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dighistberlin.bsky.social
🥁 We are happy to announce that we just published our first preprint on arXiv: "NER4all or Context is All You Need: Using LLMs for low-effort, high-performance NER on historical texts. A humanities informed approach".🎉

👉 http://arxiv.org/abs... 👈

#DigitalHistory #LLM #AI #NER
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NER4all or Context is All You Need: Using LLMs for low-effort,...
Named entity recognition (NER) is a core task for historical research in automatically establishing all references to people, places, events and the like. Yet, do to the high linguistic and genre...
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February 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
🥳 To conclude this semester's #DigitalHistoryOFK, we are delighted to welcome @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy this week! He’ll share insights into his experiments with the ethical and critical use of AI technologies in #archaeology.

🔜 5 Feb., 4–6 pm (CET)
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Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 5 Feb., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speaker Shawn Graham (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) will give a talk titled “Do It Yourself Digital Golems: Experiments with various AI, neural networks, and other technologies for archaeology.” The colloquium will be held as a video conference via Zoom, the access data can be requested by e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed at the top right corner; from left to right: NFDI4Memory, Chair for Digital History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
February 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK @folgertk.bsky.social & @mikekestemont.bsky.social will discuss how statistical methods from ecology can be used in historical research to identify and analyze gaps and biases in historical records.

#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities
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Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 29 Jan., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speakers, Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp, Belgium), will give a talk titled “The application of unseen species models in history: correcting registration bias in nineteenth-century police reports from Brussels.” The colloquium will take place as a hybrid event. Location: Room 2070 A, Main Building of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin The Zoom access data can be requested via e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed.
January 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
🥁 Call for Application 🥁 Doktorand:in, Absolvent:in oder Masterstudent:in der #DigitalHistory oder anderer historischer #DigitalHumanities ?👀 Dann bewirb Dich bis 21.02. für einen der #NFDI4Memory Early Career Travel Grants!

👉 4memory.de/4memory-e...
#DH #Geschichte @vhdonline.bsky.social
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January 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
📢 Achtung - wichtiger Hinweis zum #DigitalHistoryOFK:

Der ursprünglich für diese Woche geplante Vortrag von Ursula Lehmkuhl "Datenkompetenzen in den Geschichtswissenschaften: Einblick in die Arbeiten der NFDI4Memory Task Area ‘Data Literacy’" muss leider kurzfristig verschoben werden.

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Announcement image for the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The image informs about a new date for a postponed talk. The new event details are: "Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 4:15–5:45 pm." The speaker, Ursula Lehmkuhl (Universität Trier, NFDI4Memory TA 4 – Data Literacy), will give a talk titled "Datenkompetenzen in den Geschichtswissenschaften: Einblick in die Arbeiten der NFDI4Memory Task Area ‘Data Literacy’." The colloquium will be held as a video conference via Zoom, the access data can be requested by e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed at the top right corner; from left to right: NFDI4Memory, Chair for Digital History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
January 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK Amanda Regan (Clemson University) presents “Mapping the Gay Guides”, a project investigating the development of LGBTQ spaces in the USA based on Bob Damron’s travel guides (1960s–2000s).

🔜 15 Jan, 4–6 pm (CET), Zoom
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#DigitalHistory
Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 15 Jan., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speaker, Amanda Regan (Clemson University, South Carolina, USA), will give a talk titled "Mapping the Gay Guides: Using Digital History to Explore LGBTQ Travel Guides, 1965 – 2005." The colloquium will be held as a video conference via Zoom, the access data can be requested by e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed at the top right corner; from left to right: NFDI4Memory, Chair for Digital History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
January 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
📢 The #DigitalHistoryOFK starts 2025 with a talk by Moritz Feichtinger (University of Basel) on the methodological and technical challenges of historical research with born-digital sources.

🔜 Wed, 8 Jan, 4–6 pm (CET), via Zoom
ℹ️ Info: dhistory.hypotheses....

#DigitalHistory #SourceCriticism
Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 8 Jan., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speaker, Moritz Feichtinger (University of Basel, Switzerland), will give a talk titled 'Just a Little Bit? Historicizing Born-Digital Objects.' The colloquium will be held as a video conference via Zoom, the access data can be requested by e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed at the top right corner; from left to right: NFDI4Memory, Chair for Digital History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
January 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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radihum20.bsky.social
Wir hoffen, ihr habt heute euren letzten Arbeitstag in diesem Jahr –& damit Zeit, unsere letzte Folge 2024 zu hören. Vielen Dank an Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, Frederike Neuber & Martina Scholger für das spannende Interview zu RIDE!
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#Podcast #DigitalHumanities
RaDiHum20 spricht mit Ulrike, Frederike und Martina vom Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources (RIDE) - RaDiHum 20
In der vierten Folge unserer siebten Staffel beschäftigen wir uns mit dem Thema der Rezensionen für digitale Editionen. Dazu sprechen wir mit Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, Friederike Neuber und Martina Scholger, den Managing Editors des Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources – kurz RIDE. Gemeinsam klären wir nicht nur, ob man „Riede [ˈʁiːdə]“ oder „Ride [ˈɹaɪd] […]
radihum20.de
December 20, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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vhdonline.bsky.social
📣 Posterausstellung & Peter-Haber-Preis für digitale Geschichtswissenschaft 2025

🏆 #VHD, DHI Paris & die AG #DigitaleGeschichtswissenschaft vergeben auf dem Historikertag Bonn 2025 erneut den Peter-Haber-Preis für digitale Geschichtswissenschaft.

⏳ 15.1.2025

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October 31, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
🎮 Im letzten #DigitalHistoryOFK dieses Jahres wird Aurelia Brandenburg Einblicke in ihr Dissertationsprojekt zur Gaminggeschichte & deutschsprachigem Spielejournalismus 1980-2000 bieten.

🔜 18 Dec, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Info: dhistory.hypotheses....

#DigitalHistory #GameStudies #GenderStudies
December 17, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 2, 1949 Dr. Norbert Wiener Mass. Institute of Technology Cambridge, Nass. My dear Dr. Wiener: The publication of your book on Cybernetics has caused the editorial staff which is in charge of the revision of the Dewey Decimal Classification considerable difficulty. We are in the position of being asked by sincere inquirers as to how to classify the book and by less sincere people who like to confront supposedly expert classifiers with problems which they are quite certain are beyond our capabilities. Quite frankly, cybernetics is. We have read and reread reviews and explanations of the content of your book and have even tried to understand the book itself, only to become more uncertain as to what field it falls into. I am appealing to you as the one person who should be able to tell us. Possibly you already know that the Dewey Decimal Classification attempts to assign a number to the subject content of books. Generally speaking, a book can only be assigned one number and consequently we cannot take care of the many aspects that certain works cover. The problem must be simplified and consequently, is your book such as to place it in psychology? Does it belong in the field of electronic computation devices or does it belong in mathematics? If we were not somewhat desperate about this particular problem, I should hesitate to bother you with it. Cordially yours, Esther P. Potter Director
December 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK: Wonhee Cho (Yonsei University) demonstrates how "cooperation #NetworkAnalysis" can be used to examine the relationships between officials at the Yuan court to gain insights into the roles of Han & non-Han elites under Mongol rule.

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Announcement image for the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title 'Open Research Colloquium Digital History' is displayed prominently at the top in orange and black text. Below, the event details are listed: 'Wednesday, 11 Dec, 4:15–5:45 pm (CET).' The speaker, Wonhee Cho from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, will give a talk titled 'Rethinking ‘Sinicization’ through Data: A Network Analysis Methodology for Yuan Dynasty Studies.' The event will take place as a videoconference via Zoom, with access information available at 'digitalhistory@hu-berlin.de' or via a QR code shown on the bottom right. The background features a silhouette of Berlin. Logos of associated institutions (NFDI4Memory, Chair of Digital History, HU Berlin) are positioned at the top.
December 10, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK Ashley Sanders (#DigitalHumanities Consultant, France) discusses “restorative data justice” as a framework for the ethical handling of data from colonial contexts.

🔜 4 Dec, 4–6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Info: dhistory.hypotheses....

#DigitalHistory #DataEthics
December 3, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
👉 Im #DigitalHistoryOFK diskutiert Clemens Neudecker diese Woche am Beispiel des Projekts #MenschMaschineKultur über die Chancen & Herausforderungen von #KI-Technologien für das Kulturelle Erbe.

🔜 27 Nov, 4-6 pm (CET), online
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#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities
November 26, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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cliotex.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy
📯 Call for Participation: Workshop „OERs Under Construction“

Wir wollen im Rahmen der #Dhd2025 gemeinsam mit euch Best Practices bei der Gestaltung & Evaluierung von #openeducationalresources in den #DigitalHumanities diskutieren. Teilt eure Erfahrungen zur didaktischen Konzeption & […]
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fedihum.org
November 25, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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viktor.im
Our #DigitalHumanities Code Review Day is live! 🎉
After an introduction by Linus Ververs, students are practicing collaborative coding in the humanities.

Organised at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social with Lisa Poggel and @codiceps.bsky.social

www.ada.fu-berlin.de/kalender/DH_...
DH Code Review Day
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November 22, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
📢 In our next #DigitalHistoryOFK, Mila Oiva presents her research on the role of digital methods for investigating cultural-historical phenomena in audiovisual sources using the example of Soviet newsreels (1945-1992).
📆 13 Nov, 4-6 pm CET, online
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#DigitalHistory #digiGW
November 12, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
Elena Suárez Cronauer (AdW-Mainz) widmet sich diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK der Untersuchung von weibl. Lebenswelten mit der hist. Netzwerkanalyse & Konzepten des #DataFeminism, um potenzielle Biases zu vermeiden.

📆Mi, 22.05., 4-6 pm, via Zoom
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#digiGW #DigitalHistory
May 21, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
⏰ Zukünftige Digitalhistoriker:innen gesucht!
🗓️ Erfahrt alles über den Masterschwerpunkt #DigitalHistory an der #HUBerlin bei unserem Informationsabend am 13. Mai, 18-20 Uhr. Ob online oder persönlich – wir freuen uns darauf, Eure Fragen zu beantworten!
Infos: dhistory.hypotheses....

#studium
May 10, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
Zum Auftakt des #DigitalHistoryOFK gibt es wieder Einblicke in aktuelle MA-Arbeiten:
- Julia Pabst: Potenziale von #ML für digitale #Epigraphik
- Lukas Germann: Analyse von #Twitter-Daten

🔜8.5., 16-18 Uhr c.t., via Zoom
Offen für alle!

ℹ️ Abstracts & Teilnahme via: dhistory.hypotheses....
May 7, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
📢 Das #DigitalHistoryOFK geht in die nächste Runde - mit Vorträgen zu #NFDI4Memory, #NER mit #LLMs, #MedievalHistory, #DataFeminism & Literacy, #MediaHistory u.v.m.!

ℹ️ Via Zoom & offen für alle mit Interesse an #DigitalHistory & #DigitalHumanities.

👉 Zum Programm: dhistory.hypotheses....
April 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
📢Studierende aufgepasst!
Es ist wieder so weit: Ihr interessiert euch dafür, Digital History zu studieren, wisst aber noch nicht wo & wie? ➡️Am 13.5., 18 Uhr, beantworten wir beim Sommerschnuppern 2024 eure Fragen zum Masterschwerpunkt an der HU Berlin (hybrid)!
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April 24, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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torstenhiltmann.bsky.social
This week's DigitalHistoryOFK features Mia Ridge & Kaspar Beelen presenting one of UK's biggest DH projects, Living with Machines, & discussing Machine Learning's role in examining the industrial revolution's impact on human life.
🔜 Wed, 24 Jan, 4-6 pm - via Zoom
ℹ️ Info: dhistory.hypotheses.org/6610
Mia Ridge & Kaspar Beelen: Living with Machines. Scaling up historical practice with digital machine...
The Living with Machines project (2018-23) was a data science and digital history project between the British Library and The Alan Turing Institute with partner universities. Funded by the UKRI and A...
dhistory.hypotheses.org
January 23, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Reposted by Melanie Althage
torstenhiltmann.bsky.social
Im DigitalHistoryOFK diskutiert die TA5 Data Culture (NFDI4Memory) morgen die epistemologischen & ontologischen Dimensionen der Datafizierung sowie konkrete Ansätze für eine gelebte Datenkultur in der hist. Forschung.

🔜 Mi, 17. Jan., 4-6 pm - via Zoom
ℹ️ dhistory.hypotheses.org/6571
January 16, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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torstenhiltmann.bsky.social
Im nächsten DigitalHistoryOFK diskutiert Pauline Spychala (DHI Paris) wie eScriptorium & @transkribus.bsky.social effektiv kombiniert werden können, um mittelalterliche franz. Quellen per HTR zu erschließen.

📆Mi, 22. Nov., 16-18 Uhr, Zoom (offen für alle!)

🔗Abstract: dhistory.hypotheses.org/6384
November 21, 2023 at 5:34 PM