New blog post!
The war in Ukraine has made one thing clear: cities are not just battlegrounds; they are living archives of memory, identity and resilience. Read “Sites of Memory VS Cultural Heritage: Urban Violence in Collective Narratives of Odesa Residents in Wartime” by Iuliia Iashchenko.
Conf: “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom”
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, 15-17 April 2026
The conference programme and further information is available at its website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism/
Because space is limited, we ask that those who are interested in attending register by sending a brief e-mail to [email protected] by 25. March 2026.
New blog post!
Moritz Schepp and @ThWuebbena about an effective approach to sustainable research: “‘The last one leaves the light on’. Static service as a key to sustainable data provision”
ConedaKOR, an open-source database system for cultural artefacts, now includes a built-in static mode that enables “graceful degradation”—transforming a dynamic database into lightweight, long-term static website.
📢 New blog post!
"How to transform years of archival work into a truly reusable resource?" - a key question for many scholars who want to share their data in the spirit of #OpenScience.
In her post, Orysia Vira reflects her journey towards this goal during her @NFDI4Memory #FAIRData Fellowship at the #DHLab_IEG.
Her database of Lviv's street names from 1382 to 1768 is now enabling other researchers to explore the transformations this city underwent over the centuries.
by Orysia Vira, Ukrainian Catholic University Street names are more than simple labels on a map ‒ they are historical documents that record the life of a city. When a street name changes abruptly or when two names coexist for the same place, these shifts reveal stories about the people who lived there and transformations … „Transforming historical street names into FAIR research data“ weiterlesen
Job offer: full-time postdoctoral position
– Digitality of Historical Research –
to start on 1st of July 2026.
The contract is fixed-term and limited to a maximum of five years.
Salary: German pay grade TV-L EG 13.
Please send your application by 09.03.2026.
#DHLab_IEG
#mainzed
#DigitalHumanities
#digitalhistory
#Histodons
📢 New post on the #DHLab_IEG blog: "Data Ethics in Historical Research: Recognising Responsibility".
Based on the valuable discussions at the "Data Ethics for Historical Research'" conference in November, Sofia Baroncini, @ConstanzeBuyken, @fbncrmr, Ian Marino, @SarahOberbichler, @cprog7, Elena Suárez Cronauer and @ThWuebbena explore the significance of #responsibility when doing historical research based on #data (re)use.
➡️https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/4718
Data may be misleadingly considered an objective and impartial product. When doing historical research based on data (re)use, applying an ethical perspective becomes essential. Data is neither neutral or objective, nor are our practices for accessing, analyzing, and documenting it. Any discourse on the production of knowledge or on technology that creates and/or manipulates knowledge … „Data ethics in historical research: Recognizing responsibility“ weiterlesen
"Wissenschaftliche Integrität in der Arbeit mit großen Sprachmodellen" - darüber sprechen Cindarella Petz @cprog7 und @SarahOberbichler morgen um 10:00 Uhr in der @NFDI4Memory -Reihe "Von Büchern zu Bytes".
Seid dabei und erfahrt mehr über die Anwendung von #LargeLanguageModels in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung.
📆 Fr. 21.11.25, 10-11:30 Uhr
🌐https://4memory.de/aktuelles/kalender/
📍 https://uni-trier.zoom-x.de/j/69148560192?pwd=ZUVjclY2V1JibXhFYVk1VGgrdE9qdz09
#BooksToBytes #NFDI4Memory #DigitalHumanities #AI #KI #LLM #Histodons #DH #DHLab_IEG
Kurzer Reminder für die heutige Online-Veranstaltung mit @cprog7 im Rahmen des @hermes_datenkompetenzzentrum Netzwerktreffens:
"Buchstabensalat oder Haarknäuel? Zur Anwendbarkeit von Topic Modeling, Text Mining und Netzwerkanalyse"
🗓️ 17. 11.2025 ⏰ 16:00-17:30 Uhr
➡️ Infos / Anmeldung: https://hermes-hub.de/aktuelles/events/netzwerktreffen-2025-11-17.html
https://fedihum.org/@DHLab_IEG/115496585951698396
#DHLab_IEG #HERMES #DigitalHumanities #NLP #TextMining #NetzwerkAnalyse #HNR #Histodons
Can we trust general-purpose LLMs for rigorous academic work? According to @SarahOberbichler from the #DHlab_IEG, research integrity demands specialized AI models, not general-purpose LLMs when using AI as an analysis tool.
Join her upcoming talk "Argument Mining in News Media: Tailoring Models and Methods for Responsible Application" on Nov 26th at CESR (University of Tours) or online
➡️ https://prima.hypotheses.org/3181
#DigitalHumanities #NLP #ArgumentMining #ResearchIntegrity #AI #LLMs #Histodons #DH
Promovierende aufgepasst: Ihr seid euch unsicher, ob Topic Modeling das richtige für eure computergestützten Auswertungen ist? Oder doch lieber (nicht) Netzwerkanalyse? Und welche Alternativen gäbe es? Am 17. 11. (16-17:30 Uhr) habt Ihr die Gelegenheit, euch darüber mit unserer Kollegin Cindarella Petz (@cprog7) im Rahmen des HERMES-Netzwerktreffens (online) auszutauschen.
Infos / Anmeldung: https://hermes-hub.de/aktuelles/events/netzwerktreffen-2025-11-17.html
#DHLab_IEG #HERMES #DigitalHumanities #NLP #TextMining #NetzwerkAnalyse #HNR
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