An example of art driven by witnessed urban violence. All rights reserved, copyright by Pavlo Kolomoets.
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 […]
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Cal Montney: Librarian Barbara Nichols, filing reels of computer tape at Los Angeles County computer center in Downey, CA, 1976, University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections, CC BY 4.0
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: […]
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A detail of the iconic Geisel Library on the UC San Diego campus. sarahmirk, Geisel Library at UCSD, CC BY 4.0
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 […]
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📢 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 […]
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 […]
Infoflyer for the announced event. Left: Pictures of Newspaper articles. Right: Text with announcement. The text reads: "Humanites Numeriques Tourangelles, Mercredi 26 novembre 2025, 17h-19h - Tours, CESR - Salle Rapin et en visioconférence. #9 Argument Mining in News Media: Tailoring Models and Methods for Responsible Application, Sarah Oberbichler - Digital Humanities Lab, Leibniz Institute of European History."
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 […]
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Ankündigung HERMES-Netzwerktreffen
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 […]
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Johanna Mauermann, Collage, 2025. All rights reserved. Original photos: Antoine Doucet.
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 […]
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Colourful announcement slide. Text in image: Hands-on session. An exploratory analysis of DOMID dara. DEZIM workshop, 29 October 2025, Sofia Baroncini, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) | DH Lab - Mainz, Germany, baroncini@ieg-mainz.de
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 […]
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Text in image/Text im Bild: Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage. BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum. November 6, 2025
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 […]
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📢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 […]
Students Lab (Schüler*innen-Labor), Foto: Stephan Kreher, Universität Bielefeld, all rights reserved.
A Mockup for a digital logbook with different narrative puzzle pieces.
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 […]
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Campus Belval
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 […]
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📢 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 […]
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Praying woman after Dirk Bouts.
Network graph of artworks, institutions, and people
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
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 […]
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An illumination of the Great Khan at a banqueting table being served by his men above text in bastarda script.
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
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 […]
Johannes Vermeer, The Geographer, Oil on canvas, 1669, Public Domain
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
Screenshot, 1st page
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 […]
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Alexandra Alexandrowna Exter, Satanic Ballet, 1922, public domain
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
Screenshot, 1st page of the working Paper “Implementing Generative AI in the Historical Studies”
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 […]
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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/
