Centre for Digital Humanities

Datahub SSH

The central goal of the program Datahub SSH is to develop several technical and knowledge infrastructures to serve the researchers within the Social Sciences and Humanities. An overview of the most recent results:

Arabic corpora

In this project two large Arabic Corpora will be prepared for analysis: The massive Shi’i encyclopedia of legal texts Oceans of Light (written around 1700, in 110 volumes). A collection of fourteen encyclopedic anthologies of poetry and belles-lettres, all written, from the 9th to the 18th century, in the Sunni world. The legal texts will…

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