A year ago I started building first prototypes of a device that would be capable of calculating #moon phases based on the historical Metonic cycle. The result was „Meton“, a 3D-printed lunar phase calculator. So if you need an #opendata moon machine, go ahead.
After decades of research, a seemingly unremarkable find retrieved from a Roman shipwreck proved to be a sensational scientific discovery, proving that the ancient Greeks were capable of making mechanical models of the cosmos. The Antikythera Mechanism is the world‘s first known analog computer.
We are delighted to announce that the new, multidisciplinary Diamond #OpenAccess journal Replication Research (R2) is now accepting submissions for replications and reproductions in a broad range of disciplines including #linguistics, #CogSci, and #DigitalHumanities! 🎉
It was really exciting to participate in my first #cordi two weeks ago! I really enjoyed all the discussions with #rdm experts and got many new insights. I am thankful for the opportunity to present the applicability of #usegalaxy as an #openscience platform for #DigitalHumanities and #socialsciences and all the feedback I got.
Thanks to the organisers for making it such a great event! #nfdi
I am already looking forward to the next one.
Release 5.2.0 bringt wieder neue Daten ins #Handschriftenportal: Großen Zuwachs verzeichnen wir mit 1.500 Beschreibungen der
@stabi_berlin, knapp 620 Beschreibungen der Badischen Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe und 1.350 KODs der @subugoe.
#Handschriftenportal erhält erste Schnittstelle: Der Zugriff auf unseren umfangreichen Datenbestand ist nun per #OAIPMH möglich. Datensets sind als #TEI und #DublinCore verfügbar.
🔜 Weitere Schnittstellen folgen. Um die Bedarfe der Community besser einschätzen zu können, freuen wir uns über Ihr Feedback: Welche Schnittstellen sind für Ihre Arbeit und Forschung besonders relevant?
Photographie numérique couleur en format paysage.
Sur un mur blanc, la projection d'un titre sur fond jaune présentant le titre des journées, avec les logos des partenaires et des mots clés (label culture libre, wikidata, open content...) dans des couleurs bleu, rose, jaune et noir.
On enchaîne sur comment utiliser #wikipedia pour initier à la critique des sources #numeriques avec Sofia Papastamkou, qui a notamment travaillé sur les outils pour les #historiens en humanités numériques.
Ambivalence entre usage large de #wikipedia par les étudiants mais pas intégré dans les #enseignements.
Prises de position contrastées dans le temps, entre interdiction de citer l'encyclopédie et des formations sur l'#histoire numérique et le #libre.
📖 @DanielAlvesFCSH publicou um artigo onde apresenta e discute a metodologia e o impacto historiográfico do projecto "Atlas: Cartografia Histórica" — uma ferramenta de apoio à investigação em História Contemporânea de Portugal disponível desde 2001. 🗺️
Cabeçalho do artigo "Metodologia para um SIG Histórico de Portugal (1758-2001): o projecto Atlas, Cartografia Histórica", de Daniel Alves. Resumo: "Neste artigo, apresentamos e discutimos a metodologia e o impacto historiográfico do projecto Atlas: Cartografia Histórica. O Atlas está disponível online desde 2001, sendo uma ferramenta de apoio à investigação em História Contemporânea de Portugal. Disponibiliza dados sobre a evolução dos limites administrativos de Portugal Continental entre 1758 e 2001, sobre os arquipélagos dos Açores e da Madeira, entre 1849 e 2001. Publica ainda fontes históricas georreferenciadas como as Memórias Paroquiais de 1758, os censos populacionais de 1801 e 1849, bem como uma série sobre a evolução populacional na Península Ibérica entre 1911 e 2001. A concepção e coordenação do projecto foi de Luís Espinha da Silveira, entre 1993 e 2021, tendo participado no projecto muitos jovens investigadores, antes e depois da sua disponibilização online. A sua metodologia recorre a bases de dados relacionais e a sistemas de informação geográfica para reconstituir os limites administrativos históricos de Portugal, em momentos chave, partindo sempre do nível básico da paróquia/freguesia. O Atlas, Cartografia Histórica é actualmente um sistema de gestão de dados históricos geocodificados que permite a publicação e análise de qualquer tipologia de fontes e dados históricos, tendo sido usado em múltiplos trabalhos de investigação ao longo das últimas três décadas.
✍️ The IHC's call for expressions of interest for applications for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships, both in the ‘European’ and ‘Global’ strands, is reaching its deadline: 1 June
Illustrative image of the IHC Hosting Offer for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025. The deadline for proposals is 1 June 2025. The image includes an AI generated drawing of a man sitting and working with a laptop, surrounded by books and documents, with a big window at his back, where tall buildings of different shapes are represented. The drawing is bright and colourful in tones of orange, black and blue.
✍️ The IHC's call for expressions of interest for applications for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships, both in the ‘European’ and ‘Global’ strands, is ongoing.
Illustrative image of the IHC Hosting Offer for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025. The deadline for proposals is 1 June 2025. The image includes an AI generated drawing of a man sitting and working with a laptop, surrounded by books and documents, with a big window at his back, where tall buildings of different shapes are represented. The drawing is bright and colourful in tones of orange, black and blue.
Le troisième dossier de ce numéro, « Compter les dieux », revient sur les effets méthodologiques de la création d'une base de données, à l'occasion d'un projet financé, sur les mentions épigraphiques des dieux grecs. L'article est à la fois présentation de la base et réflexion sur les effets d'une telle approche quantitativiste en histoire ancienne.
▶️ Corinne Bonnet, Julie Bernini, Thomas Galoppin, Sylvain Lebreton, Giuseppina Marano, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo et Alaya Palamidis
Des dieux qui comptent. Approches quantitatives des hiérarchies divines
We introduce the "Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC)", a novel international legal-political dataset containing texts and metadata for all resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) from resolution 1 (1946) through resolution 2722 (2024), as published by the UN Digital Library (UNDL).
The dataset provides full resolution texts in all six official UN languages, draft texts and full meeting records in English, as well as dozens of metadata variables, for a grand total of 82 variables in structured tabular CSV format, accompanied by extensive narrative documentation. In addition to the main tabular dataset the CR-UNSC is accompanied by specialized variants for network analysis and bibliography management.
The computational workflow is engineered as a fully automated end-to-end extract-transform-load (ETL) data pipeline with citation analysis and NLP components, unit tests and extensive reporting. The declarative workflow is fault-tolerant, resumable and stores intermediate results in over one hundred individual checkpoints. The code is published open source under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3).
We intend to update the corpus at least once per year.
The most recent version of the CR-UNSC corpus will always be available open access via Zenodo through its Concept DOI located at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7319783
6818 German federal laws and regulations now available #OpenAccess as a comprehensive corpus ⬇️
✅ 42 variables
✅ #OpenAccess
✅ #PublicDomain
✅ Regular snapshots of German federal law from May 2020
✅ Structural diagrams for all laws (dendrogram, sunburst, circlepack)
✅ Formats: XML, CSV, PDF, TXT, EPUB, GraphML
The data pipeline used to create the C-DBR corpus visualized as a network diagram. Each target is labeled. High-res version available for download with the corpus.
📖 As part of the #REWIND project, Alba Comino published ‘Intertwining Narrative and Technology: Reinterpreting European Cultural Heritage through the Voices of Latin American Women Writers’ in the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, where she describes the #methodology used in the project.
Header of the paper “Intertwining Narrative and Technology: Reinterpreting European Cultural Heritage through the Voices of Latin American Women Writers”, by Alba Comino, published on issue 2 of volume 18 of the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, em 2024. Abstract: “Travel literature not only provides relevant information about cultural heritage, such as authorship, chronology or location, but also reveals the impressions evoked by its reception. This article describes the methodology of the ongoing REWIND project, which explores European cultural heritage through the perspectives of Latin American women writers who travelled to Europe in the early twentieth century. The project seeks to amplify the voices of non-European women committed to feminism and sociocultural diversity to foster decolonial, inclusive and pluralistic historical narratives. On the one hand, we address the configuration of the project corpus, the semantic annotation process, and the design of the ontological modelling according to the deep data concept. On the other hand, we explain the analysis of the relationships between cultural heritage, time, space and emotion. The project uses travel literature in digital format to retrieve, study and interpret data on cultural heritage, creating a workflow that integrates information from various historical sources to raise further questions and provide new insights. The proposed methodology follows the FAIR principles (...)
Today at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., the 7th conference for #DigitalHumanities and #DigitalHistory on "Real-time history: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities" started, in part sponsored by
@NFDI4Memory and in cooperation with our chair.