The Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen) is one of the largest academic libraries in Germany. The Library holds more than about 9 million printed items and digital resources including exceptional special collections of rare books, manuscripts, maps and other cultural artefacts. The SUB Göttingen offers a wide range of services supporting the needs of students, academics and researchers as well as the wider public. It serves as a central hub of Digital Humanities and digitization at a national level and beyond. This post, newly created with partial funding from the Volkswagenstiftung, is intended to provide innovative digital approaches to analysing and interpreting written sources and other historical evidence, and to establish imaging science as an important new research area at Göttingen University.