OpenFieldSLUB Dresden · Dresden, Saxony, Germany
SLUB Dresden is one of Germany’s largest and most technologically advanced academic research libraries, operating as the university library of TU Dresden and a central national repository for digital humanities.
SLUB hosts the German Photothek, an internationally recognized digital collection center, extensive 3D artifact digitization laboratories, and the Open Science Lab. It provides world-class research infrastructure for bibliometrics, preservation informatics, and rare manuscript analysis.
Visiting research fellowships and doctoral residency grants require enrollment in a recognized PhD program or post-doctoral status in Digital Humanities, Information Science, History, or Data Science.
Postgraduate fellowship utilizing computer vision, OCR/HTR machine learning models, and semantic linked data frameworks across historical European manuscripts.
Specialized research residency on scientific publishing models, citation graph analysis, open research data standards, and European FAIR data compliance.
Competitive research grant supporting geospatial analysis of 16th–19th century Central European topographical surveys to trace historical ecological shifts.
Hands-on engineering internship fine-tuning LLMs and computer vision OCR transformers on Gothic and Fraktur print corpora in high-performance cloud clusters.
Curatorial fellowship exploring photographic provenance, architectural photography preservation, and 20th-century German industrial photo archives.
Financial publication support helping early-career scholars publish open-access monographs and peer-reviewed articles in verified international repositories.
Director General and Honorary Professor of Library Science
Executive Directorate & Digital Information Infrastructure
Prof. Dr. Katrin Stump leads national research consortia on digital long-term preservation, open science transformations, and AI ethics in cultural memory insti...
View researcher profile ↗Head of Digital Humanities Research Group
Department of Research & Development
Dr. Juan Garcés focuses on computational philology, handwritten text recognition (HTR), and semantic graph infrastructures for multi-lingual historical document...
View researcher profile ↗Director of Deutsche Fotothek and Visual Archives
Center for Visual Media and Photographic Heritage
Dr. Jens Bove specializes in historical photographic processes, documentary photographic history, and automated visual retrieval systems for image repositories....
View researcher profile ↗OpenField is an independent research platform not officially affiliated with SLUB Dresden - Saxon State and University Library. Information reflects public documentation reviewed on 2026-10-16. Students must verify application deadlines, fee structures, and prerequisite details directly with official university admissions departments before applying.
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