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DraCor Summit (Berlin, 2025) – Programme, Registration, Travel Grants
by Peer Trilcke 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

[apologies for crossposting] Dear colleagues, Today we are pleased to provide you with more information about the programme of the DraCor Summit. Also, we are delighted to announce the opening of registration. The DraCor Summit will take place in Berlin from 1 to 5 September 2025. It will be organised by the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Potsdam. Programme We have now published the programme for the DraCor Corpora Conference on 2 September and the Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis on 3 September. We are looking forward to 18 corpus presentations and 11 research talks. Wow! Details on the programme can be found here: https://summit.dracor.org/programme-overview Further information on the DraCorOS Training Sessions on 1 September and the DraCor Barcamp on 4 September will follow in the course of the summer. Registration We would also like to draw your attention to the opening of registration. As of today, you can register for the DraCor Summit for free. As part of the registration process, you can also let us know if you require childcare during the Summit. We offer virtual participation for some components of the programme. You may register for all or individual components of the programme using the following form on the University of Potsdam website: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/events/dracor-summit Travel Grants Not to forget, we would like to point out that the registration process includes the possibility to apply for travel grants. Travel grants are expected to be up to €300. Please note that applications of participants who will actively contribute to the Summit (in the context of the Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis or the DraCor corpora conference) will be treated preferentially. Applications for grants can be submitted until 30 June (so if you are interested, register soon!). See you at the Summit! The Local Organisers – Julia Jennifer Beine, Ingo Börner, Frank Fischer, Luca Giovannini, Carsten Milling, Antonio Rojas Castro, Mark Schwindt, Daniil Skorinkin, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje, Peer Trilcke, Laura Untner. https://summit.dracor.org/ info(a)dracor.org

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5 year, full time, text and data mining post doc position - digital participation of war, Edinburgh
by Melissa Terras 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Hi folks, Please could you circulate this opportunity to colleagues seeking a postdoc? Thanks! Melissa ———— Professor Melissa Terras MBE FREng Co-Director, CoSTAR Realtime Lab Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art University of Edinburgh @melissaterras > > From: Andrew Hoskins <andrew.hoskins(a)ed.ac.uk> > Subject: 5 year, full time, experienced post doc position, Edinburgh > Date: 5 June 2025 at 12:23:06 BST > To: Melissa Terras <M.Terras(a)ed.ac.uk> > > FIVE YEAR FULL TIME RESEARCH FELLOW post at The University of Edinburgh. > > on the ERC awarded/UKRI funded WARSHARE - digital participation in war - project, beginning September. > led by Professor Andrew Hoskins – andrew.hoskins(a)ed.ac.uk <mailto:[email protected]> > > Project summary: > > The battle over representations and perceptions of war is transformed in an era of billions of images, videos and other digital content of war being produced, shared, edited, liked, linked, fabricated and deleted on smartphones, social media platforms and messaging apps. > > War in the twenty-first century is participative. People can record and document war, and unwittingly and deliberately transmit data points that can generate targets on the battlefield. Smart devices are both a way to represent war and a node in its practice. > > This project will produce new interdisciplinary understanding of how and why digital participation is transforming how individuals and societies (including militaries and states) fight, experience, and understand (perceive, explain, and de/legitimise) warfare. > > It will illuminate how smart devices, apps and platforms enable a wide range of actors – militaries, states, journalists, NGOs, private companies, soldiers, citizens, victims – to participate in warfare in an immediate and ongoing fashion. > > At the same time, this project engages the revolution in machine-learning and AI methods which enable mining and measuring of online behaviour at scale, and the illumination of multiple modes of communication (messages, images, video, memes and emojiis) that together shape participation and meaning in warfare. > > In experimenting with AI and machine learning methods, it will break new interdisciplinary ground (social and computing science, art, visual, media and communication studies) to test what kinds of knowledge about twenty-first century participative war (how it is fought, experienced, contested, legitimized, and remembered, for multiple actors) can be acquired and used. > > It takes the hybrid messenger service/social media platform of Telegram as its principal case study, an unbounded ‘new war front’, central to the waging and experiencing of the 2022- Russian war against Ukraine. > > Further details: > https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1… <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felxw.fa.e…>

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CFP: 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Eva Mayr 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We're happy to announce the call for papers for the VIS4DH workshop co-located with the IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna, Austria! The VIS4DH workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from the fields of visualization and the humanities to discuss new research directions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities research. This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2025 in two ways - you can submit to the workshop's Paper track, or you can submit to the Agora track, which calls for provocations, artworks, work in progress, or lab talks. Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the (digital) humanities and social sciences, and to all areas of visualization research and practice. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. While the workshop theme for VIS4DH'25 remains open to all submissions exploring the intersection of the humanities and visualization, we especially invite contributions related to the theme Visualizing Peace and Conflict as a response to the global increase of violence and armed conflict (see https://ucdp.uu.se/encyclopedia) At the same time, however, submissions do not need to focus explicitly on conflict between warring parties. We also encourage submissions related to ideological, civil, social, environmental, or epistemic conflicts and the potential for their resolution to address a broader theme/trend of intensified division worldwide. The topic aims to bring together researchers in international relations, peace & conflict resolution, sociology, anthropology, digital humanities, and visualization to present and discuss how research approaches in these areas can critically inform one another and contribute to new ways of studying conflict and its peaceful resolution. Besides general contributions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide theoretical and/or applied perspectives, with this year's theme, we invite work around (but not limited to) the following questions: * How can visualization techniques make cultural phenomena which are substantially structured or driven by tensions, antagonisms, controversies, or conflicts visible and negotiable? * How can visualization tools be designed to inform or support the resolution of conflicts? * What visual strategies can be employed to highlight how political conflicts frequently translate into representational or interpretive conflicts (e.g., generating contested or conflicting descriptions, datasets, framings, rhetorics, or other design choices)? * What role do disagreements play in collaborative research and visualization processes, and how might those be productively visualized rather than resolved or hidden? Submission Deadlines Paper Track: 30 June 2025, 23:59 AoE Agora Track: 22 August 2025, 23:59 AoE Please, visit the workshop website on https://vis4dh.dbvis.de for more information. The organizing committee looks forward to your contributions and to lively discussions in Vienna Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Mark-Jan Bludau, Eva Mayr, Monika Schwarz, & Tomas Vancisin vis4dh(a)gmail.com _______________ Dr. Eva Mayr Department für Kunst- & Kulturwissenschaften Universität für Weiterbildung Krems www.donau-uni.ac.at/eva.mayr/<http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/eva.mayr/> +43 2732 893 2324

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Reminder: Bielefeld guest lectures in Computational Literary Studies/Cultural Studies/Computational Linguistics/Digital Linguistics/Open Science
by Berenike Herrmann 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

Dear all, (with apologies for cross-postings), This summer term, the Bielefeld research colloquium “LiLi revisited: Digital Interface Research between Literary Studies and Linguistics" and the Bielefeld “Computational/Digital Linguistics Work Group Meeting” (H. Buschmeier/S. Zarrieß) will another guest lecture that I would like to draw your attention to. June 10: Prof. Dr. David Bamman (Berkeley): Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood The lecture is public and can be attended in person and via zoom. The talk will not be recorded. David Bamman (Berkeley) Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been limited due to the availability of data. In this talk, I'll discuss our efforts to build a collection of 2,307 films representing the top 50 movies by U.S. box office over the period 1980 to 2022, along with award nominees. Building this collection allows us to carry out several large-scale computational studies of film; I'll discuss our work measuring changing patterns in the representation of gender and race/ethnicity over the past 43 years (where we see an increase in diversity over the past decade) and in leveraging it to model variation in emotional performances and choice of adverbial intensifiers over both narrative and historical time. This work illustrates a new frontier of the data-driven analysis of film at a large scale. When: June 10 2025, 10-12 hs Where: Hybrid. Bielefeld University, Lecture Hall CITEC 1.204 and Zoom Zoom link: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/64995938421?pwd=VzH0WHjA5I1LaLsGQeB2wJuvB… We are looking forward to a vivid discussion! Berenike Herrmann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (DH, CLS, CL, DL) prof. dr. berenike herrmann german literature | digital humanities bielefeld university | faculty of linguistics and literature universitaetsstraße 25 33615 bielefeld germany main building (UHG) U6, office 122 +49 (0)521 106-67194 personal homepage secretary: ms. andrea schrottenloher (andrea.schrottenloher(a)uni-bielefeld.de) office: main building (UHG) U6-135, phone: +49 (0)521 106-3702

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Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd2026) - Call for Papers
by Tara L Andrews 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, (German version below) I am very pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the DHd2026 conference today! DHd 2026, “Not Only Text, Not Only Data”, annual conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries, organized by the University of Vienna. 23–27 February 2026. Submission deadline: 1 August 2025 https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de/ Both digitization of cultural heritage and abstract information modeling have, in recent years, significantly expanded the breadth of potential research in the humanities. The initial source of this expansion was primarily the creation of textual corpora and the development of algorithms and interfaces for text analysis. Over time, this has evolved to the point where it now includes the digital capture of virtually all "objects" within the humanities, and their attendant analytical interconnections: individuals, places, material culture, concepts, artworks, spoken interactions, and more. Yet despite the diversity of approaches, ideas, data, and methods in today’s digital humanities, focus often remains on more text-centred projects and data-focused results. We propose addressing the challenges posed by this expansion beyond text and data as the conference motto: not by excluding text-centered approaches but by placing them within a broader context. Disciplines such as art history, archaeology, and museum studies traditionally produce and analyze datasets related to material culture, including climate data, landscape profiles, and image matrices. They also produce analytical data, including human biological data such as genetics, and perception data, like eye-tracking, EEG, fMRT, and so on. However, this data is contextualized by informed integration with further information that completes a historical and contextual picture, necessitating varied data obtained through the analysis of diverse datasets. The conference aims to foster greater consideration of what diverse data means for scholars. Data creation is not the end but rather the very beginning of contemporary projects. Researchers in the digital humanities now frequently find themselves not only producing data but also conceiving of and developing algorithmic frameworks for their analyses, including the use of machine learning techniques recently mostly discussed under the label of Artificial Intelligence. Both the data itself and the approach taken are equally vital: data often lose much of their value when divorced from the methods used for both their creation and analysis. This aspect of knowledge production – the creation of methods and functions – has yet to receive sufficient attention in terms of their reuse and replication within the digital humanities. The lack of clear standards and best practices in this regard remain a fundamental challenge in digital humanities research. The same applies to preservation of interfaces and scripts of all kinds. Here too, it is essential to intensify cross-disciplinary dialogue. Code and algorithms each play a role that is as crucial for interdisciplinary dialogue with other fields of study (from computer science to social sciences) as academic prose. Other disciplines can only understand humanities data if they comprehend interpretations, which, in turn, depends on how they are processed. Hence, the development, preservation, and informed discussion of code are core components, if not prerequisites, for interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary engagement. The conference aims to create a productive space for encounters and discussions to explore these issues. Panels, presentations, workshops, and poster sessions will bring together experts from the fields of data science, digital cultural heritage research, and digital archival studies with representatives from the more text- and language-oriented digital humanities. We look forward to providing a venue for discussion and deliberation to foster discourse on code and algorithms, databases and archives, and text and data, and how these things positively push the boundaries of our research in the humanities. We invite contributions to interdisciplinary research that combines the humanities with computational methods and digital technologies, including but not limited to: Use of digital tools and resources to study humanities disciplines, including history, literature, art, and cultural studies Exploration of the impact of technology on humanities research and teaching Best practices around programming and software development in the humanities Reuse and adaptation of existing datasets and algorithms for new research directions Studies concerning the replicability of previously obtained research results Sustainability and preservation of both data and research processes; how does data stewardship engage with algorithms? Current and developing best practices for work with non-textual as well as textual digital cultural heritage (Not) reinventing the wheel: what to do about pre-processing scripts Data Studies and the transferability of data and algorithms across disciplines Libraries as mediators of heterogeneous data and/or software tools in DH: enabling access, integration, and reuse beyond text- and data-centric approaches Photogrammetry and modelling of cultural heritage spaces Soundscapes, music, and audio in the digital humanities Multimedia and game studies for the humanities Ethics and sustainability of LLMs The detailed call, including submission modalities, can be found on the conference website: https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de/ where other important information about the conference will also soon follow! Any questions may be addressed to the organisation team at dhd2026(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:[email protected]>. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Vienna! * * * Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, mit großer Freude eröffne ich heute den Call for Papers für die DHd2026-Konferenz! DHd 2025, „Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten“, Jahrestagung des Verbandes Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, ausgerichtet von der Universität Wien 23–27 Feber 2026. Einreichungsfrist: 1. August 2025 Zahlreiche geisteswissenschaftliche Disziplinen haben in den vergangenen Jahren durch digitale Erfassung kultureller Erzeugnisse und abstrakte Modellierung von Information die Grundlage ihrer Erkenntnisarbeit signifikant erweitert. Ausgangspunkt dafür war vor allem die Erstellung von Textkorpora, Entwicklung von Algorithmen und Interfaces für die Analyse von Texten. Nach und nach hat eine Erweiterung des Feldes stattgefunden, so dass inzwischen vermutlich sämtliche “Objekte” der Geisteswissenschaften digital erfasst und zunehmend miteinander analytisch verknüpft werden können: Personen, Orte, Objekte der materiellen Kultur, Begriffe, Kunstwerke, sprachliche Interaktionen etc. Wir schlagen vor, die Herausforderungen, die sich aus dieser Erweiterung über Text und Daten hinaus ergeben, als Motto der Konferenz aufzugreifen: nicht indem wir textzentrierte Ansätze ausschließen, sondern indem wir sie in einen breiteren Kontext stellen. Fächer wie Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie und Museumswissenschaft produzieren und analysieren traditionell Datenbestände aus dem Bereich der materiellen Kultur – Klimadaten, Landschaftsprofile oder Bildraster, aber auch materialanalytische Daten, bis hin zu humanbiologischen Daten (Genetik, aber auch solchen der Perzeption: Eye-Tracking, EEG, fMRT, etc.). Erst die informierte Zusammenschau mit hermeneutisch gewonnener Erkenntnis rundet ein aus Kontext erzeugtes historisches Bild ab, das zunehmend aus der Analyse unterschiedlich gearteter Datenbestände gewonnen wird. Datenerzeugung steht aber nicht am Ende, sondern vielmehr am Anfang zeitgemäßer Projekte. So finden sich digital arbeitende Geisteswissenschafter*innen immer häufiger in der Situation, nicht nur Daten zu produzieren, sondern auch ein adäquates algorithmisches Rahmenwerk für ihre Analyse zu konzipieren und zu entwickeln. Das schließt den Gebrauch von Techniken des maschinellen Lernens ein, die zuletzt meist unter dem Label der „Künstliche Intelligenz“ diskutiert wurden. Tatsächlich verlieren Daten oft viel an Wert, wenn die algorithmischen Methoden nicht gemeinsam mit ihnen aufbewahrt und gepflegt werden. Dieser Aspekt der Wissensproduktion in Form von Methoden und Funktionen hat bisher in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften nicht die nötige Aufmerksamkeit im Hinblick auf Nachnutzung und Replikation erhalten. Der Mangel an klaren Standards bzw. Best Practices stellt jedoch ein fundamentales Problem digitaler Forschung dar. Dasselbe gilt für Interfaces und Skripts jeder Art. Auch hier gilt es, den Dialog mit den einschlägigen Fachrichtungen zu intensivieren. Code und Algorithmen erfüllen eine Rolle, die nicht weniger wichtig für den transdisziplinären Dialog mit anderen Fachdisziplinen (von der Informatik bis zu den Sozialwissenschaften) ist als die wissenschaftliche Prosa: Solch andere Disziplinen können geisteswissenschaftliche Daten nur dann verstehen, wenn sie nachvollziehen, wie diese interpretiert werden, was wiederum davon abhängt, wie sie prozessiert werden. Insofern ist die Entwicklung, Erhaltung und informierte Diskussion von Code ein zentraler Bestandteil, wenn nicht eigentlich sogar Voraussetzung, transdisziplinärer Auseinandersetzung. Die Konferenz möchte einen Begegnungs- und Diskussionsraum zur Erörterung dieser Fragen eröffnen. Panels, Vorträge, Workshops und Poster-Sessions bringen Expert*innen aus den Datenwissenschaften, der digitalen Kulturerbeforschung und Archivwissenschaft zusammen mit Vertreter*innen der traditionellen, text- und sprachorientierten DH. Wir freuen uns darauf, einen Ort für Austausch und Reflexion zu schaffen, in dem über Code und Algorithmen, Datenbanken und Archive, Text und Daten nachgedacht wird – und darüber, wie diese Themen die Grenzen der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung im positiven Sinn verschieben können. Wir laden zu Beiträgen zur interdisziplinären Forschungsdebatte ein, die Geisteswissenschaften mit computergestützten Methoden und digitalen Technologien verbinden, darunter unter anderem: Einsatz digitaler Tools und Ressourcen zum Studium geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen, darunter Geschichte, Literatur, Kunst und Kulturwissenschaften Untersuchung der Auswirkungen von Technologie auf die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung und Lehre Praktiken bzw. Best Practices rund um Programmierung und Softwareentwicklung in den Geisteswissenschaften Wiederverwendung und Anpassung bestehender Datensätze bzw. Algorithmen für neue Forschungsrichtungen Studien zur Replizierbarkeit bereits erzielter Forschungsergebnisse Nachhaltigkeit und Aufbewahrung sowohl von Daten als auch von Forschungsprozessen; wie greift Datenverwaltung in Algorithmen ein? Aktuelle und sich entwickelnde Best Practices für die Arbeit mit nicht-textuellen sowie textuellen digitalen Kulturgütern Das Rad (nicht) neu erfinden: Was tun mit Vorverarbeitungsskripten? Data Studies und die Übertragbarkeit von Daten und Algorithmen zwischen Disziplinen Bibliotheken als Vermittler heterogener Daten und/oder Software-Tools in den Digital Humanities: Zugang, Integration und Wiederverwendung über text- und datenzentrierte Ansätze hinaus ermöglichen Fotogrammetrie und Modellierung von Räumen des kulturellen Erbes Soundscapes, Musik und Audio in den Digital Humanities Multimedia- und Game Studies für die Geisteswissenschaften Ethik und Nachhaltigkeit von LLMs Der vollständige Call einschließlich Einreichungsmodalitäten finden Sie auf der Website der Konferenz: https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de/. Dort werden in Kürze auch weitere wichtige Informationen zur Konferenz veröffentlicht. Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an das Organisationsteam unter dhd2026(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:[email protected]>. Wir freuen uns darauf, Sie in Wien begrüßen zu dürfen! Best wishes / mit herzlichen Grüßen, Tara Andrews

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CCLS 2024: Program and Registration
by Journal of Computational Literary Studies 23 May '25

23 May '25

[with apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to inform you that we the program for the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS2025) on July 3 and 4 in Krakow is now published: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2025/ Registration for the conference (on-site and virtual participation) is also open: https://www.konferencje-uj.pl/?lang=en&go2rej=1&kid=397. Virtual attendance is free. For those of you who will be traveling to Krakow, we would like to draw your attention to our special pre-conference event. The EU project "CLS INFRA" will celebrate its Closing Event on July 2nd. Registration for this event is free: https://clsinfra.io/closing-event/ Best wishes, Evelyn Gius, Peer Trilcke and Christof Schöch - - - - - - - - - - - Journal of Computational Literary Studies https://jcls.io <https://jcls.io/> E-Mail: info(a)jcls.io <mailto:[email protected]> Editors: Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke Editorial Assistants: Svenja Guhr, Julian Häußler, Élodie Ripoll, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje Production Developer: Dominik Gerstorfer Board: Katherine Bode, Anne-Sophie Bories, Amy E. Earhart, Maciej Eder, Miguel Escobar Varela, Martin Eve, Frank Fischer, José Eduardo González, Natalie M. Houston, Fotis Jannidis, Mike Kestemont, Anouk Lang, David Mimno, Borja Navarro, Roxana Patras, Federico Pianzola, Glenn Roe, Richard Jean So, Tomoji Tabata, Ted Underwood, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Paul Vierthaler

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Electing new members to the EADH Executive Committee – Deadline: 28 May 2025
by Mariangela Distilo 22 May '25

22 May '25

Dear EADH Members, This is a warm reminder that nominations are still open for four (4) new members to join the EADH Executive Committee for the 2025–2028 term. *The deadline to submit your candidacy is 28 May 2025*. As EADH continues its relaunch, this is a pivotal moment to help shape the direction of our Association and support the growth and visibility of Digital Humanities across Europe and beyond. Joining the Executive Committee is more than a formal responsibility — *it’s a chance to actively contribute to the future of our community.* By serving, you have the opportunity to strengthen the European DH network, advocate for inclusive and open practices, and take part in defining strategic initiatives with real impact. It’s also a meaningful way to build lasting connections and grow as a leader in an international, collaborative environment. We warmly encourage you to consider standing or nominating a colleague. Your voice and energy can make a real difference in the direction and development of Digital Humanities in Europe. *🔗 Full details and eligibility criteria are available on our website:* https://eadh.org/news/2025/04/25/call-nominations-join-eadh-executive-commi… Warm regards, Mariangela Distilo EADH Communications Manager

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Bielefeld guest lectures in Computational Literary Studies/Cultural Studies/Computational Linguistics/Digital Linguistics/Open Science
by Berenike Herrmann 20 May '25

20 May '25

Dear all, (with apologies for cross-postings), This summer term, the Bielefeld research colloquium “LiLi revisited: Digital Interface Research between Literary Studies and Linguistics" and the Bielefeld “Computational/Digital Linguistics Work Group Meeting” (H. Buschmeier/S. Zarrieß) will host two guest lectures that I would like to draw your attention to. May 20: Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter (Cologne): More Open Science is not always the same as better science June 10: Prof. Dr. David Bamman (Berkeley): Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood Both lectures are public. The meeting on May 20 is organized by the Open Science Network Bielefeld in cooperation with the Bielefeld Center for Data Science (BiCDaS). For titles, abstracts and room information see below. Both lectures can be attended in person and via zoom. Talks will not be recorded. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nils Reiter (Cologne) More Open Science is not always the same as better science Open Science — the move(ment) to make processes and results of scientific research accessible to everyone — has gained popularity in recent years, and the goal to employ “open science” can now be found in many proposals, statements and web pages. The talk aims at taking a critical perspective, highlighting areas in which open science may actually also have negative impact. This will be discussed in two aspects of contemporary research: peer review and large language model use. Different forms of openness can be discussed for (open) peer review, such as the anonymity of reviewers/authors, or the publication of review texts. Training of large language models is not possible without a huge amount of text, and open data makes this substantially easier. For both cases, the talk will highlight some of the negative “side effects”, and try to give some recommendations to avoid them. When: 20.05.2025, 10-12 Uhr Where: Hybrid. Bielefeld, University X-E1-201 and Zoom Zoomlink: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/62739019294?pwd=QJN0osQV9sazjw94iIoWjE8aW… BiCDaS Lecture Series Data Science und Open Science Semester-KickOff ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ David Bamman (Berkeley) Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been limited due to the availability of data. In this talk, I'll discuss our efforts to build a collection of 2,307 films representing the top 50 movies by U.S. box office over the period 1980 to 2022, along with award nominees. Building this collection allows us to carry out several large-scale computational studies of film; I'll discuss our work measuring changing patterns in the representation of gender and race/ethnicity over the past 43 years (where we see an increase in diversity over the past decade) and in leveraging it to model variation in emotional performances and choice of adverbial intensifiers over both narrative and historical time. This work illustrates a new frontier of the data-driven analysis of film at a large scale. When: June 10 2025, 10-12 hs Where: Hybrid. Bielefeld, University, CITEC 1.204 and Zoom Zoom link: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/64995938421?pwd=VzH0WHjA5I1LaLsGQeB2wJuvB… We are looking forward to a vivid discussion! Berenike Herrmann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (DH, CLS, CL, DL) Katharina Weiß, and Nina Schönfelder (BiCDaS, Bielefeld OSN) prof. dr. berenike herrmann german literature | digital humanities bielefeld university | faculty of linguistics and literature universitaetsstraße 25 33615 bielefeld germany main building (UHG) U6, office 122 +49 (0)521 106-67194 personal homepage secretary: ms. andrea schrottenloher (andrea.schrottenloher(a)uni-bielefeld.de) office: main building (UHG) U6-135, phone: +49 (0)521 106-3702

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2025 Open Scholarship Award Recipients
by Jon Bath 13 May '25

13 May '25

The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute <http://c-ski.ca/> and its partners, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, are delighted to announce the winners, and honourable mentions, for the 2025 Open Scholarship Awards. Award recipients demonstrated exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives. Open scholarship incorporates open access, open data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by those within and beyond the academy. By engaging with open practices for academic work, open scholarship shares that work more broadly and more publicly. Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators. Award Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne and the PARADISEC team Honourable Mentions "But I Live" Educators' Resource, Andrea Webb, University of British Columbia Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, Stephen Robertson, George Mason University Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage professionals Award East Bay Punk Digital Archive, Stefano Morello, CUNY Graduate Centre Honourable Mentions Ni una menos: A collective identity in Rebeca Lane's rap, Silvia Rivera Alfaro, CUNY Graduate Center Collaging the Queer: An Abstract Self-Portraiture Workshop on Gender Abolition and Identity Creation, Jazmyne Olson, Undergraduate, Weber State University We would like to thank all those who nominated a project for the awards, and our selection panel, and will be announcing the call for nominations for the 2026 Open Scholarship Awards later this year. Jon Bath University of Saskatchewan

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DATA CHALLENGE: Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!
by Golnaz Sarkar Farshi 09 May '25

09 May '25

Dear DH community, We are excited to invite you to join the data challenge “Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!”, organized by the Data Competence Center HERMES! Are you passionate about film, media, and data innovation? We invite you to take part in the data challenge “Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!”— a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of AI, cultural heritage, and audiovisual archives. In this second edition of our data challenge, you'll work with 40 hours of real-world moving image data published by leading German and Dutch institutions. Your mission? Develop a discovery tool that enables multimodal search across 40 hours of public domain video content — not just using metadata, but also analyzing the visual and audio features of the footage. Your tool might detect shot types, identify objects and actions, or even find scenes that visually resemble an input image. You can integrate all of your developed features into a chatbot capable of handling complex prompts to perform multimodal searches across the dataset and return relevant results. This is your chance to create something impactful for scholars, researchers, and film enthusiasts — and push the boundaries of digital cultural access. Don’t worry if you don’t have a team yet! At the kickoff, we’ll help match participants from different disciplines. The attending teams or single individuals should ideally have expertise in both data science and film/media studies. Kickoff: 23 May 2025, 4:00 PM (CET) Registration Deadline: 31 May 2025, 11:59 PM Ready to take part? Find full challenge details, including the zoom link for the kickoff, here: *https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2025.html* <https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2025.html>. Let’s make the multimodal search of audiovisual history possible together!

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