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    • Data-Driven Approaches to Studying the History of Museums on the Web: Challenges and Opportunities for New Discoveries
    • On a solid ground. Building software for a 120-year-old research project applying modern engineering practices
    • Tables are tricky. Testing Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for FAIR upcycling of digitised historical statistics.
    • Training engineering students through a digital humanities project: Techn’hom Time Machine
    • From manual work to artificial intelligence: developments in data literacy using the example of the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (2001-2024)
    • A handful of pixels of blood
    • Impresso 2: Connecting Historical Digitised Newspapers and Radio. A Challenge at the Crossroads of History, User Interfaces and Natural Language Processing.
    • Learning to Read Digital? Constellations of Correspondence Project and Humanist Perspectives on the Aggregated 19th-century Finnish Letter Metadata
    • Teaching the use of Automated Text Recognition online. Ad fontes goes ATR
    • Geovistory, a LOD Research Infrastructure for Historical Sciences
    • Using GIS to Analyze the Development of Public Urban Green Spaces in Hamburg and Marseille (1945 - 1973)
    • Belpop, a history-computer project to study the population of a town during early industrialization
    • Contributing to a Paradigm Shift in Historical Research by Teaching Digital Methods to Master’s Students
    • Revealing the Structure of Land Ownership through the Automatic Vectorisation of Swiss Cadastral Plans
    • Rockefeller fellows as heralds of globalization: the circulation of elites, knowledge, and practices of modernization (1920–1970s): global history, database connection, and teaching experience
    • Theory and Practice of Historical Data Versioning
    • Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling
    • Efficacy of Chat GPT Correlations vs. Co-occurrence Networks in Deciphering Chinese History
    • Data Literacy and the Role of Libraries
    • 20 godparents and 3 wives – studying migrant glassworkers in post-medieval Estonia
    • From record cards to the dynamics of real estate transactions: Working with automatically extracted information from Basel’s historical land register, 1400-1700
    • When the Data Becomes Meta: Quality Control for Digitized Ancient Heritage Collections
    • On the Historiographic Authority of Machine Learning Systems
    • Films as sources and as means of communication for knowledge gained from historical research
    • Develop Yourself! Development according to the Rockefeller Foundation (1913 – 2013)
    • AI-assisted Search for Digitized Publication Archives
    • Digital Film Collection Literacy – Critical Research Interfaces for the “Encyclopaedia Cinematographica”
    • From Source-Criticism to System-Criticism, Born Digital Objects, Forensic Methods, and Digital Literacy for All
    • Connecting floras and herbaria before 1850 – challenges and lessons learned in digital history of biodiversity
    • A Digital History of Internationalization. Operationalizing Concepts and Exploring Millions of Patent Documents
    • From words to numbers. Methodological perspectives on large scale Named Entity Linking
    • Go Digital, They Said. It Will Be Fun, They Said. Teaching DH Methods for Historical Research
    • Unveiling Historical Depth: Semantic annotation of the Panorama of the Battle of Murten
    • When Literacy Goes Digital: Rethinking the Ethics and Politics of Digitisation
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About

Organising Committee

  • Jérôme Baudry (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
  • Lucas Burkart (Universität Basel)
  • Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Université de Genève)
  • Eliane Kurmann (infoclio.ch)
  • Moritz Mähr (Universität Basel, Stadt.Geschichte.Basel)
  • Enrico Natale (infoclio.ch, Verein Geschichte und Informatik)
  • Christiane Sibille (Verein Geschichte und Informatik, ETH Library)
  • Moritz Twente (Universität Basel, Stadt.Geschichte.Basel)

Sponsoring

We are grateful for the generous support by our sponsors:

  • Swiss National Science Foundation
  • FAG Basel
  • Max-Geldner-Stiftung
  • Department of History, University of Basel
  • Association History and Computing

Sponsoring: Swiss National Foundation, FAG Basel, Max-Geldner-Stiftung, Universität Basel (Departement Geschichte), Verein Informatik und Geschichte

Patronage

  • infoclio.ch
  • Verein Geschichte und Informatik | Association Histoire et Informatique | Association History and Computing
  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte

Logos of DigiHistCH24 patronage organizations: infoclio.ch, Association History and Computing, and Swiss Society of History

Host

University of Basel, Department of History

Code of Conduct

The organising committee of DigiHistCH24 is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment, in which the personal integrity of all participants is respected. In particular, we do not tolerate discrimination and any form of harassment. We strive to create a safe, respectful, and collegial conference experience for all attendees – ensuring that DigiHistCH24 is an event characterised by professionalism, honesty and fairness in accordance with the host University of Basel’s Code of Conduct.

Please refer to the Personal Integrity Coordination Office of the University of Basel as an easily accessible, confidential and personal point of contact, offering advice and support for participants whose personal integrity has been violated or for bystanders who have observed violations.

Inquiries

For inquiries, get in touch by contacting Moritz Twente via digital-history-2024@unibas.ch.

If your request does not concern an event, please refer to the general information of the University of Basel https://www.unibas.ch/en/Legal-notice.html (see below):

Publisher

University of Basel
Petersplatz 1, P.O. Box
4001 Basel
Switzerland

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The University of Basel is not liable for any material or immaterial damage resulting from access to or use or non-use of the published information, from misuse of the connection or from technical faults.

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## Organising Committee

- Jérôme Baudry (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)\
- Lucas Burkart (Universität Basel)\
- Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Université de Genève)\
- Eliane Kurmann (infoclio.ch)\
- Moritz Mähr (Universität Basel, Stadt.Geschichte.Basel)\
- Enrico Natale (infoclio.ch, Verein Geschichte und Informatik)\
- Christiane Sibille (Verein Geschichte und Informatik, ETH Library)\
- Moritz Twente (Universität Basel, Stadt.Geschichte.Basel)

## Sponsoring

We are grateful for the generous support by our sponsors:

- [Swiss National Science Foundation](https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/228741)\
- [FAG Basel](https://fag-basel.ch/)\
- Max-Geldner-Stiftung\
- [Department of History, University of Basel](https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/en/)\
- [Association History and Computing](https://ahc-ch.ch/)

![Sponsoring: Swiss National Foundation, FAG Basel, Max-Geldner-Stiftung, Universität Basel (Departement Geschichte), Verein Informatik und Geschichte](images/sponsoring_logos.png)

## Patronage

- [infoclio.ch](https://www.infoclio.ch/en "Homepage infoclio")\
- [Verein Geschichte und Informatik \| Association Histoire et Informatique \| Association History and Computing](https://ahc-ch.ch/ "Homepage G&I")\
- [Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte](https://www.sgg-ssh.ch/ "Homepage SGG")

![Logos of DigiHistCH24 patronage organizations: infoclio.ch, Association History and Computing, and Swiss Society of History](images/patronage_logos.png)

### Host

[University of Basel, Department of History](https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/en/)

### Code of Conduct

The organising committee of DigiHistCH24 is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment, in which the personal integrity of all participants is respected. In particular, we do not tolerate discrimination and any form of harassment. We strive to create a safe, respectful, and collegial conference experience for all attendees – ensuring that DigiHistCH24 is an event characterised by professionalism, honesty and fairness in accordance with the host University of Basel's [Code of Conduct](https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/Administration-Services/Vice-President-s-Office-for-People-and-Culture/Culture-Diversity-and-Leadership-Development/Personal-Integrity/Code-of-Conduct.html).

Please refer to the [Personal Integrity Coordination Office of the University of Basel](https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/Administration-Services/Vice-President-s-Office-for-People-and-Culture/Culture-Diversity-and-Leadership-Development/Personal-Integrity.html) as an easily accessible, confidential and personal point of contact, offering advice and support for participants whose personal integrity has been violated or for bystanders who have observed violations.

## Inquiries

For inquiries, get in touch by contacting Moritz Twente via [digital-history-2024\@unibas.ch](mailto:digital-history-2024@unibas.ch).

If your request does not concern an event, please refer to the general information of the University of Basel <https://www.unibas.ch/en/Legal-notice.html> (see below):

## Publisher

University of Basel\
Petersplatz 1, P.O. Box\
4001 Basel\
Switzerland

## Disclaimer of warranty and liability

The University of Basel makes every effort to ensure that the information on its website is correct and up-to-date. However, it does not guarantee the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. It reserves the right to adjust or remove information at any time and without notice. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected.

The University of Basel is not liable for any material or immaterial damage resulting from access to or use or non-use of the published information, from misuse of the connection or from technical faults.

The University of Basel has not reviewed external websites, i.e. websites not located on its servers or within its sphere of influence, which may be connected to this website via hyperlinks, and does not accept any responsibility for their content.
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