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Julia Pabst, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 4 (09 June 2021)

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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.

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Lukas Sebold, Leonie Aschmann: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 3

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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

Lars-Erik Brandt, Diana Vegner: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 2

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Session 4 – Modelling the Analyses Lars-Erik Brandt

The first presentation of Session 4: Modelling the Analyses was a project of Helen Mair Rawsthorne from the Université Gustave Eiffel with the title “Analysing 18th century hydrographic data: a campaign in the Bay of Biscay, 1750-1751”. The approach focused on maritime maps from the early modern period in France. At that time, a research project was to investigate the depth of the Bay of Biscay at different points and to map the entire bay with information on the depth of the sea and certain characteristics, such as sediment species. Helen Rawsthorne examined not only the maps themselves, created during this campaign, but also the written notes on the various measuring points. The sources are well preserved, since the maps were used by the people of that time in everyday life. The research question was to compare the quality of the results from the historical measurements with modern ones and thus to show how accurate the historical approach was. „Lars-Erik Brandt, Diana Vegner: Report on the conference – “Data for History 2021” – Day 2“ weiterlesen

Julia Pabst, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference “Data for History 2021” – Day 1

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The conference was opened by a short introduction by Torsten Hiltmann (HU Berlin), who, in cooperation with Francesco Beretta and Vincent Alamercery (LARHRA Lyon) is the organizer of this event. He offered a brief overview of the still young history of the consortium and introduced the overall aim of the conference, which is to promote exchange within the broader community and to create more stable structures for the future development of the consortium. Even though it can only take place online this year due to the Corona pandemic, it was important to preserve the core idea of the meeting. Therefore, all changes from the initial plans, such as a new schedule spread over 7 weeks and Airmeet as the platform for the conference, were chosen to assure exactly that: namely communication, exchange and discussions among like-minded people facing the same challenges if it comes to the modelling of data in historical research. „Julia Pabst, Anna Grönig: Report on the conference “Data for History 2021” – Day 1“ weiterlesen

Conference announcement: Data for History 2021 – Modelling Time, Places, Agents

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From May 19 to June 30, 2021, the Data for History consortium, an international community that aims to improve the interoperability of historical data on the semantic web, together with the Chair of Digital History and the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, will host the virtual conference Data for History 2021: Modelling Time, Places, Agents via Airmeet.

With three keynotes, around 30 paper presentations, a poster session and a final panel discussion, the conference will focus on the exchange of current ideas and practices regarding the modelling of time, space and agents as historical data. A topic that is all the more important since we are currently at a turning point in historical research:

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Anselm Küsters: Answering Bork with Distant Reading: A Corpus-Linguistic Analysis of EU Competition Law and Policy (1961-2021)

In an often-quoted passage from his magnus opus The Antitrust Paradox, Robert Bork underscored the role of objectives, ideas, and beliefs behind the operation of any competition law system: ‘Antitrust policy,’ Bork wrote, ‘cannot be made rational until we are able to give a firm answer to one question: What is the point of the law – what are its goals? Everything else follows from the answer we give.’ This paper answers Bork’s question for the European case by analysing all 11,000 European competition law decisions and judgments between 1961 and 2021 through corpus-linguistic methods that exemplify a distant reading approach. Overall, the results suggest that the initial ‘ordoliberalisation’ of European competition law was followed by a later ‘neoliberalisation.’ „Anselm Küsters: Answering Bork with Distant Reading: A Corpus-Linguistic Analysis of EU Competition Law and Policy (1961-2021)“ weiterlesen

VERLÄNGERT! – Call for Papers: Corpus Contest 2021 – Europäische Religionsfrieden experimentell erforscht

Das InFoDiTex (Universität Heidelberg) veranstaltet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Editionsprojekt Religiöse Friedenswahrung und Friedensstiftung in Europa (1500-1800) (ULB Darmstadt) und der Professur für Digital History an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin einen „Interdisziplinären Corpus Contest“ mit dem Ziel, Disziplinen zusammenzubringen, die mit „Text als Quelle“ arbeiten, und mit ihnen Kooperationspotentiale zwischen unterschiedlichen Fachkulturen auszuloten, die mit unterschiedlichen Projektideen und Methoden, aber demselben Corpus arbeiten.

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Yaroslav Koshelev: Das Erbe des deutschen Uranbergbaus digital verarbeiten

Die sowjetisch-deutsche Aktiengesellschaft Wismut war das viertgrößte Bergbauunternehmen der Welt. Auf dem Gebiet der ehemaligen DDR förderte in den Schächten und Betrieben der Wismut S(D)AG geschätzt eine halbe Million Menschen von 1945 bis 1990 rund 230.000 Tonnen angereichertes Uran, welches die sowjetische Rüstungsindustrie mit den notwendigen Rohstoffen für den Bau der Atombomben versorgte, aber auch mit Uran, das in Atomkraftwerken zu friedlichen Zwecken eingesetzt wurde. Die Wismut war dabei ein abgeschotteter Staat im Staate und verfügte über eigene politische, polizeiliche, kulturelle und kommerzielle Strukturen, welche den Arbeitern und Angestellten der Wismut eine Sonderstellung innerhalb der DDR-Gesellschaft ermöglichten. „Yaroslav Koshelev: Das Erbe des deutschen Uranbergbaus digital verarbeiten“ weiterlesen

Silke Schwandt: Digitale Methoden in der mittelalterlichen Rechtsgeschichte – Menschen vor Gericht in englischen County Courts

In der Forschung zur mittelalterlichen Rechtsgeschichte sind digitale Methoden gar nicht mehr neu. Es gibt zahlreiche Repositorien rechtlicher Quellencorpora – in Form von digitalisierten Archivbeständen, Volltextdigitalisaten juristischer Literatur etc. Insbesondere auf dem Feld der digitalen Editionen ist die Forschung zur Geschichte der Vormoderne seit mehreren Jahren so etwas wie eine Vorreiterin. Wie nutzt man nun aber diese Quellencorpora? Welche digitalen Analysewerkzeuge eignen sich zur Beantwortung der Fragen, die wir als Historiker*innen an das Material stellen? „Silke Schwandt: Digitale Methoden in der mittelalterlichen Rechtsgeschichte – Menschen vor Gericht in englischen County Courts“ weiterlesen

Programm für das Offene Forschungskolloquium im Sommersemester 2021 veröffentlicht

Nach langem Basteln steht jetzt das Sommersemesterprogramm für das Forschungskolloquium. Geplant sind 4 Vorträge und 1 Podiumsdiskussion, die wieder ganz unterschiedliche Methoden, Themen und Epochenschwerpunkte abdecken.
Darüber hinaus wird Kolloquium für sieben weitere Wochen einen Teil der “Data for History 2021”-Tagung beherbergen, mit dann jeweils vier kürzeren Beiträgen rund ums Modellieren historischer Daten, mit einem besonderen Fokus auf Zeit, Raum und Akteure. Das Tagungsprogramm wird separat veröffentlicht.

Hier erst einmal das Programm für das Offene Forschungskolloquium im Sommersemester: