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. Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen #DiViAS

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

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

A 3D ship model of the Bremen ship CONCORDIA – captured 1758 – is currently in development in close cooperation with Oliver Urrea from Flinders University. The model is based on historical documents from the @prizepapers.bsky.social as well as historical ship models. #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

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.

Our researchers presented at #LeLa25 their work on transcriptions, analysis and reconstruction of shipping routes and let participants try a dashboard created by master students using AI extraction.

@jakedyble.bsky.social's wonderful new book Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe is being released today! 🥳🎉 It's available Open Access, so you can download it for *free* at the link below 👇 Also in print for £28.99 from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory #EarlyModern

During #Dhd2025 in Bielefeld, DiViAS researchers held a workshop on spatiotemporal uncertainty and how to visualise movement data of the Gunboat Albatroß's (1886) with QGIS.

Developments in #3D-digitisation pave the way for new approaches to researching museum and archival objects that aren't possible to achieve with conventional 2D methods. In our workshop, experts from the humanities and technical sciences came together to address questions around #materiality.

How can objects held in European museums be made accessible to the #Tlingit in Alaska? What role can #3D-digitisation play? We were honoured to welcome representatives of the Tlingit community, Joe Zuboff & Garfield George, researchers and museum professionals at the State Museum Nature and Human.

I’ll be sharing evidence of some of my favourite figures from this project— a wealthy young South Asian woman and a poetry-loving carpenter whose paths seem to have crossed at sea. Please join us! (9am EST)

Meet our researchers working on the case study “Movement in Space and Time”.

The case study “Movement in Space and Time” analyses early modern movements in the context of European expansion with the use of AI tools (NLP, LLMs). The transdisciplinary research traces maritime shipping routes and the provenance of museum objects from colonial contexts.

The research network DiViAS brings together scientific methods and practices of digitising, researching and representing collection items from colonial contexts. #research #3ddigitisation #AI #colonialcontexts #heritage #maritimehistory #museumcollections #transdisciplinary #prizepapers #divias

DiViAS systematically combines expertise from the fields of museum-, history- and cultural studies with that of technology and computer science – including artificial intelligence, data analysis, geoinformatics and threedimensional measurement technology. Meet the heads of the project.

Tomorrow we welcome Nathan Perl-Rosenthal to our Prize Papers series. I am not only a big fan of his research, but especially of his way of writing. Great books! I look forward to learning more about his brand new research. Come and join us at 1pm. Register below #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

Today is the day! The wonderful Rebecca Earle will be talking about her recent work on 'The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker' as part of the Prize Papers Talks. I've seen the slides and know it will be very, very interesting! Come along at 1pm CET (12 UK) #earlymodern #history 🗃️

I asked for three words that come to mind when you think of studying history. Here's what students said vs. what you all said on here:

Exciting times ahead! Today our research students received an introduction to @transkribus.bsky.social from Frank Marquardt and will now be using it regularly for their work and research. Transkribus is a very helpful tool if you work with documents in at least 19 languages. #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Had a great time visiting the National Archives in London where I had a look at some logbooks from the American War of Independence #earlymodern #history 📦 Thank you @lhaasis.bsky.social for the continuing support!