Auf der diesjährigen Jahreskonferenz der Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) in Washington, der Digital Humanities Conference 2024 (DH2024), werden die Professur für Digital History der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und die Task Area 5 „Data culture“ der NFDI4memory gleich mehrfach vertreten sein! Im Folgenden wollen wir einen Überblick über die einzelnen Beiträge geben.
„Digital History Berlin bei der DH2024 in Washington“ weiterlesenFrisch veröffentlicht: Tagungsprogramm für die Digital History 2023
Vom 24.-26. Mai 2023 organisieren wir hier an der Professur für Digital History für die AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft im Historikerverband die Tagung Digital History 2023. Im Zentrum der Konferenz steht die Verwendung digitaler Methoden in unserem Fach und die Frage, wie sie die Geschichtswissenschaften und die Art und Weise, wie wir historisches Wissen produzieren, verändern.
Wir freuen uns, das vielfältige Tagungsprogramm präsentieren zu dürfen mit 22 Vorträgen, einer Keynote sowie der Postersession im Rahmen des Peter-Haber-Preises für Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft und nicht zu vergessen: einer Spreerundfahrt. Gerne möchten wir auch auf das reichhaltige Vorprogramm hinweisen, das ab Dienstag, dem 23. Mai, stattfinden wird. Sieben Workshops und eine Studierendenkonferenz laden zum direkten Erkunden, Experimentieren und Diskutieren ein. Hier geht es zum Programm.
Die Tagung findet in Präsenz in Berlin statt, kann aber auch digital als Stream verfolgt werden. Die Anmeldung zur Tagung und zum Vorprogramm erfolgt via ConfTool.
Wir bedanken uns beim Scientific Board, der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und dem Konsortium NFDI4Memory für die Unterstützung bei der Organisation und Durchführung der Konferenz.
Die Professur für Digital History auf der DHd 2023 “Open Humanities, Open Culture”
Nachdem die Jahrestagungen des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd) in den letzten zwei Jahren coronabedingt in den virtuellen Raum umziehen mussten, findet die DHd 2023 erstmals seit 2020 wieder in Präsenz statt und diesmal gleich an zwei Orten: in Trier und Belval, Luxemburg. Unter dem Motto “Open Humanities, Open Culture” wird es vom 13. bis 17. März 2023 wieder vielseitige Workshops, Vorträge, Panels und Diskussionen geben – vor Ort und hybrid. Zum reichhaltigen Programm geht es hier.
Auch die Professur für Digital History ist mit einigen Beiträgen auf der Tagung in verschiedenen Formaten vertreten.
„Die Professur für Digital History auf der DHd 2023 “Open Humanities, Open Culture”“ weiterlesenNew Date: Datafication in the Historical Humanities
The conference “Datafication in the Historical Humanities: Reconsidering Traditional Understandings of Sources and Data,” originally planned for December 9-11, 2021, has been postponed. The new dates for the conference will be June 2 to June 4, 2022. „New Date: Datafication in the Historical Humanities“ weiterlesen
Jascha Schmitz: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 7 (30 June 2021)
Panel Discussion
The last session of the Data for History Conference 2021 was a panel discussion between Ariana Ciula (King’s College London), Francesca Tomasi (University of Bologna), Harald Sack (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure Karlsruhe) and Francesco Beretta (University of Lyon) on ‘Historical data and interoperability / Quo vadis interoperability’. The opening speech was held by one of the conference’s co-hosts, Torsten Hiltmann (Humboldt University of Berlin), who also took on the role of moderator for the following discussion.
„Jascha Schmitz: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 7 (30 June 2021)“ weiterlesenJascha Schmitz, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 7 (30 June 2021)
Session 13 – Integrating Different Medialities
Øyvind Eide and Zoe Schubert (University of Cologne) opened with a presentation on their project Kompakkt, entitled “Space, time, and agents in theatre: Digital documentation of the transience of performances through theatrical agents in time and space”.
First, Øyvind Eide introduced the main features of the meaning of space in theatre: While in the text spatiality is represented by linguistic expressions, in performance both the existing spatiality of the stage (and beyond) and linguistic expressions represent space. Hence, concerning theatre, different forms of documentation are necessary for both categories. Many decisions have to be made and ways found to encircle the non-existent centre of documentation, the performance itself, in order to make it part of a (theatre) collection.
Secondary objects and materials are used for this, such as notes, drawings, audio and video recordings. Digital methods now offer the possibility to make these objects/artifacts more available, describable and linkable.
To this end, they have developed Kompakkt, an online repository where artifacts used in performances are digitally available and explorable. For this purpose, they used a selection of artifacts from the theatre collection of the University of Cologne.
Julia Pabst, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 6 (23 June 2021)
Session 12 – Data from Annotated Texts
The sixth day of the Data for History conference started with Cristina Vertan’s (University of Hamburg) presentation “Representing vague and uncertain historical data on places people and events in historical texts – a case-study of historical texts of Dimitrie Cantemir”. The main focus was on the texts and translations of the universal researcher Dimitrie Cantemir, who was the only one to write a history on the Balkan region from a western perspective. The original work was written in Latin and translated into other languages only in the 18th century. Since there was no word for word translation, the project is now dedicated to such translations. It combines hermeneutic methods with the methods of computer science. There are three directions of investigation: reliability, consistency and vagueness. First, a model with a knowledge base was developed, which also takes into account vague or uncertain places and persons. After that, the detection was done, e.g. to annotate linguistic marks for uncertain places in each of the available languages, followed by the visualization. One of the central points of the modeling was the creation of an ontology. With this ontology, one can now answer queries about the translations and texts, while taking ambiguities into account. The presentation highlighted the complexity of working with texts and translations.
„Julia Pabst, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 6 (23 June 2021)“ weiterlesenJulia Pabst, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 5 (16 June 2021)
Keynote #2
The fifth day of the Data for History conference started with the keynote Social Semantic Annotation: Linking People and Places in the Pelagios Digital Ecosystem by Rebecca Kahn (University of Vienna). This talk was about the experience from the Pelagios project on building a method and a community in and around the use of linked geo-data for working with historical sources. Rebecca Kahn’s talk focused not on the methods of the project, but on the community and network around it.
Pelagios is a Network that connects a method and a community with digital resources. Part of the project consists of providing the Recogito and Peripleo, a search engine for Linked Data.
Pelagios consists of four different founders, an investigative team and many other people involved from different directions (GLAM, students, etc.) The Network was built on the premise of openness regarding data, technology and the community.
Julia Pabst, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 4 (09 June 2021)
Session 8 – Providing Data on Persons
The fourth day of the conference started with the lecture “IPIF – pragmatic modelling decisions”. Contributors were Matthias Schlögl (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), Georg Vogeler, Gunter Vasold (University of Graz) and Richard Hadden (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna). The idea of IPIF is to take a pragmatic approach to modelling based on the factoid model and to provide a RESTful API to query data structured in this way. In the model, the metadata of its creation and modification aggregates information on a person, the source and the statements are extracted from the source by the creator of the factoid. Dating information a lot of the time is not easy in history with time ranges or broad terms in different sources. To model time and dating, the IPIF model uses a simple approach by distinguishing a date as a label and a sort date which allows to keep the original information in textual form, but also to filter it. The whole idea is to simplify the way data is computed. SPARQL is richer, but because of its complexity, you always have to know very specific information about the implementation. IPIF tries to use a less formalized approach to make it more easy to work with different data sources.
„Julia Pabst, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 4 (09 June 2021)“ weiterlesenLukas Sebold, Leonie Aschmann: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 3
Session 6 – Uncertain Time and Space
In the first presentation of the day, ”Chronology Statements for nodegoat: a temporal topology to interface with vague, relational, and actionable dates”, Pim Van Bree and Geert Kessels (LAB 1100, The Hague) introduced the platform Nodegoat. Nodegoat is a web-based research environment for the humanities, providing services to create e.g. network, linked and spatial data. However, there is also a need for complex statements to express temporal uncertainty.
The speakers pointed out that historians in general lack vocabularies to represent temporal uncertainty. This is reflected in common implementations in DH that miss flexibility and a standard for relational temporal statements. „Lukas Sebold, Leonie Aschmann: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 3“ weiterlesen