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SP-32: Digital Tools and Techniques for Cultural Heritage and History
Time:
Thursday, 17/July/2025:
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Session Chair: Nicholas Y. H. Wong , The University of Hong Kong
Location: Aud B2 (TB) Zoom link to be included 152 places
Presentations
Historicizing Controlled Vocabularies in Digital Humanities: A Lightweight Context-Indexed Extension for Vocabulary Systems
Tsz-Kin Chau , Sarah Kenderdine
Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL, Switzerland
This paper shows the necessity and motivation behind historicizing the power/knowledge embedded in LOD vocabulary systems. By utilizing CRMaaa, this paper presents a lightweight data model as a “quick fix” to augment existing vocabulary systems. This paper uses a particular case from a 19th c. painted panorama in Switzerland.
Radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage
Mia Ridge , Lanie Okorodudu , Saira Akhter , James Misson , Erin Burnand
British Library, United Kingdom
Sustaining open source software can be challenging. We discuss collaboration on the Universal Viewer (UV), software designed to display cultural heritage collections. We highlight methods including innovative, inclusive and multi-institution sprints. We showcase UV’s evolution, including accessibility and user experience enhancements, future plans and ways for others to contribute.
Local Contexts, Global Conversations: Digital History in Central Asia
Dinara Gagarina
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
This study explores the emergence of digital history in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, highlighting innovative projects, thematic focuses, and methodological shifts. Integrating literature reviews, interviews, and community events, it reveals infrastructural challenges, underscores postcolonial dimensions, and suggests that diverse, region-specific approaches can enrich global digital humanities discourse in meaningful ways.
A Conceptual History of Humanism in a Post-WWII Chinese-language Literary Journal via Word Vector Spaces
Nicholas Y. H. Wong
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
This paper uses Chinese word vectors to develop a conceptual history of humanism and related keywords in a post-1945 modernist literary journal from Malaysia, and contributes to scholarship on digital multilingual practices, by asking how to accurately represent semantic and syntactic information from languages of non-Latin script in geometric spaces.
From Draft to Model: Semi-Automated Parametric Extraction of Historical Ship Designs
Giovanni Maria Pala 1 , Marco Mercuri2 , Gian Maria Santi3 , Lisandra Costiner 4
1 University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2 Bologna, Italy; 3 University of Bologna, Italy; 4 Utrecht University, Netherland
Using a historically informed approach, this contribution proposes a way to reconstruct historical ship 3D models, starting from their 2D drawings. It offers a study of the way ships were drawn, and uses this to charactyerise them as a parametrised problem.
