Within the framework of the DARIAH-DE DH-Awards, innovative contributions and research projects will be awarded to students and young scientists of the arts and cultural sciences, computer science and information sciences who work with digital resources and/or digital methods. The three DH awards are endowed with a total value of 1.800 euros.

Award winners

Three equivalent prizes were awarded:

For his research project Multispectral visual analysis methods for the investigation of baroque hand drawings was awarded to Armin Häberle, doctoral student in the history of art at Freie Universität Berlin and scholarship holder of the Max Planck Society at the BibliothecaHertziana in Rome. The research project is carried out in collaboration with the computer scientists Dr. Christian Riess and Amir Daravi (both Friedrich-August-University Erlangen-Nuremberg).

For her master thesis on the topic of figure networks as a measure of similarity, Isabella Reger was awarded the University of Würzburg.

For his Bachelor thesis Humanitarian Modulations: Doing 'Free' (Media and Communication) Infrastructures in Times ofForced Migration, Tim Schütz from the University of Bremen was awarded

More in the DHd-Blog

Presentation of the prize winners of the DARIAH DH-Award 2017: Tim Schütz

Armin Häberle, Sina Bock und Michael Kaiser (Jury) und Tim Schütz