Studies on the Prussian writer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and editions of his work are abundant. Among the many outstanding chapters of his famous journey through the American tropics, the two visits to Cuba (1800–1801/1804) stand out as a particular case. To this day very few original documents are known about his actual visits, the c…[Read more]

Folien zum Vortrag “Normdaten in der wissenschaftlichen Praxis”. Der Vortrag stellte anhand von Use Cases vor, wie Normdaten (etwa aus der Gemeinsamen Normdatei, GND) in der Wissenschaft, insbesondere bei digitalen Editionen genutzt werden. Darüber hinaus zeigte er zukünftige, weitergehende Nutzungsszenarien im Semantic Web auf. Abschließend di…[Read more]

These slides give an overview of the new version 2 of the Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF, see https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/CMIF). Please note that the slides reflect the state of development as of 6.9.2023.

The long-term Academy project Travelling Humboldt–Science on the Move publishes the American, Russian-Siberian and European Travel Journals of the Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). The journals are accompanied by thematically related letters from his world-spanning correspondence network as well as man…[Read more]

The web service correspSearch aggregates correspondence metadata from digital and printed editions (or scholarly catalogues of correspondence) and offers them for central search and retrieval. The web service is based mainly on the Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF), which is being developed within the TEI Correspondence SIG. The…[Read more]

The project establishes a co-operative network and creates a representative digital collection of already edited and printed 18th-century letters. As an infrastructure project in the DFG funding program “Digitisation and Indexing”, PDB18 does not itself pursue a research question of its own, but will enable research on epistolary exchange in the…[Read more]

Die gesamtgesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Software nimmt seit etwa zwei Jahrzehnten beständig zu. Auch wenn Anwenderinnen und Anwender dies nicht immer reflektieren, wirkt Software sich an vielen Stellen längst nicht mehr nur auf unternehmerische, sondern auch auf individuelle und teils höchstpersönliche Entscheidungs- und Mei…[Read more]

The introduction to a special issue of New Literary History titled “Culture, Theory, Data,” which explores the consequences of computation for cultural theory—and vice-versa.

The introduction begins by explaining how we came to a historical juncture where “culture” and “data” seem to be opposed terms. Then it offers some reasons for believing t…[Read more]