EpiMedDat
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EpiMedDat emerged from a project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation between 2022 and 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig, Department of Humans and Environment, founded and supervised by Dr. Martin Bauch and Prof. Dr. Thomas Wozniak. It received considerable support by the TG 70 Programme of the State of Saxony in 2023-2024, helping to expand the database.
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.
Up to 2025 the project was using plain MediaWiki with nested templates. In early 2026 the project was re-done using Semantic MediaWiki.
