Events

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition [Dec 16, online, @16:45 CET]

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition

The FSP Digital Humanities at the University of Vienna is very pleased to announce the third of the Digital Humanities Invited Lecture Series for the winter semester 2025/26. All lectures will be streamed via the following link: 

https://ustream.univie.ac.at/live/4b4961fd-6b8d-4be7-a222-62912c0dada0

16 December, 16:45 CET –  Dr. Jan Odstrčilík, Austrian Academy of Sciences

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition

Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily [Dec 10, online, @17:00 CET]

Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily

The Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH, Dept. of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) is pleased to announce the final seminar in its Winter 2025 series.

On 10 December 2025 at 5 p.m. CET, Simona Stoyanova (University of Oxford) will give a talk entitled Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily. The seminar is co-organised by Valentina Mignosa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) as part of the project TES: Tracing Eastern Sicily’s networks (11th-5th centuries BCE).

The event will take place at the VeDPH Lab and online via Zoom. Online participation is possible upon registration. More information and the registration link are available here:
https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/106868. 

Recordings of the seminars in the 2025 series will be made available on the VeDPH YouTube channel.

iFrame Project – workshop exploring research data management [Dec 5, in person, HEAnet Dublin]

Join the iFrame project for a workshop exploring research data management in Irish Higher Education Organisations (HEOs) and Research Performing Organisations (RPOs).


📍HEAnet 93/94 North Wall Quay, Dublin
📅 5 December 2025, 11am-4pm

The iFrame project is a NORF-funded investigation into the support for research data management in Irish HEOs and RPOs, which will conclude with the production of a National Framework for supporting RMD in Ireland.

At this workshop, iFrame will present the collated findings from the individual investigations of RDM support conducted in several Irish HEOs so far.

Drawing on examples of good (and best) practice, they will discuss how to learn from one another across institutions and how to improve RDM support in all institutions and on a national level. The ideas and thoughts generated and discussed in this workshop will inform the development of the framework document.

Register for the workshop online: https://ul.libcal.com/event/4460199

Playing with culture: games as heritage, from preservation to reuse [Nov 26, online, @14:00 CET]

Europeana Webinar – Playing with culture: games as heritage, from preservation to reuse

Video games are an engaging way to interact with cultural heritage – entertaining a captive audience with historical periods, facts and with tangible and intangible culture. In this webinar we will explore the video game as a cultural artefact in its own right.

This webinar is organised by Europeana Foundation in association with EFGAMP (European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects)

Video games can also be seen as cultural artefacts which require careful preservation, that can be reused in their own right, and whose gameplay is in itself a form of intangible heritage. In this webinar we will explore the video game as a cultural artefact – diving into preservation, archiving, and reuse case studies with speakers from EFGAMP network, before discovering some of the ways that video games can be used to disseminate digital cultural heritage material with other speakers. This will be followed by a panel discussion with the speakers.

Confirmed speakers are:

  • Andreas Lange, European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects
  • Winfried Bergmeyer, International Computer Game Collection
  • Wytze Koppelman, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
  • Gabriele Aroni, Manchester University
  • Lucia Gambardella, Studio Macaco
  • Hosted by Fiona Mowat, Europeana Foundation

Registration: https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/Playing-with-culture/

Funeral for Ashes: Combining Art, Ecology, and Immersive Technology [Nov 18, Online and in person, @12pm]. University of Galway Centre for Creative Technologies.

Funeral for Ashes: Combining Art, Ecology, and Immersive Technology

Date & Time: 12pm, Tuesday 18th November

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

Join artists Conor Maloney and John Conneely for an in-depth masterclass on Funeral for Ashes, an immersive installation honouring Ireland’s endangered ash woodlands. Blending TouchDesigner, Bitwig Studio, LiDAR, and photogrammetry, the work transforms ecological data and human movement into a living, responsive environment of sound and light.


In this session, the artists will unpack the creative and technical process behind the piece — from 3D scanning native trees to synchronising generative audio and real-time visuals — and discuss how digital art can serve as both ritual and environmental reflection.

Register to Attend: https://ti.to/creative-tech/masterclass-funeral-for-ashes

The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities [Nov 17, online, @17:00 CET]

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Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities

The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam cordially invites you to the next lecture in the ‘Code & Culture’ talk series.

Our first guest is Manuel Burghardt (University of Leipzig), with a talk titled “Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities“ (full abstract here). The lecture will take place on Monday 17 November 2025, 17:00 (CET), online via Zoom. 

Please register here to get the Zoom link: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-lecture-series/registration.

This semester, we will have a special focus on digital environmental humanities, preparing the ground for our “Environments in and as Networks” Hackathon (Potsdam, 15-17.04.2026; more details and registration: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/events/environmental-digital-humanities-hackathon). 

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