Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities - HCDH

“We’ve got the Data – What now?”: Graph Data The fourth session of the workshop series “We’ve got the data – what now?”, held on 12 November 2025, focused on graph data and its use in the digital humanities. Hosted by Jonathan Gaede and...

„We’ve got the Data – What now?“ In der 4. Session des HCDH-Workshops drehte sich alles um Graph Data! Von Knoten & Kanten über Neo4j bis hin zu Wissensgraphen in den Digital Humanities.

Mehr dazu im Blog: doi.org/10.58079/15now

#DigitalHumanities #GraphData #HCDH #Neo4j

Hackathon am 13.10.2025 Hackathon: AI Between Research, Education, and Analysis On October 13, 2025, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) hosted a hackathon that brought together researchers from a variety of ...

On October 13, the @hcdh.bsky.social hosted a hackathon on "AI Between Research, Education, and Analysis". Researchers explored how transparency, open-source models & adaptive infrastructures shape the future of Digital Humanities.
hcdh.hypotheses.org/3358 #AI #HCDH #DigitalHumanities #HeidelbergUni

Dann erklärt Florian Nieser, wie ParzivAI speziell für das Mittelhochdeutsche entwickelt wird: "ParzivAI v1 → v2 - …ein offener Chatbot für das Mittelalter". @fnieser.bsky.social @hcdh.bsky.social

Digitales Ausstellungsprojekt: „Antike zum Anfassen“ – Virtual-Reality-Angebot ermöglicht spielerischen Zugang zu historischen Sammlungen der Universität Heidelberg – Vier Termine ... www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #ausstellung #vr #antike #sammlungen

Von historischen Daten zu KI – Bericht zum interdisziplinären Workshop Am 24. und 25. Oktober 2025 fand am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF) der Universität Salzburg ein zweitägiger Workshop statt, der sich an der Schnittstelle von Digital...

Nachlese(n): Von historischen Daten zu KI – Bericht zum interdisziplinären Workshop dhsalzburg.hypotheses.org/6295

Summer School “AI and Human Values” at the Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg From September 21–26, 2025, the interdisciplinary Summer School AI and Human Values took place at the Marsilius Kolleg of Heidelberg University. The event was organized as the Marsilius Academy 2025 i...

From Sept 21 - 26, the Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg & @hcdh.bsky.social hosted the interdisciplinary Summer School "AI and Human Values". Researchers explored how transparency, fairness, trust & sustainability shape AI´s impact. hcdh.hypotheses.org/3234 #AI#DigitalHumanities#HeidelbergUniversity#HCDH

Summer School “AI and Human Values” at the Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg From September 21–26, 2025, the interdisciplinary Summer School AI and Human Values took place at the Marsilius Kolleg of Heidelberg University. The event was organized as the Marsilius Academy 2025 i...

From Sept 21 - 26, the Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg & @hcdh.bsky.social hosted the interdisciplinary Summer School "AI and Human Values". Researchers explored how transparency, fairness, trust & sustainability shape AI´s impact. hcdh.hypotheses.org/3234 #AI#DigitalHumanities#HeidelbergUniversity#HCDH

Katharina ZW vor einer Folie

Dr. Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer führt zuerst in die Datenstruktur der MHDBDB ein.

Christopher mit gefalteten Händen vor einer Power Point Folie

Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social von @dhcraft.bsky.social eröffnet den Workshop mit dem Vortrag „Trust us, we are Frontier-LLMs.“ Be the Critical-Expert-in-the-Loop: Perspektiven zu AI Literacy.

Florian steht am Whiteboard und gestikuliert dynamisch

Zuvor erklärte @fnieser.bsky.social noch ein paar Basics: Was sind Vektoren? Wie funktioniert Finetuning?

Florian vor Folie

Wir haben MCPs zuhause. @fnieser.bsky.social @hcdh.bsky.social

Thomas, Florian und ein BILDSCHIRM Kiln offen

Heute am zweiten Tag des Workshops ging es in die praktische Anwendung: Mit Ollama und Kiln wurden Synthetic Data Generation und Evaluation ausprobiert. @thomasrenkert.bsky.social @fnieser.bsky.social

Thomas Renkert vor einer Folie

Nun sprechen @thomasrenkert.bsky.social und @fnieser.bsky.social über den Chatbot ParzivAI als KI-System für die Vermittlung von mittelhochdeutscher Sprache und der Geschichte des Mittelalters. @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social @hcdh.bsky.social

Interdisziplinärer Workshop “Von historischen Daten zu KI” Veranstaltung für Studierende & Promovierende der Digital Humanities, Mediävistik und Informatik, 24./25. Oktober 2025, IZMF Salzburg   Zeitplan: 24. Oktober 2025 Ab14:00 Ankommen & Kennenlernen bei K...

Jetzt aber schnell: Bis zum 12.10. noch für den kostenlosen Workshop anmelden! Mit @fnieser.bsky.social vom @hcdh.bsky.social und @chpollin.bsky.social von @dhcraft.bsky.social dhsalzburg.hypotheses.org/5820 @fb-germanistik.bsky.social @unisalzburg.bsky.social

We're kicking off our #DH lecture series next Tuesday 😊
Don't miss out on it!

mshl.is/vidburdir/dh-after-hours

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model - EPFL AI Center EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for trans...

EPFL, @ethz.ch and the @cscsch.bsky.social released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

Find out more here: ai.epfl.ch/apertus-a-fu...

@abosselut.bsky.social @icepfl.bsky.social

Apertus evaluation graph

Data Protection and Copyright Requests For removal requests of personally identifiable information (PII) or of copyrighted content, please contact the respective dataset owners or us directly llm-privacy-requests@swiss-ai.org llm-copyright-requests@swiss-ai.org

Big News! The completely #opensource #LLM #Apertus 🇨🇭 has been released today:

📰 https://www.swisscom.ch/en/about/news/2025/09/02-apertus.html

🤝 The model supports over 1800 languages and respects opt-out consent of data owners. [1/5]

von historischen Daten zu KI Interdisziplinärer Workshop Digital Humanities, Mediävistik & Informatik Anmeldung dh@plus.ac.at

"Von historischen Daten zu KI": Interdisziplinärer Workshop der Digital Humanities, Mediävistik & Informatik im Oktober an der Uni Salzburg! Meldet euch an - es ist umsonst. Wenn ihr in Heidelberg studiert, gibt es durch die Kooperation mit dem @hcdh.bsky.social Reisekostenuntersützung. 🤲

Large Language Models -- the Future of Fundamental Physics? For many fundamental physics applications, transformers, as the state of the art in learning complex correlations, benefit from pretraining on quasi-out-of-domain data. The obvious question is whether...

In a recent project and collaboration with fundamental Physics it could be shown, that it is possible and effective to incorporate an out-of-domain LLM in a simulation of astrophysical data consisting only of non-linguistic data. More informations on how this was achieved: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14757

Von der Kooperation zur Kompetenz und noch viel weiter | Heidelberg School of Education Wie kann KI als Teammitglied die Arbeit in Studium, Unterricht und beruflicher Praxis bereichern? Kollaborativer KI-Hackathon für Studierende von PH und Universität Heidelberg sowie interessierte Dozi...

🤖 Lust auf intensives Teamwork mit #KI?
‼️ Bei unserem mit @hcdh.bsky.social ausgebrachten kollaborativen #KIHackathon am Mi, 13-16 Uhr, sind noch wenige Plätze für Lehrende/Studierende @uniheidelberg.bsky.social / #PHHD frei!

#KI #AI #KITeamwork #LLMs #FutureLiteracies #HigherEd #Lehrkräftebildung

Large Language Models -- the Future of Fundamental Physics? For many fundamental physics applications, transformers, as the state of the art in learning complex correlations, benefit from pretraining on quasi-out-of-domain data. The obvious question is whether...

In a recent project and collaboration with fundamental Physics it could be shown, that it is possible and effective to incorporate an out-of-domain LLM in a simulation of astrophysical data consisting only of non-linguistic data. More informations on how this was achieved: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14757

“AI in Application”: AI teamwork – Achieving more together What does productive collaboration with AI actually look like in everyday university life? In the latest workshop of the “AI in Application” series, hosted by Dr. Florian Nieser and Dr. Thomas Renkert...

On June 2nd, the HCDH and @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social collaborated on a workshop titled "AI teamwork - Achieving more together". Thanks to our hosts, @fnieser.bsky.social and @thomasrenkert.bsky.social, and all the participants for the insightful afternoon!

Read the report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3098

Legende:

🚬: Bitte vermeiden weil ungesund!

🍿: wenig Einfluss möglich: enjoy the show

🍷: ambivalent - in Maßen und mit kritischem Blick ok

🥦: vernünftige, nachhaltige Praxis

Wir = @hcdh.bsky.social (@fnieser.bsky.social) & @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social

#KIMündigkeit #AI #LLM #uniheidelberg #phhd

GitHub - HCDH-Uni-Heidelberg/chronorhetorics-corpus: A large-scale corpus of political speeches for analyzing temporal figures and political enforcement patterns in times of change. A large-scale corpus of political speeches for analyzing temporal figures and political enforcement patterns in times of change. - HCDH-Uni-Heidelberg/chronorhetorics-corpus

Analyzing temporal rhetorics in political discourse using #TextMining, #NLP and Artificial Intelligence: Our Chronorhetorics project is now on GitHub!

Check it out here: github.com/HCDH-Uni-Hei...

#HCDH #Chronorhetorics #AI #GitHub

“We’ve got the data – what now?”: Corpus Analysis The third session of the workshop series “We’ve got the data – what now?” offered an introduction to corpus analysis. Jonathan Gaede, who prepared this workshop with David Schatz, guided participants ...

On 02.04.25, the third workshop of the series "We've got the data - what now?" took place, this time with an introduction to Corpus Analysis. Thanks to Jonathan Gaede & David Schatz for the successful workshop and thanks to all participants!

Read the report here:
hcdh.hypotheses.org/2827

#HCDH

Impact Day 2025: HCDH and CAEDHET present their projects Last week, on May 14th, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) took part in the University of Heidelberg’s Impact Day 2025 at the Neue Universität to present some of the ongoing projects ...

The HCDH participated in @uniheidelberg.bsky.social's #ImpactDay2025, presenting ongoing projects - from "Chronorethorics" to educational game concepts. Read more here: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3043

#DigitalHumanities #Heidelberg #CAEDHET #Chronorhetorics #ResearchProjects

Impact Day 2025: HCDH and CAEDHET present their projects Last week, on May 14th, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) took part in the University of Heidelberg’s Impact Day 2025 at the Neue Universität to present some of the ongoing projects ...

The HCDH participated in @uniheidelberg.bsky.social's #ImpactDay2025, presenting ongoing projects - from "Chronorethorics" to educational game concepts. Read more here: hcdh.hypotheses.org/3043

#DigitalHumanities #Heidelberg #CAEDHET #Chronorhetorics #ResearchProjects

Bericht zum CAEDHET-Hackathon (04/2025) On April 11, 2025, the CAEDHET research group held its first hackathon, where participants split into three small groups to further develop current and future projects in an intensive working atmosphe...

From TEI-XML tools for medieval texts to a linguistic AI copilot and ethical debates around the EU AI Act — here’s what CAEDHET explored at their first Hackathon.

Read the full report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/2894

#DigitalHumanities #Hackathon #AIinEducation #ComputationalLinguistics #TEI #HCDH

Bericht zum CAEDHET-Hackathon (04/2025) On April 11, 2025, the CAEDHET research group held its first hackathon, where participants split into three small groups to further develop current and future projects in an intensive working atmosphe...

From TEI-XML tools for medieval texts to a linguistic AI copilot and ethical debates around the EU AI Act — here’s what CAEDHET explored at their first Hackathon.

Read the full report: hcdh.hypotheses.org/2894

#DigitalHumanities #Hackathon #AIinEducation #ComputationalLinguistics #TEI #HCDH

Thank you! If you want there is always the opportunity of getting in touch and talk about your project with us. Also we do these kinds of workshops on a regular basis, so there will be more opportunities as well.