Digital Humanities

Development of digital infrastructures and tools for the humanities
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In the humanities, digital representations of cultural objects and writings and their derived documents, the so-called derivatives, are becoming increasingly important. Digital collections and corpora not only support the researchability of historical phenomena, but also have an impact on day-to-day research work. Cross-location collaborative work, digital annotation and quantitative analyses are expanding the methodological toolbox of the humanities.

To this end, SCC is developing with its partners:

  • Digital infrastructures and interactive data repositories
  • Services and collaborative tools for data annotation
  • Tools for the automatic evaluation of image-digitized scripts
  • Methods and tools for distant reading and distant viewing

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Publications


2023
Project 01: Scholars in the loop? Bridging the gap between distinctive knowledge of small disciplines and training data for AI
Götzelmann, G.; Tonne, D.; Debus, C.
2023. (U. Ehret, M. Frank & KIT-Zentrum MathSEE, Eds.)
2022
Annotating Humanities Research Data - Episteme, Metaphors and the Torah
Ernst, F.; Frank, L.; Götzelmann, G.; Jha, V.; Tögel, P.; Tonne, D.
2022, October 5. Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration | Conference 2022 (2022), Online, October 5–6, 2022
FAIR Data Commons / Essential Services and Tools for Metadata Management Supporting Science
Stotzka, R.; Abdildina, G.; Aversa, R.; Blumenröhr, N.; Chelbi, S.; Duda, L.; Ernst, F.; Frank, L.; Götzelmann, G.; Hartmann, V.; Inckmann, M.; Jejkal, T.; Jha, V.; Joseph, R.; Ost, P.; Pfeil, A.; Shakeel, Y.; Soysal, M.; Tonne, D.; Tögel, P.; Vitali, E.
2022, October 5. Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration | Conference 2022 (2022), Online, October 5–6, 2022
Die Aktualität des Unzeitgemäßen
Krewet, M.; Ernst, F.; Götzelmann, G.; Hegel, P.; Schenk, T.; Söring, S.; Tonne, D.
2022. DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. Konferenzabstracts, Hrsg: M. Geierhos, 75–78. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6328015
From a Dynamic Image Annotation Process within the Humanities to a Canonical Workflow
Pfeil, A.; Jejkal, T.; Tonne, D.; Götzelmann, G.
2022. Data Intelligence, 4 (2), 386–397. doi:10.1162/dint_a_00138
2021
Digitale Erforschung epistemischer Verflechtungen : Informationsinfrastruktur und vormoderne Wissenstransfers
Krewet, M.; Kahl, J.; Götzelmann, G.; Hübner, J.; Hegel, P.; Söring, S.; Tonne, D.
2021. Wissensoikonomien. Hrsg.: N. Schmidt, 135–150, Harrassowitz Verlag
2020
Aristoteles annotieren - Vom Handschriftendigitalisat zur qualitativ-quantitativen Annotation
Götzelmann, G.; Tonne, D.
2020. Bilddaten in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften. Hrsg.: C. Hastik, 53–66, Harrassowitz Verlag
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts analyzing aristotle commentaries in collaboration between philology and data science
Krewet, M.; Tonne, D.; Götzelmann, G.; Hegel, P.; Soring, S.
2020. Twin Talks: Understanding and Facilitating Collaboration in Digital Humanities 2020: Proceedings of the Twin Talks 2 and 3 Workshops at DHN 2020 and DH 2020. Ed.: S. Krauwer, 103–114, RWTH Aachen
Annotationen und ihre infrastrukturellen Prämissen
Hegel, P.; Götzelmann, G.; Krewet, M.; Tonne, D.
2020. Digital Humanities Austria 2018 : Empowering Researchers. Hrsg.: M. Ernst, 150–153, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. doi:10.1553/dha-proceedings2018s1
2019
Aspekte digitaler Infrastrukturen : Forschungsdaten im Sonderforschungsbereich 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven
Götzelmann, G.; Hegel, P.; Krewet, M.; Söring, S.; Tonne, D.
2019. Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, 43 (2), 324–331. doi:10.1515/bfp-2019-2055
Aristoteles auf Reisen : Handschriftenforschung in der digitalen Infrastruktur des SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“
Krewet, M.; Hegel, P.; Götzelmann, G.; Tonne, D.; Söring, S.
2019. Forschungsinfrastrukturen in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften : Wie verändern digitale Infrastrukturen die Praxis der Geisteswissenschaften? Hrsg.: M. Huber, 77–87, DFG
Ein Web Annotation Protocol Server zur Untersuchung vormoderner Wissensbestände
Tonne, D.; Götzelmann, G.; Hegel, P.; Krewet, M.; Hübner, J.; Söring, S.; Löffler, A.; Hitzker, M.; Höfler, M.; Schmidt, T.
2019. DHd 2019 Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal. Konferenzabstracts. Hrsg.: Patrick Sahle, 283–285, Zenodo

Projekte

Ongoing Projects

Materialized holiness - toRoll

Contact: Dr. Danah Tonne
Funding: BMBF
since 2022-04-01 - 2026-03-31
Project page: geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/materialisierte-heiligkeit

In the project "Materialized Holiness" Torah scrolls are studied as an extraordinary codicological, theological and social phenomenon. Unlike, for example, copies of the Bible, the copying of sacred scrolls has been governed by strict regulations since antiquity and is complemented by a rich commentary literature. Together with experts in Jewish studies, materials research, and the social sciences, we would like to build a digital repository of knowledge that does justice to the complexity of this research subject. Jewish scribal literature with English translations, material analyses, paleographic studies of medieval Torah scrolls, as well as interview and film material on scribes of the present day are to be brought together in a unique collection and examined in an interdisciplinary manner for the first time. In addition, a 'virtual Torah scroll' to be developed will reveal minute paleographic details of the script and its significance in cultural memory.

Metaphors of Religion - SFB1475

Contact: Dr. Danah Tonne
Funding: DFG
since 2022-01-01 - 2025-12-31
Project page: sfb1475.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

The SFB 1475, located at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), aims to understand and methodically record the religious use of metaphors across times and cultures. To this end, the subprojects examine a variety of scriptures from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Daoism, originating from Europe, the Near and Middle East, as well as South, Central, and East Asia, and spanning the period from 3000 BC to the present. For the first time, comparative studies on a unique scale are made possible through this collaborative effort. Within the Collaborative Research Center, the SCC, together with colleagues from the Center for the Study of Religions (CERES) and the RUB, is leading the information infrastructure project "Metaphor Base Camp", in which the digital data infrastructure for all subprojects is being developed. The central component will be a research data repository with state-of-the-art annotation, analysis and visualization tools for the humanities data. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Episteme in motion - SFB 980

Contact: Dr. Danah Tonne
Funding: DFG
since 2020-07-01 - 2024-06-30
Project page: sfb-episteme.de

The Collaborative Research Centre 980 'Episteme in Motion' has been investigating processes of knowledge change in European and non-European cultures from the 3rd millennium BC to around 1750 AD since 2012. Since 2016, the SCC has been supporting the collection of digital evidence for previously unresolved questions through its expertise in modern research data management. In the subproject Information Infrastructure, SCC develops information technology procedures for data indexing for the investigation and visualization of knowledge movements in long-term traditional pre-modern knowledge stocks using the example of travels of manuscripts, prints as well as coffin and pyramid text sayings. Based on a research data repository, (1) new tools for data analysis, (2) specific vocabulary services and (3) innovative presentation layers will be developed. With the collaboration at three locations (Berlin, Karlsruhe, Darmstadt), the project has a pilot function with regard to the establishment of complex institutional collaborations in the field of research data management. translated with DeepL.com

Partner

  • Freie Universität Berlin
  • Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
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