@rmkaiser.bsky.social
PhD student working on logbooks in the Prize Papers collection | Early Modern History | Maritime History | Digital Humanities
Like all our team members, Max Herbers (l.) and Rieke Kaiser (r.) are very excited to welcome some new members to the DiViAS team! Anastasia Bauch is joining the Case Study Movement, and Paul Kirschstein takes on the coordination position at UOL.
Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen
#DiViAS
The ship papers of the Prize Papers Collection housed in the National Archives are valuable sources for tracing the capture history during the European expansion. This example includes delicate drawings of a topsail schooner.
Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen
#DiViAS #prizepapers
The case study movement presented a poster at the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association's Annual Event with the theme "Collaboration beyond Boundaries". Lots of interesting talks and great discussions about #DigitalHumanities
Funded by #zukunftniedersachsen
#DiViAS #prizepapers
Detail of a ship model (Die Stadt Elbing) - Picture: Nicole Werner.
Oliver visiting the Technikmuseum in Berlin, where an original model of a Galiot ship from the 18th century is on display. Thank you to Claudia Schuster from the Technikmuseum for the support.
Oliver and I in the Research Depot of the German Maritime Museum, first tests in the background.
Dennis Hoffmann, Oliver Urrea, Birsu Akyiฤit and me scanning the model.
A 3D ship model of the Bremen ship CONCORDIA โ captured 1758 โ is currently in development in close cooperation with Oliver Urrea from Flinders University. The model is based on historical documents from the @prizepapers.bsky.social as well as historical ship models.
#earlymodern #maritimehistory ๐๏ธ
Together with researchers and records specialists of the National Archives and @prizepapers.bsky.social, we facilitated a workshop where we discussed digitisation processes and potentials of digital humanities to engage with the printed appeal papers in record series HCA 45 and PCAP 6.
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Our researchers presented at #LeLa25 their work on transcriptions, analysis and reconstruction of shipping routes and let participants try a dashboard created by master students using AI extraction.
12.03.2025 12:35 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@jakedyble.bsky.social's wonderful new book Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe is being released today! ๐ฅณ๐ It's available Open Access, so you can download it for *free* at the link below ๐ Also in print for ยฃ28.99 from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
#MaritimeHistory #EarlyModern
During #Dhd2025 in Bielefeld, DiViAS researchers held a workshop on spatiotemporal uncertainty and how to visualise movement data of the Gunboat Albatroร's (1886) with QGIS.
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Developments in #3D-digitisation pave the way for new approaches to researching museum and archival objects that aren't possible to achieve with conventional 2D methods. In our workshop, experts from the humanities and technical sciences came together to address questions around #materiality.
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How can objects held in European museums be made accessible to the #Tlingit in Alaska? What role can #3D-digitisation play? We were honoured to welcome representatives of the Tlingit community, Joe Zuboff & Garfield George, researchers and museum professionals at the State Museum Nature and Human.
27.02.2025 14:34 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโll be sharing evidence of some of my favourite figures from this projectโ a wealthy young South Asian woman and a poetry-loving carpenter whose paths seem to have crossed at sea. Please join us! (9am EST)
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Meet our researchers working on the case study โMovement in Space and Timeโ.
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The case study โMovement in Space and Timeโ analyses early modern movements in the context of European expansion with the use of AI tools (NLP, LLMs). The transdisciplinary research traces maritime shipping routes and the provenance of museum objects from colonial contexts.
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The research network DiViAS brings together scientific methods and practices of digitising, researching and representing collection items from colonial contexts.
#research #3ddigitisation #AI #colonialcontexts #heritage #maritimehistory #museumcollections #transdisciplinary #prizepapers #divias
DiViAS systematically combines expertise from the fields of museum-, history- and cultural studies with that of technology and computer science โ including artificial intelligence, data analysis, geoinformatics and threedimensional measurement technology. Meet the heads of the project.
30.01.2025 10:13 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Tomorrow we welcome Nathan Perl-Rosenthal to our Prize Papers series. I am not only a big fan of his research, but especially of his way of writing. Great books! I look forward to learning more about his brand new research. Come and join us at 1pm. Register below #earlymodern #maritimehistory ๐๏ธ
24.11.2024 18:32 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Today is the day! The wonderful Rebecca Earle will be talking about her recent work on 'The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker' as part of the Prize Papers Talks. I've seen the slides and know it will be very, very interesting! Come along at 1pm CET (12 UK) #earlymodern #history ๐๏ธ
04.11.2024 09:16 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Will do, thank you!
02.10.2024 12:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hi! The workshop sounds very interesting, is it still possible to sign up? I couldn't find an option on the website but maybe I just missed it?
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I asked for three words that come to mind when you think of studying history. Here's what students said vs. what you all said on here:
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Group picture. Frank Marquardt (black shirt in the back) and Kristin Langefeld (blue shirt) in Prize Papers seminar room with our research students, slides in the background (saying "Prize Papers Project meet Transkribus"), happy students.
Exciting times ahead! Today our research students received an introduction to @transkribus.bsky.social from Frank Marquardt and will now be using it regularly for their work and research. Transkribus is a very helpful tool if you work with documents in at least 19 languages.
#earlymodern #history ๐๏ธ
places and times from the logbooks to create routes of ships. Since we are still at the beginning of the project I won't be able to show a lot of results yet but when first findings will be published I will share them on Bluesky!
08.09.2024 13:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Papers project, and the focus of my case study within the DiViAS project will be to use transcripts of those documents to follow early modern movement. I'm working together with my colleague who is a software engineer to use Named Entity Recognition (NER) which will enable us to extract
08.09.2024 13:38 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hi! Thank you for your interest in my work. I'm working in a research project called DiViAS, you might want to check out our website for more info: divias.de/en/the-project. I'm working with logbooks from the Prize Papers collection, as of now mostly those that are already digitised by the Prize
08.09.2024 13:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Had a great time visiting the National Archives in London where I had a look at some logbooks from the American War of Independence #earlymodern #history ๐ฆ
Thank you @lhaasis.bsky.social for the continuing support!
