📯#DigitalHistoryOFK: Join Whitney Trettien (Price Lab for Digital Humanities) and Roberto Gonzalez (Eastern University) as they delve into "Data Frictions in the History of Prisons". Their digital collection of prison publications sheds light on the stories they capture, connects them to conemporary issues, and reflects on impactful digital methods working in a prison context.

📅 26 Nov, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Info: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12205

#DigitalHumanities #EthicsInDH @whitneytrettien

📯This week at #DigitalHistoryOFK, Noé Leroy dives into Digital Methods in Diplomatics: applying computational stylometry to gain new insights into medieval diplomatic writing on the chancery of Liège.

📅 19 Nov, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12092

#DigitalMethods #DigitalHistory #digitalHumanities

📯Auftakt im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Wie belastbar sind LLM-gestützte Analysen? In zwei spannenden Vorträgen zu ihren Masterprojekten über LLM-gestützte Annotation und Modellierung berichten Anna Grönig zum Dictionary of British Arms und Aurel Daugs zur Konsumkultur in Kochbüchern des bürgerlichen England.

📅 12 Nov, 16-18 Uhr (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstracts:
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/11964
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/11908

#LLMs #DigitalMethods #DigitalHistory #digitalhumanities #4memory

📯 This week's #DigitalHistoryOFK: Julianne Nyhan presents "Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Reflections on Limits, Horizons and Emerging Findings" exploring how AI-based ASR and Semantic Web technologies transform oral history into data while raising questions about memory in our datafied age.
📅 9 July, 4-6 pm (CET), hybrid
ℹ️ Info: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/11082
#DigitalHistory #4memory #OralHistory #AIinHumanities @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities

📯 Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Walter Scholger beleuchtet "Künstliche Intelligenz im Spannungsfeld von Innovation und Regulierung" – rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, EU AI Act, Urheberrecht & Datenschutz für generative KI in der Forschung. Ethische Fragen zu Bias & Transparenz inklusive.
📅 2. Juli, 16-18 Uhr (CET), hybrid
ℹ️ Abstract & Infos: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10932 @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities #4memory #DigitalHistory #KI #AIAct

📯 Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Torsten Hiltmann und @DigHisNoah präsentieren "RAG den Spiegel" – ein innovatives RAG-System zur Analyse des SPIEGEL-Archivs. Der Vortrag zeigt, wie #LLMs Geschichtswissenschaft verändern und hermeneutische mit computationellen Methoden verbinden.
📅 25. Juni, 16-18 Uhr, online (Zugang auf Anfrage)
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10912 #TextMining #4memory #DigitalHistory @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities

📯 Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Zwei spannende Vorträge zu Masterarbeiten über LLMs in den Geschichtswissenschaften! Anselm König (https://fedihum.org/@konigans) zu "Intertextualitätsanalyse mit großen Sprachmodellen" (Bibel & Wilhelm von Auxerre) und Isabell Trilling zu "LLMs zur Identifikation von Naturkatastrophen in mittelalterlichen Stadtchroniken"
📅 18. Juni, 16-18 Uhr (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstracts:
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10881
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10894
#LLMs #TextReuse #DigitalMethods

📯 Das Handschriftenportal (@hsprtl) im Fokus: Robert Giel präsentiert im #DigitalHistoryOFK "Das Handschriftenportal: Alles an (s)einem Ort?". Von der unikalen Handschrift zur digitalen Infrastruktur – eine Reise durch Erschließung, Präsentation und Portalentwicklung.
📅 Mittwoch, 11.6., 16-18h (CET)
ℹ️ Online via Zoom, Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10712
#DigitalHistory #4memory #Manuscripts @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities

📢 Important note on #DigitalHistoryOFK:

The talk by Whitney Trettien (Price Lab for Digital Humanities, UPenn) on "Data Frictions in the History of Prison", initially planned for this Wednesday, June 04th, 4-6 p.m. CET, unfortunately has to be postponed.
We will inform you of course, once a new date has been set.
#DigitalHistory #NFDI4Memory

📢 Important note on #DigitalHistoryOFK:

The talk by Whitney Trettien (Price Lab for Digital Humanities, UPenn) on "Data Frictions in the History of Prison", initially planned for this Wednesday, June 04th, 4-6 p.m. CET, unfortunately has to be postponed.
We will inform you of course, once a new date has been set.
#DigitalHistory #NFDI4Memory

ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10408
#4memory #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities

📯 This week's #DigitalHistoryOFK: Riham Aida Mokrani presents "Manuscript Meets Model: Digital Approaches to Arabic #Paleography" - exploring how #OntologyEngineering & #ML are transforming Arabic #ManuscriptStudies.

📅 4 June, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10533

#DigitalHistory #4memory #Paleography #MachineLearning #semanticweb #ontologies
@histodons @historikerinnen @digitalhumanities

📯 How can historians develop crucial data competencies? In our next #DigitalHistoryOFK, Ursula Lehmkuhl discusses "Building Data Competencies for Historians" from the @NFDI4Memory program.

🔍 Digital historical method
📊 Research data management
🌐 Digital area histories
🧰 Training resources

📅 Wed, May 21, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm CET
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9490

#DigitalHistory #4memory #FAIR #HistoricalData

@historikerinnen histodons@a.gup.pe

📯 Join us for #DigitalHistoryOFK! Edgar Lejeune examines historical database projects (ARTEM, MEDITEXT, 1427 catasto) to explore how medieval historians' corpus practices evolved in the digital age. Has computational knowledge truly accumulated since the 1960s or remained siloed?
📚 Is Cumulativity of Knowledge just an Epistemological Chimera? (1960-2020)
📅 Wed, 14 May, 16-18h CET
ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10154
#4memory #DigitalHistory #MedievalStudies #DataHistory @historikerinnen @NFDI4Memory

📯 Join us for #DigitalHistoryOFK with Mahsa Vafaie presenting "National Socialist Injustice on the Semantic Web: From Archival Records to a Knowledge Graph". Learn how LLMs and knowledge graphs are transforming millions of Nazi reparation documents into structured historical data!

📅 May 7, 2025, 4-6 pm (CET), via Zoom

ℹ️ Abstract & registration: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10161

#DigitalArchives #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #digitalhistory #DH #AI #LLM #4memory @historikerinnen

📯 Morgen startet unser #DigitalHistoryOFK.
Die 1. Sitzung ist wieder ausgewählten Abschlussarbeiten gewidmet:

Anica Skibba untersucht mit #Georeferenzierung und #Mapping Baedeker-Reiseführer 1921 zu Berlin, Paul Bayer analysiert mit #NLP-Methoden Schriftsetzung; ebenfalls im Baedeker-Reiseführer.

🔜 Wann? 30.04., 16-18 Uhr (c.t.), via Zoom

ℹ️ Abstracts:
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10103
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10077

ℹ️ Kolloquiumsprogramm: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/digital-history-forschungskolloquium/digital-history-forschungskolloquium-programm-sommersemester-2025

@historikerinnen #NFDI4Memory

🥳 To conclude this semester's #DigitalHistoryOFK, we are delighted to welcome @electricarchaeo (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) this week. He will share insights into his experiences and experiments regarding the ethically and critically reflected teaching and application of so-called “artificial intelligence” technologies in the context of archaeology.

👉 Open to all!
🔜 5 Feb., 4-6 pm (CET), via Zoom
ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9682

#Archaeology #DigitalHistory #NFDI4Memory

👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK @folgertk & Mike Kestemont will discuss how statistical methods from ecology can be used in historical research to identify & analyze gaps & biases in historical records. Based on three case studies they will show how “Unseen Species Models” offer new perspectives & approaches for handling incomplete historical archives.

🔜 29 Jan., 4-6 pm (CET), hybrid!
ℹ️ Info & Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9525

#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities

📢 Achtung - wichtiger Hinweis zum #DigitalHistoryOFK:

Der ursprünglich für diese Woche geplante Vortrag von Ursula Lehmkuhl "Datenkompetenzen in den Geschichtswissenschaften: Einblick in die Arbeiten der NFDI4Memory Task Area ‘Data Literacy’" muss leider kurzfristig verschoben werden.

📌 Wir freuen uns aber, dass bereits ein Nachholtermin für das Programm im Sommersemester 2025 feststeht: 21. Mai 2025, 16-18 Uhr (c.t.).

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#DigitalHistory #NFDI4Memory

👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK Amanda Regan (Clemson University, USA) will present “Mapping the Gay Guides”, a project investigating the development of queer spaces in the USA based on Bob Damron’s travel guides (1960s–2000s). The talk discusses the project’s data and how digital approaches, including a web-based map, can help explore the history and dynamics of LGBTQ spaces.

🔜 15 Jan., 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Info & Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9443

#DigitalHistory #LGBTQHistory

The #DigitalHistoryOFK continues with exciting topics in 2025 🥳

This week, Moritz Feichtinger (University of Basel) will discuss the methodological and technical challenges of historical research with born-digital objects as well as how interdisciplinary skills and forensic approaches can help to critically analyze e.g. the epistemological or socio-cultural dimensions of these digital artifacts.

🔜 Wed, 8 Jan, 4–6 pm - via Zoom
ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9346

#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities