Constanze Buyken

Project coordinator DigiKAR & academic staff member NFDI4Memory
Room: 03-05, Diether-von-Isenburg-Str. 9-11, 55116 MainzPhone: +49 6131 3927078
Personal Details:
At the IEG from 2021 as coordinator of the collaborative research project "Digital Map Lab Holy Roman Empire (Digitale Kartenwerkstatt Altes Reich - DigiKAR)". From 2023 academic staff member at the Digital Historical Research Unit | DH Lab in the project "NFDI4Memory" (National Research Data Infrastructure, Consortial Initiative for the historically working humanities).
Research projects:
"Digitale Kartenwerkstatt Altes Reich" (DigiKAR) - digital map workshop Old Empire
In cooperation with IfL Leipzig, IOS Regensburg, JGU Mainz and EHESS Paris - The project develops and tests concepts for the collection, modeling and visualization of site-specific historical information from the Holy Roman Empire (of the German nation). It thus makes a contribution to historical research on the Old Empire as a space of overlapping rulership, as well as to the further development of digital analysis and visualization of historical data with temporal-spatial properties.
NFDI4Memory
NFDI4Memory is one of several consortia within Germany that will jointly manage the creation of a long-term and sustainable research data infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, or “NFDI”) for the digital age. It brings together partners united by a common set of interests, needs, and aims related to the distinct challenges faced by those disciplines that use historical methods or that rely on data requiring historical contextualization.