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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d

New blog post!
In “Learning about history in a digital world. ‘The Digital Logbook’ as a research project and educational resource” Laura Niewöhner writes about her current project, which aims to develop a learning platform that supports historical learning […]

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Students Lab (Schüler*innen-Labor), Foto: Stephan Kreher, Universität Bielefeld, all rights reserved.

A Mockup for a digital logbook with different narrative puzzle pieces.

DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

The end of the deadline is coming! #reminder https://fedihum.org/@ThWuebbena/114811789426862277

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Attached: 1 image Call for papers! International conference “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom” -> https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

New blog post: “From ‘So what?’ to ‘What's next?’ Joining the C²DH in Luxembourg as a visiting researcher.”

Reflecting on her time at the #c2dh in #luxembourg, our #dhlab_ieg colleague @SarahOberbichler illustrates how a research environment can shape a scholar […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 1

📢 New blog post! In "From Access to Ethics: Data Discussions at the DH2025 Conference in Lisbon", our #dhlab_ieg team members Sofia Baroncini, @ConstanzeBuyken, @JuditGarzon, Ian Marino, @SarahOberbichler and Cindarella Petz @cprog7 share their impressions of the #dh2025.

Take a look at the […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 18

On the last day of the #dh2025 conference, @JuditGarzon and @ConstanzeBuyken present their poster on "Small Grants, Big Opportunities: Enabling Inclusivity and Innovation in Digital Humanities".

Come and join us at at the esplanada to find out more about it and talk to us about the @NFDI4Memory […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 17

You are interested in how symbols and meanings vary in the art history hermeneutic discourse? Then don't miss the talk on "An analysis of symbolic associations in the Arts based on open data" by our colleague Sofia Baroncini at the #dh2025!

Discuss the paper with Sofia and her co-authors during […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 17

Turning to the next contribution from the #dhlab_ieg at the #dh2025: Sofia Baroncini will be speaking on 'Improving access to interchanges between material and immaterial cultural heritage through semantic modeling' (co-speaker: Melissa Macaluso).

The paper is co-authored with Charles van den […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 17

#dh2025 Join us for the next session on 'Digital Access and Critical Approaches to Archives, Repositories and Education' and discuss "LLMs as Analysis Tool: A Framework for Implementation, Evaluation and Critical Assessment" with our colleagues @cprog7 and @SarahOberbichler!

We look forward to […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 17

At #dh2025, we start the day with a contribution from our colleague, Ian Marino, on the panel 'The global state of digital history: Establishing data culture(s) in uncertain times' organised by @NFDI4Memory. We are looking forward to an interesting discussion between the panellists! You can find […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 16

This week, part of the #dhlab_ieg is present at the international #DigitalHumanities Conference of the #ADHO in Lisbon.

Today, we start with a poster presentation on "Innovative Pathways to Data Literacy: Tailored Formats for Humanities and Cultural Studies" by @JuditGarzon and her colleagues […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 12

Neu erschienen: Stegbauer, C., Häußling, R. (eds) Handbuch Netzwerkforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Mit einem Kapitel unserer Kollegin Cindarella Petz ( @cprog7): Petz, C. (2025). Zur Geschichte der historischen Netzwerkforschung […]

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Thorsten Wübbena @thwuebbena.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 7

Call for papers!
International conference
“Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom”
-> https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 27

New blog post! The team of the DFG project “ForNet” about “Forgeries and Networks: data transformations”

https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/7237

#dhlab_ieg #arthistory #DigitalArtHistory #networkanalysis #forgeries

Network graph of artworks, institutions, and people

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 22

Delighted to announce that the paper on best practices in pre- and post-ATR for historical research that I co-authored with @koen_hufkens is now available on Zenodo:

https://zenodo.org/records/15703825

Big thanks to @hermes_datenkompetenzzentrum for funding our initial workshop at @DHLab_IEG […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 5

If you are in Fontainebleau this year for the ‘Festival de l'Histoire de l'Art’, you should come and see the presentation by our colleagues Jaap Geraerts (IEG) and Henry Keazor (Heidelberg University) on our research project ‘Forgeries and Networks (ForNet)’ on […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · May 30

New blog post! Our current DH Fellow Kimberly Lifton with: “Talking About Muslims in Middle French: The Potential of Word-to-Vector Models for Studying Semantic Relationships in Medieval Languages.”

https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/4713

#dhlab_ieg #medieval

An illumination of the Great Khan at a banqueting table being served by his men above text in bastarda script.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · May 29

Today at 2:30 pm our colleague Sofia Baroncini and our former Senior Research Fellow Charles van den Heuvel will speak on the topic ‘A Saint on the Move: Modelling and Representing the Ephemeral and Uncertainties in the History of the Procession of the Holy […]

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Reliquary chest of Saint Servatius in the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht, Netherlands. So-called 'Christ panel' and 'Saint Peter side' of the chest. From left to right on the Saint Peter panel: St Peter, St Andrew, St Matthew, St Thomas, St Judas (Thaddeus) and St Simeon. Mosan (Maastricht?), gilded copper over wood. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaastrichtNoodkist04.jpg

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Apr 25

Neuer Blogbeitrag! Elisa Tizzoni: „Europe Goes on Holiday: Potenziale und Herausforderungen der Aufbereitung von Daten über den Beitrag des Europäischen Parlaments zur gemeinsamen Tourismuspolitik“.

Elisa Tizzoni berichtet über die Aufbereitung und Veröffentlichungen von #forschungsdaten aus […]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 13

@SchnDa @galaxyfreiburg @NFDI4Memory I recommend OCR4all in institutional settings but Tesseract is definitely easier to use locally. In a recent workshop I hosted with @koen_hufkens at @DHLab_IEG , we also talked about OCR tool decisions, the use of LLMs, and challenges of specific source […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 28

New blog post! In “Borders, Data and Vassals – a Postdoc-Fellowship at the DH Lab” Seven Dittmar writes about how traditional maps picture early modern Europe and the advantages of a point-based approach to cartographic visualizations.

https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/6896

#dhlab_ieg #geohumanities

Johannes Vermeer, The Geographer, Oil on canvas, 1669, Public Domain

DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 26

In Ergänzung zum Working Paper „Implementing Generative AI in the Historical Studies“ (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14924737) haben wir jetzt auch ein Strategiepapier veröffentlicht: „Generative KI in der digitalen historischen Forschung. Herausforderungen und […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 28

New blog post! Ian Marino and Thorsten Wübbena (@ThWuebbena) write in ‘Trust, archives, and history’ about their thoughts and insights on the LivArch Workshop on documenting the ongoing war in Ukraine.

https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/4710

#dhlab_ieg #livarch

Alexandra Alexandrowna Exter, Satanic Ballet, 1922, public domain

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 26

Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) and Cindarella Petz (@cprog7) have published a working paper that provides a overview of implementation strategies, critical evaluation and best practices for the use of GenAI in research/analysis in historical studies. It […]

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Screenshot, 1st page of the working Paper “Implementing Generative
AI in the Historical Studies”

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 14

IEG Fellowship in Digital Humanities

The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz awards one fellowship for a period of eight months for doctoral students or one fellowship of six months for postdocs in the field of Digital Humanities.

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