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Roman stone architecture represents a unique treasure of cultural heritage that gives evidence of early forms of sustainable urbanity in Germany. However, most of it has survived as dislocated building elements (disiecta membra), whose existence so far has hardly been known, let alone published. The academy project therefore serves to index, link and evaluate this corpus of material (approx. 25,000 single building elements, 5,000 buildings). The data produced will be modelled, recorded and made freely accessible, linkable, and reusable, taking into account various research traditions, standards and monument information systems. In addition, studies are being produced on three central research topics: 1) structure and change, 2) knowledge transfer and spatial production, and 3) urban landscapes and their challenges. These topics are compatible with architectural and social history, building and urban research, provenance and network research as well as questions of the digital humanities and expand this research with a dimension of historical depth.

The project will be carried out by an interdisciplinary team, accompanied by research into knowledge praxeology and supported by the latest approaches of the Digital Humanities. Research data and thematic analyses will be published on the research data platforms iDAI.world and Propylaeum Open Access, networked with other data collections and archived for the long term.