Patrick Sahle

Patrick Sahle is a University Professor for Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Sciences at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. He maintains an active research profile with numerous publications, projects, and presentations in the field of Digital Humanities. He is affiliated with the IDE - Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. and participates in various official contexts related to Digital Humanities.

His research interests span a broad spectrum of Digital Humanities topics including Digital Scholarly Editing, Electronic Texts and Textuality, Textual Markup Theory, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Knowledge Organization, Cultural Heritage Digitization, Palaeography, Codicology, and Medieval History. His work focuses particularly on the intersection of traditional humanities scholarship with digital methodologies and tools, with special attention to textual scholarship, scholarly editions, and the theoretical foundations of Digital Humanities.

Professor Sahle's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on modeling approaches in Digital Humanities, scholarly editing practices, and the development of digital research platforms like VedaWeb. His work shows consistent engagement with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), data structures, and the theoretical underpinnings of digital scholarly work. He has made significant contributions to understanding how digital methods transform traditional humanities practices.

He actively supervises theses and dissertations in Digital Humanities and has developed numerous courses and workshops on digital scholarly methods. His teaching covers topics from introductory Digital Humanities to specialized areas like Codicology and Palaeography, Information Visualization, and Digital Resources for History.

Professor Sahle leads and participates in multiple research projects including DFG-funded initiatives like 'History as a visual concept: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae', 'Rhodomanologia', 'VedaWeb', and 'Consilium Communis' (a citizen science project involving Neuss City Archives). He has coordinated Digital Humanities implementation in numerous academy projects including Niklas Luhmann: Theory as Passion and Capitularia.

His institutional involvement includes the development of the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH) at the University of Cologne, participation in DARIAH-DE (Digital Research Infrastructures for the Arts and Humanities), and coordination of various Digital Humanities initiatives and working groups in Germany.