On May 27th a German blog post with the title “Methodenkritik. Einblicke und Lessons Learned im Umgang mit Linked Open Data” by our network members Nora Ketschik and Max Grüntgens was published on the blog Mittelalter. It deals with the findings that emerged from our thematic meeting 5 with the topic “methodological criticism”, that took…
The duration of the Network Open Middle Ages was extended until July 2025. On this occasion, we would like to express our gratitude to the DFG for their flexbility. This extension gives us an invaluable opportunity to strategically consolidate our activites and foster the creation of new synergies. We are looking forward to further exchange…
Since the last network meeting held in Stuttgart, a Wikidata entry was made that contains, among other things, the various members, the study areas and references. This link leads to the entry: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122956335.
Our fifth work meeting took place on October 5th and 6th in Stuttgart. The meeting’s focus was “Method Criticism” and provided hybrid participation format for the lectures, just like the former two meetings. The network meeting was initiated on October 5th by a lecture held by Gabriel Viehhauser who delved into the topic of “Method…
Our network is providing the impulse for the issue 2025/1 of the journal “Das Mittelalter” with the title “Schnittstelle Mediävistik. Kollaborationen der Mittelalterforschung im digitalen Zeitalter”. The call for papers for this issue has been published now. We are looking forward to many abstract submissions! We ask for abstracts with approximately 300-500 words in German…
Our network member Nathanael Busch (Institut für deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Universität Marburg) wrote an article together with Diana Müller (Universitätsbibliothek Marburg, Universität Marburg) on the topic of authority control for the humanities. The article is titled “Normdaten in den Geisteswissenschaften” and provides information on the structure, purpose and use of authority control. It also…
In the winter semester 2023/24, a DH-lecture series by the IZMF with the title “Dazzling Data: Digital Humanities in Medieval Studies and Early Modern Research” will be held in Salzburg. The lecture series is organized by two network members (Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Peter Färberböck) and one of the network’s guest experts (Isabella Nicka) and, therefore, focuses…
Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer and Marco Heiles, supported by Leonie Weiß und Julia Höpfner, composed the application-oriented LOD-thesaurus “mhdbdb text series – Textreihentypologie“, which can be used to classify and annotate medieval ressources. The text series typology is a controlled SKOS-vocabulary to describe the text series/genres of the Middle High German and Early New High German literature…
On 3 and 4 April we met for our fourth meeting in Salzburg. The motto of the thematic meeting was “Interface Medieval Studies” and it included public and hybrid keynotes and spotlights as well as internal exchange and discussions of the network members and the invited guests. The meeting began with a keynote by Andrea…
This month we were at the DHd 2023 as well as at the 19th symposium of the Mediävistenverband! Luise Borek together with Philipp Hegel and Melanie Seltmann held a workshop on the topic “Mittelalterliche Quellen vernetzt denken. Das Netzwerk Offenes Mittelalter und die Infrastruktur Text+“, which offered an examination on the topic of networking through…
Our third network meeting on the topic ‘objects’ took place on 11th and 12th October 2022 in Heidelberg. It was organised by Gustavo Fernandez Riva (Heidelberg University) and Nathanael Busch (Philipps-Universität Marburg). Some members were able to be present at the meeting while others were connected digitally. On the first day of the meeting Sarah…
Reacting to the great interest in the activities of our network Linked Open Middle Ages we created the possibility of associate members. This enables an intensive exchange with the network’s members as well as with the network’s topics. While associate members do not have any duties they get the chance to participate more and attend…
Our network internal working group “Digitale Edition” met for the first time at the University of Graz (Centre for Information Modelling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities). Gustavo Riva, Luise Borek, Christopher Pollin, Helmut W. Klug and Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer dedicated a day to the topic of platforms for transcripts – from creation to publication. Resulting…
Our second thematic meeting on the topic data took place on 21st and 22nd February 2022. This meeting again was held digitally and was organized by our network members Karoline Döring and Marco Heiles. Both days of the meeting offered the workshop-method world café. On 21st February Olaf Simons (Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt), Mathias…
The results of our first thematic meeting with the topic “TEXT” have been summarized and elaborated in a blog post by Luise Borek, Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer and Nora Ketschik. This blog post offers a review of the meeting itself as well as a scientific examination of fuzzy information and ambiguous authority. The blog post can be…
Supported by Sabrina Strutz our network member Christopher Pollin created a Github-tutorial as part of our first thematic meeting #1 TEXT. This tutorial explains in detail different options to convert CSV or XML files to RDF.
Our first thematic meeting discussed the topic TEXT and took place as web conference on 04/10/21 and 06/10/21. This meeting was organized by our network members Luise Borek and Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer. Present as guests were Tara Andrews and Andreas Kuczera. Tara Andrews provided an interesting video on the subject “How might we make data collections…
On September 17th, 2021, two of our network members, Marco Heiles and Simone Schultz Baluff, together with Ina Serif (University of Basel) and Timo Balters (University of Bonn), held a session on the subject of “Experiments to capture medieval texts and manuscripts as Linked Open Data” at vDHd2021. During the session, various methods for development…
On 21st June Luise Borek and Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer discussed the topic “Linked Open Data in Medieval Studies” with Toby Burrows (University of Oxford). The panel discussion took place in the conference series The Past, Present and Future of Medieval Digital Studies and was moderated by Roman Bleier. The presented slides are available on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5111601
In the course of the activities around the Digital Medievalist’s Symposium The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Medieval Studies a poster was created which presents our DFG-network. The poster offers an overview of our aims, network members and networking possibilities. It is available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/5009001
