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Digital History

Coordinator

Dr. M.J.H.F. (Melvin) Wevers

Faculty of Humanities

Geschiedenis

Research description

The Digital History research group explores state-of-the-art research in Digital History by reading and discussing papers, sharing findings of ongoing research, coordinating seminars by inviting speakers, and organizing workshops to learn and/or improve digital skills.

Digital History can be characterized by three aspects:

  • Use of digital sources (databasing / querying / digitization)
  • Use of digital methods to explore, contextualise, and analyze digitized material (analysis)
  • Use of digital means to present research to academic and public (presentation / visualization)

Projects in Digital History may drawn on different types of methods and theoretical paradigms to examine historical sources. Through interactions with other scholars, this group aims to spark creativity and foster collaborative exchange.

The topics of interest (based on an internal survey) include but are not limited to:

• Annotating historical material
• HTR
• Text Mining
• Programming (Python / R)
• ABM
• Visualization
• GIS
• Network analysis
• Databases