Netzwerkvisualisierungen in den Geschichtswissenschaften zwischen explorativer Quellenanalyse und der Suggestionskraft des Bildes

in Häußling, Roger (Ed.) Visualisierung sozialer Netzwerke (in press)

Report on C²DH Activities in Support of the Ukrainian Research Community

Report (2022)

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th 2022 has triggered a worldwide wave of support and expressions of solidarity, also among C²DH staff. This report gives an overview of their past activities ... [more ▼]

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th 2022 has triggered a worldwide wave of support and expressions of solidarity, also among C²DH staff. This report gives an overview of their past activities together with a preliminary review and recommendations for the year 2023. This does not cover private support activities undertaken by C²DH members. This report consists of three parts: First, a brief summary of the response of Luxembourgish research institutions, published already in June 2022. Second, a chronology of activities by C²DH staff since March 2022. Third, an overview of past and planned activities by C²DH. These activities we group in a) Collaboration and Training in support of Ukrainian researchers and b) Documentation and Preservation with a focus on cultural heritage and future research activities. At the time of writing, most do not expect the war to end any time soon. This makes it necessary to revisit past support activities regarding their success and effectiveness, to adjust measures according to the changed situation and to identify new opportunities for support also in light of their impact on the centre and its ongoing activities in research and teaching. Overall, the centre will continue and expand its support activities in light of the orientation towards the development of the future Ukrainian research landscape. [less ▲]

Impresso Inspect and Compare. Visual Comparison of Semantically Enriched Historical Newspaper Articles

in Information (2021), 12(9), 348

The automated enrichment of mass-digitised document collections using techniques such as text mining is becoming increasingly popular. Enriched collections offer new opportunities for interface design to ... [more ▼]

The automated enrichment of mass-digitised document collections using techniques such as text mining is becoming increasingly popular. Enriched collections offer new opportunities for interface design to allow data-driven and visualisation-based search, exploration and interpretation. Most such interfaces integrate close and distant reading and represent semantic, spatial, social or temporal relations, but often lack contrastive views. Inspect and Compare (I\&C) contributes to the current state of the art in interface design for historical newspapers with highly versatile side-by-side comparisons of query results and curated article sets based on metadata and semantic enrichments. I\&C takes search queries and pre-curated article sets as inputs and allows comparisons based on the distributions of newspaper titles, publication dates and automatically generated enrichments, such as language, article types, topics and named entities. Contrastive views of such data reveal patterns, help humanities scholars to improve search strategies and to facilitate a critical assessment of the overall data quality. I\&C is part of the impresso interface for the exploration of digitised and semantically enriched historical newspapers. [less ▲]

Gleanings from applications for the graph-based exploration of cultural heritage collections

in Kerschbaumer, Florian; Keyserlingk, Linda Von; Stark, Martin (Eds.) et al The Power of Networks. Prospects of Historical Network Research (2020)

Collections of Digitised Newspapers as Historical Sources – Parthenos training

Report (2019)

Erste Überlegungen zu Biographien, Vernetzung und Netzwerkanalyse

in Gruber, Christine; Bernád, Ágoston Zénó; Kaiser, Maximilian (Eds.) Europa baut auf Biographien. Aspekte, Bausteine, Normen und Standards für eine europäische Biographik. (2018)

Vom Sprechen, Denken und Rechnen mit Netzwerken. Eine Skizze der Forschungspraxis in den (Digitalen) Geschichtswissenschaften

Presentation (2018)

Die Auseinandersetzung mit der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit deutscher Behörden war lange Zeit ein Forschungsdesiderat. Erst im Jahr 2005 begann man mit der Realisierung ministeriell geförderter ... [more ▼]

Die Auseinandersetzung mit der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit deutscher Behörden war lange Zeit ein Forschungsdesiderat. Erst im Jahr 2005 begann man mit der Realisierung ministeriell geförderter Forschungsprojekte, die sich dezidiert mit der NS-Belastung deutscher Behörden und ihres Personals beschäftigen. [less ▲]

Data Visualisation

Presentation (2018)

Second issue

in Journal of Historical Network Research (2018)

Einführung in die Historische Netzwerkforschung

Presentation (2017)