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Simple visualisation techniques for simplified Humanities. A survey of Digital Humanities projects

Tommaso Battisti, Marilena Daquino

Alma Mater Studiorum - Univeristy of Bologna, Italy

Only a few surveys analyse information visualisation practices in the Digital Humanities, limiting their results to specific sub-fields and narrow scopes. This work addresses these gaps by exploring the interplay between visualisation techniques, narrative structures, interactive approaches, and solutions to humanities visualisation problems across 186 web-based Digital Humanities projects.



More Than Muses: Recovering and Teaching Iberian Women Writers

Jeremy Browne, Anna-Lisa Halling, Valerie Hegstrom

Brigham Young University, United States of America

More than Muses is a multilingual website where collaborators, especially students, curate texts by Iberian women, annotate secondary sources about these women, and compose original, rigorously-sourced biographies of them. This ongoing project has become an integral part of our teaching and mentoring efforts.



Réflexions sur la pérennisation à partir d'un prototype dans le projet BibliText

Jules Nuguet1,2

1Université Jean-Monnet-Saint-Étienne, France; 2HiSoMA - Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques ,France

BibliText vise à pérenniser les données textuelles patristiques et bibliques en développant des outils adaptés pour l'édition et la consultation de corpus. Grâce à des chaînes de traitement TEI et une plateforme basée sur DTS, il garantit un accès durable et interopérable, en équilibrant rigueur scientifique et évolutivité technologique.



Uso dei metodi statistici per il progetto MAGIC, per la descrizione, caratterizzazione e conservazione della collezione Torraca di libri antichi, appartenenti all’Accademia pontaniana di Napoli.

Stefano Giustino, Stefania Conte, Lorenza Laccetti

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Il progetto Magic dell’Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II” si sta occupando della digitalizzazione della collezione libraria di Francesco e Luigi Torraca, donata all’Accademia pontaniana di Napoli. L’analisi degli incunaboli e delle cinquecentine ha condotto anche ad uno studio statistico, il cui risultato ha evidenziato aspetti peculiari e significativi.



NFDI4Culture Integration Stories: Bridging Gaps Between Isolated Research Resources

Linnaea Charlotte Soehn1, Tabea Tietz2,3, Jonatan Jalle Steller1, Paul Kehrein1, Alexandra Büttner1, Etienne Posthumus2, Oleksandra Bruns2, Jan Grünewälder4, Jörg Hörnschemeyer4, Christoph Sander4, Vera Grund4, Heike Fliegl2, Harald Sack2,3, Torsten Schrade1

1Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, Germany; 2FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany; 3Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 4German Historical Institute Rome, Italy

This paper demonstrates the ongoing effort of integrating metadata into the NFDI4Culture-KG, exemplified by the Gregorovius edition using an ETL pipeline, thereby addressing the challenge that the diversity and heterogeneity of cultural heritage data often provide barriers for querying and integration. NFDI4Culture is a consortium within the German NFDI.



GPTeaching Digital Methods to Humanists

Sofia Papastamkou1, Pierre-Carl Langlais2

1University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 2Independent

An experimental work focusing on the creation of a pedagogical open source LLM to act as a tutor for teaching/learning digital methods to humanists. The paper presents the corpus, the methodology and reports on the first results.



Lignes de Vie : Un programme de recherche numérique participatif sur les psychotraumatismes

Emmanuelle Verkest1, Niels Martignène1,2, Coralie Creupelandt1,2, Jennifer Borsellino1,3, Garance Poussin1, Isabelle Fouchet1, Guillaume Vaiva1,2, Thierry Baubet1,4, Fabien D'Hondt1,2

1Centre national de ressources et de résilience Lille-Paris (CN2R Psychotraumatismes), 59000 Lille, France; 2Université de Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172 - LilNCog - Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, 59000 Lille, France; 3Hôpital Intercommunal Créteil - Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, 94000 Créteil, France; 4Département de Psychopathologie, Hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, 93000 Bobigny, France

Le programme « Lignes de Vie » incarne une recherche participative innovante, mêlant éthique et numérique. Basé sur une web-application, il explore les trajectoires des personnes exposées à des psychotraumatismes. Nous présenterons les modalités transversales de sa conception ainsi que les défis éthiques liés à la recherche en ligne.



ACERVOS MUSEAIS EM PLATAFORMAS DIGITAIS: interoperabilidade no caso do Museu Virtual de Instrumentos Musicais.

Adriana Olinto Balleste2, Claudio Jose S. Ribeiro1

1Unirio, Prof. do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biblioteconomia, Brazil; 2Ibict, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil

A investigação apresenta o estudo prospectivo para a evolução do MVIM para obter o alinhamento com padrões nacionais e internacionais. A estratégia metodológica combina o uso de revisão bibliográfica com o estudo de caso sobre um recorte do acervo para avaliação do uso de metadados e delimitação de funcionalidades.



Defining the Variation in the Greek Anthology. The IAL (Intelligence Artificielle Littéraire) Project

Mathilde Verstraete, Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Yann Audin, Dominic Forest, William Bouchard

University of Montreal, Canada

The Literary Artificial Intelligence (IAL) project investigates the possibility of formalising the definition of literary concepts using algorithmic principles. We focus on the concept of the variation inside the Greek Anthology. This paper summarises our methodology and preliminary results, and lays the groundwork for the next steps in the project.



Generative AI for OCR Error Correction: A Case Study of Historical Newspaper Archives

Jessica Witte

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Optical character recognition (OCR) has facilitated digitisation of historical materials, including literary texts, newspapers, and records. However, errors in digital archives limit their utility. This paper presents a post-OCR error correction method using a fine-tuned large language model to correct errors in nineteenth-century English-language newspapers, significantly improving upon existing methods.



Computational Access to Library of Congress Collections as Data

Rachel Trent, Brian Foo, Camille Salas

Library of Congress, United States of America

We discuss the current status of developing a routine digital scholarship support program at the Library of Congress. Program areas and methods for computational access are reviewed, as well as opportunities for DH researchers to more deeply engage with the library.



Archival narrative space and spatial narrative

Jingyi Zeng1, Yongjun Xu2, Yujue Wang3, Li Niu2, Lei Wang4

1Nankai University, China, People's Republic of; 2Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of; 3Wuhan University, China, People's Republic of; 4Sun Yat-sen University, China, People's Republic of

This study uses inductive and deductive methods to analyze spatial representations in archival and narrative theory. This study develops a research framework for digital archival spatial narratives centered around the "story—discourse" space, with digital archives as the subject and digital media as the tool.



An Experimental Macroscopic Study of Secret Religions During the Jiaqing Period of the Qing Dynasty

Hsi-Yuan Chen, Hsiang-An Wang

Academia Sinica

We utilize a database of archives pertaining to official investigations into secret religious sects, compiled and digitized by our team. This research facilitated by the “Optical Character Recognition and Proofreading Platforms” and “Digital Analysis System for Humanities”, two platforms developed by our team at the Academia Sinica.



Historical Vernacular Houses in the Hualien River Basin of Eastern Taiwan: A Spatial Humanities Investigation with Research Data Management Planning

Ting-iong Lim1, Tyng-Ruey Chuang2,3,4

1Department of Taiwan and Regional Studies, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan; 2Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 3Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 4Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (Center for GIS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan

We study the geospatial distribution and humanistic context of historical vernacular houses in Eastern Taiwan. We are using a data repository to disseminate the datasets collected for our research. For the current investigation, we will further develop a Data Management Plan with the goal of practicing the FAIR Data Principles.



Por uma literacia midiático-informacional

Priscila Seixas da Costa1,2, Juliana Campos de Aguiar Mattos Ribeiro2, Pedro Henrique Conceição dos Santos1,2,3

1Burburinho Cultural, Brazil; 2Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil; 3Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

O projeto Enacin, do Ibict, visa aprimorar a literacia midiático-informacional de jovens em Brasília por meio de um laboratório social, que nasce da cooperação com a Burburinho Cultural, através do Criar Jogos. O foco é o desenvolvimento da integridade da informação através de um curso de criação de jogos digitais.



Promptotyping - the FrontEND?

Christian Steiner, Christopher Pollin

Digital Humanities Craft

Promptotyping introduces a methodology combining structured requirements engineering (PRISM framework) with Large Language Models for rapid development of research interfaces. By positioning LLMs as technical advisors, researchers can focus on data exploration while complex implementation decisions are automated, enabling near-instantaneous creation of custom research interfaces.



Enhancing global accessibility through regional portals: The case study of ELAR’s Latin American Portal

Hanna Hedeland, Jonas Engelmann, Nils Hempel, Vera Ferreira, Mandana Seyfeddinipur

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany

The Endangered Languages Archive is a digital archive, which holds audio-visual collections in more than 600 languages. This paper explores ELAR’s approach to make collections more accessible through the creation of regional portals. The process requires highly efficient tools and workflows for data curation, quality control, translation and data management.



Utilizing Ontologies in Comparative Urban History Research: A Geospatial Analysis

Anna-Lena Schumacher

Institute for Comparative Urban History, University of Muenster, Germany

Building upon the limitations of traditional spatial analysis, the project HiSMaComp aims to develop an ontology-based approach for recording and comparing the topography and morphology of historical urban spaces. By integrating GIS with semantic web technologies, the project allows for deeper, multidimensional, and standardised comparative analyses.



Making an augmented web book with Le Pressoir (The Pressoir)

Hélène Beauchef1, Roch Delannay1, Antoine Fauchié2, Giulia Ferretti1, David Larlet1, Servanne Monjour3, Nicolas Sauret4, Marcello Vitali-Rosati1

1Université de Montréal, Canada; 2Université de Rouen Normandie, France; 3Université Paris IV - Sorbonne, France; 4Université Paris 8, France

In this poster, we show how Le Pressoir addresses the challenge of a multimodal editorial chain. This will be achieved by exploring the functionalities of Le Pressoir and presenting proofs of concept involving works that have already been produced or are in the process of being designed.



To Share Textual Structure Globally: Development of TEI Viewer for East Asian Texts

Kiyonori Nagasaki1,2, Jun Homma3, Masahiro Shimoda4,5,1

1International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan; 2Keio University; 3FLX Style; 4Musashino University; 5The University of Tokyo

This presentation reports on the development of a TEI viewer dedicated to a language area in which the TEI Guidelines were not widely. The viewer is intended to motivate people who are not good at programming to take up TEI encoding and has predictably been able to do so.



Preserving Access to Three Decades of Digital Humanities Research: Infrastructure Modernisation as Sustainability Practice

Miguel Vieira, Arianna Ciula, Elliott Hall, Pam Mellen, Geoffroy Noël, Tim Watts

King's Digital Lab, King's College London, United Kingdom

King's Digital Lab underwent a large-scale infrastructure modernisation, migrating 85 digital humanities projects spanning three decades. This included migrating from private infrastructure to central hosting, implementing a static-first approach for sustainability, and developing a decision framework for preservation strategies. The project demonstrates how technical modernisation serves long-term research accessibility goals.



Digital Documerica: Picturing the Environment in 1970s America

Taylor Arnold, Mia Lazar, Lauren Tilton

University of Richmond, United States of America

This poster introduces the project Digital Documerica, a digital public project offering a search and discovery interface, interactive visualizations, and additional media resources to broaden the reach and access of a collection of nearly 16,000 documentary environmental photographs from the 1970s taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.



New Features in the TextGrid Repository: Facilitating Long-Term Open Access to TEI files

José Calvo Tello1, George Dogaru2, Stefan Funk1, Ralf Klammer3, Nanette Rißler-Pipka4, Ubbo Veentjer1, Mathias Göbel1

1Göttingen State and University Library, Germany; 2GWDG; 3TUD Dresden University of Technology; 4Max Weber Stiftung

The poster presents the open TextGrid Repository for TEI documents with its basic features and some new developments. In particular, we describe the new and more user-friendly import workflow, which has already been used to publish new corpora, and invite other projects to join us.



Exploration of Research Impact through IMeTo. Supporting Societal Technology Transfer

Cezary Rosiński1, Nikodem Wołczuk1, Patryk Hubar-Kołodziejczyk2, Dariusz Perliński1

1The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences; 2Faculty of Journalism, Information and Bibliology, University of Warsaw

IMeTo (Impact Measurement Tool), developed by IBL PAN within the GRAPHIA project, evaluates the societal and economic impact of research in the humanities and social sciences. Using AI/ML models, it automates impact assessment by classifying and generating descriptions. Designed for SSH institutions, IMeTo supports data-driven insights and promotes community engagement.



Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: The Role of Software Heritage in Safeguarding Research Software

Tomasz Umerle2, Cezary Rosiński2, Patryk Hubar-Kołodziejczyk1, Nikodem Wołczuk2

1University of Warsaw, Poland; 2The Institute of the Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

The poster aims to present the results of IBL PAN's work within the SoFAIR project. It highlights efforts to preserve research software in the digital humanities through the creation of annotated datasets, the refinement of machine learning tools, and case studies evaluating digital transformation and integration with the EOSC.



Introducing museum-digital: Accessible and collaborative collection management and publication for and by museums

Joshua Ramon Enslin

Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethemuseum, Germany

As an initiative aimed at collaborative publication and mangement of museum data, museum-digtial provides multilingual publication platforms on which museums from Europe and beyond publish their data together as well as a norm data repository, among others. This poster focuses on collaboration in and APIs of museum-digital's services.



Linked Pasts Japan: A Forum for Collaboration onCultural Linked Open Data

Jun Ogawa1, Tatsuki Sekino2, Yuta Hashimoto3, Goki Miyakita4, Natsuko Yoshiga5, Asanobu Kitamoto6

1The University of Tokyo; 2International Research Center for Japanese Studies; 3National Museum of Japanese History; 4Keio Museum Commons; 5Osaka University; 6ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities

Linked Pasts Japan (LPJ) promotes Linked Open Data (LOD) in the humanities by fostering collaboration among researchers and practitioners actively working in Japan. Building on global initiatives like Pelagios Network and Linked Pasts Symposium, LPJ connects projects, buidling a interdisciplinary community, and eventually enhances Japan’s international presence.



3D Stories: Bringing Cultural Heritage Objects to Life

Kirill Mitsurov1, Daniele Guido1, Tugce Karatas1, Marian Dörk2

1University of Luxembourg; 2University of Applied Arts Potsdam (FHP)

This poster presents 3D Stories, an open-source digital platform developed through collaboration between the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg and the Urban Complexity Lab (UCLAB) at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences where historians, researchers, and the public can explore cultural heritage objects.



Innovative Pathways to Data Literacy: Tailored Formats for Humanities and Cultural Studies

Judit Garzón Rodríguez1, Julia Tolksdorf2, Zwick Robert2, Johanna Konstanciak3, Veronica Wassermayr3

1Leibniz-Institute of European History; 2Mainz University of Applied Sciences; 3Trier University

The HERMES Data Competence Centre develops bespoke training formats for researchers in the humanities and cultural studies, addressing the growing demand for digital data literacy. The Data Carpentries and BYODL formats bridge gaps in digital skills, promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and support Open Science by fostering transparency, inclusivity, and equitable access.



Escritos de mujeres: un espacio para su investigación

Jonathan Girón Palau1, Clara Ramírez2

1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 2Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Este póster presenta un espacio virtual del Grupo de Investigación de Escritos de Mujeres de la UNAM, que rescata y publica escritos de mujeres para comprender sus experiencias. A través de bases de datos, archivos y exhibiciones, busca difundir sus voces y ofrecer una crítica a las narrativas históricas dominantes.



Introducing StemmaWeb 2.0: A Web Enabled Suite of Stemmatological Tools for the Next Decade

Tara L. Andrews2, Joris J. Van Zundert1, Schiwa Aliabadi-Pongratz2

1Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands – Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands, The; 2University of Vienna

Stemmatology is the reconstruction of text transmission based on surviving manuscripts. StemmaWeb is a web enabled suite of tools that aids in variant analysis and stemmatological computation. StemmaWeb 2.0, in active development, will launch in 2025. Our poster will detail new features and various academic projects utilizing StemmaWeb.



Structuring and Issues of Late Middle Japanese Materials: Focusing on ‘Shōmono’, a commentary on Chinese poetry and prose

Yuho Kitazaki1, Tatsuhiro Furuta2, Miwako Murayama3, Yuki Watanabe4, Toshinobu Ogiso5, Hirofumi Aoki6

1The University of Osaka, Japan; 2Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan; 3Japan Women's University, Japan; 4Tokoha University, Japan; 5National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan; 6Kyushu University, Japan

This study adopts a structured approach to develop a corpus of ‘Shōmono’ materials, consisting of oral commentaries on Chinese texts in Late Middle Japanese. Our research aims to create a pilot corpus of annotated texts and establish a framework for representing the relationship between Chinese texts and their Japanese annotations.



The Impact of Review Copies on German Online Book Reviews from LovelyBooks

Anne Heumann

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

This poster contribution investigates the impact of review copies on German online book reviews from the social cataloging site LovelyBooks. The phenomenon "influence" is analysed across five dimensions, such as review positivity or complexity. To measure the dimensions, methodologies from the field of Natural Language Processing are applied.



Arvest: an open source environment for multimodal digital heritage analysis

Jacob Hart1, Clarisse Bardiot1, David Rouquet2, Anthony Geourjon2, Antoine Roy2

1Université Rennes 2, France; 2Tétras Libre, France

In this poster, we present Arvest, a free and open source web app for the analysis of multimodal digital heritage entirely based on the IIIF standard. The tool's main features allow for media hosting, creation of multimodal projects, various types of annotation (including video), and an open RESTful API.



Transfer learning and in-context learning for stage direction classification in French

Pablo Ruiz Fabo1,3, Alexia Schneider2

1Université de Strasbourg, France; 2Université de Montréal, Canada; 3Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

This poster expands our work on stage direction classification in French via fine-tuning pre-trained language models and prompting large language models (LLM), testing new models, hyperparameters and prompts. A new qualitative analysis of LLM results showed limits in our reference annotations, and how LLMs can help identify them.



Metadata Framework for Digitizing the Derge Edition of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon

Shumpei Katakura1, Ryuta Kikuya2, Tomoe Hanzawa3, Sachiko Yanagihara3

1Archives, Tohoku University; 2Koyasan University; 3Information Service Division, Tohoku University Library

Tohoku University in Japan is digitizing the Derge Edition of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon, developing two databases for metadata, portrait images, and captions. Using its publicly accessible digital archive and the IIIF framework, this project enhances global accessibility, advancing Buddhist studies through innovative digital archiving.



Towards a Computational Codicology: A Framework for Manuscript Descriptions

Alberto Campagnolo1,2

1Université de Tours; 2KU Leuven

This poster introduces the CoMEMM framework, developed in the ERC-funded PRIMA project, for systematic codicological descriptions of Early Modern manuscripts. Integrating stratigraphic principles and computational analysis, it captures material and structural features, enabling cross-collection analysis, production pattern identification, and data interoperability. CoMEMM advances digital codicology and manuscript studies through extensibility and interdisciplinary applications.



Common Sense Extreme: populist and extremist narratives in European parliaments

Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič1,2, Tjaša Konovšek2

1Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia

This study examines the overlap between populist and extremist narratives in parliaments by analyzing "common sense" and considering factors like party orientation, government-opposition roles, gender, and spatio-temporal information. To this end, we use corpus linguistic methods and topic modeling on ParlaMint-en 4.1, a corpus of speeches from 29 European parliaments.



Bridging the Past with Technology: RAG Systems and Map-Based Insights into Berlin’s Cold War Transit

Noah Jefferson Baumann

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Presenting a novel digital public history approach, this project leverages RAG and map visualizations linked to a graph database to provide immersive access to Cold War-era Berlin transport data. Users interact via natural language queries, enhancing engagement, accessibility, and fostering citizen science contributions.



Exploring Word Clouds: Taking a Deeper Look at How They Interact with Middle School Students' Data and Literary Meaning-Making Processes

Raquel Coelho1, Nichole Misako Nomura2, Sarah Levine2, Victor Lee2

1University of Pittsburgh, United States of America; 2Stanford University, United States of America

This project uses qualitative interviews with American middle-school students to explore how they make sense of word clouds from both data literacy and ELA perspectives. The interview asked them to read a word cloud, read the poem used to generate that word cloud, and then compare the two textual representations.



Phylogenetic analysis of a literary genre, waka, with BERT reveals mean-reverting self-excitation

Takuma Tanaka

Shiga University, Japan

The evolution of classical Japanese poetry, waka, was investigated to elucidate the evolutionary dynamics of culture. Whether anthologies could be interpolated and extrapolated, whether the real time series were distinguishable from the time-reversed and shuffled ones, and whether the Matthew effect existed were examined.



Developing a Dataset for Analyzing Historical Character Shape Evolution in the Japanese Writing System

Kazuhiro Okada

Keio University, Japan

I aim to introduce my project on creating a dataset for analyzing the historical evolution of character shapes in the Japanese writing system. I also invite scholars to discuss how the dataset design can enhance studies on character shape evolution in general, and, more specifically, for the Japanese writing system.



Surveying the Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering Landscape

Julia Damerow1, Rebecca Sutton Koeser2, Cole Crawford3

1Arizona State University; 2Princeton University; 3Harvard University

DHTech is a community for people doing technical work in DH. In 2020, DHTech ran a survey to better understand who is developing code in DH. To understand how the environment for research software engineering practitioners in DH has changed, we are now repeating the 2020 survey.

 
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Date: Thursday, 17/July/2025
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keylog.js: An Open Source Pedagogical Tool for DH and Data Studies

Taylor ARNOLD

University of Richmond, United States of America

Presents the pedagogical tool keylog.js, a minimal javascript-based tool that provides privacy-focused, client-side keylogging software served through a static website to address questions about the ethics, privacy, and accessibility of technologies and algorithms.



HTR of a historical manuscript with multiple languages, scripts, and hands

Martina Scholger1, Elisabeth Steiner1, Melanie Frauendorfer1, Sabrina Strutz1, Hans-Jörg Döhla2, Henning Klöter3

1University of Graz, Austria; 2University of Tübingen, Germany; 3Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

This contribution investigates the application of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) to the automated transcription of a multilingual historical manuscript.



DoTS: FAIRly publishing your textual data with the DTS API

Philippe Pons, Vincent Jolivet, Jean-Victor Boby, Lucas Terriel

École des chartes - PSL, France

This poster aims to present DoTS, a comprehensive and functional suite of tools for publishing corpora in compliance with the DTS specification, integrating backend, API responses, and frontend for the creation of adaptable websites.



User Experience and Accessiblity in Digital Humanities Projects: A Survey

Kathie Gossett1, Liza Potts2

1Brigham Young University, United States of America; 2Michigan State University, United States of America

This poster investigates how digital humanities (DH) scholars world-wide implement user experience (UX) practices in their projects. Through a survey, the authors will explore the integration of UX methodologies, identify barriers to adoption, and aim to promote more accessible, user-centered digital tools, ultimately broadening DH’s reach and engagement.



Trauma Writing and Climate Migration Narratives

Parham Aledavood

Université de Montréal, Canada

This research examines a corpus of contemporary migration novels to explore trauma. Using a mixed methodology, it investigates how these narratives depict human and non-human migrations, challenging anthropocentric environmental discourse while revealing the cultural imagination of climate change through recurring motifs, emotional arcs, and anticipatory memory.



Beyond the Rugged Consumer: Enabling Communal Experiences in Digital Cultural Heritage

Jonatan Jalle Steller

Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Germany

The poster presents five strategies to produce more communal experiences in cultural-heritage software, exemplified using the Cultural Heritage Framework. The strategies are developed against the background of experts or 'rugged consumers' being the de-facto target audience of many editions, dictionaries, repositories and similar offerings.



Development of a Commentary Generation System for Western Classical Texts

Ikko Tanaka1, Jun Ogawa2, Naoya Iwata3

1J.F. Oberlin University; 2National Institute of Informatics; 3Nagoya University

We present Humanitext Antiqua, a system employing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and advanced large language models (LLMs) to generate scholarly interpretations of classical texts. Using Plato’s Republic as a case study, the system integrates primary texts, commentaries, and secondary literature, addressing challenges in traditional referencing and text segmentation for enhanced academic research.



Oracle Bone Reassembly Based on Diffusion Model

Guang Yang

BNU-HKBU United International College, China, People's Republic of

This paper introduces a machine learning approach to reassemble fragmented oracle bones, which are important materials for understanding early Chinese history. Specifically, we propose a model based on the Diffusion Model, a generative deep learning framework that has demonstrated remarkable performance in computer vision tasks in recent years.



Which chatbot generated the most racial and ethnic stereotypes?

Aleksandra Rykowska

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

This study proposes a comparison between three most popular chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude AI and Google Bard. Racial, ethnic and gender stereotypes were researched in the generated short stories. The stylo package for R and its function oppose() as well as the method of topic modelling were used in the study.



Webs of Cruelty: Network Analysis of Carceral Institutions for Girls and Women in 19th Century Indiana

Brianna Jean McLaughlin

Indiana University, United States of America

I have created a network that I have used to track influence, cashflow, and cruelty across 8 carceral institutions over approximately 50 years. In doing so, I can prove that there was an intricately weaved web of custodial cruelty among "fallen" girls and women in 19th Century Indiana.



Nature versus Artefacts: Places and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Novels from Spain and Latin America

Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, Caroline Müller

Universität Rostock, Germany

Space, places, and spatial objects have been of interest for literary historical research for a long time. We take up this state of research by analyzing natural and artificial spaces, places, and spatial objects in nineteenth-century novels from Spain and Latin America.



Towards the “Model Building in the Humanities through Data-Driven Problem Solving” based around the Japanese Literary Studies

Nobuhiko Kikuchi

National Institute of Japanese Literature, Japan

This paper introduces a large-scale DH research project in Japan that the National Institute of Japanese Literature is undertaking over the next ten years. The aim of this project is to construct big data on Japanese pre-modern texts and to promote data-driven humanities.



Programming Pedagogies: Exploring GitHub as a Platform for Coding Training in DH

Owen Monroe, Zoe LeBlanc

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

This poster examines GitHub as a pedagogical platform in DH, analyzing its role in fostering coding literacy. By identifying pedagogical activities and practices, we explore how GitHub data can address gaps in training and inform the development of inclusive and effective programming pedagogies for the field.



The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace: contextualising digital resources in a registry

Clara Boavida2, Elena Battaner Moro3, Laure Barbot1, Michael Kurzmeier1

1DARIAH, Germany; 2Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; 3Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

The SSH Open Marketplace is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. This poster presents how this service can provide insights into the use of tools, methods and standards in the DH research communities.



Controlled Vocabularies for a Knowledge Graph on Open Educational Resources

Petra C. Steiner1, Jonathan Geiger2, Frank Lange3, Abdelmoneim Amer Desouki1

1Technical University of Darmstadt; 2Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz; 3RWTH Aachen University

The DALIA project aims to make open educational resources (OER) on data literacy accessible and interoperable. A knowledge graph is developed to link the materials, using the DALIA Interchange Format (DIF) to ensure transparency and interoperability. This poster focuses on picklists for DIF and invites feedback from the professional community.



Scholarly Navigation on an Open Science Platform: A Computational Study of OpenEdition’s Server Logs

Mohsine Aabid1,2, Simon Dumas Primbault1, Patrice Bellot2

1OpenEdition (CNRS / AMU), France; 2Laboratoire d'informatique et des Systèmes (LIS), France

This study analyzes OpenEdition’s server logs to uncover user navigation patterns across its platforms. Using methods like transition analysis, clustering, and topological modeling, it reveals platform fidelity, distinct user profiles, and shared interests. Future work aims to expand the scope with action-based analysis for deeper insights.



Mapping Collaborations in Performing Arts: Building the Festival d’Avignon Digital Corpus

Nicolas Foucault, Jeanne Fras, Clarisse Bardiot

Université Rennes 2, France

This poster presents the p2AFA corpus, a digital resource of Festival d’Avignon programs and playbills (1947–2024) for studying performing arts collaborations. Combining OCR, machine learning, and diplomatic transcription, it enables network visualization and historiographical analysis.



Intangible and Tangible heritage data integration. Models for management, visualization and knowledge. [INTHEDATA]

Patricia Ferreira-Lopes, Francisco Pinto-Puerto, Elena González-Gracia

Departamento de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

In this poster we will present the INTHEDATA project, in particular, the current state of knowledge and best practice in the area of cultural heritage and semantic knowledge model, the objectives of the project, its methodology by implementing the CIDOC-CRM standard and the first results.



Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Enabling Computational Research on Beauty Ideals

Tim Gollub1, Pierre Achkar2,3, Martin Potthast4, Benno Stein1

1Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany; 2Leipzig University; 3Fraunhofer Institute Leipzig; 4University of Kassel, hessian.AI, and ScaDS.AI

We present our work on the development of machine learning classifiers trained to assess whether a given input image aligns with a specific beauty ideal. The work is part of our effort toward enabling large-scale computational research on beauty ideals, a subject that is both culturally significant and socially impactful.



Ghost City:Augmented Reality Restoration of Two Hundred Lost Mosques in Belgrade

Uliana Pyadushkina

Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences Montenegro, Russian Federation

This project aims to recover the cityscape of lost Muslim heritage in Belgrade by superimposing 200 destroyed mosques onto the modern cityscape at their original locations, using 3D-models in augmented reality, with textures based on the restored appearances of the mosques derived from old photographs, documents and sketches from travelogues.



Development and Evaluation of the Information Retrieval System for Humanities Archives using LLM

Kenshin Kobayashi1, Koki Itagaki2, Tomoaki Tsutsumi2, Atsushi Matsumura2, Norihiko Uda2

1GLOBAL SECURITY EXPERTS Inc., Japan; 2University of Tsukuba, Japan

This study aims to establish an effective information-provision method for humanities research, and as part of this effort, we developed an information retrieval system utilizing recently prominent technologies, LLM (Large Language Models) and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). This paper describes the developed system and its performance evaluation.



Minimal Computing Meets Public History: The Stadt.Geschichte.Basel Approach to Open Research Data with CollectionBuilder

Moritz Twente1, Moritz Mähr1,2

1Universität Basel, Switzerland; 2Universität Bern, Switzerland

This poster highlights how Stadt.Geschichte.Basel created an Open Research Data Platform using CollectionBuilder. By applying minimal computing principles, the platform addresses challenges of accessibility, sustainability, and inclusivity in digital history. It provides adaptable, FAIR solutions that enhance interdisciplinary research, support marginalized perspectives, and foster long-term usability of historical data.



CLARIAH-ES: A Distributed Research Infrastructure for the Digital Humanities

Elena Battaner Moro1, Ainara Estarrona Ibarloza2, Aritz Farwell2

1Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain (URJC); 2Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)

CLARIAH-ES is a Spanish national research infrastructure that strengthens research and facilitates innovative approaches within the digital humanities. By integrating language technologies, text analysis, cultural heritage, and multilingual resources, CLARIAH-ES offers a unique ecosystem for scholars interested in exploring the Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque languages and cultures.



Romani Language in Google Translate: Ethical Considerations

Olga Shablykina, Leonardo Melis, Murad Mustafayev, Shayan Ahmed Shariff

IDMC, Université de Lorraine, France

Google including Romani in their MT engine raises ethical concerns regarding linguistic preservation and cultural respect. Lack of transparency, poor translation quality, possible negative implications for language speakers are among the issues. It appears that the BigTech companies prioritize quality over quantity when it comes to support of lower-resource languages.



READ-COOP and Transkribus: cooperative approaches to sustainable and responsible digital infrastructure

Melissa Terras1, Bettina Anzinger2, Guenter Muehlberger3, C. Annemieke Romein4, Andy Stauder2, Florian Stauder2

1University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2READ-COOP, Innsbruck, Austria; 3Leopold Franzens Universität für Innsbruck, Austria; 4University of Twente, the Netherlands

How can we sustainably build digital scholarship infrastructures that best serve their communities, encouraging co-ownership and input into their development? This poster examines the cooperative business model underpinning READ-COOP (https://readcoop.eu) and Transkribus (https://transkribus.org), an Automated Text Recognition platform, providing a blue-print for the establishment of responsible, democratic, cooperative digital infrastructures.



Engaging Researchers for Improving Services and Training: Insights from the ATRIUM Survey and Researcher Forum

Tomasz Umerle1, Tiziana Lombardo2, Iulianna van der Lek3, Maria Ilvanidou4, Carol Delmazo5

1Digital Humanities Centre IBL PAN; 2Net7; 3CLARIN ERIC; 4Athens University of Economics and Business; 5OPERAS

The ATRIUM project enhances access to digital research infrastructures in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences by improving services and creating a tailored curriculum for the research community. The poster showcases how, through a survey and workshops, ATRIUM integrates community feedback to bridge skills gaps and deliver impactful open training resources.



Longevity, Accessibility, and Multilingual Micro-editions at Scholarly Editing: A Multimedia, Open-access Journal for Recovery Practitioners

Raffaele Viglianti1, Noelle A. Baker2

1University of Maryland, United States of America; 2Independent Scholar

Scholarly Editing is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that welcomes contributions that feature rare or marginal texts and small-scale editions for the discoverability of underrepresented stories and artifacts. This poster will introduce the journal’s purpose and present the journal’s strategies to ensure the longevity of its digital content.



O multilinguismo da produção científica em Humanidades Digitais nos últimos 5 anos: uma análise a partir da Web of Science Core Collection

Maria Filipa Torres1, Maria Manuel Borges2

1Univ. Coimbra, FLUC; 2Univ Coimbra, CEIS20, FLUC

O multilinguismo deveria afirmar-se nas Humanidades Digitais (HD). O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar se a produção científica em HD na Web of Science Core Collection o reflete. É um estudo bibliométrico com um corte transversal retrospetivo (2020-2024). Conclui-se que o inglês predomina, mas existe espaço para outros idiomas.



Memory of 518: A Web-Based Platform Connecting Literature, Archival Records, and User-Generated Data

Chaeyeon Jeong, Moonui Kim, Jihyo Jeon

Korea University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

This project builds a web-based literary tour platform called ‘Memory of 518’, integrating literary works, factual records, and user-generated data related to the Gwangju May 18 Democratic Uprising. Using maps, 360-degree images, and user contributions, it documents and visualizes the fictional, historical, and everyday aspects of 518 Gwangju.



Geo-Databases on Paper - Structured Data from Historical Maps

Anastasia Bauch, Klaus Stein, Carmen Enss

UrbanMetaMappingTransfer, University of Bamberg

The proposed poster introduces a workflow for data extraction from historical maps into a structured format by manually digitising scanned maps with the OpenSource GIS software QGIS. We present our work in progress on a set of maps from our research in the UrbanMetaMapping project.



Bootstrapping Corpora Building of Low-Resourced Language Texts Using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

David Bainbridge1, Sulhan Algee1, J. Stephen Downie2, Hemi Whanga3

1University of Waikato, New Zealand; 2University of Illinois, United States of America; 3University of Massey, New Zealand

Digtal Humanities scholars need NLP tools to create new corpora of low-resourced languages, but such tools need to be trained on “non-existent” corpora creating a classic boot-strapping problem. We use the text from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, along with a lexicon-based interative search strategy, to overcome this problem.



Visualising Africa in Chinese Media: A Preliminary Computer-Assisted Study of 1950s-1980s Representation in Journal Illustrations and Book Covers

Jodie Yuzhou Sun (co-first author)1, Fudie Zhao (co-first author)2, Qilin Hu1

1Fudan University, China; 2University of Oxford, United Kingdom

This study explores the visual representation of Africa in Chinese media (1950s-1980s), creating a digital archive and applying AI tools, including large language models and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), for bidirectional text-image retrieval, offering fresh insights into Sino-African relations and cross-cultural visual studies.



Customizing Omeka S for Linguistic Linked Open Data: A Case Study of the NINDA Language Resource Archive

So Miyagawa1,2, Yifan Wang1,3, Takanori Ito4, Tomokazu Takada1

1National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Japan; 2University of Tsukuba, Japan; 3University of Tokyo, Japan; 4Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

NINDA (NINJAL Digital Archive) adapts Omeka S to manage linguistic resources, particularly for Japonic languages. It implements IIIF for multimedia content and OntoLex Lemon for lexical data structuring, supporting FAIR principles. The system handles annotated recordings, interlinear texts, and lexical databases, making linguistic resources more accessible to researchers and communities.



Integrity in Digital Scholarly Editing: The GreekSchools Case

Simone Zenzaro1, Angelo Mario Del Grosso1, Federico Boschetti1, Graziano Ranocchia2

1Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR, Italy; 2Università di Pisa

Textual scholarship aims to reconstruct and publish texts through critical apparatuses. The DSL-based Digital Scholarly Editions (DSE) method merges traditional editing with computational techniques, enhancing workflows and adhering to open science principles. The GreekSchools project exemplifies this approach, and the CoPhiEditor implements it as a software solution.



Quil2Vec: A Tool for Vector Manipulation of Medieval Latin Script

Herman Gerrit Makkink

University of Vienna, Austria

This poster will present a tool currently being developed for doing image vectorization of medieval script, called “Quil2Vec”. This tool to intended to expedite the production of image vectors as ground truth for multiple different text-based machine learning research applications.



Enhancing Open Science through the SCIROS Project

Gabriela Manista, Maciej Maryl, Tomasz Umerle, Cezary Rosiński, Marta Świetlik, Magdalena Wnuk, Mateusz Franczak, Piotr Wciślik

Institute of Literary Research Polish Academy of Science, Poland

The SCIROS project aims to enhance Open Science in the humanities and social sciences by tackling theoretical, practical, and infrastructural challenges with 6 international partners. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and sharing insights via the blog, the project supports the widespread adoption of OS practices.



Building a Peer Review Framework for Non-Traditional Research Outputs

Françoise Gouzi1, Anne Baillot1, Sarah Bénière2, Carol Delmazo3, Toma Tasovac1

1DARIAH-EU; 2INRIA; 3OPERAS

This poster aims to present our ongoing work on developing the evaluation framework for open peer review assessment of non-traditional research outputs as a contribution toward maximising the quality and impact of Arts and Humanities research in Europe in the context of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).



Disputes over Cultural Power in Digital Repatriation: Insufficient Interpretations of Cultural Objects in Cross-cultural Contexts

yujue wang, jingya fan, hanying wen

Wuhan University, the People's Republic of China

After digital repatriation, cultural institutions often still remain digital replicas. This study compares metadata records of ancient Chinese paintings across various museums, revealing that interpretations in cross-cultural contexts are influenced by cultural backgrounds, and finally suggests improving original communities' control over digital replicas in legal, ethical, and technical aspects.



Privatbriefe als marginalisiertes Kulturgut

Debby Trzeciak1,2

1TU Darmstadt, Germany; 2Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany

Die Sammlung und Bewahrung von marginalisierten Kulturgütern wie Privatbriefen unterliegen bisher keiner einheitlichen Archivierung und Standards. Das Dissertationsprojekt adressiert die Frage, wie die nachhaltige und dauerhafte Erschließung nach internationalen Standards im Spannungsfeld der FAIR-, CARE- und Open-Prinzipien gelingen und die maschinenlesbare und interoperable Digitalisierung des Kulturguts ermöglicht werden kann.



“HumAInities: Exploring the Impact of AI on Humanities disciplines”

Michael Sinatra1, Dominic Forest1, Jean-Philippe Magué2

1Université de Montréal, Canada; 2ENS Lyon

Our poster will present the partnership development grant “HumAInities: Exploring the Impact of AI on Humanities disciplines”, its goals and expected results. Our project seeks to understand the changes brought about by the impact of AI on the production and dissemination of knowledge within the humanities.



Vedic Sanskrit OCR as a Bridge between Text and Image Platforms

Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, Ikki Ohmukai

The University of Tokyo, Japan

This study develops a Vedic Sanskrit OCR model to bridge the gap between text and image platforms.We fine-tunes TrOCR on Vedic, aligning images with texts using eScriptorium as a tool for creating groundtruth, suggesting a cyclic process to create text and image correspondences and to impove the performance of OCR.



A Multimodal Approach to Historical Sources in the 18th–19th Century Balkans

Kristiyan Sergeev Simeonov1, Maria Baramova2

1Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria; 2Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria

This poster proposes a multimodal approach to historical research, utilizing HTR, NLP pipelines, and GIS in a user-friendly manner. By integrating advanced computational methods with traditional humanities research, we aim to create a model that can be replicated for other underrepresented regions and languages.



From Late-Antique Text to 21st Century Literature Database: Babylonian Talmud Stories as a Case Study

Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

This poster explores the challenges and opportunities of digitizing late-antique literature, focusing on the Babylonian Talmud. By creating a comprehensive database of Talmudic stories, it aims to expand computational literary studies. The poster will discuss the methodological challenges involved in building this database, including text extraction, annotation, and modeling.



Detecting divergent language use in Russian Media during the Russo-Ukrainian War: Steps towards interpretable propaganda detection and analysis

Anastasiia Vestel, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb

Saarland University, Germany

This study examines divergent language use in Russian state-controlled media and social media during the Russo-Ukrainian war using the WarMM-2022 corpus and Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD). KLD offers interpretability advantages over more opaque machine learning techniques allowing a deeper understanding of how propaganda techniques are linguistically construed and evolve over time.



O compromisso com a Ciência Aberta: a Gestão de Acervos da Fiocruz

Mônica Garcia1, Maria Manuel Borges2, Maria Cristina Soares Guimarães3

1Univ. Coimbra, FLUC, Portugal; 2Univ. Coimbra, CEIS20, FLUC, Portugal; 3Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brasil

A proposta visa desenvolver um modelo de gestão de acervos científicos alinhado com as diretrizes internacionais de Acesso Aberto (AA), especialmente considerando o Plano S e as transformações no sistema de comunicação científica.



Creating Open Source, Multilingual DH Tools with Rust

Ian Patrick Goodale

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

This poster highlights three open source software packages I created in the programming language Rust. The packages include lemmatizing, readability, and stylometry algorithms, and were intentionally designed to create new resources to facilitate analysis of and engagement with multilingual and non-English languages in the Rust ecosystem.



Doing Literature: A Multimedial Index of Research Outputs

Stefanie Messner1, Viktor J. Illmer2, Mark Schwindt2

1fortext lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany; 2EXC 2020 ‘Temporal Communities’, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Doing Literature is a web portal designed to collect and curate research contributions of the humanities in multimedia formats. It aims to develop an innovative framework that engages diverse audiences, thereby enhancing Digital Public Humanities and emphasising their collaborative character as well as their potential in knowledge creation.



Making cultural heritage open: a semantic portal for Germanic Cultural Heritage in Veneto

Chiara De Bastiani

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy

This poster presents a user interface developed within the OntoVE project. The poster focuses on the search interface, built with the Sampo Model (Ikkala et al. 2022), and its search perspectives, which allow users to explore data through the faceted search paradigm (Tunkelang 2009).



Computer-Assisted Hermeneutics of Philip K. Dick's Corpus: Constructing a Personal Knowledge Base with SpaCy and Obsidian for Literary Analysis

Yann Audin

Université de Montréal, Canada

This proposition showcases a Python library designed to interface with the text editor Obsidian to create a literary database of a corpus. We use Philip K. Dick's science-fiction as the exemplatory corpus, and showcase how classical Natural Language Processing can be used in computer-assisted literary hermeneutics.

 
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Digitale Ausstellungen als Schnittstelle zwischen Kulturvermittlung und Nutzerinteraktion: Empirische Erkenntnisse zu Design und Wahrnehmung

Julia Anna Jasmin Pfeiffer, Martin Siefkes

University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany

Wie verändern digitale Ausstellungen unsere Wahrnehmung und Interaktion mit kulturellem Erbe? Das Forschungsprojekt an der TU Chemnitz untersucht diese Frage durch eine innovative Kombination aus Korpusanalyse, multimodaler Annotationsmethodik und experimentellen Studien. Ziel ist es, empirische Erkenntnisse zu Design und Nutzererfahrung zu gewinnen und praxisnahe Handlungsempfehlungen für die Kulturvermittlung zu entwickeln.



UniTermGPT: Addressing Language-Variety-Specific Terminology in Specialized Translation with ChatGPT

Barbara Heinisch

Eurac Research, Italy

UniTermGPT explores ChatGPT’s handling of German higher education terminology across Austrian, German and South Tyrolean varieties. By compiling a specialized corpus, applying prompt engineering and evaluating translations, it addresses language-variety-specific terminology challenges in LLMs. The project highlights the societal relevance of terminology, offering open research data and practical recommendations.



Data stewardship in DH and beyond: promoting responsible, sustainable, and FAIR open research data through education

Elisabeth Steiner, Gunter Vasold

University of Graz, Austria

The increasing use of data-driven research in the field of digital humanities has emphasized the fundamental importance of research data management (RDM) and data stewardship skills. This contribution highlights the importance of education in these areas to advance open research data, uphold the FAIR principles, and promote sound scientific practices.



Beyond the classroom. Museum Didactics and Visual Education for inclusive and participatory learning

Valentina Berardinetti, Giusi Antonia Toto

Università di Foggia, Italia

The project explores museum didactics with a focus on visual education, using photography and innovative technologies in order to promote experiential and inclusive learning beyond the classroom that integrates the relationships between schools, museums and the territory.



Datafying 75 Years of Book Reviews from the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Tanmoy Debnath1, Rebekah Fitzsimmons2, Glen Layne-Worthey1, Suzan Alteri1, Sara Schwebel1

1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 2Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

This poster describes ongoing collaborative digital research on the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, a children’s literature review journal founded in 1947 that provides a vital record of the history of children’s book publishing and professional children’s book reviewing during the 20th and 21st centuries.



Putting WKZO on the Map: Mapping and Encoding the Western Michigan at Work Radio Program

Michael Peter Laney, Kasey Wilson

Michigan State University, United States of America

“Putting WKZO on the Map” uses mapping and encoding to solve problems facing audiovisual collections. Recognizing that local radio exists in a local landscape, this project maps a radio program through locating companies featured and encoding transcripts to identify the names of people and places mentioned.



From Dusty Pages to the Birth of All Things: A Study on the Dual-Track Activation Model of Documentary Heritage Based on Large Language Models

CHI JIN, Li Niu, Anrunze Li, Rundong Hu, Wancheng Yang

School of Information Resources Management, Renmin University of China

This study proposes a Dual-Track Activation Model of Documentary Heritage based on LLMs. The model addresses the challenges of utilizing specialized, multimodal heritage resources. It is validated through the development of a knowledge base platform for the Suzhou Silk Archives as a case study.



Small Grants, Big Opportunities: Enabling Inclusivity and Innovation in Digital Humanities

Judit Garzón Rodríguez, Constanze Buyken, Fabian Cremer

Leibniz-Institute of European History, Germany

Small grants play a crucial role in driving innovation and inclusivity in Digital Humanities by supporting interdisciplinary research, data analysis, and Open Science. With fewer bureaucratic barriers, they enable early-career and independent researchers to experiment, collaborate, and create open-access resources, fostering rapid methodological advancements and broadening academic participation.



The missing link: building open bridges between infrastructures to liaise data and publications

Nicolas Larrousse1, Sandra Guigonis2, Charles Bourdot3, Hélène Jouguet1, Dominique Roux3

1Huma-Num, CNRS, France; 2OpenEdition, CNRS, France; 3METOPES, CNRS & Université de Caen, France

This poster describes how the COMMONS project, involving three French research infrastructures, aims to address the needs related to the creation and use of links between data and publications: from technical requirements to creation of complex publications (ie. data papers, data displayed in an article etc.)



Ratio! Data visualization and visual analytics for medieval codex formats. A proof of concept for integrative metadata exploitation from digital manuscript libraries

Jana Klinger

University of Wuppertal, Germany

Handwritten codices have been systematically cataloged for centuries. Today, hundreds of thousands of catalog entries can be accessed digitally. As a proof of concept, I scrutinized the current possibilities in accessing, harvesting, curating, and processing this domain of knowledge to create a visual tool for further analysis and heuristic research.



The irreductionist hermeneutics of the Grounded AI Map

Mathieu Jacomy1, Matilde Ficozzi1, Anders K. Munk2, Dario Rodighiero3, Johan I. Søltoft2, Sarah Feldes2, Ainoa Pubill Unzeta2, Barbara N. Carreras2, Paul Girard4

1Aalborg University, Denmark; 2Technical University of Denmark; 3University of Groningen, Netherlands; 4OuestWare, France

The Grounded AI Map visualizes AI’s involvement in science through an “irreductionist” lens. It supports exploratory hermeneutics through computational annotation and physicalization, engaging audiences interactively while preserving data ambiguity, polyvalence and contradiction.



Enhancing Accessibility and Readability of Historical Texts through Citizen Science

Baharan Pourahmadi-Meibodi

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

This study explores how citizen science can contribute to enhancing the readability of hidden historical text on book bindings or palimpsests,



How to curate access to the literary internet? Guiding through the Polish online culture with the iPBL project

Beata Koper1, Paulina Czwordon-Lis2, Cezary Rosiński2

1Early Modern Research Centre, University of Opole, Poland; 2The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

This poster discusses the challenges of curating, preserving, and ensuring access to internet content, specifically within the context of Polish digital culture. By examining the ongoing iPBL project, the research highlights the complexities involved in selecting, archiving, and sharing ephemeral online resources.



Investigação aberta e Humanidades Digitais: tendências e evidência preliminares

Beatriz Barrocas Ferreira, Maria Manuel Borges

Universidade de Coimbra, CEIS20

O estudo pretende apresentar resultados preliminares de uma scoping review sobre a adoção de práticas de Investigação Aberta nas Humanidades Digitais.



The poisoned well: intertextuality in American trans-antagonistic legislation

Seth Nguyen

Independent Researcher, United States of America

Text reuse has been used to trace the flow and diffusion of policy ideas in legislatures through bill-to-bill and model-legislation-to-bill comparisons. This study investigates how ideas and rhetorical strategies refined in private communications between anti-trans political actors have influenced bills proposed in the United States between 2019-2024.



Modelling Book Auctions: Catalogues & Large Language Models

Marika Kyranna Fox

University of Antwerp, Belgium

My PhD project is focused on creating a computational model to predict the auction prices of manuscripts and early books. This abstract summarizes my current progress with the challenge of extracting large amounts of data from auction catalogue texts, and testing the performance of GPT4 as an annotation assistant.



A Semi-Automated Directory System for the UK Local News Landscape: Supporting Policy and Research

Simona Bisiani1, Joe Mitchell2, Agnes Gulyas3, Bahareh Heravi1

1University of Surrey, United Kingdom; 2Public Interest News Foundation, United Kingdom; 3Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom

Amid widespread decline, tracking the UK local media sector is challenging due to outdated directories and rapid changes. To address this, we developed a semi-automated system using OSINT to monitor closures, launches, and ownership changes. This model enhances accuracy, reduces labor, and informs policy on media pluralism and sustainability.



Digital Byzantine Studies - how Digital Humanities can help strengthen rare subjects

Sviatoslav Drach, Claes Neuefeind

University of Cologne, Germany

The use of digital methods and tools is an integral part of humanities research. Smaller humanities disciplines run the risk of not keeping pace with the digital transformation. Using the example of Byzantine Studies, we want to discuss how small disciplines can be strengthened in the face of digital change.



Zine Bakery: exploring zines for DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication

Amanda Wyatt Visconti

Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia, U.S.A

This poster familiarizes digital humanists with:

  1. what zines are

  2. what zines can make possible for the digital humanities

The Zine Bakery project is a portal into zines as a welcoming, inexpensive, effective format for do-it-yourself DH scholarly communication and public outreach; friendly digital method teaching; and zine-inspired DH research explorations.



Using Cluster Analysis to Create Data-Driven Cultural Participation Profiles for Readers and Non-Readers in Germany

Marina Lehmann

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Based on sociological survey data on the cultural participation of German citizens, this poster outlines an early-stage PhD project aiming to develop data-driven profiles of cultural participation behavior to characterize readers and non-readers by their leisure activities. Factor analysis and cluster analysis serve as methods to establish the profiles.



Prototyping a RAG System for Digital Humanities: Ethical Considerations in AI Processing of Indigenous Data

Miguel Vieira, Samantha Callaghan, Arianna Ciula, Zihao Lu, Tiffany Ong

King's Digital Lab, King's College London, United Kingdom

This poster presents a RAG system prototype developed within the AHRC-funded iREAL project, exploring ethical AI implementation with Indigenous cultural data. Built using open-source models and technologies, the system demonstrates how open-source tools can responsibly process sensitive cultural materials while maintaining transparency through hybrid search and observability features.



Generative Language Models for Character Utterances in Novels

Young-Seob Jeong1, Misun Yun2, Chung-hwan Joe3, Eunjin Kim1

1Chungbuk National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2Inha University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 3Hongik University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

We explore enhancing LLMs' ability to generate personality-consistent character utterances for novels. We annotated the personality traits of characters from 233 novels and observed that characters with similar personalities exhibit similar linguistic patterns in their utterances. Llama-2-7B was trained on character utterances using instruction tuning, producing more personality-consistent utterances.



A Century of Gender Representation in Translated Children's Literature: Early Findings from a Computational Linguistics Study

Anna Mihlic

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This study explores gender representation in original Hungarian children’s literature and its translations into English, German and Dutch (1925–2025) using computational linguistics methods. Early findings highlight linguistic patterns in pronouns, adjectives, and occupational titles, revealing shifts influenced by sociocultural changes. The poster presents preliminary insights from corpus development and analysis.



Digital Analysis of Domenico Gerosolimitano's Hebrew Translation of the New Testament: A 17th Century Cultural Bridge

Gila Prebor

Bar Ilan University, Israel

This study examines Domenico Gerosolimitano's 17th-century Hebrew translation of the New Testament using DICTA's digital tools. A Jewish convert to Christianity, Domenico's work offers unique insights into early modern religious translation practices. Despite claiming multiple source texts, preliminary findings suggest his translation primarily follows the Peshitta version, reflecting complex cultural and theological negotiations.



Digitization, TEI-Transcription, and Online Publication of the "Siete Partidas" with Gregorio López’s Gloss (1555): Challenges and Progress in the "School of Salamanca" Project

Cindy Rico Carmona

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

The School of Salamanca. A digital collection of sources offers central works by Salmantine authors. The print edition Las Siete Partidas (1555) is a complex dual text structure (Spanish main text/Latin gloss) that is demanding for TEI-transcription and digital representation. The poster presents our workflow to successfully address these challenges.



Digital Archeology: Features and Metrics to Quantify the Degree of Changes in Digital Online Projects

Brandon Stanton, Ryan Boothby-Young, Luis Meneses

Vancouver Island University, Canada

We focus on an exploration of features for developing metrics to quantify the degree of changes in digital online projects over time. Our purpose is to provide systematic methods to sustain and preserve culture and the digital scholarly infrastructure in the humanities over time, preventing their degradation and decay.



Bridging Communities and Archives. Harvesting and Preserving Born-Digital Cultural Heritage with the Citizen Archive Platform (CAP)

Björk Kosir, Amelie Rakar

Graz Museum, Austria

The Citizen Archive Platform simplifies the preservation of born-digital cultural heritage by enabling citizens to submit data seamlessly to institutions like archives and museums. Developed under the "Dialog City" initiative, the CAP standardises data transfer, ensuring accessibility, usability, and integration into OAIS while addressing key challenges in digital preservation.



CorpSum - yet another corpus query and visualization UI

Christoph Hoffmann, Wolfgang Koppensteiner, Hannes Pirker

Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, Austria

CorpSum is a web application that enables user-friendly, dynamically generated queries in text corpora along different extralinguistic extralinguistic dimensions of variation (such as the dimensions time and space). It is a bespoke software module originally developed at the ACDH-CH to facilitate work with the Austrian Media Corpus (AMC)



The HAICu Project (WP2): Continual Machine Learning and Humans in the Loop.

C.A. Romein1,2, B.J. Wolf3, S.J.L. Weggeman3, K. van Schuijlenburg4, M.A. Dhali4, K. Dijkstra3, A. Weber1, L.R.B. Schomaker4

1UTwente, Netherlands, The; 2Universität Bern, Switzerland; 3NHL Stenden, the Netherlands; 4University of Groningen, the Netherlands

The HAICu project leverages artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning to transform digital humanities research. By analyzing handwritten manuscripts from Dutch archives, researchers develop innovative computational techniques that cluster document layouts, generate metadata, and create new pathways for understanding historical collections through a collaborative, human-in-the-loop approach.



Centering Digitality. An interdisciplinary and discursive research network

Melanie Althage, Paul Heinrich Bayer, Till Grallert, Torsten Hiltmann, Eliza Mandieva, Roland Meyer, Shintaro Miyazaki, Elisabetta Mori, Carolin Odebrecht, Antonio von Schöning, Lars Erik Zeige

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

The poster presents an innovative interdisciplinary research hub, dedicated to digitality, outlining the centre's structure and collaborative approach. The focus lies on understanding digitality's epistemological nature and its potential to contribute to DH. The Reading and Writing Lab's work is highlighted, aiming to provide a theoretical framework for digitality.



Voci dall'Inferno: a Web application to study and analyze the Lager testimonies

Elvira Mercatanti1, Carla Congiu2, Angelo Mario Del Grosso1, Marina Riccucci2

1ILC: CNR-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli", Italy; 2Università di Pisa, Italy

This contribution presents the ongoing development of the Voci dall'Inferno project. This research initiative aims to create a digital corpus of non-literary testimonies from Lager survivors and analyze it to identify expressions from Dante's Commedia that witnesses use to describe their harrowing experiences.



Engaging communities in participatory sciences though the VERA platform

Tiziana Lombardo1, Alessia Smaniotto2

1Net7 srl, Italy; 2OPERAS aisbl, Belgium

VERA is a digital collaboratory for participatory research in the social sciences and humanities. Developed through the COESO project and now part of OPERAS, it enables multilingual collaboration between researchers and citizen scientists, fostering inclusivity, knowledge exchange, and innovative research practices across Europe.



CLS INFRA: Leveraging Literary Methods for FAIR(er) Science

Sarah Hoover1, Julie M. Birkholz2, Ingo Börner3, Floor Buschenhenke4, Joanna Byszuk5, Sally Chambers6, Vera Maria Charvat7, Silvie Cinková8, Tess Dejaeghere9, Anna Dijkstra4, Julia Dudar10, Matej Ďurčo7, Maciej Eder5, Jennifer Edmond11, Evgeniia Fileva10, Frank Fischer12, Vicky Garnett13, Françoise Gouzi14, Serge Heiden15, Michal Kren8, Bartłomiej Kunda5, Els Lefever9, Michal Mrugalski16, Ciara L. Murphy17, Carolin Odebrecht16, Eliza Papaki14, Marco Raciti14, Emily Ridge1, Salvador Ros18, Christof Schöch10, Artjoms Šeļa19, Toma Tasovac20, Justin Tonra1, Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra14, Peer Trilcke3, Karina Van Dalen-Oskam4, Vera Yakupova13, Joris J. van Zundert4

1University of Galway; 2Ghent University, Royal Library of Belgium; 3University of Potsdam; 4Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW); 5Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk; 6British Library (London); 7Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH); 8Charles University; 9Ghent University; 10University of Trier; 11DARIAH IE, Trinity College Dublin; 12Freie Universität Berlin, DARIAH-EU; 13Trinity College Dublin; 14DARIAH-EU; 15École normale supérieure de Lyon; 16Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; 17Technological University of Dublin; 18UNED; 19Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS; 20DARIAH ERIC

EU Horizon2020-Funded Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS INFRA) is reaching the end of a four-year journey towards shared and sustainable infrastructures within the FAIR and CARE principles. This poster presents the outputs of the CLS INFRA project 2024-2025, focusing on the resources that open multilingual, participatory digital practices to all.



A Software to Retrieval “ShuoWen” Small Seal Script Character by IDS and Stroke Sequence

Jiajia HU1, Weiming Peng2

1Beijing Normal University, China, People's Republic of; 2University of Pennsylvania, USA

The software offers two retrieval functions. Firstly, it enables users to retrieve the small seal script characters that serve as basic elements through the number of strokes and stroke sequences. Secondly, it allows users to retrieve other small seal script characters composed of basic elements by means of IDS.



Structuring Source Information in Early Japanese Dictionaries Using TEI/XML and RDF

Woongchul SHIN

Hanbat National University, South Korea

Ruiju Myōgishō (11th century) extensively cites Buddhist scriptures and classical texts with detailed source annotations. Combining TEI/XML and RDF effectively models its intricate structure, especially source data. This poster presents a model for encoding source information, highlights technical challenges, and explores its implications for early Japanese dictionaries.



Aprender a Codificar Manuscritos em um Laboratório de Humanidades

Diego Giménez, Ana Carolina Marques, Andreia Cazac

University of Coimbra, Portugal

O GIMTE, vinculado ao MATLIT LAB, explora a codificação textual com XML-TEI no ensino. Esta proposta de póster apresenta o trabalho realizado pelo grupo de discentes na transcrição, marcação semântica e tradução para o romeno de textos de Fernando Pessoa, no contexto de experimentação do laboratório.



A 3D-Positioning System for the Paintings of the Kucha Project

Erik Radisch

Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, Germany

In our project on Buddhist murals of Kucha, Xinjiang, we developed an interactive system for visualizing their locations. Using SVG-based register systems and 3D-cave models, it enables spatial analysis and accessibility. This approach improves understanding of mural arrangements, with potential applications in digital humanities for analyzing complex artworks.



Siberiana: how to present online lightly digitized archaeological cultures of Yenisei Siberia

Andrey Volodin1,2, Polina Senotrusova1, Maksim Rumyantzev1, Nikita Pikov1, Inna Kizhner3

1Siberian Federal University, Russian Federation; 2Moscow Lomonosov University, Russian Federation; 3Haifa University, Israel

The digital platform “Siberiana” (siberiana.online) for cultural heritage collection, preservation, and actualization is developed at the Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk) as part of the Institute of Digital Humanitarian Research project.



Serial Fiction: Mapping the Literary Landscape in the C19 United States

David Bishop

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, United States of America

This research explores 19th-century American serial fiction through data from Chronicling America, using computational methods to map networks of serialization. By analyzing formal features like chapter headings and author names, I uncover patterns of publication, reprinting, and reader engagement, recovering forgotten authors and rethinking seriality's role in literary history.



The eArchiving reference curriculum for digital preservation

João Oliveira1, José Borbinha2

1INESC-ID, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; 2INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

The eArchiving initiative provides guidance for digital preservation. The eArchiving Reference Curriculum is a master's level framework covering key aspects for that purpose, including data integrity, security, and long-term accessibility, intending to be a guide for academics and students. This poster will present the core elements of this framework.



Building the Urban Video Archive: A Community-Driven and Technologically Adaptive Approach to Emancipatory Archiving

Hamidreza Nassiri1, Jacob Geuder2

1Independent Scholar, United States of America; 2University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

The Urban Video Archive (UVA) is a digital repository documenting video activism in Rio de Janeiro (2013–2023). Developed with Brazilian media activists, it emphasizes co-creation and community archiving over institutional archiving and social media sensationalism. It highlights marginalized communities’ urban struggles through an interactive map, networked videos, and open-access tools.



Digital Camerarius – Tracing the Classical origins of Pre-Linnean Science

Chiara Palladino1, Michela Vignoli2, Kathryn Wilson1

1Furman University, United States of America; 2AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

This poster presents the Digital Camerarius, a digital edition of the Symbola et Emblemata by Joachim Camerarius. The goal of the project is to provide a machine-readable transcription enriched with structural and semantic markup, and to facilitate multimodal exploration with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).



Enhancing Visual Storytelling for Accessibility: Preparing a Digital Edition of John Derricke’s The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne (1581)

Andie Silva1, Denna Iammarino2

1York College/Graduate Center, CUNY, United States of America; 2Case Western Reserve University, United States of America

This poster will showcase our work-in-progress digital edition of John Derricke’s The Image of Irelande (1581), focusing specifically on how the PIs have worked with its visual elements. This poster presentation demonstrates how TEI can offer opportunities to enhance textuality and storytelling through access and accessibility.

 
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