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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Is this diagram of the DDB’s “digital ecosystem“ AI slop?

Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Exciting news (sort of): Academic publishers can actually produce multi-scriptoral texts just fine and with a minimum of care. I just got the galley proofs for an essay that uses the original Arabic script for periodical titles instead of the dreaded […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Screen shot of galley proofs showing a paragraph of German text with a number of Arabic strings.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Preparing the living room for a little watch party of papers at #DH2026

A living room with a wall-filling bookcase. a large projection screen hangs in front of the bookcase onto which a livestream from the conference is projected

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

And this is why we need continued and concerted efforts to push for linguistic diversity and technology stacks supporting all human writing systems and languages: Kim Hyeon delivering the keynote for #DH2026 in Korea refers to classical Chinese concepts […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Slide from Kim Hyeon’ keynote. Three squares in light grey show three concepts in Chinese characters and English translation. The Chinese symbol on the central square is substituted by a question mark, the symbols on the right square are oddly and inconsistently sized.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

@sixtus #Berlin zeigt sich mal wider von seiner besten Seite. Unter den Linden gibt es eine großzügige und kostenlos zu nutzende Eisbahn! Ein herzliches „Fuck You!!“ an alle die nicht auf der Fahrbahn unterwegs sind.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

A small Friday-evening project came to fruition. Analysing data on the dimensions of Arabic periodicals from #Wikidata, a quick and simple plot allows for a number of observations: Firstly, newspapers and magazines are of different sizes and the former […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

A boxplot of page heights along a temporal axis for Arabic periodicals published before 1930. Each periodical is recorded with its first year of publication and a single measure. In the cases where Wikidata returned multiple measures, these were averaged into a single data point. The plot divides the data set into newspapers (blue) and magazines (red) based on an explicit classification provided by Wikidata.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

die automobile #Selbstjustiz und der absolute Mangel eines Unrechtsbewusstseins bei vielen Autofahrenden in #Berlin ist atemberaubend! Nicht nur werden Einbahnstrasse, rote Ampeln, absolute Halteverbote konsequent ignoriert, sie montieren auch […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

Wir transformieren momentan die Konferenzankündigungen und -bericht, die seit gut zwei Jahrzehnten auf #HSozKult (@hsozkult ) publiziert werden, zu Linked Open Data. Heute haben wir gut 10000 Veranstaltungen zu #Wikidata gepusht (die Beiträge zu diesen […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

#Gleichberechtigung in der Genderdimension ist erreicht! Sagt jedenfalls etwas verklausuliert Julia Klöckner mit Hinweis auf sich selbst: > Ich finde, wenn Frauen genauso kritisiert werden können wie Männer, erst dann haben wir Gleichberechtigung. Und […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Ist es ein schlechtes Zeichen, dass die Gewährleistungsfrist auf den Wagen des ICEs, mit dem ich gleich fahren will, vor zwei Monaten abgelaufen ist? #Bahn

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

Zur Abwechslung mal etwas Inhaltliches anlässlich des Historikertages. Was weiß #Wikidata über die Vielsprachigkeit von Periodikapublikationen an einzelnen Orten, an denen auch Periodika in Sprachen Westasiens publiziert wurden? […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

Die nächste #DigitalHistory Konferenz wird mit dem Thema „Doing Cultural Heritage“ vom 28. September bis 1. Oktober in Salzburg stattfinden. Der CfP soll im kommenden Monat veröffentlicht werden. #Histag25

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

hat tip to whoever set up the electric power cord to this projector! You had one job … #DH2025

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

I want to thank everyone who participated in today’s workshop on a/the manifesto for multilingual digital humanities for dedicating your time and thoughts to our shared effort to make digital humanities a more equitable space. Have a look at the #multilingualDH #DH2025

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

A global map of digital humanists according to #Wikidata. Obviously heavily biased towards central Europe and a SPARQL query that will return all affiliations for a person in order to avoid running into time outs. But nevertheless, if you add yourself […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

Far too early for a Sunday morning, I am on my way to #DH2025. Unfortunately I did not manage to find a train connection that would have taken less than 24 h

Shot of an airplane waiting on the tarmac

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

I didn’t manage to focus on preparing a workshop I’ll be teaching on Friday and thus I wrote a #SPARQL query instead to map the global distribution of periodicals in publication languages from the Eastern Mediterranean (Arabic, Ottoman, Greek, Ladino […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons @dingemansemark This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers ( […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Screenshot of a paper originally published in Digital Humanities Quarterly as pirated by ProQuest displaying bibliographic information in a horizontal bar on the top and the content with some paratext in vertical columns. The image shows that ProQuest does not provide a link to the original and violates the CC BY-ND license by producing a derivative.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2025

I just figured out that combing markerclusters with layers in #SPARQL queries visualising results from #Wikidata on maps can give you a nice coloured classification of periodicals by publishing language. Unfortunately the query is too long for posting […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Map showing Tunisia.The city of Tunis is the centre of star-shaped rays terminating in differently coloured dotes. Each dot stands for a periodical published between 1850 and 1930. Colour signifies publication language. Colours are dominated by green (Arabic), Red (Judeo-Arabic), and Blue (French)

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025

Liebe Teilnehmer_innen der #DHd2025, im Rahmen von @NFDI4Memory führen wir an der @DigitalHistory einen kontinuierlichen Survey der Digital Humanities in DACH (und darüberhinaus) durch und pflegen dafür auch Datensätze in #Wikidata ein. Unser Ziel ist […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Mash-up of a map displaying all practitioners in the digital humanities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from Wikidata on the left and the slogan "who is researching in the field of DH?" set in a blue background on the right.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2025

This is a first: فروق was an Ottoman newspaper published in Athens in 1911. But apparently they didn’t have access to movable-type and lithographed a handwritten paper using a printed template to print into. Facsimiles are available from HTU at […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2025

Bielefeld, jetzt hast du doch ein bisschen Charm

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

Die Poster der AG #multilingualDH sind auf dem Weg zur #DHd2025 in Bielefeld: "Error 404: □□□□□□□ □□□□□ □□□□□ □□□ not found" Für mehr (sprachliche) Vielfalt und die Dekolonialisierung des digitalen Raums #FCKAFD

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

Das ist die #Autokratie in Deutschland. Die stehen alle im Halteverbot und Feuerwehreinfahrt (plus Kurve und Baustellenausfahrt)

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025

@Gerrit_Heim @tillgrallert @awinkler ZDB ist durchaus sichtbar - vornehmlich für Material aus Deutschland, dass in deutschen Institutionen liegt. Und die meisten Wissenschafter_innen, die zu diesem Material arbeiten, sollten ZDB kennen. Bei der […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Screeshot of the Wikidata item for the Arabic periodical al-Hasna, published in Beirut. Showing collections in four libraries worldwide (using the P195 property) some of which have been digitised.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2024

Deutschland nach Abschaffung der EC/ Maestro Karten ist wenn du in #Uelzen auf dem Bahnhof stehst und mit Visa Debit oder Credit Karte weder bezahlen noch am Automat Geld abheben kannst.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2024

At least on iOS adding emojis also results in tags being promoted to the top of the tag list for easier selection

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2024

I just discovered that in #Zotero emojis added to tags will be displayed leading the reference title in the main window, similarly to coloured tags. This allows to somewhat circumvent the limitation of 9 coloured tags to organise a library by reading status and project context.

partial screenshot of the Zotero 7 interface showing the tags pane on the left and the main reference section on the right. Emojis have been added to some tags and these emojis are displayed before the reference title in the main reference section.

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2024

Last week, I have pushed metadata for some 700+ Ottoman Turkish periodicals published mainly between the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and the end of the empire to #Wikidata. Data is based on Baykal's wonderful index ( […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Bubble chart of the most prominent publication languages for periodicals published worldwide before 1930 according to Wikidata. English ist first, followed by Arabic, Swedish, French, german, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Ottoman Turkish, Italian.

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