As part of the regular project seminar for Master's students preparing for their Master's thesis, students dealt under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Christoph Bläsi in the winter semester 2021/22 on the one hand with issues surrounding extended metadata and on the other hand "instrumentally" with how to effectively process extensive unstructured data and present project results simply but "appetisingly" to fellow students and the public. The teaching project was gratefully supported by the Gutenberg Institute's Book & Reading Studies Department by funding research assistant Vanessa Möschner. Continue reading "Winter term 2021/22: Project seminar groups work exploratively and with the help of advanced tools with extended metadata"
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Winter term 2021/22: Project seminar groups work exploratively and with the help of advanced tools with extended metadata
Junior Professorship for Nikolaus Weichselbaumer
Dr. phil. Nikolaus Weichselbaumer has been Junior Professor of Book Studies at our Gutenberg Institute since the summer semester of 2022.
He studied book studies and modern German literary history in Erlangen-Nuremberg and was a research assistant in various projects before receiving his doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg under Prof. Ursula Rautenberg in 2014 with a thesis on the typographer Hermann Zapf. He was then a research assistant here in Mainz Book Studies from 2014 to 2021, before being appointed as an assistant professor in 2022.
Birthday wishes for Prof. Dr. Stephan Füssel
Prof. Dr. Stephan Füssel celebrates his 70th birthday on March 24, 2022. Mainz Book Studies offers its warmest congratulations. Ad multos annos!
Article by Prof. Dr. Corinna Norrick-Rühl (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) in today's issue 12/2022 of Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels
(with the kind permission of the editors)