Historical maps are important sources in our project for tracing movements. If you’re also interested in maps, the exhibition at Landesbibliothek Oldenburg shows a great variety of unique examples from the North Sea Coast. Open until October, 30th.
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#DiViAS
This is one of the many logbooks of the Prize Papers Collection housed in the National Archives. The information kept in these helps our researchers trace ship routes during European expansion.
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#DiViAS #prizepapers
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.
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#DiViAS
We are excited to share that Stefan Fuest, a researcher from the DiViAS project, recently presented different visualisation concepts developed in the context of the project at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2025) in Vancouver, Canada!
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#DiViAS
Looking through documents of the Prize Papers Collection, you sometimes stumble across objects such as this pin in this list of lading.
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#DiViAS #prizepapers
New article in the annual report of the Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg!
It shows how #DiViAS uses digital methods to trace the movements of ships, people & objects — from the Prize Papers to the Baudissin Collection.
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#DiViAS #ColonialHistory
In our fortnightly meetings, the research associates discuss current project developments, exchange information on relevant publications and conferences and give updates on their ongoing work.
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#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.
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#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
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#DiViAS #prizepapers
Max and Rieke presented the DiViAS project and the case study Movement in Space and Time at the Research Day hosted by the Institute of History, University of Oldenburg.
Great discussions and insights into digital historical research!
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#DigitalHumanities #DiViAS
Transkribus is an important tool used in the DiViAS project. The case study “Movement in Space and Time” specifically benefits from the automatic transcriptions, which serve as the basis for subsequent named-entity recognition.
#DiViAS #transkribus
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At the FOSSGIS Conference in Münster Stefan Fuest and Maximilian Herbers presented various methods for visualising ship routes with uncertain data.
Video of the presentation: media.ccc.de/v/fossgis202...
#fossgis2025 #DiViAS #AI
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
In #Oldenburg entsteht ein spannendes Projekt zur "#Digitalisierung, Visualisierung und Analyse von #Sammlungsgut". Die #JadeHochschule hat dazu eine Stelle für eine Person aus den Bereichen #DataScience, #Informatik, #Geoinformatik, #KI o.ä. ausgeschrieben! #DiViAS
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