Knowledge creates understanding

In the last week of November, a ReIReS workshop on FAIR data use was held in Mainz, organized by the Leibniz Institute of European History. We interviewed Anna Aschauer, one of the participants and co-organizer of the workshop. Read More >> “How to Implement FAIR Data Principles?”

One of the answers of ReIReS is: an easily accessible database. Therefore ReIReS is working on a unified database in the field of religious studies. An important next step in the process of developing this database has been taken: the publication of the requirements overview along with the use of case models, online available via this website. Read More >> “What is Needed for Good Research in the Field of Religious Studies?”

FAIR Data Use was the topic of the workshop that was organized this week by Brepols and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, allowing ReIReS to analyse its data for the FAIR principle. Read More >> “Scholarly Exchange Digital Humanities Exciting and Necessary”

During the week of 22-26 October a Workshop on Management of Special Collections for Research Purposes was held in Warsaw. Gergana Ganeva attended the workshop. Read here her blog on the trends in digitalization of primary sources. Read More >> “Researchable Databases are Needed”

During the Warsaw workshop October 22-26, the organizers and participants joined the process of charting the interface between those preserving and making available primary sources and those working with these materials. 16 people from all over Europe entered into the dialogue and search for new possibilities for translation from the material historical source into the digital medium and the potential it brings to the scholarly world. Read More >> “Searching for New Possibilities for Translation From Historical Sources Into Digital Media”