NFDI4Memory is a pacesetter of institutional, functional and methodical innovations in the historically working humanities: The consortium integrates historical research, heritage and information infrastructures in a digital research data infrastructure for the first time, in order to thus enable the sustainable transformation of historical-scientific research. The consortium is composed of 11 institutions with great experience in digital methods and of over 70 involved institutions from the entire spectrum of disciplines and epochs of historical research.

The spokesperson of the consortium, Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann, considers the approval as a forward-thinking decision:

NFDI4Memory opens up new fields for historical research on the basis of increasingly digitized and digital data, as well as digital methods, and supports the cultural change in scholarship.

The consortium furthers digital competence in universities, archives, libraries and collections and sets up basic structures and incentives for innovation and new career paths.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek as the largest historical-scientific library in Germany is the only applying library forming part of the consortium and holds responsibility for the project area "Data Connectivity" together with the data centre Historisches Datenzentrum Sachsen-Anhalt at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. This project area is about the connectivity and integrability of historical-scientific research data in a broad variety of heterogeneous work environments.

In its programme laid out for five years, NFDI4Memory develops a portfolio of key services which systematically connect historical science and digital resources. Its internationalisation strategy ensures the incorporation of global perspectives and international partners. NFDI4Memory secures the importance and critical function of historic research in society, culture and politics in the course of the digital transformation.

NFDI4Memory becomes part of the NFDI through the funding. In this multidisciplinary infrastructure, valuable data collections of scholarship and research are systematically categorised, connected and made usable sustainably and qualitatively for the entire German scholarly system.

Press release for download  (PDF, 70 KB)

Contact persons

Dr. Silvia Daniel
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Acquisition, Collection Development and Cataloguing 1
Ludwigstrasse 16, 80539 Munich
Phone  49 89 28638-2769
daniel@bsb-muenchen.de

Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann
Spokesperson of the Consortium NFDI4Memory
Leibniz Institute for European History Mainz
Alte Universitätsstrasse 19, 55116 Mainz
Phone  +49 6131 3939362
4memory@ieg-mainz.de