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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

New blog post! An ontology is like a machine-readable blueprint for knowledge. This blog post walks through building the Cultural Heritage Interactions Ontology (CHint) - modeling how artworks interact with beliefs, events, and culture over time. Sofia Baroncini […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Sketches by Sofia Baroncini and Charles van den Heuvel to grasp the interaction between artworks and immaterial culture over time and space at the beginning of the development of the CHint Ontology. Copyright of the authors.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Neuer Blogbeitrag! Lena Frewer schreibt in „Kreuzende Wege in der kleinen Stadt – ‚Knotenpunkt Wetzlar‘ digital“ über ihre Veröffentlichung eines Datensatzes zu juristischen Karrieren im Umfeld des Wetzlarer Reichskammergerichts (1693-1806). Entstanden ist die […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Gießen, Universitätsbibliothek, Hs 1216c, Stammbuch eines vermutlich württembergischen Studenten, 18. Jahrhundert, S. 344, urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-digisam-25479, Public Domain.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

How can historical maps help us understand everyday life in early modern Germany? From “Augenscheinkarten” of the Holy Roman Empire to rough sketches in local court records. Our postdoc fellow Aaron Larsen explores “Cartography for the Commons”, a project using […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

An early version of the Cartography for the Commons interactive map. (Screenshot by the author).

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Neuer Blogpost! Die Forschung zu Friedensprozessen hat am IEG eine lange und vielfältige Tradition. Eine der wichtigsten Ressourcensammlung wurde neu aufgelegt: Die Datenbank und Online-Edition Europäische Friedensverträge der Vormoderne […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Startseite https://friedensvertraege.ieg-mainz.de/

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

We have good news! Our colleague Sofia Baroncini's doctoral thesis has been published on #arthistoricum today! “Diving into Artwork Interpretations through the Lenses of Semantic Data: An Application to Panofsky’s Iconological Studies” […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Cover image: Diving into artworks interpretations through the lenses of semantic data
an Application on Panofsky’s Iconological Studies

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

New blog post: “History as a Weapon: Historical Revisionism as a Tool of Russian Psychological Aggression in Social Media” by Olesia Zvezdova. As a fellow at the #DHLab_IEG, Olesia investigated methods of psychological aggression in Russia's war against Ukraine […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Illustration of the historical evolution
of Russian psychological influence in mass media
(top: artwork by Y. Scheglov; bottom: author’s screenshot from YouTube)

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

New blog post! The war in Ukraine has made one thing clear: cities are not just battlegrounds; they are living archives of memory, identity and resilience. Read “Sites of Memory VS Cultural Heritage: Urban Violence in Collective Narratives of Odesa Residents in […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

An example of art driven by witnessed urban violence. All rights reserved, copyright by Pavlo Kolomoets.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Conf: “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom” Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, 15-17 April 2026 The conference programme and further information is available at its website: […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Cal Montney: Librarian Barbara Nichols, filing reels of computer tape at Los Angeles County computer center in Downey, CA, 1976,
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections, CC BY 4.0

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

New blog post! Moritz Schepp and @ThWuebbena about an effective approach to sustainable research: “‘The last one leaves the light on’. Static service as a key to sustainable data provision” ConedaKOR, an open-source database system for cultural artefacts, now […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

A detail of the iconic Geisel Library on the UC San Diego campus.

sarahmirk, Geisel Library at UCSD, CC BY 4.0

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Job offer: full-time postdoctoral position – Digitality of Historical Research – to start on 1st of July 2026. The contract is fixed-term and limited to a maximum of five years. Salary: German pay grade TV-L EG 13. Please send your application by 09.03.2026 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Graphic withe the words „We are hiring“ on it.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

Can we trust general-purpose LLMs for rigorous academic work? According to @SarahOberbichler from #DHlab_IEG, research integrity demands specialized AI models, not general-purpose LLMs when using AI as an analysis tool. Join her upcoming talk online or at CESR […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Infoflyer for the announced event. Left: Pictures of Newspaper articles. Right: Text with announcement. The text reads: "Humanites Numeriques Tourangelles, Mercredi 26 novembre 2025, 17h-19h - Tours, CESR - Salle Rapin et en visioconférence. #9 Argument Mining in News Media: Tailoring Models and Methods for Responsible Application, Sarah Oberbichler - Digital Humanities Lab, Leibniz Institute of European History."

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Promovierende aufgepasst: Ihr seid euch unsicher, ob Topic Modeling das richtige für eure computergestützten Auswertungen ist? Oder doch lieber (nicht) Netzwerkanalyse? Und welche Alternativen gäbe es? Am 17. 11. (16-17:30 Uhr) habt Ihr die Gelegenheit, euch […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

Johanna Mauermann just published a new blog post about her experience at #TPDL2025. She attended the conference to present a joint paper on studying model design biases in LLMs for multilingual historical newspaper extraction. Read the full post here […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Johanna Mauermann, Collage, 2025. All rights reserved. Original photos: Antoine Doucet.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

International conference "Data Ethics for Historical Research in a Digital Era. Critical Reflections and Best Practices" 📍Mainz (Germany)/hybrid event 📆10–12 Nov. 2025 Make sure to register now and be part of the conversation! ➡️ […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Flyer zur Tagungsankündigung mit Text und Logos.
Text: International Conference, Data Ethics for Historical Research in a Digital Era. Critical Reflections and Best Practices, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Mainz, Research group "Digitality in Historical Research: Methods and Research Data" | DH Lab, in cooperation with NFDI4Memory and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 10-12 November 2025, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2, DE-55131 Mainz, concept and organisation: Sofia Baroncini, Constanze Buyken, Elena Suárez Cronauer. Register here for on-site and online participation: events.adwmainz.de/data-ethics, Conference website and program: ieg-dhr.github.io/Data-Ethics
Logos: IEG, NFDI4Memory, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

How can we analyse museum collections as data—especially those not designed for analysis? What are the ethical questions around migrants’ material culture? Today at the DEZIM workshop (University of Bielefeld), Sofia Baroncini from the #DHlab_IEG explores these […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Colourful announcement slide. Text in image: Hands-on session. An exploratory analysis of DOMID dara. DEZIM workshop, 29 October 2025, Sofia Baroncini, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) | DH Lab - Mainz, Germany, baroncini@ieg-mainz.de

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

How can we ensure AI serves cultural heritage responsibly — not just efficiently, but ethically? @SarahOberbichler from our #DHLab_IEG will be joining this critical conversation at the BRAID Responsible #AI and #CulturalHeritage Forum on November 6, 2025 (10:00 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Text in image/Text im Bild: Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage. BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum. November 6, 2025

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

New blog post! In “Learning about history in a digital world. ‘The Digital Logbook’ as a research project and educational resource” Laura Niewöhner writes about her current project, which aims to develop a learning platform that supports historical learning […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Students Lab (Schüler*innen-Labor), Foto: Stephan Kreher, Universität Bielefeld, all rights reserved.

A Mockup for a digital logbook with different narrative puzzle pieces.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025

New blog post: “From ‘So what?’ to ‘What's next?’ Joining the C²DH in Luxembourg as a visiting researcher.” Reflecting on her time at the #C2DH in #Luxembourg, our #DHLab_IEG colleague @SarahOberbichler illustrates how a research environment can shape a scholar […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Neu erschienen: Stegbauer, C., Häußling, R. (eds) Handbuch Netzwerkforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. Mit einem Kapitel unserer Kollegin Cindarella Petz ( @cprog7): Petz, C. (2025). Zur Geschichte der historischen Netzwerkforschung […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025

New blog post! The team of the DFG project “ForNet” about “Forgeries and Networks: data transformations” dhlab.hypotheses.org/7237 #DHLab_IEG #arthistory #DigitalArtHistory #networkanalysis #forgeries

Network graph of artworks, institutions, and people

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

If you are in Fontainebleau this year for the ‘Festival de l'Histoire de l'Art’, you should come and see the presentation by our colleagues Jaap Geraerts (IEG) and Henry Keazor (Heidelberg University) on our research project ‘Forgeries and Networks (ForNet)’ on […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

New blog post! Our current DH Fellow Kimberly Lifton with: “Talking About Muslims in Middle French: The Potential of Word-to-Vector Models for Studying Semantic Relationships in Medieval Languages.” dhlab.hypotheses.org/4713 #DHLab_IEG #medieval

An illumination of the Great Khan at a banqueting table being served by his men above text in bastarda script.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

Today at 2:30 pm our colleague Sofia Baroncini and our former Senior Research Fellow Charles van den Heuvel will speak on the topic ‘A Saint on the Move: Modelling and Representing the Ephemeral and Uncertainties in the History of the Procession of the Holy […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Reliquary chest of Saint Servatius in the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht, Netherlands. So-called 'Christ panel' and 'Saint Peter side' of the chest. From left to right on the Saint Peter panel: St Peter, St Andrew, St Matthew, St Thomas, St Judas (Thaddeus) and St Simeon. Mosan (Maastricht?), gilded copper over wood. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaastrichtNoodkist04.jpg

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

New blog post! In “Borders, Data and Vassals – a Postdoc-Fellowship at the DH Lab” Seven Dittmar writes about how traditional maps picture early modern Europe and the advantages of a point-based approach to cartographic visualizations. dhlab.hypotheses.org/6896 #DHLab_IEG #geohumanities

Johannes Vermeer, The Geographer, Oil on canvas, 1669, Public Domain

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2025

In Ergänzung zum Working Paper „Implementing Generative AI in the Historical Studies“ (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14924737) haben wir jetzt auch ein Strategiepapier veröffentlicht: „Generative KI in der digitalen historischen Forschung. Herausforderungen und […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

New blog post! Ian Marino and Thorsten Wübbena (@ThWuebbena) write in ‘Trust, archives, and history’ about their thoughts and insights on the LivArch Workshop on documenting the ongoing war in Ukraine. dhlab.hypotheses.org/4710 #DHLab_IEG #LivArch

Alexandra Alexandrowna Exter, Satanic Ballet, 1922, public domain

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2025

Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) and Cindarella Petz (@cprog7) have published a working paper that provides a overview of implementation strategies, critical evaluation and best practices for the use of GenAI in research/analysis in historical studies. It […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Screenshot, 1st page of the working Paper “Implementing Generative
AI in the Historical Studies”

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2025

Jetzt geht's los! Unser HERMES-Bring-your-own-data-Lab „Texterkennung und Textanalyse. OCR und LLM für geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Projekte“ mit den Expert:innen @mob und @koen_hufkens hermes-hub.de/events/intern/byodlab…

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025

New blog post! In their article “LLM Biases: Expected and Unexpected Model Design Effects in Historical Newspaper Article Extraction on the Messina Earthquake”, Johanna Mauermann and Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) look at the fact that LLMs are a powerful […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Image generated by dall-e-3. Prompt: “A water colour drawing of language and historical bias in large language models (LLMs)”.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

We are looking forward to our first internal workshop in the project ‘LivArch - Documenting Russia's war against Ukraine: The challenges of living archives for historical knowledge production’. #LivArch #DHLab_IEG @leibnizhi @c2dh_lu ieg-dhr.github.io/LivArch-Workshop

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2025

A big welcome to Kimberly Lifton, a PhD candidate in the Medieval Studies program at Yale University, who joins the IEG as a DH Fellow. Her research focuses on how shifting geopolitics, specifically the rise of the Ottomans, in the late fourteenth and fifteenth […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Mabel Amber: Füße in roten Sportschuhen vor Fußmatte mit der Aufschrift "Welcome on Board“, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_on_Board.jpg, Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC0 1.0

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2025

Originating from a template for her students to systematically document their work with AI models, our colleague Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) has now published the ‘AI Model Research Documentation Sheet (AIRDocS)’. The sheet provides a structured […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2024

Neuer Blogbeitrag! In „Durch Projektkoordination Räume der Zusammenarbeit schaffen – Erfahrungen aus der „Digitalen Kartenwerkstatt Altes Reich“ (DigiKAR)“ blickt @ConstanzeBuyken auf drei Jahre @DigiKAR zurück. -> dhlab.hypotheses.org/5945 #DHLab_IEG #DigiKAR

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2024

Neuer Blogpost! Annika Bärwald und Josefa Cassimo schreiben in „Minderheitengeschichten digital: Über den Versuch, prosopografische Daten zu nicht weißen Menschen im Hamburger Raum aufzubereiten“ über ihre Erfahrungen mit der Überführung eines Datensatzes […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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