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This set of posters brings together complementary disciplinary perspectives on working with cultural heritage data from the European project "In/Tangible European Heritage – Visual Analysis, Curation and Communication" (InTaVia). GREGOR POBEZIN: OPEN CHALLENGES IN TRADITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: NOVEL APPROACHES TO BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH WITH INTAVIA Among the many factors that distinguish biography, we can perhaps most readily point to two that, while usually helpful and indeed essential to biographical studies, can also be important obstacles: tradition and structure. As a noble historiographical genre with a long tradition, biography inevitably produces its texts along structural guidelines. This structure may not be a problem for scholars of cultural or political history - theirs is the task of querying, questioning and imagining: in various languages and across multi-varied texts. But even historians can sometimes ask too little and imagine too much - or vice versa. For example, three biographical entries (Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Deutsche Biographie, Slovenska biografija) about Pier Paolo Vergerio the Younger (1498-1565) all cover the all major events along an almost identical timeline. However, while one omits almost all of Vergerio’s literary production, the other concentrates on his contacts with protestants, as if life before his apostasy never existed. Tradition gets in our way. Technological advancements have had limited success (searching for Vergerio in Europeana will yield little success) - so far. For wider biographical research, a comparative platform seems a tool sorely needed, since it will finally render the comparative reading of numerous multivariate texts, the visualizing of essential data and asking relevant questions beyond the limitations of narrative structure. MATTHIAS SCHLÖGL: ON BUILDING A TRANSNATIONAL, MULTIMODAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH InTaVia aims at bringing together different kinds of cultural data. To do so, the InTaVia Knowledge Graph (IKG) is built using structured biographical data on cultural actors from four European National Biographies as a base layer (Austria, Finland, The Netherlands, and Slovenia) – which have been converted using the IDM-RDF (https://github.com/InTaVia/idm-rdf). Second level layers enrich the biographical base layer with data on related cultural heritage objects, institutions, and places from reference resources such as Wikidata and Europeana. Currently the IKG contains data on around 300.000 distinct persons from various periods who had an impact on the history of European countries in one way or another. However, the IKG has to tackle several problems: for example, the source data is quite unbalanced with respect to the level of detail and structure; the sources contain biased data in various forms (e.g. gender bias, “national myths", …). This poster gives an overview of the InTaVia System Architecture, presents some statistical analyses on the structure and problems of the IKG and shares the "lessons learned" when integrating large historical secondary data sources. FLORIAN WINDHAGER, JOHANNES LIEM & EVA MAYR: VISUAL-ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL INFORMATION The cultural knowledge graph IKG can be a rich integrative resource for multi-faceted research but is challenging to access for people without technical skills or prior knowledge on the structure and kinds of information available. To overcome these barriers, InTaVia develops a visualization-based interfaces for the visual search, analysis and communication of linked cultural information. Different visual analytical perspectives (for temporal, spatial, but also relational and categorical information related to the cultural entities in the IKG) support researchers to gain an overview on the structured data available, to see patterns from a distant reading perspective, and to identify interesting pieces of cultural information for close reading. For example, a humanist researcher can search for a cultural actor and will easily find a range of relevant cultural resources: biographical texts, related actors and related objects. They can then select entities of interest and analyze their movements over time, see cultural objects related to biographical events. By making transparent also the provenance of the information, this interface allows to compare and synoptically see different biographies on the same actor. Our poster walks visitors through the architecture of the visualization-based interface and we offer a demo how to use the developing platform it for searching, analysing, and communicating cultural information., The project InTaVia has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004825.

Als Early-Access-Workshop mit einer neuen Kulturdaten-Plattform zielt die Veranstaltung auf die Erprobung und Diskussion von State-of-the-Art-Methoden im Bereich der kulturellen Sammlungs- und Biografiedatenvisualisierung. Das H2020-Projekt "InTaVia" (InTangible European Heritage Visual Analysis, Curation und Communication, https://intavia.eu) integriert kulturelle Objektdaten und strukturierte Biografiedaten-Bestände mehrerer Länder und führt sie in synoptischer Weise der Arbeit von Historiker*innen und kulturellen Praktiker*innen zu. Eine zentrale Rolle spielen dabei Methoden der Datenvisualisierung (inkl. Karten, Netzwerke, Mengendiagramme, oder Zeitstrahlen) welche die visuelle Analyse und Kommunikation von kleineren oder größeren Datensammlungen möglich machen. Der Workshop bietet eine praktische Einführung in die Arbeit mit diesen multiperspektivischen Werkzeugen, sowie eine Möglichkeit der Initiierung von kollaborativen Fallstudien. Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture.

Bericht über die Entwicklungen am International Prosopographical Interoperability Framework (IPIF). Ein Beitrag zur 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses.

In digitalen Editionen ist die automatische Erkennung und Annotation von Personen, Orten und Datumsangaben eine wichtige Aufgabe. Named Entity Recognition (NER) spielt dabei eine zentrale Rolle. Historische Texte bilden noch ein Problem, da oft zu wenig Trainingsmaterial zur Verfügung steht, um entsprechende ML-Modelle zu trainieren.Das Projekt NERDPool versucht einerseits existierende Editionsdaten zu nutzen und daraus einen Pool an Trainingsdaten zu generieren, sowie andererseits Workflows zu erproben und zu implementieren, die es erlauben, einfach und effizient bestehende Korpa manuell zu annotieren. Den Schwerpunkt setzt das Projekts auf frühneuzeitliche deutsche Texte. Die Datensätze werden über die Webapplikation https://nerdpool-api.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/ respektive über eine impelementierte offene API veröffentlicht. Mit Stand mitte Juli umfasst NERDPool rund 23.500 annotierte Datensätze. Darunter sind etwa Akten vom Regensburger Reichstag von 1576, Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie 1848–1918 oder die ersten Ausgaben des Wienerischen Diariums (um 1750). Ein Beitrag zur 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses.

This publication presents the abstracts of What’s Past is Prologue: The NewsEye International Conference organised by the consortium of the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme project NewsEye: A Digital Investigator for Historical Newspapers. This conference, which was held online on the 16th and 17th of March 2021, featured four keynote speakers and over thirty presenters hailing from eleven countries. Spanning from May 2018 to January 2022, NewsEye is a research project advancing the state of the art and introducing new concepts, methods and tools for digital humanities by providing enhanced access to historical newspapers for a wide range of users. Hence, the conference theme Towards a future of interdisciplinary collaboration between Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities, Computer Science and Data Science reflects certain aspects of the NewsEye project itself. The NewsEye consortium is composed of three national libraries and eight research groups based in Austria, Finland, France and Germany, which have each contributed specialised knowledge in the aforementioned subjects.

Poster for Data for History 2021: Modelling Time, Places, Agents https://d4h2020.sciencesconf.org/

Eötvös Loránd University&nbsp

A single abstract from the DHd-2020 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666690","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2020"]}

A single abstract from the DHd-2020 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666690","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2020"]}

A single abstract from the DHd-2019 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2600812","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2019"]}

A single abstract from the DHd-2019 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2600812","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2019"]}

A single abstract from the DHd-2018 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3684897","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2018"]}

In the context of the United Nations “Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development” and the presented Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the process of developing and agreeing on indicators to monitor the SDGs implementation becomes fundamental. In this paper, we identify indicators for the sustainable development of cities that have the greatest potential for their underlying data to be measured by means of remote sensing. We first identified existing indicators, which are derived from the International Standard ISO 37120, “Indicators for city services and quality of life”, as being partly or fully measured by the use of remote sensing, and then presented these indicators to remote sensing experts in an assessment procedure. We then investigated Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) weighting methods to identify the most relevant quality of life indicators that can be captured by means of remote sensing techniques. We assess the remote sensing experts knowledge in the context of Decision Support Systems (DSS), and by means of both a questionnaire-based approach and a pairwise comparison approach. The approaches are compared with each other regarding their complexity, their potentials and limitations, and the respectively identified remote sensing based indicators. We identified three indicators related to surface characteristics as having the highest remote sensing potential. When contrasted to the results of the pairwise comparison, the questionnaire-based approach revealed high usability and confirmability. In the end, this approach enables cities administrations to decide which indicators they want to cover by means of remote sensing, depending on the capacities of their departments. (VLID)2575925

Data for History is an international consortium founded on 24 November 2017 with the aim of improving geo-historical data interoperability in the semantic web. Its purpose is to establish a common method for modelling, curating and managing data in historical research. APIS was presented on the first day of the workshop, This is the pdf version of the presentation. An embedded version can be accessed under: https://apis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/presentation_lyon17/

The poster highlights the web application/data model as well as the theoretical assumptions behind our migration research in the ÖBL data.

This presentation has been given at a Digital Humanities Workshop in Split (Croatia). It shows how semantic annotation and entity linking is done in the APIS web application (https://apis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at)

This workshop presentation was held at the conference digital libraries 2017 “Future of the digital heritage?”. It served as an introduction to the APIS framework and prosopographical research.

The poster presented at the DHd 2017 in Bern explains a typical workflow in the APIS webapp. The tool allows to create structured prosopographical/biographical data and link it to LOD resources.

A single abstract from the DHd-2017 Book of Abstracts., Sofern eine editorische Arbeit an dieser Publikation stattgefunden hat, dann bestand diese aus der Eliminierung von Bindestrichen in Überschriften, die aufgrund fehlerhafter Silbentrennung entstanden sind, der Vereinheitlichung von Namen der Autor*innen in das Schema "Nachname, Vorname" und/oder der Trennung von Überschrift und Unterüberschrift durch die Setzung eines Punktes, sofern notwendig., {"references":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3684825","https://github.com/DHd-Verband/DHd-Abstracts-2017"]}

Die Gründung und rasche Mitgliederentwicklung der euro(pa)skeptischen Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) im Jahr 2013 steht im Einklang mit Erfolgen rechtspopulistischer Parteien in anderen EU Mitgliedsländern. Seit der Ablehnung des Verfassungsvertrages bei Volksabstimmungen in Frankreich und der Niederlande gilt der "permissive Konsens" bezüglich Kernfragen der Europäischen Einigung auch im Kreise der EG-Gründungsmitglieder als bedroht. Gegner einer fortschreitenden Vertiefung der Europäischen Integration, nicht zuletzt die britischen Tories unter Premier David Cameron, rechnen sich vermehrt Aussichten auf eine erfolgreiche Neuausrichtung der europäischen Politik aus. Diese europäischen und die weiteren zivilgesellschaftlichen Hintergründe der konservativ-neoliberal ausgerichteten Partei in Deutschland sind maßgebliche Faktoren für die Erklärung des schnellen Aufstiegs und die Einordnung der Alternative für Deutschland ins deutsche und europäische Parteienspektrum. Das Papier untersucht in diesem Zusammenhang zum einen die Herausbildung der europäischen politischen Partei Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) auf der Basis der Prager Erklärung, die AECR Parteistiftung New Directions und deren europäisches Partner-Netzwerk genauer. Zum anderen werden die neoliberal-europakritischen Hintergründe der AfD anhand einer Reihe von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, Think Tanks, Vorläuferparteien und Initiativen dargestellt., The founding and rapid membership development of the euro-sceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2013 follows similar developments of right wing populist parties in other EU member states. Since the no-votes in popular referenda in France and the Netherlands the erstwhile "permissive consensus" with regard to core questions of European unification appears fragile even among the founders of the European Communities. The opposition against a progressive deepening of European Integration - not least the British Tories under premier David Cameron - reckons better chances to succeed with a new direction of Europe's political development. These European and other civil society backgrounds of the conservative-neoliberal political party in Germany are key factors to explain the rapid rise and the place of the Alternative for Germany in the German and European party spectrum. The paper sets out to more closely examine the development of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) on the basis of the Prague Declaration, and the AECR political party foundation New Direction, and its European partner network on the one hand. On the other hand the paper traces neoliberal, conservative and euro-sceptic civil society organizations, think tanks, predecessor parties and initiatives, which form the background of AfD in Germany.

This paper describes BiographyNet, a digital humanities project (2012-2016) that brings together researchers from history, computational linguistics and computer science. The project uses data from the Biography Portal of the Netherlands (BPN), which contains approximately 125,000 biographies from a variety of Dutch biographical dictionaries from the eighteenth century until now, describing around 76,000 individuals. BiographyNet's aim is to strengthen the value of the portal and comparable biographical datasets for historical research, by improving the search options and the presentation of its outcome, with a historically justified NLP pipeline that works through a user evaluated demonstrator. The project's main target group are professional historians. The project therefore worked with two key concepts: "provenance" -understood as a term allowing for both historical source criticism and for references to data-management and programming interventions in digitized sources; and "perspective" interpreted as inherent uncertainty concerning the interpretation of historical results., Comment: 35 pages, 5 figures, \'A. Z. Bern\'ad, C. Gruber, M. Kaiser (editors). Europa baut auf Biographien: Aspekte, Bausteine, Normen und Standards f\"ur eine europ\"aische Biographik (2017)