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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 3d

Auf dem Weg nach Augsburg zu "Prompted Pasts?" 🚂 Freue mich auf spannende Projekte und Diskussionen!

#history #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ai #images

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Sep 2

🖋️ Der zur Veranstaltung gehörende Reader befindet sich noch in der Mache. Nach dem Semester wird er aber vollumfänglich mit dazugehörigen Videos 📽️ und Jupyter-Notebooks 🗒️ zur Verfügung gestellt.

Stay tuned!

#programming #history #digitalhumanities #didaktik #weiterbildung #interdisziplinär

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ich darf im kommenden Semester an der UZH im Kolloquium der Reihe "Geschichte in der Praxis" einen Einführungskurs in Python für Geschichtsstudierende geben (bit.ly/47VdlDe). 🎓

🔢 🏺 Das Ziel ist es, den Lernenden Python direkt an geschichtlichen Gegenständen beizubringen. 🪙

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔠 44,407 annotations across 73 classes
📜 Includes Latin letters
🤖 Semi-automatic labelling with Roboflow
Use it for palaeography, HTR, character segmentation or just to explore the manuscript!
#DigitalHumanities #Palaeography #HTR #MedievalStudies #History #OpenScience
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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨
I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar).

The dataset is freely available on Zenodo:
👉 zenodo.org/records/1699...

🔎 2,152 line images
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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Also: thanks to the @dizh.bsky.social for the funding! #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ancienthistory #history #ai 2/🧵

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our project "Re-Experiencing History" is featured in the UZH news. Thanks for having us 🙏.

www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/...

The project team (Felix K. Maier, Raphael Müller, Nicola Steger, Eva Willi, and I) is pleased to have had the opportunity to work on this.

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Legionäre per Klick

www.news.uzh.ch

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Aug 5

Zejie Guo and I were honoured to be nominated! Congratulations to Francisco for winning the Fortier Prize!

adho-org.bsky.social @adho-org.bsky.social · Jul 17

Please join us in congratulating the nominees for the Paul Fortier Prize. Be sure to attend the Closing Ceremony on Friday, 19th July, when the winner will be announced—don’t miss it!
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

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adho-org.bsky.social @adho-org.bsky.social · Jul 17

Please join us in congratulating the nominees for the Paul Fortier Prize. Be sure to attend the Closing Ceremony on Friday, 19th July, when the winner will be announced—don’t miss it!
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 16

Zejie Guo' Fortier Prize-nominated work at #DH2025: "Enhancing Text-to-Image Alignment with RAG GPT for Historical Event Reconstruction: Evaluating with Multimodal LLMs"-a very heady mix of LLMs correcting LLM-created prompts for genAI images, evaluated by LLMs w/ LLM-generated questions. 🤯

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Jul 28

Interested in early modern letters 📜 & the Reformation period ⛪? The Bullinger correspondence ✒️ is now also linked in #correspsearch -> correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm...
This connects Bullinger with plenty of other reformers! Have fun exploring!
#correspondence #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory

A network graph of Heinrich Bullinger's correspondens in correspsearch.

Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Jul 15

The #DH2025 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 finally begins (unfortunately, in a broadcast room 🥲). I'm looking forward to an exciting & inspirational conference. Zejie, Felix, & I will present a paper in Session LP10. Looking forward to discussing with you. #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ancienthistory

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Jun 17

Erfahrt alles über unser Projekt von Felix Maier & mir im neuen UZH Magazin 📖. Dort dreht sich alles um die Erzählkraft von Bildern. 🖼️

👇 Hier geht es direkt zum Artikel: issuu.com/uzhch/docs/u...

#ReExperiencingHistory #AI #DigitalHumanities #AlteGeschichte #UZH

UZH Magazin 2/25

issuu.com

Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Jun 17

Wie sah der Alltag im antiken Rom wirklich aus? 🤔🏛️

Unser Projekt "Re-Experiencing History" nutzt KI 🤖, um historisch fundiertere Bilder der Antike zu erstellen.

Schluss mit KI-Fehlern wie Legionären mit Sneakers! 👟❌

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Jun 4

🤝 Join the Conversation
Whether you’re a seasoned DH scholar or simply curious about the intersection of technology and the humanities at the University of Zurich, we’d love to have you on board. Drop us a line at
✉️ [email protected]
and let’s build this vibrant community together!

Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Jun 4

🔍 What You’ll Find
• Details on upcoming events, workshops, and seminars
• Highlights of ongoing projects and collaborations
• Resources, news, and announcements tailored for researchers, students, and enthusiasts in the digital humanities space

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Jun 4

The UZH Digital Society Initiative Community Digital Humanities finally has a face! We’re thrilled to announce that our brand-new webpage is officially live. 🎉

digitalhumanities.dsi.uzh.ch

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Mar 7

🔍 Discover the statue’s rare beauty & archaeological secrets. 📜 Explore ancient Greece’s chronological divisions & literary sources. 📖

#Archaeology #AncientGreece #Poseidon #Zeus #Podcast #History #ArtHistory #Mystery #BronzeStatue #GreekMythology #AI #DigitalHumanities #AncientHistory

Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Mar 7

🌊⚡️ New Episode Alert! ⚡️🌊

Listen now! 👉 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...
Or here 👉 t.uzh.ch/1Nv

Dive into the mystery of the Bronze God of Artemision! 🏺 Is it Poseidon, the sea god? 🔱 Or Zeus, king of the gods? 🌩️ We unravel the heated debate! 🤯

An AI-Generated image of the bronze statue found at Artemision.

The Artemision Bronze (c. 5th century BC). Lost-wax cast Bronze sculpture. Height 209 cm. Depicts either Zeus or Poseidon. Found near Cape Artemision, Greece. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Mar 4

The #DHd2025 has officially started! Looking forward to interesting 3 days! #digitalhumanities #conference

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Feb 20

There's even a copy at the UN! 🇺🇳 Tune in for a trip back to the Achaemenid Empire! #CyrusTheGreat #CyrusCylinder #AncientHistory #PersianEmpire #Archaeology #BritishMuseum #Podcast #HistoryPodcast #Mesopotamia #Babylon #HumanRights #Propaganda #AncientText #AI #DigitalHumanities

Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Feb 20

Hear how he spun his conquest as divine will (thanks, Marduk! 😉) and positioned himself as a liberator. 🏛️ We'll unpack the propaganda, the religious tolerance (a bit ahead of its time!), and why it's a symbol of human rights today... even if that wasn't the plan. 🤔

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Feb 20

🎙️ NEW EPISODE! 🎧
Listen here: t.uzh.ch/1Nv
Or here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...
Our AI hosts are "cracking open" the Cyrus Cylinder! 🏺 This ancient Babylonian artifact isn't just a dusty relic – it's Cyrus the Great's personal PR campaign! 👑

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Feb 12

At the #ArCHeoM #workshop in beautiful #Rome, discussing #AI in #archaeology. 🏛🏺📜 #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · Feb 11

Sign : #Initiative Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus! www.openpetition.eu/ch/%21scienc... #Petition #Wissenschaft #Journalismus #Wirtschaftsjournalismus

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