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: […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

@dta_cthomas @thomaskollatz @DHd @DHdKonferenz @BBAW Es gibt das sehr gute Paper von @SarahOberbichler und @cprog7 vom @DHLab_IEG , und @jonatan hat ein Position Paper für die @digicademy Mainz zusammengeschrieben. Nächste Woche kann ich mehr liefern... https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14924737 […]

RE: https://fedihum.org/@DHLab_IEG/115903529871343496 Noch zwei Wochen bis zum Bewerbungsschluss am 09.03.26. Falls Ihr auf der #DHd2026 seid, dann sprecht dort bei Fragen zur ausgeschriebenen Stelle auch gerne @fbncrmr, @ConstanzeBuyken, @cprog7 oder @ThWuebbena#dhd2026an.

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

📢 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 […]

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

📢 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 […]

"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 […]

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 […]

Can we trust general-purpose LLMs for rigorous academic work? According to @SarahOberbichler from #DHlab_IEG, research integrity demands specialized AI models, not general-purpose LLMs when using AI as an analysis tool. Join her upcoming talk online or at CESR […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

@SarahOberbichler @cprog7 https://nfdi.social/@NFDI4Memory/115495853275464606

Johanna Mauermann just published a new blog post about her experience at #TPDL2025. She attended the conference to present a joint paper on studying model design biases in LLMs for multilingual historical newspaper extraction. Read the full post here […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

International conference "Data Ethics for Historical Research in a Digital Era. Critical Reflections and Best Practices" 📍Mainz (Germany)/hybrid event 📆10–12 Nov. 2025 Make sure to register now and be part of the conversation! ➡️ […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

How can we analyse museum collections as data—especially those not designed for analysis? What are the ethical questions around migrants’ material culture? Today at the DEZIM workshop (University of Bielefeld), Sofia Baroncini from the #DHlab_IEG explores these […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

How can we ensure AI serves cultural heritage responsibly — not just efficiently, but ethically? @SarahOberbichler from our #DHLab_IEG will be joining this critical conversation at the BRAID Responsible #AI and #CulturalHeritage Forum on November 6, 2025 (10:00 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

📢Die Ausschreibung der @NFDI4Memory #FAIRdata Fellowships 2026 ist gestartet und das @IEG freut sich wieder auf eure Bewerbungen! ➡️https://4memory.de/aktivitaeten/fellowships/ Auf unserem Blog bekommt ihr Einblicke in die Projekte, die wir am #dhlab_ieg bisher betreut haben: darunter in diesem […]

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

📢 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

#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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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

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

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 […]

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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 […]

@mob @SchnDa @galaxyfreiburg @NFDI4Memory @DHLab_IEG eScriptorium is also worth considering. I found that this works offline rather easily if you have some docker experience and a good workstation (same goes for ocr4all). ArkIndex is the pylaia framework on par with these services, with the […]

@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 […]

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

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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

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 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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.

Materialen aus unserem #byodl zu #ocr und #LLMs für die automatische #texterkennung findet ihr auch auf GitHub: https://monikabarget.github.io/atr-historical-research/ 🚧 Wichtiger Hinweis: Das Repo ist "work in progress" und wird sicherlich weiter erweitert. Code Beispiele liegen derzeit vor […]

Jetzt geht's los! Unser HERMES-Bring-your-own-data-Lab „Texterkennung und Textanalyse. OCR und LLM für geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Projekte“ mit den Expert:innen @mob und @koen_hufkens https://hermes-hub.de/events/intern/byodlab20250206.html

New blog post! In their article “LLM Biases: Expected and Unexpected Model Design Effects in Historical Newspaper Article Extraction on the Messina Earthquake”, Johanna Mauermann and Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) look at the fact that LLMs are a powerful […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

We are looking forward to our first internal workshop in the project ‘LivArch - Documenting Russia's war against Ukraine: The challenges of living archives for historical knowledge production’. #livarch #dhlab_ieg @leibnizhi @c2dh_lu https://ieg-dhr.github.io/LivArch-Workshop/

Danke an @steyerti für die sehr schöne Rezension dieses Bandes, herausgegeben von unseren Kollegen #JoachimBerger und @ThWuebbena. Mit Beiträgen von: @spinfocl, @jojoweis, @fussballinguist, @mob#joachimbergeruvm. https://openbiblio.social/@hsozkult/113900951967541106

A big welcome to Kimberly Lifton, a PhD candidate in the Medieval Studies program at Yale University, who joins the IEG as a DH Fellow. Her research focuses on how shifting geopolitics, specifically the rise of the Ottomans, in the late fourteenth and fifteenth […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Originating from a template for her students to systematically document their work with AI models, our colleague Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) has now published the ‘AI Model Research Documentation Sheet (AIRDocS)’. The sheet provides a structured […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Neuer Blogbeitrag! In „Durch Projektkoordination Räume der Zusammenarbeit schaffen – Erfahrungen aus der „Digitalen Kartenwerkstatt Altes Reich“ (DigiKAR)“ blickt @ConstanzeBuyken auf drei Jahre @DigiKAR zurück. -> https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/5945 #dhlab_ieg #DigiKAR