@johnwoitkowitz.bsky.social
Head of Stabi Lab @stabiberlin.bsky.social | Digital Editor @ nejh.org | PhD @ucalgary.bsky.social | data curation + data viz + research infrastructure + science communication 🌐 https://lab.sbb.berlin
Participants of the hackathon.
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Participant of the hackathon
And that's a wrap for culture.explore(data)! Two days of coding and experimenting at the #StabiLab with #opendata of the @kulturspk.bsky.social and the Libraries and Museums of the @ox.ac.uk.
Learn more about the hackathon and the activities of the Stabi Lab 👉 lab.sbb.berlin/culture-expl...
📌 Save the date: In one month, on 7 and 8 October 2025, we are hosting an open cultural data #hackathon in collaboration with the #BodleianLibraries @ox.ac.uk . Registration is open until 15 September.
All information 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/cultu...
Logo of the Stabi Berlin scholarship program
Looking for ways to #research the #collections at @stabiberlin.bsky.social? Be sure to check out the #scholarship program on this year's theme "Small Forms - Between Materiality, Mediality and Genre." #Deadline for applications is September 30, 2025 => staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/extras/sp...
02.09.2025 10:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0CFP - AI for DH: Research Problems and Critical Approaches.
DHQ seeks 500-word abstracts for a special issue on AI (research problems, critical approaches, responsible applications, case studies, etc.).
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025.
More details: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html
Sem: culture.explore(data): An Open Cultural Data Hackathon
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156504
Berlin, 07.10.2025-08.10.2025, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.09.2025
Join us for our two-day open cultural data #hackathon "culture.explore(data)" @stabiberlin.bsky.social on 7&8 October 2025. Create digital projects based on #opendata and curated datasets of the @kulturspk.bsky.social and the Libraries & Museums at the @ox.ac.uk 👉 lab.sbb.berlin/culture-expl...
16.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Hallo Bluesky! 👋 Ab sofort bekommt ihr die aktuellsten News der #StabiBerlin auch direkt über euren Bluesky-Feed! Von #Veranstaltungstipps bis zur #Pressemeldung - wir halten euch auf dem Laufenden! Ihr habt eine eigene #StabiStory? Dann taggt uns unter @stabiberlin.bsky.social 🦋
20.06.2025 06:26 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️
06.06.2025 14:40 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Photo across a crowd facing front of a large, high ceiling hall, with a blue abstract image projected against a wall.
Geography and geographers are everywhere! I’m readying to listen to Inuit throat singing duo PIQSIQ in the Von Humboldt Sal in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin.
27.02.2025 18:53 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Bah! Only two days to go before the deadline passes. Hopefully the BSHS will extend the deadline... 🤞 Anyone interested in forming a panel?
08.01.2025 12:14 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Historische Netzwerke analysieren und visualisieren mit Gephi im Stabi Tool Tuesday: 📆 7. Januar, online, 13.30 Uhr. Keine Vorkenntnisse oder Anmeldung erforderlich. #DigitalHumanities blog.sbb.berlin/termin/tool-...
06.01.2025 16:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our chapter is 'Embedding Digital Humanities in the British Library: The Digital Research Team at Ten' www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Yay @bldigischol.bsky.social folk @adi-keinan.bsky.social Neil Fitzgerald @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social @rossiatanassova.bsky.social @stellawisdom.bsky.social
The first special issue for @incsa.bsky.social's new journal Advances in 19thC Research is off to the reviewers. What a momentous occasion to celebrate! The journal's official website via Taylor and Francis should be live early next year.
Details: in-csa.com/publications/
CfA: “Business History and imperialism” Special Issue of “Business History” (Post-)Colonial Business History.
pcbh.hypotheses.org/179
📣 New article published by my colleagues at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin on organizing #citizenscience and #crowdsourcing events for transcribing and annotating historical sources #DigitalHumanities #StabiLab www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
06.12.2024 13:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0En route to Vienna to learn about #CollectionsAsData, #DHLabs and #newspapers at the Austrian National Library => labs.onb.ac.at/topic/sympos...
25.11.2024 06:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities
Our book with Minnesota is out in the wild! More on the contributors and interventions to come.
20.11.2024 21:27 — 👍 101 🔁 22 💬 7 📌 5
🚨 Announcing the 2024 Ayrton Prize! 🚨
Have a digital project in the history of science, tech, or medicine? Win £300 + a feature in Viewpoint! Submit by 16 Dec, 5 PM UK (UTC+1). Eligible formats: podcasts, apps, websites & more. Details https://buff.ly/3OblzMy #HistSTM
Insightful reflections on the many ways teaching #DH, be it through workshops, lecture series or drop-ins, can help libraries to reach new audiences and potentially to intiate new collaborative projects. Particularly enjoyed the idea of micro-courses! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
18.11.2024 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Mit Daten forschen und experimentieren - aber wie? Der #StabiLab Tool Tuesday zum gemeinsamen Ausprobieren von Methoden & Instrumenten der Digital Humanities startet heute in die nächste Runde: 13.30h, online, keine Anmeldung erforderlich => blog.sbb.berlin/termin/tool-...
22.10.2024 10:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WWW: Neue Clio-Guides: Digitale Werkzeuge und Arbeitstechniken
http://www.hsozkult.de/webnews/id/webnews-150454
Neue Clio-Guides: Digitale Werkzeuge und Arbeitstechniken
Wie angekündigt, erfahrt ihr heute unser neues Thema: Unsere siebte Staffel wird sich rund um das Thema digitales Publizieren in den Digital Humanities drehen. Ein wichtiges und spannendes Thema! Übermorgen bekommt ihr dazu das erste Interview. Stay tuned!
#DigitalHumanities #Podcast #OpenAccess
Apply or submit a nomination for the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History by May 15!
26.04.2024 21:03 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Fascinating set of papers here at the Business History conf on textiles in many of the ways they intervened in daily economies and labor and industry of antebellum US. From design to mending to the very fabric of slavery. 🗃️
16.03.2024 17:13 — 👍 29 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 1
What a fantastic opportunity: Postdoc in Digital Colonial and Imperial Studies. This is the way to go! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGN168/r...
13.03.2024 05:37 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1Toller Konferenz-Bericht meiner Kollegin zur #DHd2024 in Passau: dhd-blog.org?p=20627
06.03.2024 18:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jetzt ist es raus!
Ein wunderbarer Überblick über DH in den Geschichtswissenschaften, u.a. mit einem kleinen bescheidenen Beitrag zu den "Epistemologischen Grundlagen der Anwendung digitaler Methoden in den Geschichtswissenschaften":
elibrary.utb.de/doi/book/10....
Just published! "The History of Knowledge" (Cambridge Elements) together with @johanostling.bsky.social.
Open access. Feel free to check it out and spread the word!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
"Exploring History and Digital Methods" initiative by Stabi Berlin's project IN_CONTEXT and Dean College kicked off on Nov 13th! Great to see students reflect critically on colonialism, digital collections + metadata when using XML/TEI to encode primary sources => tinyurl.com/59v59x58
27.11.2023 17:26 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Many of you are reposting our @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraiser, but not donating yourself? What stops you from donating $20 CAD? $60? We need YOU.
We're still very far away from our goal. BUT if you donate now, your donation will be matched!
fundrazr.com/92Iae5?ref=s...
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