With the appointment of Kathleen Christian as Professor of Early Modern Art at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte in the Summer of 2020, the Humboldt-Universität and the Berlin University Alliance have provided new funding for the development and renovation of the Census database.
This funding is being used for a complete upgrade of the software and a new user interface. Funds also provided for a renovation of the photographic resources of the Census database as well as a data modelling project that is transforming the Census data into Linked Open Data.
More information on these projects can be found in the blog.