Blog Post #45: James Baillie Can AI help historians untangle who said what, and why it matters, in a world full of unreliable information? Read James Baillie's blog post to see whether LLMs can trace claims, authority, and argume...

Can AI help historians untangle who said what, and why it matters, in a world full of unreliable information? Read @jubalbarca.bsky.social's blog post to see whether LLMs can trace claims, authority, and argument in ways that could matter beyond medieval history.
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Turning research data into knowledge graphs doesn't mean messy code. Lukas introduces a Turtle-inspired approach to RDF graph generation that separates graph descriptions from construction and makes complex pipelines cleaner and more modular. Check it here 👇
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Behind every interface lies a complex technical story. Kevin takes us behind the scenes of the RELEVEN website, discussing the challenges of SPARQL tooling, scalability, and why frontend development in Digital Humanities is never "just frontend". Read it here 👇
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Our PI @tla.bsky.social and George Bruseker (TAKIN.solutions) presented PWRo, a reusable ontology developed for the RELEVEN database to model power, authority and social relations in historical prosopography, at the 2nd Prosopon Workshop in Munich last week.

Blog Post #42: Lale Tüver Reflections from our coordinator Lale on recent milestones and the project's transition into its final technical phase.

Reflections from our coordinator Lale on recent milestones and the project's transition into its final technical phase 👇

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Blog Post #42: Katalin Prajda & Márton Rózsa As their time on the project comes to an end, Katalin and Márton look back on their experiences and reflect on their key achievements.

As their time on the project comes to an end, Katalin and Márton look back on their experiences and reflect on their key achievements. Read it here 👇

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Blog Post #41: Aleksandar Anđelović & Lewis Read Aleksander and Lewis recap the highlights of our Closing Conference, sharing insights about key presentations and lively discussions.

In their final blog post, Aleksander and @lewread.bsky.social recap the highlights of our Closing Conference, sharing insights about key presentations and lively discussions. Read more here 👇

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Congratulations to our pre-doc Aleksandar for succesfully defending his dissertation - now officially Dr. Andjelovic! 🎉💫

And we are on! 🚀Our conference "Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives" has officially started today! 🎉
The conference runs through 5 September - stay tuned for updates, insights and highlights from the sessions!
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Blog Post #40: Aleksandar Anđelović From Constantinople to Kievan Rus', devotion to Archangel Michael left its mark in seals, cathedrals, and daily piety. Aleks shares his findings in a new blog post written during a Dumbarton Oaks fell...

From Constantinople to Kievan Rus', devotion to Archangel Michael left its mark in seals, cathedrals, and daily piety. Aleks shares his findings in a new blog post, written during a Dumbarton Oaks fellowship in Washington, D.C. Read more in here 👇
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Don't forget to sign up for our conference!!

2nd International Armenological Congress, 9-12 July, 2025 🤩🇦🇲

📣Join us for the RELEVEN Conference:
"Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives"
🗓️ 3–5 Sept 2025 |📍 University of Vienna (Hybrid)
Exploring new digital tools and historical insights from the 11th century.
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Blog Post #39: Tara Andrews In her latest blog post, Tara reflects on a summer of RELEVEN highlights, including PhD defences, conference talks at IMC Leeds, and the preparations for our closing conference on 3-5 September.

In her latest blog post, @tla.bsky.social reflects on a summer of RELEVEN highlights, including PhD defences, conference talks at IMC Leeds, and the preparations for our closing conference on 3-5 September 👀 Read her reflections here 👇

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Final highlight: our P.I. @tla.bsky.social gave a talk in the "From Medieval Sources to Big Data" panel titled:
"That's just, like, your opinion, man": Historical Consensus and Disagreement as Structured Data.
(and yes, that's a Big Lebowski quote 😄)

Our sessions included :
📌Knowledge, Authority, and Aesthetics in the Byzantine Church
📌The Circulation of Knowledge between Byzantium and Armenia
📌Moving People and the Transfer of Knowledge across the Christian World
📌The Mediterranean in the Short 11th Century

So many great talks & discussions!

Back from another great year at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Our RELEVEN team organized 4 panels under the theme Re-evaluating the 11th Century, covering knowledge, movement, and church politics. Big thanks to everyone who joined onsite or online!
(Details & pics on the next post ⬇️) #IMC2025

Blog Post #38: Lukas Plank In this month's blog post, Lukas furthers his exploration of entity-aware pagination in SPARQL and shows how RDFProxy transforms paginated query results into structured and Pydantic-based API response...

In this month's blog post, @lupl.bsky.social furthers his exploration of entity-aware pagination in SPARQL and shows how RDFProxy transforms paginated query results into structured and Pydantic-based API responses. Check it out here 👇
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Blog Post #37: Lewis Read Doctor in the house! After defending his doctoral thesis last week, this month’s blog post offers a short insight into the results of Lewis' research as a PhD student on the RELEVEN project.

Doctor in the house! 🎉
Our brilliant pre-doc @lewread.bsky.social is now Dr. Read!! 🙌
In his final blog post, he offers a brief insight into his PhD research on the RELEVEN project. Don't miss it ⏬

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Blog Post #36: Lale Tüver Our coordinator just shared a project update on our latest digital tools, progress in data modeling, and something exciting coming up in September. Curious what've been up to?

We've been busy! Our coordinator just shared a project update on our latest digital tools, progress in data modeling, and something exciting coming up in September 👀 Curious what've been up to? Read our latest blog post here 👇
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Blog Post #35: Kevin Stadler Our frontend dev’s first blog post is here, sharing behind the scenes on why building a DH website is way more than just making things look pretty.

Our frontend dev’s first blog post is here, sharing behind the scenes on why building a DH website is way more than just making things look pretty.🌟
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Blog Post #34: Katalin Prajda Want to know more about the sources behind our expanding corpus? Our postdoc, Katalina, shares insights into the documents she has collected for our Italian sources collection.

Want to know more about the sources behind our expanding corpus? Our postdoc, Katalina, shares insights into the documents she's gathered for our Italian sources collection. Read more in our latest blog post! 📜👇
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Blog Post #33: Márton Rózsa How do we navigate conflicting historical narratives? In our January blog post, Márton examines various accounts of the reconstruction of Hainburg and their implications for prosopographic research.

How do we navigate conflicting historical narratives? 🤔 In our January blog post, Márton examines various accounts of the reconstruction of Hainburg and their implications for prosopographic research. Check out the full post here!👇

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RELEVEN RELEVEN

The RELEVEN project has discontinued its presence on Twitter / X. We will continue to provide news and updates on Bluesky and Mastodon [ hcommons.social/@RELEVEN ] as well as on our website releven.univie.ac.at !

Byzantine Sigillography, Linked Open Data, and the Structured Assertion Record One of the major challenges in the creation of a digital dataset for cultural heritage objects is the question of how to capture the differing interpretations and the changing state of our knowledge a...

New publication in @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social ! Wherein I talk about data structures for capturing how interpretations of Byzantine lead seals evolve. journal.digitalmedievalist.org/article/id/1...

Last week @tla.bsky.social and @lewread.bsky.social participated in the 16th general conference of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, discussing digital approaches to medieval Armenian source material.

Blog Post #32: Lukas Plank The final blog post of 2024 is here! This time, our SPARQL expert Lukas, takes us through entity-aware pagination and shows how the RDFProxy library makes working with big datasets easier.

Sorry for the wait but our December blog post is finally here! This time, we’re diving into a more technical topic 👀 @lupl.bsky.social walks us through how entity-aware pagination works using SPARQL. Check it out and let us know your thoughts!🚀
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Merry Christmas 🎄and a Happy New Year 🌟 from team Releven!

And that's a wrap for 2024! It's been a great year of growth, learning and collaboration! Thanks for coming along on this journey with us 🥂

Nov&Dec: @lupl.bsky.social has submitted paper on RDFProxy for @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social. @lewread.bsky.social spoke at the Medieval Studies conference at Matenadaran on the production of a new digital corpus of Armenian colophons. And finally, we began planning next year's closing conference! 👀