Events

AVOBMAT: Multilingual research tool Webinar [Nov 12, online, @15:00 CET]

Webinar on AVOBMAT: a new multilingual research tool 

Webinar on Wednesday, November 12 at 15:00-16:30 CET on AVOBMAT, a multilingual text & metadata mining platform for research & teaching DH.

AVOBMAT (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Texts) is a multilingual text-mining service currently available in beta on the GWDG infrastructure. It provides sample databases from the ELTeC novel and DraCor drama collections, and users can request preprocessing and uploading of their own or public datasets with configurable analysis settings. AVOBMAT offers a transparent, reproducible workflow and a wide range of analytical functions, including an N-gram viewer, topic modeling, Named Entity Recognition and Linking, Keyword-in-Context, Part-of-Speech tagging, as well as measures of lexical diversity and network analysis.  Explore it at avobmat.hu.

You can register here: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1267/registrations/1027/ 

Generating Futures: Using AI to Imagine Sustainable Places [Nov 11-14, in person, Galway]

Generating Futures: Using AI to Imagine Sustainable Places

Dates: 11th – 14th November, 2025

Location: Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Galway

Can Generative AI help us imagine a more sustainable world? Generating Futures brings together communities, artists, geographers and climate scientists to co-create visions of a sustainable future using the power of AI. Funded by Research Ireland as part of the Science Week 2025 programme, this series of interactive workshops are facilitated by PhD researchers based at the Centre for Creative Technologies.

Workshops:


Reimagining Nuns Island: A Speculative Design Walk

Collect Your Own Small & Local Dataset

Envisioning Future Placemaking through AI Visualisation Technologies

Brain Computer Interfaces and imagination – When Science and Art Meet

Full details and links to registration are available via: https://universityofgalway.ie/creative-tech/collaboration/science-week-2025/

GLAM Data: Access, Refining, Analysis and Visualization [Nov 6, 2pm, Online]

GLAM Data: Access, Refining, Analysis and Visualization

0900-1000 ET | 1500-1600 CET – Thursday 6 November, 2025

*The webinar is kindly hosted by the Royal National Library of Denmark (https://www.kb.dk/) and organised by Kat Hoffman Gasser (khg). Once you have registered you should receive an email from Kat(khg) confirming your registration, a zoom link for the webinar and how to add the webinar to your online calendar.

Registration link for the webinar*:  https://kbdk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rggZq6ziQIyYI7_duR6KrQ/

The agenda for the webinar will include 3 presentations and an opportunity for questions:

*Agenda*

i. Introduction (10 mins)

ii. Presentations (45 mins)

1 – DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION: ‘I get by with a little help from AI’
by Filipe Bento, Head of Digital Resources and User Support, Library, Document Management and Museology Services of the Universidade de Aveiro (UAveiro) and UAveiro RDM Center’ executive management

2 – FIXING THE FLAWS: RE-DOING OCR FOR OLD NEWSPAPERS
by Max Odsbjerg Pedersen, Special Consultant, Aarhus University

3 – BRIDGING AI AND LIBRARIES: REFINING & RELEASING LARGE SCALE LIBRARY DATASETS
by Matteo Cargnelutti, Principal Engineer, Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and
Catherine Brobston, Program Director, Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library

iii. Final remarks (5 mins)

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On behalf of the GLAM Labs Community

Details of previous GLAM Labs webinar:
AI-Powered Metadata, Hackathons, APIs & Notebooks, May 8, 2025 can be found on:
Zenodo – https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17250371
and YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRpIW29NwYINQOqlpFJcff1QRyRzETIM7

Reference Extraction at the Intersection of AI Research and the Digital Humanities: Validation, Interoperability and Collaboration [Nov 4, hybrid]

Reference Extraction at the Intersection of AI Research and the Digital Humanities: Validation, Interoperability and Collaboration

This informal meeting is meant mainly to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange between researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of data extraction, artificial intelligence, and the digital humanities. In the workshop, we continue to address the challenge of extracting heterogeneous references from texts, particularly from historical documents and humanities or legal scholarship. This second workshop focuses on three key themes emerging from the 2023 discussions:

  1. Validation: How can we evaluate and benchmark the performance of different reference extraction tools and approaches, particularly with large language models?
  2. Interoperability: How can we ensure that different tools, datasets, and workflows can work together effectively through shared data models and formats?
  3. Collaboration: How can researchers, developers, and institutions work together to advance the field of reference extraction?

The program is available online at: https://mpilhlt.github.io/reference-extraction/workshop-2025/programme/

The event will take place in-person and online. Register at https://plan.events.mpg.de/e/refextract25 

A link for online attendance will be sent to registered participants before the event. Also, even if you cannot attend, but want to be informed about updates, materials being made available, etc. you can notify us about this at the registration link.

Programme

Tuesday 04 November 2025

Onboarding

09:00-09:15 Arrival/Registration

09:15-09:45 Christian Boulanger/Andreas Wagner (mpilhlt): Welcome and Upshot from RefExtract2023, State of the Discussion

09:45-10:00 Coffee Break

Research presentations

10:00-12:30

  1. Hiba Arnaout (TU Darmstadt): In-depth Research Impact Summarization through Fine-Grained Temporal Citation Analysis
  2. Yurui Zhu/Matteo Romanello (Odoma): Benchmarking Large Language Models on Reference Extraction and Parsing in the Social Sciences and Humanities
  3. Sofía Aguilar Valdez (Saarland University): How Scientific Ideas Evolve
  4. Open Discussion and Ad-Hoc Presentation of Research

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Datasets, Infrastructure and Interoperability

13:30-15:30

  1. Angelo Di Iorio/Matteo Guenci/Marta Soricetti*/Silvio Peroni/Lorenzo Paolini*/Ivan Heibi (University of Bologna): Citation Extractor and Classifier: Pipeline and Datasets (*presenting)
  2. Tamara Heck/Christoph Schindler/Verena Weimer/Philipp Mayr/Ahsan Shahid (DIPF/GESIS): Open Citation Data for Educational Research
  3. Christian Boulanger, Andreas Wagner (mpilhlt): Datasets in the Legal Theory Knowledge Graph Project
  4. Interoperability Roundtable: Open Discussion on Data Models and Data Formats

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

Tools, Workflows and Pipelines

16:00-17:30

  1. Raphael Schlattmann/Malte Vogl (mpigea)/Aleksandra Kaye (TU Berlin/mpigea): LLM-Based Knowledge Graph Extraction Pipeline
  2. Luca Foppiano (ScienciaLAB): Training the Grobid Reference Extraction Models
  3. Christian Boulanger/Andreas Wagner (mpilhlt): Annotation Tools for Machine Learning: PDF-TEI Editor (for LLamore & Grobid), Prodigy, TEI-Publisher

17:30-18:30 Takeaways, Way Forward, Closing

Expanding Realities: XR at the Intersection of Hidden Histories, Biosciences, and Creative Technologies [Online and in person, Nov 4th, 12pm]. University of Galway Centre for Creative Technologies.

Expanding Realities: XR at the Intersection of Hidden Histories, Biosciences, and Creative Technologies

This masterclass with visiting Fulbright Specialist, Thomas Tucker of Virginia Tech, explores how Extended Reality (XR), including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, has become a transformative tool across disciplines. Drawing from his own creative practice and collaborative research, he will present case studies that demonstrate how XR bridges cultural heritage, bioscience and veterinary research, and interactive art.

The session will combine project documentation, live examples, and conceptual framing to illustrate how XR operates as both a research methodology and a medium for storytelling. Attendees will gain insight into how immersive technologies are reshaping education, cultural preservation, scientific research, and artistic innovation.

Highlights

Creative Installations: Immersive XR artworks, including Drosera Obscura and Sound Arcade, which integrate animatronics, sound design, and sensory elements. These projects showcase how XR can provoke ecological awareness and emotional reflection while pushing the boundaries of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Historic Reconstructions: XR as a means of digitally repatriating artifacts and reconstructing lived environments, from WWI trenches and Civil War battlefields to overlooked rural landscapes. These projects illustrate how immersive experiences can expand access to cultural memory and hidden histories.

Bioscience and Veterinary Simulations: XR applications in veterinary training, animal care, and biological research—such as simulations of bat flight and sonar perception in China—highlight how immersive environments can serve both scientific understanding and empathy building for professionals and students.

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Registration: https://ti.to/creative-tech/masterclass-thomas-tucker

This masterclass is part of a series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway.