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:
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what zines are
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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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