There will be no teaching on May 6.

You can still meet in the room to discuss the topics and possible projects.

What is information in the humanities and cultural heritage? How does it relate to data, know-how and knowledge? How is it negotiated, historically as well as presently?

These are the main questions to be discussed and experimented on this semester. We will talk German and English based on what we are most comfortable with, while also enabling a crossover between the two langauges, connecting thinking in the German speaking world to international discussions in English.

Keywords:

  • Trees
  • Graphs and networks
  • Relational databases
  • Maps
  • Models
  • Grammars
  • Information tagging
  • Ontologies
  • Annotations

Semester plan

  • 2026-04-15. No teaching, preparation for April 22
  • 2026-04-22. Discussion: what is this topic?
  • 2026-04-29. Introduction to information and its forms of representation. Slides.
  • 2026-05-06. Planning project cycle 1
  • 2026-05-13. Project cycle 1. Slides.
  • 2026-05-20. Project cycle 1 results
  • 2026-06-03. Planning project cycle 2
  • 2026-06-10. Project cycle 2
  • 2026-06-17. Project cycle 2
  • 2026-06-24. Project cycle 2 results
  • 2026-07-01. Planning project cycle 3
  • 2026-07-08. Project cycle 3
  • 2026-07-15. Project cycle 3
  • 2026-07-22. Project cycle 3 results

During the project cycles, selected topics will be presented and discussed in class.

Student work

  • To April 22: Prepare a 3–5 minutes introduction on the topic of the Übung: Information in the humanities and cultural heritage: context, relations, and networks from your perspective. Language: German or English.

Students who are intereted are welcome to develop their work in this Übung into a conference presentation, for instance, for:

  • The CIDOC CRM SIG meeting in Cologne, February 16–19, 2027
  • DHd 2027 in Marburg, Germany, March 1–5, 2027
  • DH 2027 in Galway, Ireland, June 28–July 3, 2027

or another conference of your choice.

We can also discuss the possible development into project proposals, using the project cycles as preliminary tests.

Studienleistung

Run and report on three project cycles. Take active part in the discussions, integrating previous knowledge and scholarly and cultural interests.