Doctoral Training Unit “Digital History & Hermeneutics”

Digital hermeneutics and the European Historic Towns Atlas project: The digital and interactive historical town atlas of Luxembourg City as a “trading zone”

“Digital cartography & mapping technologies” is one of the thematic areas of the DTU. In the DTU’s proposal to the…

Training the trainer: being a PhD supervisor of a digital historian in the making – A short opinion paper

The launch of the Doctoral Training Unit in Digital History and Hermeneutics (DTU-DHH) coincided with my joining a new research…

Local memory boosts label propagation for community detection

DTU PhD researcher Antonio Fiscarelli published an article entitled “Local memory boosts label propagation for community detection“. The paper appeared in the Special Issue of the…

Building a digital scholarly edition of the Romanian Chrestomathy

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…

On the Use and Abuse of Word Embeddings for Digital Humanities

Speaker: Christof Schöch, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Trier 4 December 2019 | 14.00 - 15.00 | C²DH Lounge, MSH, 4th floor This talk…

Cultural values of two neglected areas of linguistics

Introducing microtoponyms and critical editions of old Romanian texts   During the fall, two interesting lectures were held as a part of the DTU Lecture…

Tool criticism meets Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Some general thoughts for starting a Tool Criticism Blog The pervasiveness of technology and digital tools poses new forms of challenges that can seldom be…
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Narrative storytelling and Digital History

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…