From printed book to digital map

The Digital Humanities Virtual Laboratory Lab ("DHVLab", Digital Teaching and Research Infrastructure for the Humanities) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München has developed a modular teaching and research infrastructure within the project framework and for students of art, history and linguistics who are particularly concerned with methods of the Digital Humanities. This has resulted in detailed descriptions of manuals and use cases, including an introduction to the creation of an interactive map, illustrated by the example of a seminar on "Funerary Culture in the Early Modern Period". The course has been designed with specialist scientific staff and with the help of basic IT training with the aim of learning the basics of data acquisition and processing together with subsequent visualization and thus basic technical skills for application to issues in the humanities. These training projects are made available by the DHVLab for self-study.