digital humanities. The necessary data skills are not only changing the work carried out by researchers and educators but also revolutionising the cultural and memory institutions which provide access to digital data. New research requirements are making new demands of job profiles in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) sector.

HERMES, a collaborative project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is the brainchild of nine research institutions. Its goal is to establish a data competence centre for the humanities and cultural sciences. The nine participating research institutions are each contributing their expertise in building data literacy to several sub-projects designed to link and develop data competence and data-driven research still further. The German National Library is taking part in two HERMES sub-projects:

• The Transfer Workshop is organised in cooperation with the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe and links GLAM institutions with researchers. Its goal is to foster dialogue on data competence and bring together the various perspectives of the scientific community and the institutions that support research. The new demands being made of the GLAM professions are having an impact on training and qualifications in this sector, and the Transfer Workshop also provides information and reflects on these.
  

• The research studies programme, which is delivered in cooperation with the Leibniz Institution of European History in Mainz, also funds specific projects designed to promote the development of research-related data competence. The German National Library contributes by providing access to its extensive data holdings, which can be used to pursue innovative approaches and methods in text and data mining. Data competence is strengthened not only by working on collection-oriented issues but also by forging links with the other HERMES sub-projects and the DH fellowships offered by the German National Library.

Project website

To the project website: https://hermes-hub.de

Project framework

Funding body

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Partners

• University of Marburg (Coordination)
• German National Library
• Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association
• Technical University of Darmstadt
• Darmstadt University
• The Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
• Mainz University
• Leibniz Institute of European History
• Trier University

Duration

November 2023 to November 2026

More Information

BMBF - HERMES

BMBF – Aufbau von Datenkompetenzzentren an Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen

Contact

Dr. Friedrich Quaasdorf

f.quaasdorf@dnb.de