*This is the final in a series of posts from Dr Michael Piotrowski, one the recipients of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – Open track. You can find the final report here.* Europäische Friedensverträge der Vormoderne online (“Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online”) is a comprehensive collection of about 1,800 bilateral and multilateral European peace treaties […]
Open Humanities Hack report
On 28 November 2014, King’s College London, the Digital Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E) project and the Open Humanities working group of Open Knowledge held an Open Humanities Hackday as part of the DM2E project. Iain Emsley of the Open Humanities group reports on the event in this guest blog. Whilst opening data is a useful and […]
Open Humanities Awards: FinderApp WITTFind final update
*This is the final in a series of posts from Dr Maximilian Hadersbeck, the recipient of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – DM2E track. You can read the final research paper here (in German).* The research group “Wittgenstein in Co-Text” worked on extending the FinderApp WiTTFind tool, which is currently used for exploring and researching Wittgenstein’s Big Typescript TS-213 (BT), to the rest […]
Announcing the EuropeanaTech conference 2015
On 12-13 February 2015 the 2nd EuropeanaTech Conference will take place at the National Library of France in Paris. The title of this year’s conference is ‘Making the beautiful thing – Transforming technology and culture’. Presenters and participants from Europe and around the globe will be sharing knowledge and collaborating on the themes of data modelling (including the […]
Open Humanities Awards: finderApp WITTFind update 4
*This is the fourth in a series of posts from Dr Maximilian Hadersbeck, the recipient of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – DM2E track.* The research group “Wittgenstein in Co-Text” is working on extending the FinderApp WiTTFind tool, which is currently used for exploring and researching Wittgenstein’s Big Typescript TS-213 (BT), to the rest of the 5000 pages of Wittgenstein’s […]
Open Humanities Awards: Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online update 3
*This is the third in a series of posts from Dr Michael Piotrowski, one the recipients of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – Open track.* Europäische Friedensverträge der Vormoderne online (“Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online”) is a comprehensive collection of about 1,800 bilateral and multilateral European peace treaties from the period of 1450 to 1789, published […]
Modeling the Scholarly Domain
1 Introduction The aim of DM2E’s Task 3.4 was to investigate how a digital humanist uses digital research tools and how his actions can be modeled. With respect to the environment of Linked Data and Europeana, the initial question were “What does the humanist want to do with the digital tools?” and “What are the […]
Final DM2E & All-WP meeting, 11-12 December, Pisa
Last month the DM2E project organised its final event under the title ‘Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web‘. Over 50 participants gathered at the Auditorium Incubatore of the Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio near Pisa, Italy to hear more about the final results of the three-year project, as well as those of the […]
Open Humanities Awards: SEA CHANGE final update
This is the final post from Dr Rainer Simon, one the recipients of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – Open track. The final report is available here. Last Thursday, the University of Applied Sciences Mainz was the scene of our second SEA CHANGE annotation workshop. First things first: Mainz broke the record! Despite a few participants less than last time […]
Open Humanities Awards: finderApp WITTFind update 3
*This is the third in a series of posts from Dr Maximilian Hadersbeck, the recipient of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – DM2E track.* The research group “Wittgenstein in Co-Text” is working on extending the FinderApp WiTTFind tool, which is currently used for exploring and researching Wittgenstein’s Big Typescript TS-213 (BT), to the rest of the 5000 pages of Wittgenstein’s […]