HERMES Data Competence Center is conducting its first Data Challenge!

We challenge multidisciplinary teams of humanities scholars and data scientists to critically analyze newspaper data from the German Newspaper Portal and solve the problems that arise when working with real-life, text-based data.

The goal of this Data Challenge is to develop best practices for the critical handling of tabular and text-based data sets to answer a research question in the humanities and to find innovative solutions that support GLAM institutions in digitizing and publishing their archival materials.

Who can participate? Humanities scholars who work on historical mass media, including newspapers, data scientists with an interest and expertise in NLP, and anyone interested in archival text files and NLP are invited to take part in this challenge.

Important dates:

Kick-off (via Zoom): July 4th, 2024 - 4 p.m. (c.t.)

Registration: July 8th, 2024

Submission of challenge results: November 17th, 2024

The comprehensive call for challenge, a detailed description of the data set and the explanation of the challenge process can be found on our website. You can follow the latest updates about the challenge on our Slack channel. If you have any questions about the topic and process of the challenge, please feel free to send an email to hermes.challenges@uni-marburg.de.

Important links:

Comprehensive call for challenge: https://hermes-hub.de/formate/challenges/challenges-ausschreibungen/challenge24_1.html

Our Slack channel: https://hermes-data.slack.com

Golnaz Sarkar Farshi (Pronomen: sie/ihr)

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt HERMES - Humanities Education in Research, Data, and Methods

MCDCI - Philipps-Universität Marburg

Hans-Meerwein-Straße 6
35032 Marburg
H|04 Institutsgebäude

E-Mail: golnaz.sarkarfarshi@uni-marburg.de