In Practice

Centre for Digital Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Educational Science (CEDIFOR)

As a contact point for eHumanities, CEDIFOR aims to support research in the humanities and social sciences with qualitative orientation. In this context, DIPF specifically addresses transdisciplinary and national educational research.

The Centre for Digital Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Educational Science aims to provide methodological expertise for initiating and supporting research in the humanities and social sciences with qualitative orientation in the Rhine-Main area, including a transdisciplinary educational scientific perspective. The sustainable storage of research data is intended. Pilot projects from eHumanities will be supervised in their conceptualisation and preparation of relevant research tasks, necessary technological support will be assured, and CEDIFOR will also provide an infrastructure and thus store project data and research findings.

We intend CEDIFOR to become a widely acknowledged address for eHumanities. Based on profound competencies and a comprehensive toolkit, customised solutions will be compiled for research questions in the humanities. CEDIFOR will also support research practice implementations.

During the project funding phase, the CEDIFOR innovation strategy will be immediately demonstrated at DIPF regarding support for three educational research projects. As a key provider of research and information infrastructures in education, DIPF pursues a transdisciplinary and also national support for educational research within the joint eHumanities project.

Supported Research Projects are:

• Forschungskapazitäten für die qualitative Forschung durch Kollaboration und semantische Auszeichnung. Das Beispiel Unterrichtsinteraktion. (in cooperation with Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
• Virtuelle Forschungsumgebung zur kollaborativen Analyse von Klassenraumfotografien. (in cooperation with TU Braunschweig)
• Interlinking Pictura – Bertuchs „Bilderbuch für Kinder“ als semantisches Netz. (in cooperation with Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung (BBF), Berlin

Virtual Research Environment for Educational Lexica Research (VFU-ELF)

The first exemplary realisation of the VRE Semantic CorA links up to the history of education and the analyses of educational lexica. Two research projects are using the vre and its capacities for interactions to address their research needs.

• Technical Description Use Case VFU-ELF
• Educational Research Perspective to Use Case VFU-ELF (German)

Virtual Research Environment for Student Journals (VFU-PAUSE)

Recently, the DFG-project West German Student Journals From the 1950s and 1960s (PAUSE) decided to use a Semantic CorA pilot to test the VRE for their purposes. The project analyzes student journals dating from 1949 to 1968, which are part of the comprehensive collection of student journals of West-German secondary schools at the Research Library for the History of Education (BBF). The project analyses the student journals as artefacts of secondary school cultures. In a first step, a quantitative evaluation of the stock is intended. Qualitative case studies will follow to investigate in how far student journals were established and changed between 1949 and 1968.

• Description of the research project (PAUSE) (EnDe)

Other projects

• Encyclopedia 1914-18
• Docupedia
• Forschungskapazitäten für die qualitative Forschung durch Kollaboration und semantische Auszeichnung
• Interlinking Pictura - Bertuchs "Bilderbuch für Kinder" als semantisches Netz
• Virtuelle Forschungsumgebung zur kollaborativen Analyse von Klassenraumfotografien
• Abiturprüfungspraxis und Abituraufsatz 1882 bis 1972