Digital Humanities & Virtual Reality am GKM

In several GKM research projects, digital humanities methods are used to open up digitised data sources enriched with metadata and evaluate them using queries, as well as to make this data available for later research from a different perspective.
Many members of the GKM are networked in the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), an interest group of digital researchers at the University of Münster.
In the Digital Humanities working group (AK DH) at the University of Münster, several working groups are led by members of the GKM: WG 3D (Janoscha Kreppner), WG Data Modelling (Natalie Kraneiß), WG TEI (Clemens Leonhard), WG Text Recognition (Ludger Hiepel), WG Science Communication DH (Nikola Moustakis).
The Archaeological Museum is home to a 3D laboratory that supports the three-dimensional virtual preservation of cultural artefacts.

© Uni MS - Peter Leßmann

University Society sponsors VR station on the basilica in Doliche

The University Society (Universitätsgesellschaft) has recognized the project "A new early Christian cult building of ancient northern Syria and its mosaics - The Basilica in Doliche" as a lighthouse project and is also funding this idea. The Asia Minor Research Center will use the funds to set up a virtual reality station in the Archaeological Museum in collaboration with the University of Münster's Web and Design Unit, which will enable visitors to virtually view the excavated parts of the church and the restored mosaic floors.

Forschungsprojekt
© FS Asia Minor

Doliche Urban Excavations

By using modern digital technologies, the finds and structures from the excavations in Doliche can be precisely recorded and analysed. The following tools and instruments are currently being used to digitally document the results: Structure from Motion (SfM) with Agisoft Metashape; the GIS mapping programme, the Laser Aided Profiler (LAP), the Artec Space Spider hand scanner and aerial photography with a drone.

Project lead: Prof. Dr Michael Blömer; Prof. Dr Engelbert Winter
Department and Institute: Department 08 History/Philosophy - Seminar for Ancient History; Asia Minor Research Centre

Further information

Forschungsprojekt
© Jens Rohde I Peshdar Plain Project

Lifeworlds of the early 1st millennium B.C. in the Zagros Mountains

For the Zagros region of northern Eastern Iraq and northwestern Iran, a civilian center in the lower town of a large Iron Age settlement before and during the period of the Assyrian takeover is investigated for the first time.. Temporal classification of the foundation, period of use and end of use of the buildings by fine stratigraphic analysis, reconstruction of the building biographies and 14C dating from selected stratigraphic contexts.

Projet lead: Prof. Dr. Florian Janoscha Kreppner
Faculty und Department: Fachbereich 09 Philologie – Institut für Altorientalistik und Vorderasiatische Archäologie

 Further informationen

Forschungsprojekt
© ÖAW-ÖAI/N. Gail

Written Culture and Economic Life in Late Antique Ephesus:

The aim of the project is the edition and historical analysis of 94 clay sherds with carved inscriptions, which are of essential importance for the understanding of the written culture and economic life in late antique Ephesus.

Project lead: Prof. Dr. Patrick Sänger
Faculty and Department: Faculty 08 History/Philosophy  – Seminar für Alte Geschichte

Further information

Forschungsprojekt
© "Job" von Léon Bonnat (1880), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (bearbeiteter Ausschnitt)

Digital edition of ancient textual witnesses of the Book of Job

The project of a digital edition of the ancient textual witnesses of the Book of Job wants to translate the Aramaic translations - two fragmentary translations from Qumran and the rabbinic Targum - into German and compare them with the Hebrew original. As a "control variable", the - much better edited - Greek text of the Septuagint is also to be included.
Project lead and contact person: Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks
Faculty and Department: Department 02 Catholic Theology – Institute for Biblical Exegesis and Theology (IBET)

Further information