Book of Abstracts

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February 11, 2025

The DigiHistCH24 conference on “Historical Research, Digital Literacy, and Algorithmic Criticism” brings together scholars and professionals to address the evolving role of digital technologies in historical research. Hosted by the University of Basel on September 12–13, 2024, the conference will focus on the integration of digital tools, the importance of digital literacy, and the critical examination of algorithms within the discipline.

This book of abstracts contains all the papers and posters presented at the conference, providing a comprehensive overview of current research at the intersection of history and digital technology. These cover a range of topics, from innovative methodologies and software applications to the challenges of digital data management and algorithmic analysis in historical research.

We are pleased to present this collection, which reflects the state of the art in digital history, and anticipate that the discussions it stimulates will make a significant contribution to the field.

Paper

Session Title Author(s)
Keynote When Literacy Goes Digital: Rethinking the Ethics and Politics of Digitisation Gerben Zaagsma
Session 1A Using GIS to Analyze the Development of Public Urban Green Spaces in Hamburg and Marseille (1945 - 1973) Eliane Schmid
Session 1A Revealing the Structure of Land Ownership through the Automatic Vectorisation of Swiss Cadastral Plans Rémi Petitpierre, Isabella di Lenardo, Lucas Rappo
Session 1B Tables are tricky. Testing Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for FAIR upcycling of digitised historical statistics. Gabi Wuethrich
Session 1B Teaching the use of Automated Text Recognition online. Ad fontes goes ATR Laura Bitterli, Lorenz Dändliker
Session 2A From manual work to artificial intelligence: developments in data literacy using the example of the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (2001-2024) Kaspar Gubler
Session 2A Learning to Read Digital? Constellations of Correspondence Project and Humanist Perspectives on the Aggregated 19th-century Finnish Letter Metadata Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Ilona Pikkanen
Session 2A Data Literacy and the Role of Libraries Catrina Langenegger, Johanna Schüpbach
Session 2B AI-assisted Search for Digitized Publication Archives Giovanni Profeta, Fabio Rinaldi, Joseph Cornelius, Regina Wanger
Session 2B A Digital History of Internationalization. Operationalizing Concepts and Exploring Millions of Patent Documents Jérôme Baudry, Nicolas Chachereau
Session 3A Data-Driven Approaches to Studying the History of Museums on the Web: Challenges and Opportunities for New Discoveries Nadezhda Povroznik
Session 3A Impresso 2: Connecting Historical Digitised Newspapers and Radio. A Challenge at the Crossroads of History, User Interfaces and Natural Language Processing. Maud Ehrmann, Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Simon Clematide, Marten Düring
Session 3A Geovistory, a LOD Research Infrastructure for Historical Sciences Stephen Hart, Vincent Alamercery, Francesco Beretta, Djamel Ferhod, Sebastian Flick, Tobias Hodel, David Knecht, Gaétan Muck, Alexandre Perraud, Morgane Pica, Pierre Vernus
Session 3B 20 godparents and 3 wives – studying migrant glassworkers in post-medieval Estonia Monika Reppo
Session 3B Connecting floras and herbaria before 1850 – challenges and lessons learned in digital history of biodiversity Christian Forney, Martin Stuber
Session 4A A handful of pixels of blood Adrian Demleitner
Session 4A Films as sources and as means of communication for knowledge gained from historical research Peter Moser, Andreas Wigger
Session 4A Digital Film Collection Literacy – Critical Research Interfaces for the “Encyclopaedia Cinematographica” Moritz Greiner-Petter, Sarine Waltenspül
Session 4B Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling Michael Piotrowski
Session 4B On the Historiographic Authority of Machine Learning Systems Dominic Weber
Session 5A Training engineering students through a digital humanities project: Techn’hom Time Machine Cyril Lacheze, Marina Gasnier
Session 5A Contributing to a Paradigm Shift in Historical Research by Teaching Digital Methods to Master’s Students Francesco Beretta
Session 5A Go Digital, They Said. It Will Be Fun, They Said. Teaching DH Methods for Historical Research Ina Serif
Session 5B Unveiling Historical Depth: Semantic annotation of the Panorama of the Battle of Murten Daniel Jaquet, Tsz Kin Chau
Session 6A On a solid ground. Building software for a 120-year-old research project applying modern engineering practices Christian Sonder, Bastian Politycki
Session 6A Theory and Practice of Historical Data Versioning Isabella di Lenardo, Rémi Petitpierre, Lucas Rappo, Paul Guhennec, Carlo Musso, Nicolas Mermoud-Ghraichy
Session 6A When the Data Becomes Meta: Quality Control for Digitized Ancient Heritage Collections Victoria Gioia Désirée Landau
Session 6B Belpop, a history-computer project to study the population of a town during early industrialization Laurent Heyberger, Gabriel Frossard, Wissam Al-Kendi
Session 6B From Source-Criticism to System-Criticism, Born Digital Objects, Forensic Methods, and Digital Literacy for All Moritz Feichtinger
Session 7A Efficacy of Chat GPT Correlations vs. Co-occurrence Networks in Deciphering Chinese History Anne S. Chao, Yi Zhong, Qiwei Li, Zhandong Liu
Session 7A From record cards to the dynamics of real estate transactions: Working with automatically extracted information from Basel’s historical land register, 1400-1700 Benjamin Hitz, Ismail Prada Ziegler, Aline Vonwiller
Session 7A From words to numbers. Methodological perspectives on large scale Named Entity Linking Tarun Chadha, Gentiana Rashiti, Christiane Sibille, Agnieszka Ilnicka
Session 7B Rockefeller fellows as heralds of globalization: the circulation of elites, knowledge, and practices of modernization (1920–1970s): global history, database connection, and teaching experience Ludovic Tournès, Yi-Tang Lin
Session 7B Develop Yourself! Development according to the Rockefeller Foundation (1913 – 2013) Iván Lorenci de Francisco
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Poster

Title Author(s)
Discuss Data – an Open Repository for Research and Data Communities Torsten Kahlert, Daniel Kurzawe
Economies of Space: Opening up Historical Finding Aids Lucas Burkart, Tobias Hodel, Benjamin Hitz, Aline Vonwiller, Ismail Prada Ziegler, Jonas Aeby, Katrin Fuchs
Modeling in history: using LLMs to automatically produce diagrammatic models synthesizing Piketty’s historiographical thesis on economic inequalities Axel Matthey
Multimodal UI for Video Retrieval at the Swiss Federal Archives Audray Sauvage, Julien Antoine Raemy
Swiss Google Books for Research Martin Reisacher, Eric Dubey, Matteo Lorenzini
transcriptiones – Create, Share and Access Transcriptions of Historical Manuscripts Yvonne Fuchs, Dominic Weber
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