Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history

Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history

🤔 Curious about how CiVers will work?

📹 We’ve shared a new (German-language!) video that walks you through the core idea behind CiVers and shows the very first steps of our software development.

If you want to understand what we’re building, and why versioning and PIDs matter, this is a great place to start!

👉 Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jje8Kb8xJL0

#DigitalHumanities #academia #OpenScience #WebArchiving

Interested in data ethics and don't have any plans for next week?

For those who decide at the last minute, registration for online participation in the international conference “Data ethics for historical research in a digital era” is still open!

📆 10-11.11.25
🌐 To register: https://events.adwmainz.de/data-ethics/
Conference website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/Data-Ethics/
💰 free

#DataEthics #DH #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistory #NFDI4Memory #AI #History #Humanities #Mainz

This week I have been digging around in the #InternetArchive looking for digitised Arabic periodicals. With a bit of #Rstats and far too many hours with #XSLT and #TEI/XML spent on identifying titles based on the very patchy metadata provided by uploaders, there are quite some exciting finds.

The API returned some 4500+ items for the keywords "جريدة", "مجلة", and "صحيفة", of which I could identify 781 as pertaining to 100 individual Arabic periodicals published before 1930. Links to all of these have been uploaded to #Wikidata, which will increase their visibility to scholars and the interested public.

There are, of course, thousands of items for which I couldn’t programmatically establish a title with sufficient certainty, let alone try and link them to existing records without actually looking at the digital facsimile and reading the information provided on front-pages and mastheads.

Check out https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/wnywBGxzyyiukWWYiIQqi0smeUCu6AggKG4mOME68i3 to see the results.

#ArabPeriodicalStudies #PeriodicalStudies #DigitalHumanities

Interested in data ethics and don't have any plans for next week?

For those who decide at the last minute, registration for online participation in the international conference “Data ethics for historical research in a digital era” is still open!

📆 10-11.11.25
🌐 To register: https://events.adwmainz.de/data-ethics/
Conference website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/Data-Ethics/
💰 free

#DataEthics #DH #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistory #NFDI4Memory #AI #History #Humanities #Mainz

This week I have been digging around in the #InternetArchive looking for digitised Arabic periodicals. With a bit of #Rstats and far too many hours with #XSLT and #TEI/XML spent on identifying titles based on the very patchy metadata provided by uploaders, there are quite some exciting finds.

The API returned some 4500+ items for the keywords "جريدة", "مجلة", and "صحيفة", of which I could identify 781 as pertaining to 100 individual Arabic periodicals published before 1930. Links to all of these have been uploaded to #Wikidata, which will increase their visibility to scholars and the interested public.

There are, of course, thousands of items for which I couldn’t programmatically establish a title with sufficient certainty, let alone try and link them to existing records without actually looking at the digital facsimile and reading the information provided on front-pages and mastheads.

Check out https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/wnywBGxzyyiukWWYiIQqi0smeUCu6AggKG4mOME68i3 to see the results.

#ArabPeriodicalStudies #PeriodicalStudies #DigitalHumanities

📣 New blog post! 📝

October 14, we hosted our first #CiVers workshop at the @dai_weltweit in Berlin 🏛️ This was a great opportunity to exchange ideas on citing versioned web resources and managing research data in #archaeology and the #humanities

Read more about what we discussed 👇
🔗 https://www.dainst.org/blogs/noslug/253

#Metadata #Research #OpenScience #DigitalPreservation #WebArchiving #DigitalHumanities

While I thoroughly enjoy the wealth of old Arabic periodicals on the Internet Archive, I am also frustrated by the state of metadata. Why do people laboriously upload thousands of individual issues but provide nothing but the **one-word** title? Don’t they want the material to be found? Is there something else to it?

Take, for example, https://archive.org/details/al-masrah_202408, which is the only known digitised copy of المسرح, published by محمد عبد المجيد حلمي in Cairo from 1925 onwards. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124972737

#DigitalHumanities peeps and #Librarians, can you recommend publications on the state of the Internet Archive’s crowd-sourced metadata?

#الصحافة_العربية #ArabPeriodicalStudies #digipres #metadata #periodicalStudies

You have an PhD in #DigitalHumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #PostDoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #DHGraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at https://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/20af80cd-d585-a918-51ad-67aa2a9b70c0

You obtained a PhD in #DigitalHumanities (or a related field) and are looking at an academic career?

Reminder that we have an opening for a junior lecturer ( #postdoc) in our department at the University of #Lausanne. 80%, up to 5 years, starting Feb 1, 2026. Deadline: Nov 16.

Knowledge of French (~ B2 level) is required for teaching. Hit me up if you have any questions!

Official job posting (in French): https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=universitdP&career_job_req_id=22518&career_ns=job_listing

#ComputationalHumanities #job #AcademicJob #PostdocJob

You obtained a PhD in #DigitalHumanities (or a related field) and are looking at an academic career?

Reminder that we have an opening for a junior lecturer ( #postdoc) in our department at the University of #Lausanne. 80%, up to 5 years, starting Feb 1, 2026. Deadline: Nov 16.

Knowledge of French (~ B2 level) is required for teaching. Hit me up if you have any questions!

Official job posting (in French): https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=universitdP&career_job_req_id=22518&career_ns=job_listing

#ComputationalHumanities #job #AcademicJob #PostdocJob

After decades of research, a seemingly unremarkable find retrieved from a Roman shipwreck proved to be a sensational scientific discovery, proving that the ancient Greeks were capable of making mechanical models of the cosmos. The Antikythera Mechanism is the world‘s first known analog computer.

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/11/an-ancient-greek-computer/

My virtual replica:

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/anticythera2/

#history #sciencehistory #antiquity #archaeology #astronomy #digitalhumanities #mathematics #physics #astrophysics

You have an PhD in #DigitalHumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #PostDoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #DHGraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at https://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/20af80cd-d585-a918-51ad-67aa2a9b70c0