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AVOBMAT Webinar and Collaboration Opportunities
by Róbert PÉTER 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Dear All, You are kindly invited—together with your students—to attend the upcoming AVOBMAT <https://avobmat.hu/> webinar (hosted by GWDG <https://gwdg.de/>). The webinar will present AVOBMAT’s key features and use cases and will conclude with a live Q&A session. *Time:* Wednesday, 11 February, 15:00–16:30 CET *Register* here: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1361/ <https://events.gwdg.de/event/1267/> Since launching in October 2025, AVOBMAT has been used in 40 countries. Recent use in teaching and research In the last couple of months, AVOBMAT has been presented and used at several events and university courses, including: - *Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500–1800)* COST Action Hackathon <https://pcps-ce.eu/pcpsce-vienna-hackathon-report/> (University of Vienna) - "Multilingual Analysis and Visualization of Metadata and Texts in Central and Eastern European Literary Studies,” Digital Methods for a Comparative Study of Central European Literary History <https://ceelawl.abtk.hun-ren.hu/digital-methods/workshop-2.html> (University of Krakow) - *Emigrants’ Heritage Workshop <https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/diaspora/emigrants-heritage-…>* (Hungarian National Archives) - IT course <https://www.wdib.uw.edu.pl/wydzial/struktura-wydzialu/katedry/katedra-infor…> (University of Warsaw) What AVOBMAT enables We have preprocessed *5.4 billion tokens* across multiple databases and made *32 databases publicly available*. *Generative AI* and LLMs are increasingly present in teaching and research, but LLM outputs can be difficult to reproduce without careful constraints and documentation. AVOBMAT is built for *transparent, reproducible, corpus-scale analysis*. It uses transformer language models to enrich texts and metadata, enabling interactive analysis across collections—so researchers and students can focus on critical interpretation and discovery. *What sets AVOBMAT apart for DH researchers, teachers, and libraries/GLAM:* - *Ready-to-use corpora* for teaching: 32 public databases for seminar-based assignments - *Explore and share your own collections*: analyse your datasets and share private databases for collaboration - *Scale:* 5.4B tokens preprocessed across multiple databases - *Reproducible workflows*: explicit steps and documented parameters for verification and replication - *Multilingual and accessible*: *25 languages*, no programming or costly hardware required - *Extensible* by design: modular architecture with potential future integration of task-specific open-weight LLMs Try AVOBMAT with your own documents To unlock the full potential of your documents, submit an *upload request* with your preferred configuration settings. *You don’t need any programming experience*—just follow the upload steps in the Help menu or on GitHub. Sample databases and files are available in our GitHub repository <https://github.com/avobmat/general>. Feedback and collaboration Help us improve AVOBMAT. Please complete our 2–3 minute feedback <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHKSTSZ6CI4REyONZoIcp-k3_9qJb9gZh…> form. Interested in using AVOBMAT in a course, research project, or library/GLAM workflow? Please *contact* me to discuss a collaboration. *Thank you* for your feedback. We look forward to hearing from you. Róbert Péter on behalf of the AVOBMAT Team

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WG: CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks starting in February
by Wagner, Cosima 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Zur Information weitergeleitet! Viele Grüße Cosima Wagner Von: Ursula Flache <uschijstudien(a)hotmail.co.jp> Gesendet: Montag, 26. Januar 2026 17:04 An: J-STUDIEN Liste <j-studien(a)lists.fu-berlin.de> Betreff: [J-STUDIEN] CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks starting in February Dear members, Please find below the general announcment of the CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks that will start in February 2026. https://blog.crossasia.org/crossasia-dh-lunchtalks/ Originally launched between winter 2023 and spring 2024, the first DH Lunchtalk Series was warmly received by our community. Building on this success, the CrossAsia team and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) went on to co-host the international conference "Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies" in Berlin from 8-12 July 2024, bringing together around 120 participants from 19 countries and regions (read more). In light of this strong engagement and our ongoing commitment to digital scholarship, we are pleased to relaunch the Lunchtalks as an online forum where scholars can share project updates, present new tools and methods, offer methodological insights, and showcase innovative research in Digital Asian Studies. Between February and June 2026, the DH Lunchtalks will take place monthly. While the 2023-2024 season focused primarily on training in digital tools and platforms, the upcoming series will feature 60-minute lunchtime talks (including Q&A) by distinguished speakers presenting their latest digital research projects. The currently confirmed programme is as follows: February 3 Prof. Michael Yan Hon CHUNG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) AI for Endangered Documentary Archives: Manchu OCR March 24 Dr. Franz Xaver Erhard (Leipzig University) Getting the Lines Right: Layout Analysis as the Critical First Step for Tibetan Newspaper HTR April 21 Prof. ZHAN Beibei (Hunan University) Digital Analysis for Confucian Academies in East Asia May 21 Dr. CHEN Shih-Pei (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) & Prof. Mariana Favila-Vázquez (CIESAS-Unidad Ciudad de México) Treating a Genre as a Knowledge System: A Digital Research Methodology for Studying Chinese Local Gazetteers June (TBC) Dr. CHOI Donghyeok (Hong Kong Baptist University) AI Methods to Construct and Analyze Large-Scale Historical Databases May or June (TBC) Dr. Rafał Jan Felbur (Heidelberg University) Born-digital Dictionary of Early Chinese Buddhist Translations All DH Lunchtalks will take place from 12:30 to 13:30 (Central European Time) and will be held online via Webex. Further details for each session, including abstracts and access links, will be announced in advance on the CrossAsia blog. The first talk, by Prof. Michael Yan Hon Chung, will be announced shortly on CrossAsia. https://blog.crossasia.org/ If you have any questions about the DH Lunchtalks, or if you are interested in proposing a future talk and sharing your own digital research, please contact Dr. Jing Hu at jing.hu(a)sbb.spk-berlin.de <mailto:[email protected]> . We look forward to welcoming many of you to the CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks 2026! Best wishes on behalf of the CrossAsia team Ursula Flache ________________________________________ Dr. Ursula Flache Ostasienabteilung, Leitung des Japan-Referats Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Potsdamer Straße 33 10785 Berlin +49 30 266 436 106 <mailto:[email protected]> ursula.flache(a)sbb.spk-berlin.de www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de <http://www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/> crossasia.org Im Rahmen der E-Mail-Kommunikation werden gegebenenfalls personenbezogene Daten verarbeitet. Unsere Hinweise zum Datenschutz finden Sie hier: http://sbb.berlin/datenschutz Personal data may be processed during e-mail communication. For information on our privacy policy: http://sbb.berlin/datenschutz _ _ _ _ _ _ Dr. Cosima Wagner Freie Universität Berlin | Universitätsbibliothek Forschungs- und Publikationsservices | Team Forschungsdatenmanagement Campusbibliothek | Team Ostasienstudien | Leitung Garystraße 39 | 14195 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 838-60307 <mailto:[email protected]> cosima.wagner(a)fu-berlin.de <https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ub/ueber-uns/team/wagnerc/index.html> https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ub/ueber-uns/team/wagnerc/index.html

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Fwd: [DH-Berlin] Stellenausschreibung MPIWG Dept.III Machine Learning Student Assistant
by Sarah Lang 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Liebe AG, ich denke, die Stellenausschreibung unten könnte für Euch vielleicht von Interesse sein. Mit besten Grüßen, Sarah Lang Dr. Sarah Lang (she/they) Head of Digital Humanties Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) Boltzmannstrasse 22 | 14195 Berlin slang(a)mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <mailto:[email protected]> www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/> > Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > > Von: Sarah Lang <slang(a)mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de> > Betreff: [DH-Berlin] Stellenausschreibung MPIWG Dept.III Machine Learning Student Assistant > Datum: 26. Januar 2026 um 15:56:44 MEZ > An: DHd(a)mailman.rrz.uni-hamburg.de, DHBerlin(a)bbaw.de > > Liebe Community, > > das Department III des Max Planck Instituts für Wissenschaftsgeschichte sucht eine:n Student Assistant im Bereich Machine Learning. Aufgrund des inhaltlichen Fokus auf ostasiatische Quellen sind Chinesischkenntnisse Voraussetzung. > > Mehr Informationen: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news-events/career/opportunities > > Bitte teilen Sie diese Information in Ihrem Netzwerk. > > Mit besten Grüßen, > Sarah Lang > > Dr. Sarah Lang (she/they) > Head of Digital Humanties > Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) > Boltzmannstrasse 22 | 14195 Berlin > slang(a)mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <mailto:[email protected]> > www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/> > > Abmeldung und Listenverwaltung: https://list.bbaw.de/postorius/lists/dhberlin.mlist.bbaw.de/

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