EpiMedDat:What is EpiMedDat?

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EpiMedDat emerged from a project funded by the VW Foundation between 2022 and 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig, Department of Humans and Environment, under the direction of Prof Dr Matthias Hardt supervised by Dr Martin Bauch.

The EpiMedDat database is being created as a MediaWiki in cooperation with various employees and project partners. Please refer to the detailed documentation with editorial notes on project genesis and data collection. If you have any questions about the technical implementation, please contact us.

The project aims to establish a collaborative scientific database (entitled EpiMedDat) for the collective collection of historical data on highly infectious diseases in pre-modern times. Within this environment, several thousand example data sets will be entered and, based on this data, categorisation, templates, structuring and presentation systems will be developed and tested. At the end of the exploration phase, a solid scientific database for the collection and processing of historical disease data will be created, which combines the functionality of Wikipedia with the reliability of scientific work processes.

Special thanks go to the staff and assistants of the Department of Humans and Environment in Leipzig, who have prepared, supported and worked on the project over many years.
The EpiMedDat database is only a small selection of all the medieval reports that have been written and survived on epidemic diseases such as the plague. Despite careful editorial revisions, it is not error-free. The collection should continue to grow. It therefore depends on the valuable information, comments and constructive co-operation of all users! Write to us - thank you very much!

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