On Monday, May 18, the new Research Report was presented to a selected audience.

CeMM attempts to address a wider public of culturally interested people, provides interesting artistic insides and provokes new questions. A good example for this is the yearly CeMM Research Report, which is more than a summary of the ongoing projects and activities. 

The theme of this year’s report is inspired by the human genome, and by the Austrian National Library. In 2014, CeMM successfully launched the Personal Genome Project “Genom Austria” (www.genomaustria.at), together with the Medical University of Vienna, aiming to support a genetic literacy in wide sections of the population. Each of our genome is composed of about six millions of letters, of As, Ts, Gs and Cs, which corresponds to roughly a million standard pages, hundreds of books per each genome, which reminded us of large libraries. We would like to thank Director Johanna Rachinger for the permission to use the Austrian National Library as a central theme illustrating our research report, and for hosting all CeMMies during a wonderful visit. Many analogies emerged by comparing the library and the digital and non-digital data storage at CeMM, like the preservation of its documents and material, the exchange and access of information, the styles of reading and writing, the responsibility to generate and provide knowledge for future generations.

To request a hardcopy please send a message to office@cemm.oeaw.ac.at.