Digital Humanities
Additional Infos
- Fotis Jannidis u.a.: Digital Humanities. Eine Einführung, Stuttgart 2017.
- Karolina Dominika Döhring u.a. (Hg.): Digital History. Konzepte, Methoden und Kritiken Digitaler Geschichtswissenschaft, Berlin/München/Boston 2022.
- Christina Antenhofer u.a. (Hg.): Digital Humanities in den Geschichtswissenschaften, Wien 2024.
- Verband DHd – Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum
- DHd-Blog. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum
- forschungs.daten.info: Programmiersprachen Python und R (Sammlung von Tutorials)
- Doing Digital Humanities - A DARIAH Bibliography
- German DH Theses and Dissertations - a DARIAH-DE Bibliography
Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities stands for the combination of research methods, tools and resources in informatics and information sciences with the questions and applications in the humanities, cultural sciences, as well as language and social sciences. The aim of this interdisciplinary research area is to open a new approach to „traditional” humanities' questions through the application of digital technologies and consequently allow for new findings.
Digital Humanities Services
The university library opened its Digital Humanities Services in October 2024. The service portfolio is currently being developed. It will include consulting, further education and networking. Results of a survey (in fourth quarter of 2024) will help determine the researchers' requirements with regard to digital humanities. The survey results are expected to be presented at the beginning of the summer semester 2025. If you have any questions or need advice, feel free to contact Jonas Kaiser, the Digital Humanities Officer.
Digital-Humanities projects at the University of Oldenburg
To offer a node for exchange, networking and synergies, we will in the future list an overview of projects related to digital humanities at the university. To enter your project into this list, send an email with the project title, contact person and a link to the project's website. Should you have questions or need support, feel free to contact the Digital Humanities Officer.
Mailing list
The mailing list [email protected] will be used to announce and advertise the services offered by the BIS Digital Humanities Service. Other news, events and announcements about Digital Humanities in Oldenburg and in general will also be distributed via this mailing list.
If you would like to distribute news and content related to the Digital Humanities via this mailing list, please send a short e-mail to [email protected].
If you would like to be removed from this mailing list, please send a short e-mail to [email protected].
Consultation hour
Open consultation hour on Digital Humanities topics, from 28.04.2025 every Monday 10:00-11:00 online, no pre-registration necessary. Canceled dates will be announced here.
Workshops
06.11.2025: transcribe smart not hard – Die Vor- und Nachteile automatisierter Transkription testen anhand der (KI-)Tools noScribe, aTrain und Voice AI
10-12 Uhr, Learning Lab, BIS, Jonas Kaiser & Friederike Uhlses – Registration on stud.ip: https://elearning.uni-oldenburg.de/dispatch.php/course/overview?cid=39c982d393eb9e82d647ce7fd2bab237
20.11.2025: transcribe smart not hard – Die Vor- und Nachteile automatisierter Transkription testen anhand der (KI-)Tools noScribe, aTrain und Voice AI
14-16 Uhr, Learning Lab, BIS, Jonas Kaiser & Friederike Ulses – Registration on stud.ip: https://elearning.uni-oldenburg.de/dispatch.php/course/overview?cid=a414408c9c0283c42b0fceac8a8f2eb0
20.01.2026: Visualize your texts – Einführung in die Digital Humanities
14-16 Uhr, B 308, BIS, Jonas Kaiser –Registration on stud.ip: https://elearning.uni-oldenburg.de/dispatch.php/course/overview?cid=aca2b756b939805df8f4badad6b0f8e5
12.03.2026: Einführung in Python
09-13 Uhr, online, Jonas Kaiser & Tristan Ruhm – Registration on stud.ip: https://elearning.uni-oldenburg.de/dispatch.php/course/overview?cid=910958ce7553b4faf400ba72aca888f7
Meetup
During the WS 2025/26, a Digital Humanities meetup will take place every month on a Thursday, 14:00-15:00, at the BIS. It is aimed at all interested members and students of the UOL; each time a different topic from the diverse world of Digital Humanities is discussed.
Link: https://webconf.uol.de/rooms/vp1-kfv-8ix-j49/join
Dates (14:00-15:00):
- 23 October 2025: CATMA (text annotation tool)
- 13 November 2025: Text visualisations with Voyant
- 4 December 2025: Digital editions and knowledge graphs (presentation of Simone Franz's thesis)
Workshops
06.05.2025: „Was steht eigentlich in meinen Texten?“ – Eine Einführung in Topic Modeling
14-16 Uhr, B 147, BIS, Jonas Kaiser
05.06.2025: „Hilft mir KI bei meinen Interviewtranskriptionen?“ – KI-gestützte Transkription von Audio-Dateien mit aTrain
14-16 Uhr, B 308, BIS, Jonas Kaiser
02.07.2025: Metadaten und Forschungsdatenmanagement – Eine Einführung
10-12 Uhr, B 308, BIS, Jonas Kaiser & Christian Paulss
Meetup
Starting in the SoSe 2025, a Digital Humanities meetup will take place every month on a Thursday, 13:00-14:00, at the BIS.
It is aimed at all interested members and students of the UOL; each time a different topic from the diverse world of Digital Humanities is discussed.
Link: https://webconf.uol.de/rooms/vp1-kfv-8ix-j49/join
Dates (13:00-14:00):
- 24.04.2025 (hybrid: online and in B 218, BIS): Presentation of the Digital Humanities Service, getting to know each other, exchange and networking
- 22.05.2025 (online): Diversity of methods in Digital Humanities
- 12.06.2025 (online): Reading circle Ted Underwood; Kevin Kiley; Wenyi Shang; Stephen Vaisey: Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture, in: Sociological Science (9) 2022, S. 184-205, https://sociologicalscience.com/download/vol-9/may/SocSci_v9_184to205.pdf
- 17 July 2025 (online): Summer session: Exchange & networking
- 28 August 2025 (online): Ad fontes – Teaching & learning transcription online
- 26 September 2025 (online): Stylometry