Doctoral Training Unit “Digital History & Hermeneutics”

The new “Deep Data Science of Digital History” (D4H) will launch soon.
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Digital archive construction and modern text analysis: a two way street

With the aim of constructing an archive of letters written by a journalist/politician thorough his entire life, Alcide De Gasperi, the first prime minister of…

Inside the Trading Zone: Thinkering in a Digital History Lab

Andreas Fickers, DTU-DHH project leader, and Tim van der Heijden, DTU- DHH Post-Doc researcher, recently published their co-written article entitled “Inside the Trading Zone: Thinkering…

Collecting, analysing and visualising documents in the political domain

Update: We are happy to finally be able to catch up with Dr Tonelli's talk online that was originally scheduled for March 2020 to take…

AntConc, historians and their diverging research methods

Do historians use digital tools in the same way? This question will be central in this blog. As historians of medicine, working with digitised medical…

The Recurated Museum: Learning to Teach Digital Museum Studies Remotely

While we were teaching The Recurated Museum, a course on museums as digital spaces, the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to practice what we preach and…

Working with databases: The case of the Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (EDCS)

Archives and edited sources have traditionally represented crucial resources for historians. In the digital age, their function has been partly taken over by online databases.…