UNI JENA is the largest university in Thuringia and one of the oldest in Europe. The professorship for Digital Humanities has a focus on image/object data research and particularly citizen involvement and co-design, educational research, scientometrics, automated 4D modelling. The professorship is significantly involved in the European Time Machine Initiative with 650 member organisations and coordinates the EU S3-Partnership for Virtual and Smart Cultural Tourism.
In META-MUSEUM, it coordinates the design of prototypes for empirical evaluation and contributes by ensuring the design and development of testable prototypes to be evaluated in pilots.
The professorship for Digital Humanities focuses on international as well as interdisciplinary research and teaching on image- and object-based knowledge media and processes in the fields of Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural Heritage. The range of topics includes the study of information behavior, information systems, and aspects of museum mediation and pictorial knowledge representation. The professorship also deals with the theoretical reflection and systematization of Digital Humanities as well as teaching research aimed at building digital competencies.
