News
16.05.2022 | General, Press Releases
From the note box to the Internet and back: Low German digital and networked
Researchers at the Universities of Rostock and Trier are developing a first component of a digital network of Low German dialect dictionaries and their sources.
29.04.2022 | Jobs, Project News
We are looking for reinforcements for our team!
Join the team of the Competence Center - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)! We are looking for reinforcements in the project “Wossidlo Teuchert” online.
12.04.2022 | General
Happy Easter
We would like to thank you for your cooperation and wish you sunny holidays!
30.03.2022 | Project News, Academic exchange
CLS Research: Report and Video published
The team of the project “Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure” around Christof Schöch, Evgeniia Fileva and Iiulia Dudar has summarized the most commonly used approaches in CLS research as part of the European collaborative project "Horizon 2020". The research results were documented and prepared in a user-friendly video format to specify the infrastructure requirements for the research community.
29.03.2022 | General
“MiMoText” team attending DH2022
We are happy! The contribution of the team “MiMoText” to the conference “Digital Humanities 2022 - Responding to Asian Diversity”, was accepted as a short presentation.
11.03.2022 | General, Press Releases
DHd2023: „Open Humanities, Open Culture“
From March 13th to 17th, 2023, two universities in the Greater Region, Trier and Luxembourg, will co-host DHd2023, the largest scientific conference for Digital Humanities.
09.03.2022 | General
SUCHO/Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online
The researchers of TCDH would like to take this opportunity to point out the SUCHO.org initiative, through which the DH community can make its contribution to identify and archive threatened Ukrainian cultural heritage. All information and documentation about it can be found on the mentioned homepage. In addition, you can find very good tutorials, workflows, etc., as well as general information on how the DH community can currently get involved.
08.03.2022 | General, Project News
Skandal-KULTUR reloaded: 3rd blog online
The last blog is about the final work, and in addition, the project participants from TCDH and Freies Deutsches Hochstift take a first look at the Scandal platform, which will be released on May 13, 2022 and presented at Freies Deutsches Hochstift.
03.03.2022 | General, Press Releases
Statement on Ukraine
The TCDH is deeply concerned and worried about the images and news reaching us from Ukraine. Our centre has many international connections, and we fear for our Ukrainian colleagues and their families as well as for staff and students at our university and the TCDH. Our thoughts are with them in great solidarity.
24.02.2022 | General, Project News, Academic exchange
#DHd2022 “Cultures of digital memory” starts
At the 8th annual conference of the association “Digital Humanities in the German-speaking World (DHd)” from March 7 - 11, 2022, the German-speaking digital humanities community will come together to exchange ideas about the latest developments, technologies, and projects in the field. This year, the University of Potsdam and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam are hosting the DHd conferences, which have been organized since 2014 and have regularly attracted over 600 participants in the past.
18.02.2022 | Jobs
Fellowship for a Postdoctoral Researcher
In the framework of the funding programme “Forschungsinitiative” of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH) at the University of Trier, Germany, is offering (with a planned start no earlier than 1st May 2022) a fellowship for a postdoctoral researcher on a temporary position as Research Assistant (m/f/d, FTE, Remuneration Group TVL-13, 100%) with a duration of 12 months. The fellowships are connected to the project “Mining and Modeling Text: Interdisciplinary Applications, Informational Development, Legal Perspectives” (MiMoText).
17.02.2022 | Jobs, Project News
Short-term fellowships for PhD students in the “MiMo-Text” project announced
In the framework of the funding programme “Forschungsinitiative” of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH) at the University of Trier, Germany, is offering several Fellowships for Doctoral Students. Each fellowship has a duration of 3–6 months (with a planned start no earlier than 1st May 2022), depending on the requirements of the proposed fellowship project. The fellowships are connected to the project “Mining and Modeling Text: Interdisciplinary Applications, Informational Development, Legal Perspectives” (MiMoText).
15.02.2022 | General, Project News
News from the #dictionarynetwork!
The linguistic research tool “Wörterbuchnetz” has been extended by further word sections of the Goethe Dictionary (GWb) as well as linked to the platform for dialect research of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
04.02.2022 | Press Releases, Project News
Over 600 scattered letters from Henrik Steffens will be digitally networked
With the start of another digital letter edition, the year 2022 begins extremely successfully for the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH). Dr. Marit Bergner from the Institute for Northern Europe at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Dr. Thomas Burch (TCDH) will be working on the collaborative project “The Correspondence of the Natural Philosopher Henrik Steffens (1773-1845). A scholarly indexing and virtual merging” over the next three years - funded by the German Research Foundation - the scattered letter stock of all about 600 discoverable letters and other first-person documents of Steffens will be merged into a digital collection.
26.01.2022 | General, Project News
Digitizing and Electronic Edition of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Correspondence
With the release of the new version on January 26, 2022, numerous neutranscriptions are again online. In addition, the entire correspondence of August Wilhelm Schlegel with the circle around Germaine de Staël - insofar as it has been preserved or is accessible - is now published in full text and with an index. The letters were edited, marked up, and prepared for publication by the project team at the University of Marburg.
20.01.2022 | General, Events, Academic exchange
What is the value of things? Concepts of an Economy of Collection.
From July 18 to July 29, 2022, the international Summer School of the Research Network Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel (MWW) will take place at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel - co-organized by the Head of Research Area“Digital Literary and Cultural Studies” Joëlle Weis.
19.01.2022 | General, Events, Academic exchange
Articles from the Trier dictionary network in the hands-on exhibition “Happiness. About collecting and sharing“
Individual articles from the Trier Dictionary Network are used in the participatory exhibition "Happiness. On Collecting and Sharing" in the form of QR codes on the exhibits. These word lots in a jar are a hands-on element attached to the exhibition furniture to the Gottfried August Bürger Museum. It invites visitors to discover a fraction of Gottfried August Bürger's invented vocabulary. This digital, interactive and contemporary format for communicating the articles of the Trier Dictionary Network shows how the research tool is not only used by scholars, but also provides the general public with quick access to linguistic background knowledge in exhibitions.
11.01.2022 | General, Press Releases, Project News
A digital letter edition on the sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies is now starting at TCDH.
Already in December 2021, the starting signal was given for a newly approved three-year letter editing project at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), the Schleswig-Holstein State Library (SHLB) and the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH): the DFG-funded project “Ferdinand Tönnies Letters: A Digital Edition”.
03.01.2022 | General
New Year's greetings
The team of the TCDH wishes its project partners, colleagues and students a happy new year.
29.12.2021 | General, Project News
A new Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch has been published
The recently published volume of the Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch contains an edition report by Maria Dötsch, Claudia Bamberg and Matthias Bremm on the project “Digital Edition of Peter Fasbender's Pilgrimage Report”.
18.12.2021 | General, Press Releases
A year of new developments is ending. #DHinTrier2021
The year 2021 is coming to an end and we would like to take this moment to look back on an busy year together with you and get in the mood for a new year together.
17.12.2021 | General, Press Releases
Latest issue of the research magazine "konzenTRiert" published
Read in the latest issue of the research magazine "konzenTRiert" how the board of directors has repositioned the center and why we are saying: "We speak fluent D and H.".
16.12.2021 | General, Project News
Legal Manual published
In order to make analysis results comprehensible and verifiable, it is a desideratum of the Digital Humanities to present short parts of analyzed texts. From the perspective of this discipline, this can offer added value to the analysis results of text and data mining. However, these short parts of texts may be protected by copyright.
14.12.2021 | General, Press Releases
Dr. Joëlle Weis is responsible for the research area “Digital Literary and Cultural Studies”
As of December 1, 2021, Dr. Joëlle Weis has joined the team of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH) as the new head of the research area “Digital Literary and Cultural Studies”. In close cooperation with the Management Board and together with research partners, staff and students, she will develop and be responsible for new ideas and projects, especially in the third main pillar of the Center for Digital Humanities, the “Digital Literary and Cultural Studies”.
27.11.2021 | General
Opening the Advent calendar doors
The TCDH Advent calendar campaign is presented in a very special way this year, we open the digital doors on our Twitter account @CDHTrier.
16.11.2021 | General
A new publication on “MetaLEX” has been released
As part of the “MetaLEX” project, a new publication by Claudine Moulin and Christof Schöch has been published Open Access.
10.11.2021 | General, Events, Project News
The diverse program for the DH's annual conference in Potsdam is now complete
Three submissions from the project teams “Mining and Modeling Text” (Research Initiative Rhineland-Palatinate) and “Zeta und Konsorten” (DFG) were accepted at DHd 2022.
08.11.2021 | General
Scandal CULTURE reloaded: 2nd blog online
In the second of a total of three blogs, those involved in the project from TCDH and the Freies Deutsches Hochstift provide insights into the current work on the digital scandal platform.
26.07.2021 | General, Events, Project News
Digital Appetizers - available on Youtube
The Trier Center for Digital Humanities has relaunched its Dictionary Network.
15.07.2021 | General, Project News
Digital Edition of the August Wilhelm Schlegel Correspondence: Version 7-21 is online
With the new update, the TCDH team technically ensures the medium-term availability of the Digital Edition of the Correspondence of August Wilhelm Schlegel. With the new version, Schlegel's complete correspondence with Germaine de Staël has been made available online.
09.07.2021 | General, Press Releases
Exploring linguistic heritage in the digital age
The “Joint Science Conference” has approved the “Text+” network. This nationwide initiative has set itself the goal of preserving text- and language-based research data in the long term and enabling their broad use in science. It is thus starting after several years of preparation and will initially be funded for five years by the German Research Foundation.
08.07.2021 | General, Project News
Scandal CULTURE reloaded: 1st blog online
The first blog on the project "Skandal-KULTUR reloaded" has been published.
15.06.2021 | General, Events, Press Releases
Germany-wide Digitaltag, June 18, 2021
TCDH will take you on a journey through the world of words on the nationwide Digitaltag 2021 together with the Vice President for Research and Infrastructure of the University of Trier, Prof. Dr. Georg Müller-Fürstenberger and officially relaunch the new website of the Trier Dictionary Network.
11.06.2021 | General, Press Releases
Nothing is as Constant as Change
The website of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH) has been completely revised, both technically and in terms of content, and is now characterized by a modern design. This reflects the personnel and structural changes of the past months as well as the three new research areas.
31.05.2021 | Press Releases, Project News
Digital Letter Edition on the Freiberg Naturalist Abraham Gottlob Werner is Online
Since the end of May 2021, the digital edition of the letters to the Freiberg naturalist Abraham Gottlob Werner has been online as a beta version. Around 700 letters to Werner can be viewed in open access, together with information on the context of the correspondence.