LEOA-IA
The project with the complicated name ‘Lire et écrire des ouvrages académiques à l'heure de l'intelligence artificielle et de l'impact médiatique’ (abbreviated to LEOA-IA), funded by the Franco-German University, Saarbrücken, is a series of workshops for French, German and other international doctoral students in which - partly in Lyon, partly in Mainz - work is being done on the effects of artificial intelligence on scientific writing and reading as well as the work of scientific publishers. One experimental project - together with the publisher Springer Nature - is the writing of a publishable scientific book with ChatGPT. LEOA-IA was conceived and led by Prof Dr Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri and Laura Bousquet from Lyon and Prof Dr Christoph Bläsi from Mainz.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Project Partners:
JGU Mainz,
Université de Lyon, France
Project Duration:
2022–2023
Project Funding:
DFH Saarbrücken, NBV-KI-05-21-III
Principle Investigators:
Prof. Dr. Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri (Université Claude Bernard/ Lyon 1)
Laura Bousquet ((Université Claude Bernard/ Lyon 1)
COMPOUNDS
Internal Principal Investigator:
Project Partners:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universität Siegen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut
Project Duration:
2021-2024
Project Funding:
BMBF, Projektnummer: 01JF2102
Principle Investigators:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Péter Bagoly-Simó (Humboldt-Uni, Berlin; Gesamtkoordination),
Prof. Dr. Daniel Scholl (Uni Siegen),
Prof. Dr. Riem Spielhaus / PD Dr. Steffen Sammler (Leibniz-Institut / Georg-Eckert-Institut)
Scalable Reading of „Gesammelten Werken“ des 18. Jahrhunderts, exemplarisch durchgeführt an Friedrich-von-Hagedorn-Werkausgaben
The project analyses all legitimate and illegitimate editions of the works of the poet Friedrich v. Hagedorn in the 18th century (approx. 80 volumes). It uses digital methods to identify differences in the text (text re-use and sequence alignment) and in the arrangement of the text (document analysis). The book science sub-project takes up the results, analyses the paratexts and locates the results in book science in the publishing landscape, in the aesthetic discussions (‘improvement aesthetics’) and in the culture of the 18th century.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Project Partners:
JGU Mainz,
University of Stuttgart
Project Duration:
2023–2026
Project Funding:
German Research Foundation, Bonn, Project number: 512277433
Principle Investigators:
Professor Dr. Gabriel Viehhauser (University of Stuttgart),
Liesen-Sophie Lange (JGU Mainz),
NN, University of Stuttgart
CHYLSA - Advanced sentiment analysis for understanding affective-aesthetic responses to literary texts: A computational and experimental psychology approach to children’s literature
Emotional involvement is of pivotal importance when children learn to read, tell, and share stories. This crucial dimension of cultural literacy has received surprisingly little attention within literary studies, psychology, and digital humanities. Taking a large-scale and data-driven approach, we develop and validate in CHYLSA AI-based sentiment analysis for computational literary studies. Our testcase are children´s books.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Project Partners:
Freie Universität Berlin, Arbeitsbereich Allgemeine und Neurokognitive Psychologie
Project Duration:
2019–2023
Project Funding:
German Research Foundation, Bonn; Priority Program 2207
Principle Investigators:
Prof. Dr. Arthur Jacobs, FU Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer, JGU Mainz
Dr. Jana Lüdtke, FU Berlin
›Werck der bücher‹ – Transitions, experimentation, and collaboration in reprographic technologies, 1440–1470
The project investigates the coexistence of different printing technologies in the early years of printing until around 1470, specifically block books and single leaves printed from wooden or metal blocks, possible early forms of printing with movable type, as well as the established technology of printing with type produced with punch and matrix. Extensive watermark analyses will provide clues as to whether and to what extent the different technologies were used in parallel in the same print shops. Pattern recognition-based type analyses will be devoted to the variance in the printed image of early incunabula and will attempt to clarify whether alternative technologies of type production were used.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Weichselbaumer
Project Partners:
University of Basel, University FU Berlin, University of Haifa, Radboud University, University of Stavanger, University of Trnava, University of Verona, University of Warsaw, University of Vienna, Stiftung Lesen, Barbara Piatti, The Readers.
Project Duration:
2021-2024
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Vincent Christlein (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Florian Kordon (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Dr. Stephen Mossman (University of Manchester)
N.N. (JGU Mainz)
Edward Potten (University of Manchester)
Project Funding / Project Number:
German Research Foundation / 468415227
elit – Empirical Study of Literature Training Network
ELIT is a European programme for the training of doctoral students in empirical, especially experimental methods in reading research and general literary studies.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Project Partners:
University of Basel, Free University of Berlin, University of Haifa, University, Radboud University, University of Stavanger, University of Trnava, University of Verona, University of Warsaw, University of Vienna, German Reading Foundation, Barbara Piatti, The Readers
Project Duration:
March 2020 to February 2024
Project Funding:
European Commission, Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant
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Aldus Up – Building Bridges in the Book World
Aldus Up is a network of Eurpean book fairs that focuses on the digitalisation of book fairs across Europe. The network promotes projects and initiatives to further improve book fairs.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Bläsi, Dörthe Fröhlich M.A.
Project Partners:
Italian Association of Editors (AIE) as project coordinator, European Association of Editors (FEP), Editor's Association of Flanders (Boek.be), Lithuania (LLA), Latvia (LGA), Portugal (APEL), Romania (AER) and Norway (NPA), Book fairs of Frankfurt/M., Bologna, Vienna and Rome, LIA-Foundation and Germán Sánchez Ruipérez-Foundation (FGSR).
Project Duration:
September 2020 to February 2024
Project Funding:
European commission, Programme Creative Europe
Link to Project Website:
Aldus Up - European Bookfairs Network
AuROA – Authors and Legal Certainty for Open Access
AuROA develops model contracts and works for more cooperation and standardisation in Open Access publishing in the humanities
Internal Principal Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Bläsi, Dr. Anna Klamet
Project Partners:
Library of the University of Duisburg-Essen (Project Lead); Department Communication and Economy of IST-university for Management in Dusseldorf.
Project Duration:
February 2021 to January 2023
Project Funding:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
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Mainz Reading Adventures – A Literanauten Learning-to-Read Walk
As part of the Literanauten project, students from Johannes Gutenberg-University and Mainz University of Applied Sciences in Mainz have developed an interactive learning-to-read walk. The offer is aimed at students in the first and second grades. Together with the water dragon Lu and the gnu Gnutenberg, the children embark on a multimedia scavenger hunt in which they can train their skills in dealing with letters, words and sentences. The mixture of stories and puzzles always involves the entire class. In addition to experts from the fields of publishing and museum education, a children's jury from the Goethe Elementary School in Mainz was also involved in the development of the program.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Project Partners:
Mainz University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Literanauten, Goethe Elementary School Mainz, Gutenberg Museum Mainz, Model Making Workshop of the University of Applied Sciences Mainz
Project Duration:
October 2021 to March 2022
Project Funding:
Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and Waldemar-Bonsels-Foundation [only in German]
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Font Group Recognition for Improved OCR
The project develops algorithms for the recognition of fonts in digitized books. Building on a previous project, which had already achieved recognition of the main text font for a given page, we now develop a way to recognize fonts at the character level, so that, for example, the font changes common in German blackletter typesetting are also detected when they occur within a word. In addition, several thousand lines of training data will be transcribed for each of the 8 most common font groups to improve text recognition for less frequently used fonts. The project is part of OCR-D, the initiative to develop an OCR solution for digitized books of the 16th to 18th century.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Weichselbaumer
Project Duration:
2020 to 022
Work Group:
Tatjana Hass (JGU Mainz)
Janina Molnar (JGU Mainz)
Anguelos Nicolaou (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg / KFU Graz)
PD Dr. Christoph Reske (JGU Mainz)
Mathias Seuret (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Janne van der Loop (JGU Mainz)
Project Funding / Project Number:
German Research Foundation, Bonn / 460605811
Link to Project Website:
Science in the Federal Republic of Germany's Pocket Book 1955 to 1980
The subproject B01 of the SFB 1472 (University of Siegen) aims at a source-based reconstruction of the dissemination history of scientific knowledge using the example of paperback series in both trade and scientific publishing houses (S. Fischer, Oldenbourg, Francke, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) with reference to three central groups of actors: (1) scholars and authors of scholarly texts; (2) publishers, who decide on topics, writing styles, layout, and distribution of scholarly texts in paperback; (3) readers, who are in part only included in the target audience of scholarly texts through the publication form of the paperback and who engage in the appropriation of scholarly knowledge not least in a paratext-guided manner.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Project Duration:
Januar 2021 bis Dezember 2024
Work Group:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Döring (Uni Siegen), Ally Heath (Uni Siegen), Katharina Knorr (JGU Mainz)
Project Funding / Project Number:
German Research Foundation, Bonn / 438577023
Link to Project Website:
Scientific Network "Research Field Reading - Reading as a Total Phenomenon“
The interdisciplinary and international network collects the disparate disciplinary findings of current reading research. Colleagues from the cognitive sciences, neurosciences, psychology, communication and media sciences, various pedagogical disciplines (e.g., media, elementary school, and adult education) as well as teaching methodologies, social and cultural sciences, book studies, linguistics, and philology are involved. Scholars exchange their findings in four content-based workshops (subject, spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of reading) as well as in two institutionally oriented workshops. The network then organizes a final symposium.
Internal Principal Investigator:
Project Duration:
2021 to 2024
Leaders of Network:
Prof. Dr. Svenja Hagenhoff (FAU Erlangen); Prof. Dr. Ute Schneider (JGU Mainz)
Project Funding:
German Research Foundation, Bonn
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