News
26.09.2022 | General, Events, Project News
Trier Center for Digital Humanities team presents at “Digital Humanities 2022” conference
A team of researchers from the Trier Center for Digital Humanities presented their work at Digital Humanities 2022, the annual conference of the International Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). This year's Digital Humanities Conference was held under the motto “Responding to Asian Diversity” and took place in Tokyo on July 25-29 2022, but remotely for the majority of the participants.
15.09.2022 | General, Academic exchange
Wide range of projects
Three months go by pretty fast. Unfortunately, we already have to say goodbye to our fellow Sofia Justham Bello. She was part of the team this summer and was able to get a taste of the tasks and challenges of our projects. Sofia has briefly summarized her impressions:
14.09.2022 | General, Project News
Pathbreaking
In 2022, five new jurisdictional guidelines have been published as part of the "IRDT PaperSeries" series, identifying legal problems from the Mining and Modeling Text project.
27.07.2022 | General, Project News
The MiMoText team published tutorial
The aim of the MiMoTextBase tutorial is to give users, with or without prior knowledge, an impression of the graph, the corpus of French Enlightenment novels, and the potential of Linked Open Data.
18.07.2022 | Press Releases, Project News, Academic exchange
Making early baroque poetry digitally explorable
“Nevertheless be undaunted! Nevertheless do not give up!” The beginning of one of his best-known poems, “To himself,” exemplifies how his texts reflect the literary, artistic, scientific, and confessional discourses and spheres of life typical of the 17th century. Since June 2022, Fleming's complete works have been reedited using digital methods as part of the eight-year research project “Complete Edition of the Latin and German Works of Paul Fleming with Translation of the Latin Works and Commentary and Indexes to the Complete Works.”
12.07.2022 | General
“Dictionaries and Society”
EURALEX 2022 will start today in Mannheim Castle and will offer experts from 43 countries the opportunity for scientific exchange until Saturday.
07.07.2022 | General, Project News, Academic exchange
New Fellows!
As part of our fellowship programs, we currently welcome two fellows of different academic career stages to the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH) at Trier University.
![August Wilhelm Schlegel: Digitale Edition der Korrespondenz [Version-01-22]. Datengeber: Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Mscr.Dresd.e.90,XIX,Bd.21,Nr.10 (Handschrift), hier Digitalisat S. ; https://august-wilhelm-schlegel.de/version-01-22/briefid/2300.](/sites/default/files/styles/mittel_kleiner/public/2022-06/Forschungskolloquium%20des%20TCDH%283%29_0.png?itok=GBQCwrmm)
27.06.2022 | General
Workshop on the Letter Correspondents of Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel
A two-day workshop on the exhibition at the German Romantic Museum in Frankfurt am Main, which will focus on Friedrich von Hardenberg's and Friedrich Schlegel's correspondence with renowned female authors of their time, will be held under the direction of the literary scholar Prof. Dr. Frederike Middelhoff (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt).
24.06.2022 | General, Events, Project News, Academic exchange
ELEXIS Showcase Event in Florence
With the words “Review and preview of the research work at the same time!” our project member Anne Klee summarizes her conference impressions from Florence for the final conference of the Horizon 2020 project ELEXIS “European Lexicographic Infrastructure”.
22.06.2022 | General, Project News, Academic exchange
The digital Goethe dictionary is linked with Goethe editions
The Trier Dictionary Network continues to grow! In the future, access to further external resources will be possible.
09.06.2022 | General, Events, Academic exchange
Shakespeare translations re-edit?
From 13.06.2022 to 16.06.2022 the conference “Die Shakespeare-Übersetzungen von August Wilhelm Schlegel und des Tieck-Kreises. Context - History - Edition” in cooperation with the Commission for the Edition of Texts since the 18th Century in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für germanistische Edition and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB) Dresden. The TCDH is co-organizer, furthermore the team will contribute with different lectures.
31.05.2022 | General
Call for Papers | DHd2023
The 9th annual conference of the association “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.” will take place at the University of Trier and the University of Luxembourg from 13 to 17 March 2023 on the topic “OpenHumanities, OpenCulture”. The organizers, the Trier Center for Digital Humanities of the University of Trier (TCDH) and the Center for Contemporary and Digital History of the Université du Luxembourg (C²DH), invite you to participate in the annual conference of the German-speaking Digital Humanities and look forward to an exciting week of conferences in the greater Trier-Luxembourg region.
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.