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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · 5d

Historical maps are important sources in our project for tracing movements. If you’re also interested in maps, the exhibition at Landesbibliothek Oldenburg shows a great variety of unique examples from the North Sea Coast. Open until October, 30th.

Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · 19d

This is one of the many logbooks of the Prize Papers Collection housed in the National Archives. The information kept in these helps our researchers trace ship routes during European expansion.

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#DiViAS #prizepapers

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · 26d

Like all our team members, Max Herbers (l.) and Rieke Kaiser (r.) are very excited to welcome some new members to the DiViAS team! Anastasia Bauch is joining the Case Study Movement, and Paul Kirschstein takes on the coordination position at UOL.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are excited to be participating in the CIPA International Symposium in Seoul! Five days of exciting presentations, discussions and exchanges. Participants discussed innovative research into data acquisition, artificial intelligence, and conservation.
#CIPA2025

Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Aug 23

We are excited to share that Stefan Fuest, a researcher from the DiViAS project, recently presented different visualisation concepts developed in the context of the project at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2025) in Vancouver, Canada!

Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen
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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Aug 7

Looking through documents of the Prize Papers Collection, you sometimes stumble across objects such as this pin in this list of lading.

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#DiViAS #prizepapers

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Aug 1

A malanggan frieze was digitised using SfM at the State Museum Nature and Human Oldenburg. Due to the large volume of data, it can be challenging to visualise high resolution 3D models. To meet this challenge, it is possible to derive images from the 3D model.

Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jul 25

New article in the annual report of the Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg!
It shows how #DiViAS uses digital methods to trace the movements of ships, people & objects — from the Prize Papers to the Baudissin Collection.

Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen

#DiViAS #ColonialHistory

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jul 18

In our fortnightly meetings, the research associates discuss current project developments, exchange information on relevant publications and conferences and give updates on their ongoing work.

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#DiViAS

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jul 8

Jennifer Tadge presented early results from the DiViAS case study “Movement” at Flinders University Adelaide, exploring ship routes & provenance of Papua New Guinea colonial collections. The trip expanded our research network with Australian museums for future collaboration.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jun 25

The ship papers of the Prize Papers Collection housed in the National Archives are valuable sources for tracing the capture history during the European expansion. This example includes delicate drawings of a topsail schooner.

Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen

#DiViAS #prizepapers

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jun 20

The case study movement presented a poster at the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association's Annual Event with the theme "Collaboration beyond Boundaries". Lots of interesting talks and great discussions about #DigitalHumanities

Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen

#DiViAS #prizepapers

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jun 14

Max and Rieke presented the DiViAS project and the case study Movement in Space and Time at the Research Day hosted by the Institute of History, University of Oldenburg.
Great discussions and insights into digital historical research!

Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen

#DigitalHumanities #DiViAS

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jun 12

Join the DiViAS project! We're hiring coordinators at the University of Oldenburg (buff.ly/ipmKfIY) and the Jade University (buff.ly/e7p82Mb).

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jun 6

In the DiViAS project scanned raster maps are vectorised (manually, semi-/automatically with GIS/AI) to visualise historical ship routes on old maps. To visualise possible routes of the Albatross we vectorised the map "Der Nord-Westl. Theil v. Neu-Mecklenburg, 1889" using QGIS.
#zukunftniedersachsen

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · May 30

Jennifer Tadge will be presenting at the Germans in the Asia-Pacific Region conference, happening June, 2025 in Adelaide. Her talk is titled “Retracing Ship Routes in Provenance Research on Colonial-era Collections from Papua New Guinea.” More info: ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/germans-in-t...

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · May 21

Visualising historical processes in maps is challenging, as the spatiotemporal localisation of events is often accompanied by uncertainties. The DiViAS project is therefore developing visualisation concepts that allow different types of uncertainties in the data basis to be communicated visually.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · May 16

Together with researchers and records specialists of the National Archives and @prizepapers.bsky.social, we facilitated a workshop where we discussed digitisation processes and potentials of digital humanities to engage with the printed appeal papers in record series HCA 45 and PCAP 6.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · May 7

This #3D model, made with Structure from Motion, shows carvings on a wooden flute. Its texture was mapped onto a cylinder and flattened into a 2D image. The flute reflects a colonial context, depicting the ship Albatross.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Apr 30

Transkribus is an important tool used in the DiViAS project. The case study “Movement in Space and Time” specifically benefits from the automatic transcriptions, which serve as the basis for subsequent named-entity recognition.
#DiViAS #transkribus
@rmkaiser.bsky.social

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Apr 16

Reconstructing shipping routes requires detective work! Place names like 'Vivoras' or 'Biboras' (now Pedro Bank) aren't always in modern gazetteers, but historical maps hold the key.

Excerpt of:
Rizzi-Zannoni, G. A., & Lattré, J. (1762). Carte geo-hydrographique du Golfe du Mexique et de ses isles [Map]. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/item/74690903/

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Apr 9

PNG meets DiViAS! 🌍
On April 7, researchers from Papua New Guinea, Oldenburg & Wilhelmshaven met at Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch for a workshop on colonial-era collections & digital access. Inspiring exchange & future ideas!

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Apr 2

Provenance research is key to DiViAS! On April 9, join for Object Dating Provenance Research at Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch. Discover the histories of objects from North America & Oceania. Free entry!
www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/tdp/landesmu...
📸 Martin Henze, LMNM

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Mar 27

At the FOSSGIS Conference in Münster Stefan Fuest and Maximilian Herbers presented various methods for visualising ship routes with uncertain data.

Video of the presentation: media.ccc.de/v/fossgis202...

#fossgis2025 #DiViAS #AI

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Mar 19

Different digitisation techniques capture different aspects. Jan-Niklas Richter, student at the Jade University of Applied Sciences, captures carvings on collection items, using a self-developed RTI dome.

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