Digital humanities as a diverse concept In this blog post, I will present some reflections on the epistemic potential and limits of digital history and, more generally, digital humanities (DH). … Continued
How to publish your data and code alongside your research with the help of Zenodo? Following the principles of reproducible science has recently become an increasingly important part of publishing … Continued
The author starts his three-part reflection on some important issues he has observed when working in an interdisciplinary frame of doing Digital History. Those issues are “in the air” but … Continued
Digital Historians often manifests in two forms: a person with a mixed background in History and Computer Science or as a collaboration between a historian and a computer scientist. The … Continued
After the lecture of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dahmen on 14 November 2019, we discussed how the humanities have the potential to enhance conventional methods of analysis and scientific display in … Continued
What kinds of stories do we tell? The narrative structure of history. Since the establishment of history as a discipline, narrative storytelling has been the historians’ main device to structure … Continued
How can we analyse approximately 70 years of content within the British Journal of psychiatry (BJP) amounting to a total of 51.479 pages? This pressing question extends to the French, … Continued
Annotation enables us to transfer our knowledge or meta-knowledge of sources such as texts, images, videos, etc. to a computer or an algorithm. Furthermore, experts can convey detailed descriptions of … Continued
Mass digitisation and born digital sources have changed the work of historians, archivists and museologists. Many historians spend less time in the archives, instead photographing or scanning sources on short … Continued
Virtual reality (VR) is a paradox. Donning a headset can transport the senses to other worlds, while the body remains firmly planted on the ground (well, most of the time). … Continued