Digital Humanities

The library is traditionally the laboratory of ideas in the humanities. The SUB Göttingen has a special focus on the digital humanities (DH). Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary field of research that combines classical questions of humanities disciplines with digital methods, data and tools - such as digital editions, linguistic corpora, annotation tools or text- and language-based analysis methods. These approaches open up new perspectives on sources, allow large-scale analyses and create innovative forms of academic work.

This focus is strongly anchored at the SUB Göttingen, both institutionally and practically. The SUB promotes the interlinking of humanities research and digital infrastructure and supports researchers and students in the use, creation and sustainable publication of digital research data as well as tools and workflows for DH projects.

DARIAH-DE Coordination Office

A central element of this work is the DARIAH-DE Coordination Office, which is based at the SUB Göttingen. In this role, the library coordinates the German contribution to the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU), a network for the development of sustainable digital research infrastructures for the humanities and cultural sciences and part of the European DARIAH community. This commitment promotes the exchange of methods, data and tools as well as the networking of research groups across disciplinary and national borders.

Text+

Another central building block is the NFDI consortium Text+. Text+ focuses on text- and language-based research data, including collections, lexical resources and editions, and works to provide data, tools and services for researchers in the humanities and social sciences in a way that is usable, interoperable and FAIR in the long term. The SUB Göttingen acts both as a partner institution and as a data and competence center.

Digital editions

Digital editions play a central role as the heart of many Digital Humanities activities. They enable not only the digital provision of historical sources, but also their scholarly indexing, annotation and networking on a previously impossible scale. By combining standards such as TEI-XML, sustainable research data management and open publication formats, editions are created that are reusable, citable and available in the long term. The SUB Göttingen supports researchers and students in the conception, implementation and publication of digital editions - from data modeling, workflows and tools to long-term preservation in reliable infrastructures. In this way, it contributes to ensuring that digital editions not only make research results visible, but also become dynamic research environments themselves, in which new questions, analyses and forms of collaboration are possible. Central to this is the TextGrid Repository, a long-term archive for humanities research data that is operated according to internationally recognized FAIR principles and enables researchers to make their data searchable, citable and reusable.

For you as researchers and students, this means that the SUB Göttingen not only offers traditional media access, but also a growing portfolio of digital collections, data services, advice on research data management and DH methods, training courses and access to national and international infrastructure services. This makes the library an active hub for innovative humanities research in the digital age - a place where methodological competence, technological expertise and scientific curiosity come together.