Since the project start in February 2012, the partners in the DM2E project have been working on opening up prominent manuscripts and developing open workflows for migration of this data to Europeana and the wider Linked Open Web. Before the project closes, in February 2015, the consortium is organising a final series of events to […]
Open Humanities Awards: Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online update 1
*This is the first 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 […]
Pundit community session at DARIAH-EU meeting
On 17-19 September the DARIAH-EU network organises its fourth General VCC (Virtual Competency Centres) meeting in Rome. The DARIAH-EU infrastructure is focused on bringing together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities across Europe. Their annual meeting provides opportunities to work together on topics within their Virtual Competency Centres (VCC) and to share experiences from various fields […]
Open Humanities Awards round 2 – Winners announced
During May we invited humanities academics and technologists to submit innovative ideas for small technology projects that would further humanities research by either using open content, open data and/or open source (in the Open track) or building upon the research, tools and data developed within the DM2E project (in the DM2E track). We’re very […]
Project meeting 5, Bergen, 12-13 June 2014
After a busy first half of 2014, the DM2E project consortium met at the University of Bergen to discuss the progress made, as well as the upcoming final period of the project. Antoine Isaac of Europeana was invited to present the new Europeana strategy as well as to take part in discussing the link between […]
Open Humanities Awards: 2nd round – Deadline extended to 6 June 2014!
We are excited to announce the second round of the Open Humanities Awards. *The deadline for submissions to the awards has been extended to Friday 6 June 2014.* There are €20,000 worth of prizes on offer in two dedicated tracks: Open track: for projects that either use open content, open data or open source tools to […]
Fourth Digital Humanities Advisory Board meeting
On 3 April 2014 the DM2E Digital Humanities Advisory Board held their fourth meeting through Skype. This Board is responsible for steering the research direction of the DM2E project and ensuring that the technical development on the project responds to the needs of scholars. Attendees from the Digital Humanities Advisory Board included: Sally Chambers (DARIAH) Alastair Dunning […]
Open Humanities Awards – Joined Up Early Modern Diplomacy – final update
This is the final blog in a series of guest blog posts by Robyn Adams and Jaap Geraerts, part of the project team that won the DM2E Open Humanities Award at the Center for Editing Lives and Letters. The final report is available here. The blind spots of network visualizations In our last blog we […]
Open Humanities Awards – Maphub final update
*This is the final blog in a series of posts from Dr Bernhard Haslhofer, one the recipients of the [DM2E Open Humanities Award](http://openhumanitiesawards.org). The final report is available here. * Semantic Tagging in Maphub – Final Results and Lessons Learned Maphub (http://maphub.github.io) is an open source Web application which allows people to annotate digitized historical […]
Report of the DM2E Pundit UI/UX event, 2 April 2014, Berlin
On 2 April the DM2E project organised a full day event on Pundit, the web-based semantic annotation tool that is being developed in work package 3. The event was held at the Bild Wissen Gestaltung (BWG) Cluster of Excellence of the Humboldt University in Berlin and attracted a full room of participants eager to discuss […]