Digital Humanities Lab

Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary institution at the University of Basel. Its task is to coordinate and promote research, teaching and infrastructure for digitization in the humanities and social sciences. It is also a central institution in Switzerland for the theory and practice of digital humanities and offers a master's degree program and a doctorate in digital humanities. The laboratory has its roots in scientific photography and was founded in 1924 as the “Department of Scientific Photography.” In addition to digital editing, corpus building and virtual research environments, computational photography and imaging remain the group's focal areas in research and teaching.