This workshop brings together researchers using spatial data and/or data visualizations in their projects and would like to share experiences and methodological reflections in a practice-oriented discussion. Working with spatial data has played an increasingly important role in the humanities and social sciences over the last two decades, without yet developing into a coherent field of research. There are various reasons for this: in historically oriented research spatial data is often unavailable, fragmented, or vague. The collection of data and metadata and its synchronization can be a long and arduous process, in particular when drawing on various media such as text, images, and maps, or video and sound recordings (of interviews, for instance). Combining qualitative and quantitative research has its challenges, and integrating data analysis with other methodologies requires a certain flexibility of the research question and focus. Acquiring the necessary skills and the process of data collection and analysis takes up time and resources and can be especially challenging in smaller projects without expert staff and interdisciplinary expertise.

In view of this, the workshop provides a forum to discuss approaches and outcomes, as well as the cost-benefit ratio of investigating spatialization processes with digital methods and tools. We are explicitly addressing not only researchers who have already successfully completed their research but also those who are still exploring possible avenues or would like to discuss intermediate results. We will focus on the following questions: what are the benefits, challenges, and best practices in data collection, analysis, and visualization? What is the role of spatial data and visualizations in the research process? What spatial imaginations come into play in the source material, while processing and analyzing the data, and in its visualization and publication? What methodological issues arise when working with spatial data across different media? How is all this related to research impact and the publication of research results and data in different media and outlets?

We are planning a three-hour workshop as part of the annual conference “Mediating Spatial Imaginations” of the Collaborative Research Center 1199, which will take place from 27 to 29 September 2022 at Leipzig University. Please send us a brief statement of interest (ca. 200 words) until May 20, 2022. The workshop will not require full papers, but will be based on short input papers and presentations as well as a hands-on discussion among participants.

Organizers:

Antje Dietze adietze@uni-leipzig.de

Ninja Steinbach-Hüther N_Steinbachhuether@leibniz-ifl.de

Julius Wilm julius.wilm@uni-leipzig.de

DiDip 2022

From Digital to Distant Diplomatics

As early as the 1970s, diplomatics, i.e. research on mediaeval documents, noticed the benefits of the computer for the indexing and editing of mediaeval charter collections. In the following decades, numerous relevant research projects were initiated that explored and clarified the potential of a connection between digital humanities and the methods of historical auxiliary sciences. They have found expression in the series of conferences on the topic of “Digital Diplomatics” (in particular Munich 2007, Naples 2011 and Paris 2013), in which the digitisation of charters, their publication on the web, and the digital analysis of document corpora in cooperation between archives, diplomatics, historians and computer scientists were discussed.

The ERC Advanced Grant project “From Digital to Distant Diplomatics” takes up this tradition and wants to take stock of the different projects and approaches to the topic of “digital diplomatics” with the conference “Digital Diplomatics 2022”.

The international conference in Graz is intended to offer all scholars interested in this complex of topics the opportunity for discussion and exchange, from questions about digital support in the formal and content analysis of documents, to the planning and implementation of digitisation projects in archives and libraries, to the future direction of this new research field.

[Quelle und weitere Infos unter https://didip.hypotheses.org/conference-2022]

DARIAH-CH Study Day
an der Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) auf dem Campus Mendrioso

An der Veranstaltung werden Infrastrukturen für die digitalen Geisteswissenschaften aus Genf, Basel und Zürich vorgestellt und spannende Einblicke in Projekte vermittelt. Ein Posterslam mit 17 Postern und Kurzpräsentationen bildet den Höhepunkt des Tages.

Der Online-Besuch der Veranstaltung via ZOOM ist ebenfalls möglich.
Anmeldung unter https://researchprojectjb.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bwKLpxqZMn11KAu.

Alle Informationen finden Sie unter https://www.dariah.eu/event/dariah-ch-study-day/.