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Data and Service Center for the Humanities

• Switzerland
• Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Data Repository
• Running
• Humanities and Social Sciences

The DaSCH is a data and service centre for research data in the humanities, which the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences has been operating since 2017 as a national institution in cooperation with the University of Basel. The central coordination office is located at the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel under the direction of Prof. Dr. Lukas Rosenthaler. For the first…

AGATE-ID: PR286

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Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands

• Germany
• Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
• Dictionary
• Running

At the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and in cooperation with the Technical University of Darmstadt, a digital dictionary of surnames is being developed. For the first time, this dictionary records all currently existing family names Germany (also foreign names) lexicographically, maps them and etymologizes them with the help of maps.

Previous dictionaries of surnames record only a…

AGATE-ID: PR16

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