From DM

Torsten Schaßan, elected member of the executive board 2007-2013

Contents 1 Research 1.1 Projects 1.2 Research topics 1.3 Affiliations

Research

Projects

• Europeana regia. A digital collaborative library of royal manuscripts
• Digital edition of the manuscript Cod. Guelf. 64 Weiss. (=digital edition of a medieval palimpsest manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel)
• CESG and e-codices (=digitisation of medieval Swiss manuscripts; responsible for metadata and server administration)
• MASTER - Interface format for the description of medieval manuscripts (=adoption of TEI-P5 for the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system)
• CEEC - Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (=digitisation of the medieval manuscripts of the Cologne cathedral and diocesan library)

Research topics

• digital editions
• digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts
• markup languages
• theory of representation of information
• database and GUI design

Affiliations

• since 2007 Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Manuscripts and special collections department