Universität zu Köln (http://www.uni-koeln.de/)
Historisch Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung (HKI)
(http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/)
Prof. Manfred Thaller
The Universität zu Köln, Germany's largest university, enrolls around 65.000 students and supports numerous research centres. It has recently set a focus of its research activities on media studies, including a course and research activities in media related computer science. The Faculty of Arts has two specializations: The "Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung" basically implements a model of Computer Linguistics; the "Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung (HKI)" (cf. www.hki.uni-koeln.de) is unique in providing computer science training for non-linguistic disciplines. The main research activities focuson various aspects of digital library systems. Software developed and maintained by HKI supports some of Germany's largest digital libraries. Among HKI recent grants two are worthy of mention: One to create a prototype for the digitization of all existing German incunabula and the other for an evaluation study encompassing all digitization activities undertaken so far under the auspices of the German National Research Council. Besides general research in the area of non-relational /native XML databases, these activities have recently also lead to the development of a vast heterogeneous database backbone ("Prometheus"; cf. www.prometheus-bildarchiv.de) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research for a pilot project testing the possibilities of a virtually unified server uniting the image collections of all German art history departments. |
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