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In this paper, we introduce the concept of genetic networks to study the relationships between manuscripts and publications in genetic editing. We present a data model and its formalisation in an OWL2 ontology, as well as the corresponding data visualisations in the form of sky maps. Our case study is the literary œuvre of the Swiss writer and photographer Gustave Roud (1897-1976). We conclude with some remarks about the project workflow and the integration of data and visual modelling. &nbsp

In this paper, we study data reuse in scholarly editing, providing insights into the current panorama and imagining future developments. We will focus on the reuse of data, leaving aside the reuse of code and models, which would require a separate enquiry; and would concentrate on machine-actionable reuse, as opposed to human consumption.

Digital Humanities research often provides opportunities for collaboration – but it just as often requires collaboration. The demands placed on DH projects in terms of technical skills and know-how are such that collaboration and a reliance on adequate research infrastructures become a necessity.

This presentation offers a side-by-side comparison of the publication processes for traditional monographs versus complex interactive digital projects. Prepared by Stanford University Press whose 6-year Mellon-funded digital publishing initiative is coming to a close in December 2023, the presentation reflects on the highly collaborative processes digital publications require.

In this poster we would like to present the new architecture and features of EVT 3 (Edition Visualization Technology), an open source Angular-based tool for the visualization of TEI-XML Digital Scholarly Editions. We will use and showcase two digital philology projects as test bed for the new functionalities.

Last Year, I have presented our first experiments, which tested, if it is possible to use RCNNs for semi-automated annotation in our project. As those experiments were very promising, we now want to present our prototype of semi-automated annotation using RCNNs, which is currently under developement.

To detect conflicts in literary texts, this short paper adapts word embedding based sentiment analysis for assigning conflict values to texts. This heuristic approach is able to output relevant verb phrases of a corpus of German novels from the Romantic period and indicate first trends in the corpus.

Digital access to social sciences and humanities (SSH) research resources is necessary to enable broad use. For this purpose, a discovery platform for SSH resources was created. This paper describes its development, based on user, economic, and computer science research methods, and illustrates how such a platform supports social exchange.

We are presenting the results of mutual collaboration within two different, but related, projects in the field of cultural heritage digitization. Shared outcomes of our mutual collaboration include the valorization of cultural heritage items and experimental work on enriching a visualization application with a functionality to annotate graphs.

This paper will discuss how interdisciplinarity, collaboration and participation have been re-imagined in large-scale digital cultural heritage projects, taking the Congruence Engine project as a case study, by highlighting how the interplay between the collaborative nature of DH, and systematic action research can bring together the human and computational.

This poster presents, in comics form, the perspectives of those involved in the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership 'Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption'. The poster aims to share insights into the challenges and opportunities of inter-institutional research and its collaborative methods.

We present a study of musical arrangements oif concert music for domestic performance through the lens of an English monthly music journal (The Harmonicon). The study is supported by digital annotation tooling built on IIIF, MEI and Linked Data.

In our workshop, we invite Digital Humanists to explore the OpenMethods metablog as an innovative publication forum and to strengthen the representation of traditionally underrepresented languages and actors in Digital Humanities - particularly non-Anglophone, under-resourced languages (such as languages with non-Latin scripts) or female tool-makers - on the platform in particular and in the Digital Humanities discourse in general.

This workshop uses the environment created around the HTR-United catalog to demonstrate and discuss how to build a dataset of ground truth for text recognition and document it, and how to use HTR-United and its suite of tools to control its quality and describe it in a standardized way.

This panel will explore the various aspects of what is involved, not only in conceiving and building a 3D infrastructure, but in creating 3D Scholarly editions and developing the viewers that allow stories to be created around them. It will also explore issues around training the community of the infrastructure.

This paper discusses the use of recent additions to the Semantic Web toolkit, particularly SHACL, to provide true schema validation for graph-based data models such as the one used in the Stemmarest repository for variant text traditions.

This paper aims to elucidate the origin and metadata of land surveying maps, which meticulously document the landforms and features of various regions across mainland China between 1895 and 1944. Additionally, the digitization process of this research will be outlined. Furthermore, this paper will introduce the user interface of CHMap from two perspectives: firstly, CHMap as a platform for land survey maps, and secondly, CHMap as a tool for linking maps and images from disparate eras and sources.

The short paper will discuss the data that was generated during the editing of the records of the Imperial Diet of 1576. In a case study we will use data from our manuscript database and from the edited texts to analyse different dates and events mentioned in the records.

In 2023, Digital Humanities Research Institute at Siberian Federal University starts a working prototype of a research digital infrastructure for the aggregation, preservation, dissemination of Siberian historical and cultural heritage for historical, literary, ethnographic, art history and other kinds of research at the intersection of the humanities and computer sciences — Siberiana.online. The aim of the project is to launch a long-term initiative for digitization, analysis, and curation of the different collections of historical, cultural, and natural heritage of the Central Siberia (so-called Angara-Yenisei macro-region). The project is designed for research and education needs of the digital humanists at Siberian Federal University and world over, because Siberian artifacts and collections evoke a steady interest in the current literature.

The TEITOK REST API lets you interact with your corpus remotely - to upload documents in various formats - automatically converted to TEI/XML; to render search results; to run an NLP pipeline on the server; or download the content of corpus document, treat that content locally with local NLP tools or manual annotation tools, and then upload the results back to the server, where the new or corrected annotations will be incorporated into the original TEI/XML document without destroying any of the potentially complex annotations already in the document.

The aim of this poster is to provide an overview of the work carried out in the CLS INFRA project and its conclusions for the field of Computational Literary Studies.

Engaging both creators of digital web-based content and researchers of content on the web, this tutorial introduces and demonstrates toolsets for crawling and sharing web archives. Unlike large-scale subscription services like ArchiveIt, these open-source tools allow individuals and small groups to archive websites and web-hosted data more granularly and deeply.

In this half-day workshop, participants will learn how to use different components of the Linked Editing Academic Framework (LEAF) digital scholarship production platform: encoding and annotating texts, entity tagging and reconciliation, coordinating different types of media files into compound objects and galleries, managing metadata and workflow tracking, and producing a simple collection of objects. Using sample text and image objects, with the possibility of experimenting with their own materials, participants will come away with an understanding of how LEAF supports collaborative digital scholarly production in an open-source, open-access web environment.

In contemporary humanities research, software plays a central role in the acquisition, enrichment, analysis, and publication of digital data. This paper aims at measuring the current practice of citation of software in DH conference abstracts and to foster the sustainable and scholarly use of software.

We present the development of a richly annotated corpus of historical proceedings of the Carniolan Regional Assembly, which was the highest legislative body of the autonomy of the Carniola Herzogtum of the Habsburg Empire. We focus on the procedure used to convert the OCRed scans into Parla-CLARIN TEI encoded documents.

This paper explores the practices and experiences we have learned from developing an Open Science Infrastructure in the Asia Pacific. The paper purposes a unique three-pillar model; Advanced Technology to improve internet connectivity, a Knowledge Base on internet engineering, and Community Building across universities.

We present our ongoing effort to develop Rekall-IIIF, a platform that aims at providing an extensible software base for all communities in need for multimedia and multimodal annotation tools. It is modular, Open Source and built on the IIIF standard (https://iiif.io/).

The improvement of the automatic transcription of manuscripts relies on an easier access to training data of good quality (ground truth). HTR-United offers a solution to find and document such datasets, potentially creating a common. We present the set-up of this ecosystem and its main outcomes.

The parts of a theoretical texts can be divided into three categories: theses, annotations and notions. We present an annotation workflow for the automatic classification of these segments in large corpora to prepare the extraction of structural concept maps that allow a distant reading of relations and distances between concepts.

We will present challenges for a digital edition of an 18th-century gazetteer with 18000 entries on places in the Americas. Challenges range from OCR via applying TEI (dictionary module), orthographic variance, homonym disambiguation and coverage in "matching resources", to the extensive use of relative terminology for places in the prose.

OPERAS Innovation Lab provides targeted guidance for scholars seeking to disseminate their outputs in an innovative way. This poster presents three case studies of workflows for innovative scholarly communication: 1) toolkit/anthology; 2) interdisciplinary online journal; 3) software services. The workflows will serve as blueprints for SSH scholars.

The use of computational approaches with legacy catalogue descriptions enables new insights into their authors' historical perspectives, and provides the means for their evaluation and transformation into contemporary online catalogue records. I discuss my computational research with the historical catalogues of the British Library collection of pre-1500 published books.

Texas A&M University's Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) published the New Variorum Shakespeare (NVS) open-access in digital form, beginning with two editions, The Winter's Tale and A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2021, with plans to move forward with new editors who are under contract to create editions digitally in Corpora, and backward to eventually include all the volumes in the series, beginning with the first NVS Edition of Romeo and Juliet (1871). The CoDHR team has designed this project with three main goals: 1) to teach students and early career researchers the concepts behind variorum editing through interface design as well as tutorials; 2) to enable searching across and within volumes and variants using Modern English and major Act-Scene-Line numbers, returning not only exportable lists, text, and bibliographical citations, but also visualizations demonstrating everything from when characters speak in plays to the evolution of variant histories; and, in the final phase of the project, 3) to be interoperable with, and allow access to, other major Shakespeare digital resources including bibliographies of criticism, digital copies of editions published since Shakespeare's time, images, and videos. Following the practice of state-of-the-art digital humanities projects, we aim to render Shakespeare's texts and international criticism available world-wide.[1] To provide a little background, "The term variorum alludes to the Latin phrase editio cum notis variorum, that is, 'an edition with the notes of the various [editors and commentators],' a phrase indicating the chief purpose of a variorum edition: namely, to collect what has been written by various commentators, critics, and editors."[2] A Shakespeare variorum sets several editions of a play side by side in order to track sentence-, word-, and character-level changes. Each NVS volume comprises hundreds of pages, collates several editions, and takes editors decades--and very often a lifetime--to complete. These print editions also tend to be difficult to navigate for anyone who isn't a Shakespeare scholar or familiar with variorums. CoDHR's Digital NVS, however, organizes and presents variorums through an interface that is accessible, intuitive, and comprehensive. Unlike the print editions, this online application showcases all of the core components of a variorum at a glance: play text, commentary notes, and textual notes, making the content easier to understand. Additionally, new NVS editors will soon be able to use the web application's backend called Corpora to build editions, start to finish, using collation tools that will enable them to complete their work more quickly and accurately. What used to take editors years to complete can now be created through a single web application that allows for remote access and virtual collaboration. Having launched the site in Beta with the publication of The Winter's Tale and A Midsummer Night's Dream in July 2021, we are currently working on the next phases of the project as we move out of Beta: improving accessibility and usability; digitizing all NVS print editions from Romeo and Juliet (1871) to King Lear (2020); and assisting editors with creating born-digital NVS editions, using Corpora. We are also working on developing "a suite of research tools including an advanced search across multiple editions; visualizations of search results (such as a character-based frequency plot which will convey what characters most frequently use search terms in their speeches); the ability to sort and filter play lines, textual notes, and commentary in tabular format; and the ability to download raw versions of the data as JSON or TEI. We also hope to integrate external sources of information about a given play line or bibliographic entry."[3] It is our hope that the Digital NVS, which presents variorums in a new, more accessible way, will be an excellent resource not only for future NVS editors, but for readers, scholars, educators, and performers. Bibliography Burdick, Anne and Tarpley, Bryan. "NVS Tools." New Variorum Shakespeare, Beta Release. July 2021. https://newvariorumshakespeare.org/tools/. Accessed Dec. 5, 2021 Burdick, Anne, Torabi, Katayoun, Bryan Tarpley, and Mandell, Laura. "Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online." The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface. Edited by Paul Budra and Clifford Werier, 2022. Knowles, Richard. Shakespeare Variorum Handbook: A Manual of Editorial Practice. 2nd ed. Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare of the Modern Language Association of America, 2003. Torabi, Katayoun. "How to Digital NVS." New Variorum Shakespeare, Beta Release. July 2021 https://newvariorumshakespeare.org/how-to/.nd. Accessed Dec. 5, 2021 Werstine, Paul. "NVS History." New Variorum Shakespeare, Beta Release. July 2021. https://newvariorumshakespeare.org/about/. Accessed Dec. 5, 2021 [1] Information about the Digital NVS (overview of the project, goals, uses, etc.) can be found in "Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online" in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface, 2022. [2] Information about the meaning of variorum and the history of the NVS can be found in Paul Werstine's "NVS History," New Variorum Shakespeare, Beta Release. July 2021. [3] Anne Burdick and Bryan Tarpley, "NVS Tools," New Variorum Shakespeare, Beta Release. July 2021; and Burdick, et al., "Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online" in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface. Eds. Paul Budra and Clifford Werier, 2022.

The contribution highlights the importance of developing DH methods for large-scale investigation of depicted materials and surface qualities in medieval painting. Preliminary findings from our project, which is developing methods for AI-based recognition of materials in digitized paintings and evaluating their application to address art historical research questions, are presented.

The paper presents digital edition of Tolstoy's heritage based on 90 complete edition, printed in mid 20th century. The paper describes the workflow that has been chosen to deal with this immense cultural heritage and defines a compromise between three objectives: presevation of Tolstoy's heritage, preservation of literary scholar edition and digital user scenarios

Using the original, manually applied labels, this poster presents whether early modern legal texts can be automatically labelled through AI. Using Annif (by the National Library of Finland) the applicability of the tool to early modern handwritten texts is and its various backends (e.g. TF-IDF; Omikujji, and fastText) are tested.

Mapping Color in HIstory compiles pigment analysis data from existing and on-going research on scientific analysis of pigments for historical research. As a digital humanities project at the intersection of art and science, multidisciplinary collaboration is at its heart. The paper will introduce the project and discuss methods and contributions.

OHCH is developing a digital transformation plan based on smart-city concepts. The digital collections management system is presented, a virtual space where digital objects are shared to give universal and collaborative access to Cuban cultural wealth. Innovation and collaboration have been the keys for the development of digital collections.

Based on comparative case studies of four digital humanities projects, this paper identifies six community-centric factors in the sustainability of digital scholarship: factors that transcend organizational, technical, or financial considerations, and which relate to and rely upon the communities that support and surround digital humanties projects.

This poster presents the collaborative creation of a dataset of 100.000+ pages of handwritten police reports as a successful example of large-scale digitisation initiatives by small-scale research projects. It shows efficient solutions for applying Handwritten Text Recognition techniques on challenging historical documents and for bypassing noisy training material.

We propose to leverage public vulnerability scanners to examine the servers where online digital projects are hosted and list their common vulnerabilities. Provided in an anonymized, aggregated fashion, this assessment will shed light on our hypothesis: cyber threats are a significant factor in the degradation of online projects.

A blueprint for establishing a workflow for generating research data in humanities research projects using the example of the project Exil.Trans. FAIR criteria as well as Linked Open Data principles and ontology-based modeling are addressed.

This paper applies a sound studies approach to a literary studies use case: Using a mixed-methods approach, we investigate whether there is a correlation between the description of sounds and suspenseful text passages in a 19th-century English novel corpus. Our hypothesis is that suspenseful passages contain more detailed descriptions of the story's soundscape than unsuspenseful passages.

PUDEL is a new service for sharing and documenting DH data models. It is developed as a free and open-source software, and can easily be included into existing DH research practices. It provides institutions, researchers and specialists with the tools for sharing and preserving their data models.

This contribution discusses how collaboration between content holder, researchers, software engineers, experts in digitisation and in corpus building has drastically improved the digitisation workflow and the output of a corpus of 17th century newspapers.

In this panel we offer a multifaceted and interdisciplinary perspective on the development of the Sloane Lab. We contextualise it both within a wider, nationally-funded drive to make the UK's cultural heritage, and information about it, computationally tractable and the more internationally-positioned work of 'Collections as Data'.

This paper contributes to the assessment of various – possibly impacting – factors during the collection of ground truth data for training HTR-systems. By scrutinising different parameters (e.g. scribal hands, handwriting styles, spelling profiles, textual genres, etc.) we will report on the impact of various train-target combinations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Deep Learning and Transfer Learning are rapidly advancing text and image classification in many disciplines (e.g., Lucas et al. 2022, Huang et al. 2022, Kumar et al. 2020). With the progressing digitisation of cultural heritage, AI increasingly finds applications in arts and humanities disciplines as well (Cetinic et al. 2019, Saleh / Elgammal 2016). It is evident that AI technologies open new possibilities for processing and analysing large, heterogeneous historical data corpora in a semi-automated way (Im et al. 2022). But do they have the potential to “overturn intellectual legacies” and to revolutionise the field? In the project Ottoman Nature in Travelogues (ONiT 2023) we strive to leverage the application of AI technologies to historical research by developing an interdisciplinary methodological framework for the semi-automated, AI-driven analysis of text–image relations. Our object of study is a large multilingual corpus of travelogues printed 1501–1850 (Rörden et al. 2020) that contains representations of Ottoman “nature” (i.e., flora, fauna, landscapes) both in text and image. This short presentation focuses on our first results achieved for improving image classification of historical prints (i.e., mostly woodcuts, engravings, and etchings). We present our approach to robustly identify and classify key image types in our corpus and discuss challenges and lessons learned during this process. &nbsp

OstData is a research data service for Central, East, and Southeast European Studies. Based on its fine-grained metadata schema and faceted classification system, the research data repository and discovery system enables interdisciplinary collaboration as opportunity and fosters networking of national and international research communities, research infrastructures, and funders.

I will present the project of building a database of historical Polish lexicons. The most important dictionaries with Middle Polish material will be digitized in steps: HTR recognition, XML tagging, morphosyntactic tagging. We intend to prepare the API that could be connected with sources of Middle Polish or Latin used in Poland.