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Historical Research, Digital Literacy and Algorithmic Criticism

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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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We invite scholars, researchers and professionals of all levels of experience from Switzerland and beyond to submit papers on the DigiHistCH24 conference theme: ‹Historical Research, Digital Literacy and Algorithmic Criticism›. We are particularly interested in papers that address ongoing research projects, innovative research methods, the use of software in historical research, data analysis, and digital tools.

The conference will take place in September 2024. We are looking forward to seeing you in Basel – please do not forget to register (CLOSED) for attending DigiHistCH24! If you are already curious about what to expect, our Book of Abstracts is the perfect place to start.

This conference provides a platform for scholars, researchers and professionals of all ages and levels of experience to discuss these challenges, exchange experiences, share best practices, and discuss forward-looking approaches to historical research in the digital age. It aims to promote digital literacy, raise awareness of the use of algorithms and AI systems, develop strategies for dealing with digital sources, encourage shared formats and methodologies, and facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices for collaborative historical research. The conference will also showcase projects and research in the field of digital history.

Digital History Network Switzerland

While you’re here, you might also want to check out the Digital History Network Switzerland! Its aim is to promote the visibility of digital history and to network people from academic and memory institutions as well as other actors in this field. We recommend joining the network’s mailing list! See infoclio.ch for more information.

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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)
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We invite scholars, researchers and professionals of all levels of experience from Switzerland and beyond to submit papers on the DigiHistCH24 conference theme: **‹Historical Research, Digital Literacy and Algorithmic Criticism›**. We are particularly interested in papers that address ongoing research projects, innovative research methods, the use of software in historical research, data analysis, and digital tools.

The conference will take place in September 2024. We are looking forward to seeing you in Basel – **please do not forget to register (CLOSED) for attending DigiHistCH24! If you are already curious about what to expect, our [Book of Abstracts](/book-of-abstracts.html "Book of Abstracts") is the perfect place to start.**

This conference provides a platform for scholars, researchers and professionals of all ages and levels of experience to discuss these challenges, exchange experiences, share best practices, and discuss forward-looking approaches to historical research in the digital age. It aims to promote digital literacy, raise awareness of the use of algorithms and AI systems, develop strategies for dealing with digital sources, encourage shared formats and methodologies, and facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices for collaborative historical research. The conference will also showcase projects and research in the field of digital history.

## Digital History Network Switzerland

While you're here, you might also want to check out the Digital History Network Switzerland! Its aim is to promote the visibility of digital history and to network people from academic and memory institutions as well as other actors in this field. We recommend joining the network's mailing list! See [infoclio.ch](https://www.infoclio.ch/en/digitalhistorynetwork){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} for more information.

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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)
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