Matthias Arnold
NFDI4Culture at Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthias Arnold is a Digital Humanities specialist with 12+ years of experience architecting research databases and digitization workflows for non-Western cultural heritage at Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg Research Architecture. Trained in East Asian and European Art History and Chinese Studies, he bridges scholarly domain knowledge with technical implementation, from TEI encoding and GIS integration to multimedia and video annotation. He has led projects such as Early Chinese Periodicals Online, the Chinese Comics Database and a visual database of carved Chinese characters, demonstrating a consistent focus on structured metadata and sustainable research infrastructure. His work spans field campaigns, international collaborations (including Nepal heritage documentation) and long-term preservation concerns like web citation and access. Known for turning complex humanities requirements into pragmatic technical solutions, he combines museum-grade media design roots with deep DH project management experience. Based in Heidelberg, he now contributes to NFDI4Culture to scale national research data services for cultural studies.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mediale Ausstellungsgestaltung, Mediale Ausstellungsgestaltung at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung KarlsruheMagister Artium, East Asian Art History, Chinese Studies (Classical Chinese), Art History, Magister Artium, East Asian Art History, Chinese Studies (Classical Chinese), Art History at University of HeidelbergChinese Studies, Chinese Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinChinese Language and Literature, Chinese Language and Literature at National Taipei University of EducationOrientarchäologie, Orientarchäologie at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
German, English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
ats7
spanish6
editor1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
exc-asia-and-europe/sarit-transliteration-exist-module
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
exc-asia-and-europe/sarit-pm
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 4 tags in 1 day
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