This page offers a tentative overview of the timing of the conference and pre-conference workshops. For a more detailed overview of the content on each day of the conference–including the titles, presenters, and abstracts–please consult the dedicated page for that day.
- Tuesday 3 June – Pre-conference Workshops
- Wednesday 4 June – Day 1
- Thursday 5 June – Day 2
- Friday 6 June – Day 3
(note: the program is subject to change).
Tuesday 3 June – Pre-conference workshops
On Tuesday 3 June, the pre-conference workshop day takes place in the NU Building of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. There are a number of workshops on offer covering many topics, tools, and methods in digital humanities. You are free to choose either a full day workshop or combine a morning offering with an afternoon offering.
You can find the complete list of workshops, and descriptions on the Workshop page.
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| W01 | Working with colonial Digital Cultural Heritage. Approaches, Tools, and Transnational Insights |
| W02 | Contextualizing and Connecting Collections of Letters (CCCL) |
| W03 | Storing oral history and qualitative interview data for reuse |
| W04 | Workshop: Design Qualitative Research on Large Text Corpora using I-Analyzer |
| W05 | Let’s talk FAIR: (Re)using FAIR vocabularies and schemas in humanities and social sciences research |
| W06 | Multilingual Digital Knowledge Production Facing Language Variation and Change: BoF Discussions, Lightning Talks, and Networking for the Humanities |
| W07 | Impresso Datalab Workshop. Programmatic Access and Annotation Services for Multilingual and Multimodal Historical Media Collections |
| W08 | So everything is biased … now what?! |
Wednesday 4 June – Day 1
Registration: 8:30-9:20
Opening Ceremony: 9:20-9:30
Opening Keynote: 9:30-10:30
Location: Auditorium
Chair: tbd
Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00
Parallel Session 1: 11:00-12:30
Session 1a
Location: tbd
- What Fans Think Greek Myth Smells Like: sea, smoke, and flower shampoo – Julia Neugarten and Marieke van Erp
- Nose Witnesses and Nosebooks: Describing Olfactory Knowledge in Cultural Heritage Collections – Arno Bosse and Inger Leemans
- Nostalgia computing: testing affective responses for digital engagement and digital preservation –Megan Gooch and Emily Fildes
Session 1b
Location: tbd
- With a Trowel in Hand and a Database in Backpack: Archaeology 2.0″ – Katarzyna Ewa Langenegger
- Strengthening small disciplines: New Perspectives on Byzantine Studies through Digital Humanities” – Sviatoslav Drach, Benedikte Löbbert, Claes Neuefeind and Jan Bigalke
- Who’s who? Towards automatically disambiguating mentions of people in Ancient Greek texts by linking to a domain specific Knowledge Base – Marijke Beersmans, Evelien de Graaf and Tim Van de Cruys
Session 1c
Location: tbd
- Performing Gender on the Early Modern Stage: a Computational and Cross-lingual Approach to Male and Female Speech in European Drama – Alie Lassche and Lucas van der Deijl
- Mapping the Real and Fictional Geographies of Avignon’s Theatre Festivals – Antonios Lagarias, Jeanne Fras, Nicolas Foucault and Clarisse Bardiot
- Measuring Words Per Second: Leveraging Speech Recognition to Analyze Rhythmic Transformations in Theatrical Creative Processes – Théo Heugebaert and Jacob Hart
Lunch: 12:30-13:30
Parallel Session 2: 13:30-15:00
Session 2a:
Location: tbd
- The times are a-changin’: présent vs passé simple in French novels (1811-2024) – Simon Gabay, Jean Barré and Florian Cafiero
- Mapping the Semantic Variations of the Words “Feminism” and “Feminist” in the French Language Belgian Press (ca. 1850 to 1950) – Isabelle Griboomont and Brecht Deseure
- Toponyms in a digital era: analysing the (un)changing nature of toponyms using the Belgian Historical Gazetteer – Léa Hermenault, Christophe De Coster and Iason Jongepier
Session 2b:
Location: tbd
Chair: tbd
- HITL, ML, and the Bible: Leveraging High-Quality Data from a Digital Scholarly Edition – Kirsten Vad, Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo and Katrine Baunvig
- Narrative Tension: Estimating Literary Quality Through Coherence and Unpredictability –Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp and Kristoffer Nielbo
- “Here’s strangeness.” A Collaborative Approach to Visualising Textual Variation – Elli Bleeker, Elena Spadini, Bram Oostveen, Beatrice Nava and Ronald Haentjens Dekker
Session 2c:
Location: tbd
- 100 DOLLAR REWARD: Exploration of a Historical Crime Journal – Liam Downs-Tepper
- Integration of Systemic Functional Grammar to improve automated sentiment analysis with GPT-4o – Lorella Viola
- LLM for Contextual Contentiousness Classification in Historical Dutch Newspapers – Yahui Zhao and Laura Hollink
Coffee Break and Poster Session: 15:00-16:30
- READ-COOP and Transkribus: A Cooperative Model for Responsible Technology – Melissa Terras, Bettina Anzinger, Günter Mühlberger, Florian Stauder, Christel Annemieke Romein and Andy Stauder
- Access to Context: Data-envelopes for Digital Cutlural Heritage in Practice – Maria Eskevich, Sebastiaan Derks, Juliette Huygen, Roeland Ordelman and Niek Verhoeff
- Making an Archive Accessible: AI and the Overijssel Case Study – C. Annemieke Romein, Jos Mooijweer and Andreas Weber
- LeTTuce PoS-Tagger: A Sprout of Innovation in Multilingual NLP – Cynthia Van Hee, Pranaydeep Singh and Els Lefever
- Boendale’s Many Faces: Modelling Historical Positionality in Jan van Boendale’s Oeuvre (c. 1280-1351?) – Caroline Vandyck
- Twi-XL & SANE: a new way of exploring the KB web collection – Iris Geldermans, Michel de Gruijter, Sophie Ham and Fedor Wiedenhof
- EXCALIBUR Glossing Service – Jan Odijk and Mees van Stiphout
- Go with the (Work)flow! Creating Reusable and Replicable Workflows for Digital Humanities Research – Anne Baillot, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Megan Black, Toma Tasovac and Matej Durco
- Sensitive data sharing: The Hows, the Whys, and the Whats – Louise de Béthune and István László Gyimes
- A Decade of Excellence: Reflecting on 10 years of Researchers-in-Residence at the KB, National Library of the Netherlands – Celonie Rozema, Steven Claeyssens and Rosemarie van der Veen-Oei
- Building DutchDraCor: A new corpus for computational approaches to Dutch drama (1500-1800) – Lucas van der Deijl and Willem Jan Faber
- Developing a Semi-automatic Annotation Workflow for Historical Toponyms: Challenges and Insights from the Itinera Nova Project – Benedikte Löbbert, Sviatoslav Drach and Claes Neuefeind
- Digitizing Historical Regesta: A Comparative Analysis of Computer Vision and Neural Network-Based OCR Methods – Dennis Kramer, Hannah Busch and Claes Neuefeind
- The Hybrid Intelligence Museum Case – Shenghui Wang, Victor de Boer, Agnes Axelsson, Maddalena Ghiotto, Loan Ho, Delaram Javdani Rikhtehgar, Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi and Anna Puzio
- Leveraging Pessoa’s Heteronymous System to Analyze Stylistic Flexibility – Gheorghe Septelici and Henry Alexander Hornung
- The Unseen Hand: Stylometric Analysis of Authorial Influence in Classic Literature – Theodora Stavroula Korma, Olga Rojas Valle and Ece Demirtas
- Unpacking the weight of spices: a preliminary exploration of long-tail contexts in the VOC trade – Gauri Bhagwat, Teresa Paccosi and Marieke van Erp
- A Medieval Source Pipeline for Distant Reading – Mart Makkink
- My Rock and My Salvation: A Geospatial Study of Fortified Churches – Liam Downs-Tepper
- The Impact of Her Decision – Apurva Chitte
- Building a Dataset of English-Language Podcasts on Apple Podcasts – Loren Verreyen
- From data to GPT-NL: using valuable data collections for Dutch large language model training – Simone van Bruggen
- Working on a Dream: Publishing and Linking Belgian Person Observations using Citizen Science – Sytze Van Herck, Rick Mourits and Lise Foket
Welcome reception and library tour: 16:30-18:00 (approximately)
A VU University Library tour and welcome reception will be organized on Thursday. Please see the social program page for more information and to register for the library tour.
Thursday 5 June – Day 2
Opening Keynote: 9:30-10:30
Location: Auditorium
Chair: tbd
Lise Jaillant – AI to Unlock Archives: Revolutionising Access to our Digital Past
Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00
Parallel Session 3: 11:00-12:30
Session 3a
Location: tbd
- A critical evaluation of tabular data extraction methods for historical climate data – Bas Vercruysse, Derrick Muheki, Krishna Kumar Chandrasekar, Julie M. Birkholz, Wim Thiery, Koen Hufkens and Christophe Verbruggen
- One-step extraction of key-value information from personal cards: automatic indexing of a 1940 Paris police control file – Christopher Kermorvant and Karen Taieb
- Filling the Gaps and Shifting Narratives: a digital methodology for collecting and analysing data for global histories – Josephine Läuferts, Teun van Kasteel and Amber Zijlma
Session 3b
Location: tbd
- A network of 19th century paintings – the oeuvre of François-Joseph Navez quantified – Fien Messens, Julie Birkholz, Marjan Sterckx, Christophe Verbruggen and Frédéric Lemmers
- Probing Transnational Networks in the History of Digital History: Uppsala 1973 and the First Historical Computing Conference – Gerben Zaagsma
- Intellectual Traditions in Ancient Greek and Latin texts: A Co-occurrence Network Approach- Evelien de Graaf
Session 3c
Location: tbd
- Form and plot: the influence of genre, author gender and quality ratings on narrative arcs in Dutch-language novels – Maaike de Jongh
- Tracing the invisible translator: stylistic differences in the Dutch translations of the oeuvre of Swedish author Henning Mankell – Martje Wijers
- Building an Evaluation Framework for Innovative Research Outputs in Social Sciences and Humanities – Magdalena Wnuk, Françoise Gouzi and Maciej Maryl
Lunch: 12:30-13:30
During this lunch break the Steering Committee meets
Parallel Session 4: 13:30-15:00
Session 4a
Location: tbd
- Distancing the writing process: A stylometric approach to the session versions of Gie Bogaert’s novel Roosevelt – Karina van Dalen-Oskam and Lamyk Bekius
- Building a Wikibase Instance for African Literary Metadata: First insights – Gijs Aangenendt, Ursula Oberst and Ashleigh Harris
- Style in Eight Syllables: Metric Annotationand Stylometry of Chrétien de Troyes andContemporaries – Florian Cafiero, Benedetta Salvati and Jean-Baptiste Camps
Session 4b
Location: tbd
- From Stage to Data : Ontologies for Performing Arts and Linked Open Data – Clarisse Bardiot, Bernard Jacquemin, Antonios Lagarias, Jeanne Fras, Nicolas Foucault, Jacob Hart and Alexandra Béraldin
- Interpretable Visual Feature Discovery using Multiple Instance Learning: A Case Study of Colonial Korean Print – Aron van de Pol, Jelena Prokic and Angus Mol
- Layouts Galore: A Multilingual, Historical OCR Pipeline for Early Modern Printed Books, as part of the VERITRACE project – Jeffrey Wolf
Session 4c
Location: tbd
- Microservice-Based Data Management and Processing: A Workflow using GitHub Repositories and Actions – Jonas Widmer and Dana Rebecca Meyer
- Multimodal Pipelines for Search and Discovery – Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton
- Supporting the Hypothesis Creation Process via Pattern Illumination in Knowledge Graphs – Xander Wilcke, Rick Mourits, Auke Rijpma and Richard Zijdeman
Coffee Break and Demo Session: 15:00-16:30
- The Antikythera Mechanism: Web-based VR as a Hypothesis Checking Tool – Thomas Weibel
- Unlock every Doc: Transkribus and Document Recognition—an interactive tutorial. – Annemieke Romein
- The New Rijksmuseum Data Services – Coen Wilders and Chris Dijkshoorn
- Flexible and generic (meta)data editor and browser: A demonstration on how to model, tweak, create, and publish your metadata with the Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI) toolkit – Menzo Windhouwer, Rob Zeeman and Liliana Melgar
- CLARIAH data Stories Editor: an open interactive environment to create and publish data-driven research narratives – Rob Zeeman, Menzo Windhouwer and Liliana Melgar
- Much to discover. KADOC’s large datasets and their research potential. – Katrien Weyns
- Digital resources of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag – Vincent de Keijzer
- The Belgian Historical Gazetteer, a tool for researchers. – Léa Hermenault
- Textlens: an online dashboard for digital text analysis – Jonas Doumen, Vincent Prins and Vincent Vandeghinste
- Navigating oral history interviews using LLM-based transcription and annotation for the Amsterdam Time Machine – Simone van Bruggen, Boudewijn Koopmans, Leon van Wissen, Ingeborg Verheul and Annette Langedijk
- Enabling new scholarly research scenarios using web APIs: the goetgevonden case – Hennie Brugman, Sebastiaan van Daalen and Marijn Koolen
Dinner 18:00 (approximately)
More information will follow about dinner, including information on location and tickets
Friday 6 June – Day 3
Parallel Session 5: 9:00-10:30
Session 5a
Location: tbd
- Modelling the enslaved as historical persons: Extending the Persons in Context (PiCo) model to fit a 19th century slave society – Rick Mourits, Thunnis van Oort, Kay Pepping and Pascal Konings
- Can we predict the collapse of human communication? Using computer simulations to finetune our theories – Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman and Freek Van de Velde
- Using Bluesky for Social Media Analysis – Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Session 5b
Location: tbd
- A Computer-assisted Stemmatic Analysis of the Medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy by Jacob van Maerlant – Sofie Moors
- Firstlings: Early Results on Attitudes towards Animals in Early Modern Dutch Texts – Arjan van Dalfsen
- Revisiting multiple-witness text alignment – Ronald Haentjens Dekker and David Birnbaum
Session 5c
Location: tbd
- Enhancing C-CLAMP: Metadata Mining and Improved Network Clustering – Tuur Schockaert, Julie Nijs, Anthe Sevenants and Freek Van de Velde
- Why Novels (Don’t) Break Through: Dynamics of Canonicity in the Danish Modern Breakthrough (1870-1900) – Alie Lassche, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni and Katrine Baunvig
Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00
Panel Session: 11:00-12:30
Panel Session 6a
Location: tbd
- Pursuing a PhD in DH: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices – Lucas van der Deijl, Milan van Lange, Alie Lassche, Ruben Ros and Kim Smeenk
Panel Session 6b
Location: tbd
- The Powers That Scrape: Ethical Considerations in Using Fan-Generated Data in the Digital Humanities – Julia Neugarten, Mona Allaert, Xiaoyan Yang and Divya Mathur
Panel Session 6c
Location: tbd
- Bridging Dimensions: Conceptualising, Developing and Exploring 3D Scholarly Editions – Costas Papadopoulos, Susan Schreibman, Kelly Gillikin Schoueri, Tim van der Heijden, Chiara Piccoli and Louise Tharandt