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News and updates from the ERC-funded research project RELEVEN, led by @tla.bsky.social at the University of Vienna. Website: releven.univie.ac.at

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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 05/05/2026
Meet the RELEVEN Model Explorer, a tool that makes WissKI-based data models easier to explore, understand, and use beyond the technical backend. In this blog post, Kevin explains how it works and why it matters 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #46: Kevin Stadler
Meet the RELEVEN Model Explorer, a tool that makes WissKI-based data models easier to explore, understand, and use beyond the technical backend. In this blog post, Kevin explains how it works and why ...
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 01/04/2026
Can AI help historians untangle who said what, and why it matters, in a world full of unreliable information? Read @jubalbarca.bsky.social's blog post to see whether LLMs can trace claims, authority, and argument in ways that could matter beyond medieval history. releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #45: James Baillie
Can AI help historians untangle who said what, and why it matters, in a world full of unreliable information? Read James Baillie's blog post to see whether LLMs can trace claims, authority, and argume...
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 02/02/2026
Turning research data into knowledge graphs doesn't mean messy code. Lukas introduces a Turtle-inspired approach to RDF graph generation that separates graph descriptions from construction and makes complex pipelines cleaner and more modular. Check it here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 17/12/2025
Behind every interface lies a complex technical story. Kevin takes us behind the scenes of the RELEVEN website, discussing the challenges of SPARQL tooling, scalability, and why frontend development in Digital Humanities is never "just frontend". Read it here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 17/12/2025
Our PI @tla.bsky.social and George Bruseker (TAKIN.solutions) presented PWRo, a reusable ontology developed for the RELEVEN database to model power, authority and social relations in historical prosopography, at the 2nd Prosopon Workshop in Munich last week.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 02/12/2025
Reflections from our coordinator Lale on recent milestones and the project's transition into its final technical phase 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #42: Lale Tüver
Reflections from our coordinator Lale on recent milestones and the project's transition into its final technical phase.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 31/10/2025
As their time on the project comes to an end, Katalin and Márton look back on their experiences and reflect on their key achievements. Read it here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #42: Katalin Prajda & Márton Rózsa
As their time on the project comes to an end, Katalin and Márton look back on their experiences and reflect on their key achievements.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 01/10/2025
In their final blog post, Aleksander and @lewread.bsky.social recap the highlights of our Closing Conference, sharing insights about key presentations and lively discussions. Read more here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #41: Aleksandar Anđelović & Lewis Read
Aleksander and Lewis recap the highlights of our Closing Conference, sharing insights about key presentations and lively discussions.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 29/09/2025
Congratulations to our pre-doc Aleksandar for succesfully defending his dissertation - now officially Dr. Andjelovic! 🎉💫
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 03/09/2025
And we are on! 🚀Our conference "Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives" has officially started today! 🎉 The conference runs through 5 September - stay tuned for updates, insights and highlights from the sessions! #uniwien #releven #DH #11thCentury
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 28/08/2025
From Constantinople to Kievan Rus', devotion to Archangel Michael left its mark in seals, cathedrals, and daily piety. Aleks shares his findings in a new blog post, written during a Dumbarton Oaks fellowship in Washington, D.C. Read more in here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #40: Aleksandar Anđelović
From Constantinople to Kievan Rus', devotion to Archangel Michael left its mark in seals, cathedrals, and daily piety. Aleks shares his findings in a new blog post written during a Dumbarton Oaks fell...
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 18/08/2025
Don't forget to sign up for our conference!!
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Lewis Read @lewread.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
2nd International Armenological Congress, 9-12 July, 2025 🤩🇦🇲
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 06/08/2025
📣Join us for the RELEVEN Conference: "Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives" 🗓️ 3–5 Sept 2025 |📍 University of Vienna (Hybrid) Exploring new digital tools and historical insights from the 11th century. 🗒️More info + program: releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Closing Conference of the Releven Project
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 04/08/2025
In her latest blog post, @tla.bsky.social reflects on a summer of RELEVEN highlights, including PhD defences, conference talks at IMC Leeds, and the preparations for our closing conference on 3-5 September 👀 Read her reflections here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #39: Tara Andrews
In her latest blog post, Tara reflects on a summer of RELEVEN highlights, including PhD defences, conference talks at IMC Leeds, and the preparations for our closing conference on 3-5 September.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 23/07/2025
Final highlight: our P.I. @tla.bsky.social gave a talk in the "From Medieval Sources to Big Data" panel titled: "That's just, like, your opinion, man": Historical Consensus and Disagreement as Structured Data. (and yes, that's a Big Lebowski quote 😄)
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 23/07/2025
Our sessions included : 📌Knowledge, Authority, and Aesthetics in the Byzantine Church 📌The Circulation of Knowledge between Byzantium and Armenia 📌Moving People and the Transfer of Knowledge across the Christian World 📌The Mediterranean in the Short 11th Century So many great talks & discussions!
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 23/07/2025
Back from another great year at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Our RELEVEN team organized 4 panels under the theme Re-evaluating the 11th Century, covering knowledge, movement, and church politics. Big thanks to everyone who joined onsite or online! (Details & pics on the next post ⬇️) #IMC2025
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 01/07/2025
In this month's blog post, @lupl.bsky.social furthers his exploration of entity-aware pagination in SPARQL and shows how RDFProxy transforms paginated query results into structured and Pydantic-based API responses. Check it out here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #38: Lukas Plank
In this month's blog post, Lukas furthers his exploration of entity-aware pagination in SPARQL and shows how RDFProxy transforms paginated query results into structured and Pydantic-based API response...
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 04/06/2025
Doctor in the house! 🎉 Our brilliant pre-doc @lewread.bsky.social is now Dr. Read!! 🙌 In his final blog post, he offers a brief insight into his PhD research on the RELEVEN project. Don't miss it ⏬ releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #37: Lewis Read
Doctor in the house! After defending his doctoral thesis last week, this month’s blog post offers a short insight into the results of Lewis' research as a PhD student on the RELEVEN project.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 05/05/2025
We've been busy! Our coordinator just shared a project update on our latest digital tools, progress in data modeling, and something exciting coming up in September 👀 Curious what've been up to? Read our latest blog post here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #36: Lale Tüver
Our coordinator just shared a project update on our latest digital tools, progress in data modeling, and something exciting coming up in September. Curious what've been up to?
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 08/04/2025
Our frontend dev’s first blog post is here, sharing behind the scenes on why building a DH website is way more than just making things look pretty.🌟 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #35: Kevin Stadler
Our frontend dev’s first blog post is here, sharing behind the scenes on why building a DH website is way more than just making things look pretty.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 03/03/2025
Want to know more about the sources behind our expanding corpus? Our postdoc, Katalina, shares insights into the documents she's gathered for our Italian sources collection. Read more in our latest blog post! 📜👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #34: Katalin Prajda
Want to know more about the sources behind our expanding corpus? Our postdoc, Katalina, shares insights into the documents she has collected for our Italian sources collection.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 03/02/2025
How do we navigate conflicting historical narratives? 🤔 In our January blog post, Márton examines various accounts of the reconstruction of Hainburg and their implications for prosopographic research. Check out the full post here!👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #33: Márton Rózsa
How do we navigate conflicting historical narratives? In our January blog post, Márton examines various accounts of the reconstruction of Hainburg and their implications for prosopographic research.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 27/01/2025
The RELEVEN project has discontinued its presence on Twitter / X. We will continue to provide news and updates on Bluesky and Mastodon [ hcommons.social/@RELEVEN ] as well as on our website releven.univie.ac.at !
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Tara A @byzantini.st · 15/01/2025
New publication in @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social ! Wherein I talk about data structures for capturing how interpretations of Byzantine lead seals evolve. journal.digitalmedievalist.org/article/id/1...
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Byzantine Sigillography, Linked Open Data, and the Structured Assertion Record
One of the major challenges in the creation of a digital dataset for cultural heritage objects is the question of how to capture the differing interpretations and the changing state of our knowledge a...
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 14/01/2025
Last week @tla.bsky.social and @lewread.bsky.social participated in the 16th general conference of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, discussing digital approaches to medieval Armenian source material.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 07/01/2025
Sorry for the wait but our December blog post is finally here! This time, we’re diving into a more technical topic 👀 @lupl.bsky.social walks us through how entity-aware pagination works using SPARQL. Check it out and let us know your thoughts!🚀 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #32: Lukas Plank
The final blog post of 2024 is here! This time, our SPARQL expert Lukas, takes us through entity-aware pagination and shows how the RDFProxy library makes working with big datasets easier.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas 🎄and a Happy New Year 🌟 from team Releven!
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
And that's a wrap for 2024! It's been a great year of growth, learning and collaboration! Thanks for coming along on this journey with us 🥂
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Nov&Dec: @lupl.bsky.social has submitted paper on RDFProxy for @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social. @lewread.bsky.social spoke at the Medieval Studies conference at Matenadaran on the production of a new digital corpus of Armenian colophons. And finally, we began planning next year's closing conference! 👀
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Oct: @lewread.bsky.social spoke as part of the conference "Between Athos and Antioch" in Lund on the subject of the 11th century translation programme of the Armenian Catholicos Grigos III Vkayaser. He also organized "Places of Faith, Places of Memory" workshop with RevIDEM.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Sep 2/2: @lewread.bsky.social went back to Yerevan to dive into archival research at the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. Kevin deployed the initial version of our website, and most importantly, we published our very first joint article! 🎉 ojs.elte.hu/hsce/article...
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Re-Evaluating the Eleventh Century through Linked Events and Entities | Historical Studies on Central Europe
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Sep 1/2: Aleks presented two papers - one at "Embodied Histories" conference in Potsdam and another at "Character Construction in Byzantium" conference in Prague.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Aug: @lewread.bsky.social attended DH Oxford Summer School to learn more about NLP and semantic analysis with ML. Meanwhile, Kevin has created the first version of RDF2Proxy, automating RDFProxy model configs from Wisski pathbuilder definitions.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
July 2/2: @lupl.bsky.social began building a Python library to connect SparQl results with Pydantic models. @tla.bsky.social represented our project at Armenological conference in Yerevan. It was a busy month!
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
July: 1/2: Aleks attended Byzantine Greek Summer School in Washington D.C. Meanwhile, @lewread.bsky.social organized a panel, and also delivered a paper at @imc-leeds.bsky.social titled "Conversion, Kafiyah, and Rhetorical Competition in 11th-Century Constantinople".
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
June: we welcomed Kevin Stadler, our new software engineer! 🎉 Meanwhile, Marton presented his research at "Between East and West" conference in Poland on itinerant individuals and the concept of imitatio imperii in early Hungarian history.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
May: @tla.bsky.social has given a keynote at the AIUCD conference, showing how digital methods can reshape our understanding of medieval Mediterranean histories🔎
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Apr: we finalized our website design and dived deeper into modelling with some expert help. It was so satisfying to watch our ideas take shape and become more clearly defined 🛠️
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Mar: @lewread.bsky.social headed to the Mekhitarist Monastery of San degli Armenia in Venice to work on Armenian colophon. Archival research with a lagoon view... not too shabby! 📜
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Feb: we submitted our mid-term scientific report , got started with our website design, and introduced new semantic paths and fields in WissKI. Marton wrapped up collecting Central European Prosopograhic data. A lot of behind the scenes work this month 🖥️
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
Jan: we kicked off the year by welcoming @lupl.bsky.social to the team🎉 Meanwhile, Katalin launched her 2nd monograph in the Hungarian Academy in Rome - what a start to the year! 📚
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 20/12/2024
We've (almost) reached the end of another year! As 2024 draws to a close, we want to share what we've been up to. It's been a year filled with new faces, fresh challenges and great achievements... Here's a quick run down of what we accomplished ✨
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Tara A @byzantini.st · 29/11/2024
Haha cool we get visual aids for bragging on social media now! #imc2025
“I have been accepted to the Leeds International Medieval Congress 7-10 July 2025”
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Lewis Read @lewread.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It was a pleasure to be in Yerevan 🇦🇲 last week to share a working prototype for a new digital corpus of medieval Armenian colophons developed in collaboration with the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. More to come! 📜
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 30/11/2024
Will LLMs make ontologies like CIDOC-CRM obsolete? 🤔In our November blog post, @tla.bsky.social explains why these ‘old-school’ AI methods still play a crucial role in Digital Humanities, especially when working with sparse 11th-century data. Check it out here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #31: Tara Andrews
Will LLMs make ontologies like CIDOC-CRM obsolete? In our November blog post, Tara explains why these ‘old-school’ AI methods still play a crucial role in Digital Humanities, especially when working w...
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 31/10/2024
From welcoming new team members to celebrating our first joint article, our coordinator shares a look at what's been happening lately. Read her latest reflections here👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #30: Lale Tüver
From welcoming new team members to celebrating our first joint article, our coordinator shares a look at what's been happening lately.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 01/10/2024
Lewis revisited the Mesrop Mashtots Institute in Yerevan and worked on reconstructing the personal stories behind the colophons of 11th century Armenian Gospel manuscripts. Head over to our blog post to read about it! 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #29: Lewis Read
Lewis revisited the Mesrop Mashtots Institute in Yerevan and worked on reconstructing the personal stories behind the colophons of 11th century Armenian Gospel manuscripts.
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RELEVEN @r11.eu · 30/08/2024
Aleksandar spent July at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, enjoying the Byzantine Greek Summer School. He shares his reflections on this unforgettable experience in this blog post with some very nice pictures. Check it out here👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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Blog Post #23: Aleksandar Anđelović
Aleks spent July at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, enjoying the Byzantine Greek Summer School and exploring the city’s historical gems. He shares his reflections on this unforgettable experience in...
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