"Digitale Kartenwerkstatt Altes Reich" (DigiKAR) - Digital Map Lab Holy Roman Empire

The interdisciplinary project »Digital Map Lab Holy Roman Empire (DigiKAR)« develops and explores concepts for the collection, modelling and visualization of place-based historical information from the early modern Holy Roman Empire. It thus contributes both to historical research on the Holy Roman Empire as a space of divided and overlapping rule and to the further development of digital analysis and visualization of historical data with spatio-temporal characteristics. Movements of people, goods and ideas are not only examined and visualized in terms of their physical potential of mobility in complex spaces, but also in terms of their affiliation to different, sometimes competing, social, jurisdictional and political spaces within the empire.
 
DigiKAR is a collaborative project between the Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz (IEG), the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig (IfL), the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies Regensburg (IOS), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris, France (EHESS). The project is funded for a period of three years by the »Leibniz Cooperative Excellence« program of the Leibniz Association.