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The Visual Archive Southeastern Europe (VASE), established in 2012, collects historical and contemporary visual material from Southeastern Europe and currently comprises four collections. The article presents the comprehensive redesign of VASE, which affects both the interface and the underlying data model.

"Die Reichskrone des Heiligen Römischen Reiches ist eines der wichtigsten Symbole europäischer Geschichte. Heute ist sie Teil der Sammlungen des Kunsthistorischen Museums (KHM) in Wien. Im Zuge des vom KHM initiierten CROWN-Projekts wird eine umfassende Analyse der Reichskrone durchgeführt. Ziel dieser Analyse ist es nicht nur den konservatorischen Status des Objektes zu bestimmen, sondern auch die Diskussion um Entstehungszeit und Entstehungsort voranzubringen. Dazu werden alle Bestandteile der Krone, die Platten, das Stirnkreuz, der Bügel, die Edelsteine und Zierelemente etc. aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive - naturwissenschaftlich, konservatorisch, (kunst)historisch - analysiert. Bei den im CROWN Projekt erfassten Daten handelt es sich nicht um "klassische" Sammlungsdaten, also deskriptive Daten, die Objekte in einer Sammlung beschreiben, sondern um hochspezifische Forschungsdaten. Ziel dieses Beitrags soll es sein, einen Workflow zu beschreiben, an dessen Ende eine hochstrukturierte, den FAIR-Kriterien entsprechende und LOD-fähige Ressource steht." Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture.

Twilight Zones describes the detection of a new text corpus in modernity. It also presents the theoretical and methodological model developed for the collection and the analysis of this body of “liminal texts”, the results of the practical use of such a model as well as the concepts guiding the analytical digital anthology which completes the interdisciplinary project. Version of record

The Bocabulario de lengua sangleya por las letraz de el A.B.C. is a historical Chinese-Spanish dictionary held by the British Library (Add ms. 25.317), probably written in 1617. It consists of 223 double-sided folios with about 1400 alphabetically arranged Hokkien Chinese lemmas in the Roman alphabet. The contribution will introduce our considerations on how to extract and annotate linguistic data from the historical manuscript and the design of a digital scholarly edition (DSE) in order to answer research questions in the fields of linguistics, missionary linguistics and migration (Klöter/Döhla 2022). The DSE will be juxtaposing (1) digital facsimiles of the original folios, (2) a diplomatic transcript, (3) a narrow English translation, and (4) critical notes. We will endeavor to expand the possibilities of digital editing by adding the following levels: (5) normalized representation of the original Spanish text, (6) linguistic analysis. The TEI is not only designed to represent written manuscripts, but also to annotate linguistic corpora (Tasovac/Romary, et al. 2018). However, a currently underrepresented topic in the TEI Guidelines is interlinear glossing (as mentioned, for instance, in Bowers 2020: 112 and formalized by the Leipzig Glossing Rules (EVA MPG 2015)) and the application of TEI to indigenous, under-resourced languages, and non-standard varieties (cf. Bowers 2020, Czaykowska-Higgins/Holmes/Kell 2014, Ngué Um 2017). Another concern is the representation of tones, and the additional representation of entries and example sentences with Chinese characters. Although there are more than 200 documented tone languages in the world, most of which are spoken in Asia and Africa (Yip 2002, Maddieson 2013), the TEI Guidelines are still lacking a framework for the annotation of tonal features. One of the project deliverables will therefore be a recommendation for the TEI annotation of tone which we believe will be a valuable service to the community. Bibliography Bowers, Jack. 2020. Language documentation and standards in Digital Humanities: TEI and the documentation of Mixtepec-Mixtec. Computation and Language [cs.CL]. École Pratique des Hauts Études. Online at https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03131936, last access 17 June 2022. Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa, Martin D. Holmes, and Sarah M. Kell. 2014. Using TEI for an Endangered Language Lexical Resource: The Nxaʔamxcín Database-Dictionary Project. Language Documentation & Conservation 8: 1–37. EVA MPG (= Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Linguistics). 2015. The Leipzig Glossing Rules: Conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses. Online at https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/pdf/Glossing-Rules.pdf; last access 17 June 2022. Klöter, Henning and Hans-Jörg Döhla. 2022, forthcoming. Early Spanish-Chinese encounters in the Philippines and the birth of Spanish-Chinese lexicography. In: Michela Bussotti/François Lachaud (eds.), Interpreting empires, mastering languages, taming the world: Dictionaries and multilingual lexicons in East Asia. Paris: EFEO. Maddieson, Ian. 2013. Tone. In: Dryer, Matthew S. and Haspelmath, Martin (eds.), The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Online at http://wals.info/chapter/13, last access 17 June 2022. Ngué Um, Emanuel. 2017. Issues in digital text representation, online dissemination, sharing and reuse for African tone languages. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 24–32. Online at https://aclanthology.org/W17-0104.pdf, last access 17 June 2022. Tasovac,Toma and Laurent Romary, et al. 2018. TEI Lex-0: A baseline encoding for lexicographic data. Version 0.9.0. DARIAH Working Group on Lexical Resources. Online at https://dariah-eric.github.io/lexicalresources/pages/TEILex0/TEILex0.html, last access 17 June 2022. Yip, Moira. 2002. Tone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164559, last access 16 August

Sentiment analysis (SA), one of the most active research areas in NLP for over two decades, focuses on the automatic detection of sentiments, emotions and opinions in textual data (Liu, 2012). Recently, SA has also gained popularity in the field of Digital Humanities (Schmidt, Burghardt & Dennerlein, 2021; Rebora, Messerli & Herrmann 2022). This contribution presents the analysis of a TEI encoded digital scholarly edition (DSE) of Spanish periodicals using a machine learning approach for sentiment analysis as well as the re-implementation of the results into TEI for further retrieval and visualization. This research is situated at the intersection of different projects. On the one hand, it builds on the project Distant Spectators (Scholger et al. 2019-2021), in which a sentiment analysis tool chain was developed (Koncar et al, 2022) for the investigation of 18th Century Periodicals. These Spectators are a European journalistic phenomenon, propagating the social norms and values of Enlightenment by means of a characteristic narrative structure. On the other hand, this contribution constitutes a pre-study concerning the transition from the Spectator periodicals into epistolary novels in Spain – a topic which has remained without in depth analysis until now (Rueda 2001, 33, 181). The Spanish Spectator press consists of 690 issues from 23 periodicals and is available from the DSE The Spectators in the international context (Ertler et al. 2011-2021). The corpus is annotated following the standard of the TEI, considering both the logical text structure and narrative forms (such as reader’s letters, self-portraits, or hetero-portraits) as well as subjects, places, persons, and intellectual works. Our approach to sentiment analysis was based on a manually created and computationally extended dictionary of words from the Spanish Spectator periodicals. Currently, Spanish DH mostly relies on such dictionary-based tools (Moreno-Ortiz, 2017) and small corpora (Torres-Moreno & Moreno-Jiménez, 2020; Barbado et al 2021), while machine-learning approaches (García-Vega et al, 2019; Serrano et al, 2022) are the state-of-the-art in other domains. In this work, we compare our baseline, the dictionary-based SA of 23 Spanish periodicals (in total 690 issues), with a Python toolkit for Spanish SA, pysentimiento (Pérez et al, 2021). Moreover, we explore the variation of sentiments across selected narrative forms in the texts. To evaluate the performance of the current state-of-the-art transformer-based models provided by pysentimiento (Pérez et al, 2021) on our corpus, we conduct an annotation study to create a small evaluation corpus, such as LiSSS (Torres-Moreno & Moreno-Jiménez, 2020). Following the best practices for corpus annotation (Schmidt, Dangel, & Wolff, 2021), we include three expert annotators. Usually, raw text is used for NLP tasks (such as SA). However, for a more detailed investigation, TEI encoded documents allow extraction (e.g. narrative forms) and exclusion (e.g. running heads) of certain text structures. When it comes to literary texts which are challenging for the task of SA due to their style, figures of speech and narrative forms, annotations can yield better classification results. Consequently, the results from the sentiment analysis can be re-implemented into the TEI encoding by using the @ana attribute on structural elements pointing to corresponding categories. This in turn allows exploration of the DSE through visualizations such as distribution of sentiments and sentiment development over time. The results can both facilitate a circular framework of the creation of a DSE as well as support the literary analysis and exploration of Spanish 18th Century Periodicals. Bibliography Barbado, A., Fresno, V., Riesco, Á. M., & Ros, S. (2022). DISCO PAL: Diachronic Spanish Sonnet Corpus with Psychological and Affective Labels. Language Resources and Evaluation, 56(2), 501–542. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-021-09557-1 Ertler, K.-D., Fuchs A., Fischer-Pernkopf M., Hobisch E., Scholger M. & Völkl Y. (2011-2021). The Spectators in the International Context. https://gams.uni-graz.at/spectators. García-Vega, M., Díaz-Galiano, M., García-Cumbreras, M., Plaza-Del-Arco, F.M., Montejo-Ráez, A., Zafra, S. M., Martínez-Cámara, E., Aguilar, C., Antonio, M., Cabezudo, S., Chiruzzo, L., Moctezuma, D. (2020). Overview of TASS 2020: Introducing Emotion Detection. Koncar, P., Geiger, B. C.; Glatz, C.; Hobisch, E., Sarić, S., Scholger, M., Völkl, Y., Helic, D. (2022): A Sentiment Analysis Tool Chain for 18th Century Periodicals. In: Manuel Burghardt, Lisa Dieckmann, Timo Steyer, Peer Trilcke, Niels-Oliver Walkowski, Joëlle Weis, Ulrike Wuttke (Eds.): Fabrikation von Erkenntnis. Experimente in den Digital Humanities. Luxembourg. Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften und Melusina Press. 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26298/ezpg-wk34. Liu, B. (2012) Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies). Morgan & Claypool Publishers, Vermont, Australia. Moreno-Ortiz, A. (2017). Lingmotif: Sentiment Analysis for the Digital Humanities. Proceedings of the Software Demonstrations of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 73–76. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/E17-3019. Pérez, J. M., Giudici, J. C., & Luque, F. (2021). pysentimiento: A Python Toolkit for Sentiment Analysis and Social NLP tasks. ArXiv:2106.09462 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09462. Rebora, S., Messerli, T. C., & Herrmann, J. B. (2022): Towards a Computational Study of German Book Reviews. A Comparison between Emotion Dictionaries and Transfer Learning in Sentiment Analysis. Conference poster. DHd2022. 7–11 March 2022. Rueda, Ana (2001). Cartas sin lacrar. La novela epistolar en la España Ilustrada 1789-1840. Madrid: Iberoamericana. Schmidt, T., Burghardt, M. & Dennerlein, K. (2021). Using Deep Learning for Emotion Analysis of 18th and 19th Century German Plays. In: Manuel Burghardt, Lisa Dieckmann, Timo Steyer, Peer Trilcke, Niels-Oliver Walkowski, Joëlle Weis, Ulrike Wuttke (Eds.): Fabrikation von Erkenntnis. Experimente in den Digital Humanities. Luxembourg. Melusina Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26298/melusina.8f8w-y749-udlf. Schmidt, T., Dangel, J., & Wolff, C. (2021). SentText: A Tool for Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis in Digital Humanities. ISI. Scholger, M., Geiger, B., Hobisch, E., Koncar, P., Sarić, S., Völkl, Y.; Glatz, C. (2019-2021): Distant Spectators (DiSpecs). Distant Reading for Periodicals of the Enlightenment. https://gams.uni-graz.at/dispecs. Serrano, A. V., Subies, G. G., Zamorano, H. M., Garcia, N. A., Samy, D., Sanchez, D. B., Sandoval, A. M., Nieto, M. G., & Jimenez, A. B. (2022). RigoBERTa: A State-of-the-Art Language Model for Spanish. ArXiv:2205.10233 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10233. Torres-Moreno, J.-M., & Moreno-Jiménez, L.-G. (2020). LiSSS: A toy corpus of Spanish Literary Sentences for Emotions detection. ArXiv:2005.08223 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08223.

Seit 2014 gibt das Institut f��r Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) die digitale Rezensionszeitschrift RIDE (A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources) heraus. Mit derzeit (Stand Juli 2021) 70 Rezensionsartikeln zu digitalen wissenschaftlichen Editionen, Textsammlungen sowie Tools und Forschungsumgebungen ist es RIDE in den letzten sieben Jahren gelungen, Rezensionen verst��rkt in den Digital Humanities zu verankern. Das Poster wird die technischen Grundlagen RIDEs illustrieren und damit einen Blick "hinter die Kulissen" gew��hren. Neben einer Beschreibung des derzeitigen Workflows soll der Beitrag demonstrieren, dass die strukturelle und semantische Codierung der Inhalte sowie die Begleitung der Rezensionen durch Kriterien und Frageb��gen dazu f��hren, dass RIDE neben dem Angebot von Texten auch vermehrt datengest��tzte Zug��nge bietet. Die Arbeit an einem digitalen Rezensionsjournal wird so vermehrt zu informationstechnologischer Ged��chtnisarbeit. Ein Beitrag zur 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Ged��chtnisses.

"Seit beinahe 20 Jahren verwaltet und publiziert das Repositorium GAMS Forschungsdaten aus den Geisteswissenschaften und dem Kulturerbebereich. Derzeit enth��lt das Langzeitarchiv etwa 115.000 annotierte digitale Objekte aus mehr als 60 Projekten. Dies reicht von digitalen Editionen oder Textsammlungen (z.B. Briefe, mittelalterliche Rechnungsb��cher) ��ber Bildsammlungen (z.B. historische Fotografien und Postkarten) bis hin zu digitalisierten musealen Sammlungen (z.B. arch��ologische Artefakte oder andere Museumsobjekte) (GAMS 2021). Dabei liegt das Augenmerk sowohl auf der langfristigen Sicherung und Zug��nglichmachung von Ressourcen wie auch auf dem nachhaltigen Umgang mit den bearbeiteten Forschungsdaten. Dom��nenspezifische Repositorien m��ssen dabei einen Ausgleich zwischen langzeittauglicher und somit eher konservativer Entwicklung und dem Einsatz aktueller Technologien finden. Das Poster wird den konzeptionellen Rahmen dieser Forschungsdateninfrastruktur vorstellen und L��sungsans��tze aus diesem Widerspruch diskutieren, die besonders auf die Migration der Kernkomponenten fokussieren. " Ein Betrag zur 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Ged��chtnisses.

Historical texts are an important source to understand historical events and societal developments. In traditional literary studies, such documents are analyzed using close reading, which is tedious and time-consuming for large text corpora. Thus, computational literary scholars have adopted and developed automated and quantitative methods that complement and contribute to insights of close reading. In this case study, we show that text complexity measures are meaningful additions to these methods. Specifically, we apply interpretable measures of reading ease and of syntactic and lexical richness to historical texts and show that the obtained quantitative results are consistent with findings from close reading.

For almost 20 years, the digital repository GAMS (Geisteswissenschaftliches Asset Management System) has been providing long-term preservation of Humanities’ resources offering both a technical solution and a way of achieving sustainability in the handling of research data. Such domain-specific digital repositories rely on specialised design principles and a strategic orientation to balance the need for long-term sustainability and the use of advanced technologies. The repository solely relies on open source software due to its commitment to open access and open science. Its design principles intend to foster compliance with international best practices like the COAR Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories (COAR 2020) and the certification guidelines of the CoreTrustSeal, and following the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability. Long-term preservation entails migration to new software versions and reflecting advancements in technology as well as responding to security issues; increase in projects and services require a more elaborate and stable system architecture. This submission describes the conceptual framework and architecture of a large digital repository infrastructure that specialises in the preservation, management and presentation of research data in the Humanities, as well as the maintenance and migration of this exemplary research data ecosystem.

Die journalistische Gattung der „Spectators“ des 18. Jahrhunderts stellt ein wichtiges Weltkulturerbe aus der Zeit der Aufklärung dar. Die Zeitschriften entsprachen dem demokratischen Ideal, kulturelle und moralische Fragen in nicht-akademischen Kreisen zu verbreiten und Werte der Aufklärung wie Weltoffenheit, Toleranz, intellektuelle Kritik, Selbstreflexion und soziale Verantwortung zu popularisieren. Basierend auf dem bestehenden Textkorpus der digitalen Edition der Spectators (https://gams.uni-graz.at/spectators) zielt diese Kooperation zwischen dem Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science der Technischen Universität Graz, des Know-Center Graz sowie dem ZIM-ACDH und dem Institut für Romanistik der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz darauf ab, dieses mehrsprachige Korpus mit computergestützten Methoden der quantitativen Textanalyse zu untersuchen. Damit sollen Erkenntnisse über die Verschiebung von Themen über Zeiträume und geografische Entfernung hinweg, sowie über stilistische Merkmale zu Tage gefördert werden, die in weiterer Folge die Formulierung von Aussagen über Trends und Zeitgeist in den Zeitschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts ermöglichen.

A single abstract from the DHd-2020 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666690","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2020"]}

A single abstract from the DHd-2020 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666690","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2020"]}

The poster presents the idea behind and first steps in the recently started project Distant Spectators. The objective of this project is the application of distant reading and text-mining methods (topic modeling, meme diffusion, stylometry, sentiment analysis, network analysis) to the Spectators press, a journalistic genre of the 18th century Enlightenment, and the combination of these methods with the existing expertise gained from close reading. This will provide an insight into the formation of trans-European ideas, literary techniques and cultural practices by employing quantitative methods to investigate authorship attribution, editorial networks, distribution of topics, transfer of micro-narratives etc. The project builds on an existing and ongoing digital edition project which has been running since 2008 (https://gams.uni-graz.at/spectators). Currently it incorporates approximately 4000 individual texts in six languages (French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Portuguese) with more than 9 million tokens. The discourses are encoded in TEI, representing the text structure and the narrative forms (e.g. reader's letter, fable, dreams) in the texts, and building registers of names, works, and places.The TEI encoding builds the basis for the computational analysis. The benefit of the application of quantitative methods on the basis of an elaborate TEI model is the flexibility in building collections drawing on the affiliation of single texts to specific journals, to certain time periods, to individual keywords, etc. encoded in the TEI Header. Furthermore, specific textual structures and narrative features can be extracted and analyzed in relation to the entire corpus. A particular challenge is the compilation of a representative corpus for the application of quantitative methods due to the a) multilingual text-corpus, b) brevity of single discourses, and c) short period of publishing. The main objective is to investigate how and which quantitative methods prove useful for the analysis of this multilingual corpus from the 18th century.

A single abstract from the DHd-2019 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2600812","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2019"]}

A single abstract from the DHd-2019 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2600812","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2019"]}

Artist’s notes are a rich source for understanding the motivations behind an artwork, but have been largely neglected by both art history researchers and in scholarly editing. Using the digital edition of the notebooks of the Austrian artist Hartmut Skerbisch as a case study, this article discusses the various methodological approaches to versions in different disciplines—(digital) scholarly editing, musicology, and art history—and their transferability to artists’ notes. It explores where versions can be found in a single autograph, in contrast to multiple witnesses, and how they can be represented digitally. Special attention is given to the versioning of graphics—prominently used as form of expression in the relevant notebooks—proposing a model for their formal description which makes them more comparable and reveals different versions and, consequently, the artistic development process.

This volume approaches an understanding of the term versioning in the broadest sense, discussing ideas about how versions differ across forms of media, including text, image, and sound. Versions of cultural objects are identified, defined, articulated, and analysed through diverse mechanisms in different fields of research. The study of versions allows for the investigation of the creative processes behind the conception of works, a closer inspection of their socio-political contexts, and promotes investigation of their provenance and circulation. Chapters in this volume include discussion of what a “version” means in different fields, case studies implementing digital versioning techniques, conceptual models for representing versions digitally, and computational and management issues for digital projects.

Arbeit an der Bibliothek noch nicht eingelangt - Daten nicht geprüft Abweichender Titel laut Übersetzung des Verfassers/der Verfasserin Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Dissertation, 2018

In this paper, we introduce the concept of genetic networks to study the relationships between manuscripts and publications in genetic editing. We present a data model and its formalisation in an OWL2 ontology, as well as the corresponding data visualisations in the form of sky maps. Our case study is the literary œuvre of the Swiss writer and photographer Gustave Roud (1897-1976). We conclude with some remarks about the project workflow and the integration of data and visual modelling. &nbsp

In this paper, we study data reuse in scholarly editing, providing insights into the current panorama and imagining future developments. We will focus on the reuse of data, leaving aside the reuse of code and models, which would require a separate enquiry; and would concentrate on machine-actionable reuse, as opposed to human consumption.

Digital Humanities research often provides opportunities for collaboration – but it just as often requires collaboration. The demands placed on DH projects in terms of technical skills and know-how are such that collaboration and a reliance on adequate research infrastructures become a necessity.

The contribution utilizes the information density of the arrival lists published in the 18th century newspaper "Wien[n]erisches Diarium" with the help of digital, (semi‑)automatic methods: high-quality full texts are created with Transkribus and the entities named herein (e.g. points of entry/lodging) are extracted, geocoded and visualized on historical city maps.

This presentation explores how n-grams can be used to automatically classify and learn about music. An overall discussion is provided of various ways in which n-grams can be adapted for use with digital scores, and of how musically meaningful features can be extracted from them. The jSymbolic 3.0 alpha prototype feature extractor is then used in three sets of music classification experiments investigating how n-gram features perform relative to and combined with other types of features extracted from symbolic music files., Funded by the FRQSC and SSHRC.

As the primary resource for preschool children, picture books,and their gender narratives, can unconsciously shape and changechildren’s perceptions of sex roles and gender identity (Bleakley etal., 1988; Connor & Serbin, 1978; Latima, 2020). However, existingstudies show concerning trends in the representation of genderinequality in modern picture books, such as the overwhelmingnumber of male main characters and traditional gender stereotypesof vocations, personalities and habits (Casey et al., 2021; Hamiltonet al., 2006; Lee & Chin, 2019; Terras, 2018). It is thereforeimportant for children’s picture books to have diverse gender descriptionsand improved equal gender representations.Since the second Feminist Movement in the 1960s, gender equalityin UK children’s picture books have been continuously examinedyet slowly improved (Adams et al., 2011; Allen et al., 1993;Capuzza, 2020; Hamilton et al., 2006). Similar studies have beenfar less common in China, as the Chinese picture book market onlydeveloped from the start of the 21 st Century (Xiao, 2021). Onestudy has shown the existence of the traditional gender biases inChinese picture books (Liu & Chen, 2018). Based on the researchgap between these two countries, this study will (1) investigategender representations and narratives in picture books, (2) comparethe similarities and differences between bestselling Britishand Chinese picture books texts from 2010 to 2020. We do so byapplying text mining techniques to analyse gender narratives withinpicture book texts themselves. This follows on from our 2022study where we analysed publisher’s descriptions of texts, ratherthan full text mining of the book’s content (Li et al., 2022).

Book of Abstracts from the Digital Humanities Conference 2023, held from 10th to 14th July in Graz, Austria

The multilingual DraCor platform (https://www.dracor.org) represents a valuable resource for literature and theatre scholars, allowing them to host, access and analyse thousands of plays from Antiquity to the XX century. After briefly presenting the workflow for the ingestion of new plays into our ecosystem, we focus on the collaborative side of our endeavours, demonstrating how external scholars can benefit from a range of tools and guides to easily prepare and submit their own collections. As a showcase of the process, we present three corpora currently in production, focusing respectively on Ukrainian, Czech, and Early Modern English literature.

We propose a method to extract orthogonal views of facades from photogrammetric models of cities. This method was applied to extract all facades of the city of Venice. The result images open up new areas of research in architectural history.

This paper offers an understanding of the multilayered methodological framework developed and implemented to carry out a Digital Humanities project. The latter classified systematically visuo-linguistic features in contemporary tourism narratives by means of data-driven tagging models, annotations and statistical measurement of the frequency and variance of strategies across digital channels.

Our Heritage, Our Stories is a collaboration between the University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, and The National Archives, changing how digital content amongst UK communities is collected and curated. This poster outlines project goals, methods, and progress, and showcases new humanities research stories that it will make possible.

The Skills Gap Analysis, a recent survey among scholars describes the current distribution of (self-attested) practical text-processing skills and scholars' despair from the necessary skillset, as well as a perceived absence of "an entry point in(to) CLS education". We argue that corpus analysis is the entry point and why.

Brief abstract: The database "The Chronicle of Modern Translation Literature in Chinese (Periodicals, 1896-1949)" collects 9456 entries on Chinese translation literature from 239 periodicals, involving as many as 2130 translators, 1580 foreign writers, 9456 translated works, and relevant theories and reviews.

Legal issues, especially copyright and personal data protection, are an important consideration in many areas of digital humanities. With a global perspective, this panel features speakers with expertise in legal issues in DH, to discuss longstanding legal issues which can aid or restrict DH research and update the DH community with analysis of new legal developments.

This Poster presents a TEI model for radio plays and how we distributed our digital audio edition of 2 of Werner Koflers radio plays on the research platform: www.wernerkofler.at.

This paper applies multimodal machine learning (CLIP) to distant view the Illustrated London News. After extracting a sample of 874 illustrations, we use CLIP to identify maps and images of steamships. Without task- or data-specific training, CLIP can be used to quickly explore and analyze historical visual data at scale.

I use Singapore's own self-image of its sociopolitical trajectory since independence, as articulated recently by cabinet ministers as a dynamic balancing act between top-down strictures and bottom-up innovation, as a running metaphor/trope for a wide range of algorithms and methods with applications in Digital Humanities in my pedagogy at Singapore.

This panel will discuss career path opportunities and challenges for people doing coding work in DH. The panelists are a diverse group of people with different backgrounds and interests in terms of career path and recognition. Short presentations from each panelist about their experiences will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.

We present a speculative design of handwritten text recognition(HTR), a form of automatic image-to-text recognition, resultingin plain text files of historical materials which can be presentedin a variety of formats (Muehlberger et. al 2019). HTR isbeginning to shift historical methods and practice, from samplingdata to exhaustive interrogation of primary sources (Muehlbergeret al. 2019). The aspiration of recognising the hands of peoplefrom various backgrounds, nationalities, professions, and education,with equal competence, surety and speed, has largely beenrealised (although this remains to be seen for marginalised communities).However, questions of equity, diversity and inclusion inthe technology and tools of HTR are yet to be properly addressed.This paper will adopt a speculative design approach to imaginea minimal HTR design, informing how collaboration and inclusivityare approached in the next stage of its development.

This paper describes the process of gathering, aggregating, harmonizing, and publishing epistolary metadata through collaboration with Finnish cultural heritage (CH) organizations in order to create an inclusive archive for bottom-up analyses of 19th-century epistolary culture in the Grand Duchy of Finland (1808/09-1917). The authors are working in the digital humanities consortium project Constellations of Correspondence (CoCo) [1]. The unified metadata collections are harmonized, linked, enriched, and published on a Linked Open Data (LOD) service, and as a semantic web portal. In Europe, there are several digital humanities projects using well-curated metadata (detailed information about senders, recipients, dates, and places) from edited letter collections - like CKCC [2], correspSearch [3, 4], the Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) [5][6], Norkorr [7], and SKILLNET [8]. In our project, most of the data come from unpublished collections scattered around different Finnish CH organizations. Collaboration with these CH organizations is pivotal for the successful outcome of the project. It requires a dialogue with them throughout the whole project period in the form of seminars and site visits, as well as sharing blogs and newsletters, also after the organizations have provided their letter metadata. We have also already seen that some of the participating organizations are prepared to clean their metadata or catalogue previously uncatalogued archival material to provide better and more metadata for the project. We will discuss this two-way process using the Finnish National Gallery as a case study. An important challenge yet to be studied profoundly is, if and how the CoCo project will be able to deliver to the CH organizations their metadata in an enriched format. In the first phase of the project, we conducted a survey that was sent to over 100 CH organizations (extending from small local museums to official central archives). The paper describes how the information was collected and how the survey was constructed in order to provide us with detailed enough information regarding their 19th-century collections and metadata formats. At the same time, we had to keep the query succinct in order to make the answering as effortless as possible. As to the data processing, we began with more than 350 000 letters, from eight different sources, each in its own digital format. Although the received data is mostly structured, we needed to parse running text to retrieve metadata in nearly every collection. Moreover, we had to analyze each dataset and identify possible structural mistakes. Furthermore, some records required Natural Language Processing to get actor names (e.g. senders, recipients) in dictionary format. The most difficult task has been to process word files which contain correspondence metadata in a variety of formats, easily understandable to humans but difficult for computational processing. A harmonizing data model for epistolary metadata collections was developed, which builds on international standards like CIDOC CRM to promote interoperability. The most central classes are Letter, Place and Actor. Also, provenance and archival information are included. Finally, the actor data is enriched by linking it to external databases like Wikidata and the Finnish AcademySampo and BiographySampo. These external sources provide detailed biographical information, e.g., times and places of birth and death, name variations, occupations, or genealogical relationships. Information present in the letter metadata like actor names and times of sending and receiving is used for matching entities between our data and the external databases, and further to reconcile the actors between data sources. References [1] J. Tuominen, et al., Constellations of Correspondence: a linked data service and portal for studying large and small networks of epistolary exchange in the Grand Duchy of Finland, in: 6th Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference, 2022. URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3232/paper41.pdf. [2] C. van den Heuvel, Mapping knowledge exchange in Early Modern Europe: Intellectual and technological geographies and network representations, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 9 (2015) 95–114. doi:10.3366/ijhac.2015.0140. [3] S. Dumont, S. Grabsch, J. Müller-Laackman, correspsearch – connect scholarly editions of correspondence (2.0.0) [web service], Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2021. URL: https://correspSearch.net. [4] S. Dumont, correspSearch – connecting scholarly editions of letters, Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (2016). doi:10.4000/jtei.1742. [5] URL: http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. [6] H. Hotson, T. Wallnig (Eds.), Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Standards, Systems, Scholarship, Göttingen University Press, 2019. [7] A. Rockenberger, et al., Norwegian correspondences and linked open data, in: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 4th Conference, volume 2364 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2019, pp. 365–375. URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2364/33_paper.pdf. [8] Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks – The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society (SKILLNET), URL: https://skillnet.nl.

The DiÖ Sprachatlas tool is a dynamic map creation tool which uses the corpus of a large-scale variationist linguistics project as its source. By utlizing an API, it creates maps on negligible cost. Additionally, it offers a method of making the total corpus transparent and accessible.

The poster will present the project "Between Composition and Reception: the Authority of Medieval Charters" and discuss what role machine learning methods can have for the human interpretation of late medieval charters as means to convey authority, esp. regarding their graphical aspects

The workshop introduces participants to the use of Semantic Web Technologies and Linked Open Data in Digital Historical Studies with a special focus on Wikidata. These topics are highly relevant for knowledge representation in the Digital Humanities and especially important for collaborative processes of analyzing and sharing data.

Citizen science is becoming a common tool to index historical records. We use cluster analysis on the engagement of participants in the 'Historical Database Suriname and Curaçao' citizen science project to build user profiles. These engagement patterns can be used to enhance and sustain participation of citizens.

This short presentation offers insight into the development process of a digital edition of archived social media. The presentation will outline general design choices and provide insight into the schema development as well as outline challenges.

This contribution presents the difficulties encountered and methods to overcome them when using ready-to-use tools for the elaboration of a processing chain going from OCR to NER and then to the cartographic representation of spaces mentioned in literary texts.