Digitalisation

The Academy was quick to recognise the digital transformation in the humanities and has frequently played a pioneering role in this field. Several of its research projects have been internationally trailblazing in the development of online databases.

Since 2022, the ‘Göttingen Digital Academy’ has served as a forum for exploring ways of making research data as widely accessible as possible in digital form, while also ensuring its long-term preservation. In close collaboration with the Lower Saxony State and University Library (SUB), the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen (GWDG), and the other German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, the Academy continues to develop innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of its research initiatives. 

A further key objective is the integration of these efforts into the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). As early as 2010, the Academy launched its own DINI-certified digital library via the ‘res doctae’ document server. This platform provides Academy members, as well as the wider community of researchers involved in its commissions and projects, with the organisational and technical framework needed for the electronic publication of academic documents.