The annual Digital Humanities Benelux conference (11th edition, “Breaking Silos, Connecting Data: Advancing Integration and Collaboration in Digital Humanities”) took place between June 5 and 7, 2024 at the Irish College in Leuven (Belgium). The CCeH was represented there with three contributions.
The first contribution Review, renewal and relaunch of the web platform for Itinera Nova – a citizen science project of the City Archives Leuven and the Cologne Center for eHumanities presented the revised web platform of the Itinera Nova project. Itinera Nova is a project of the Belgian City Archives of Leuven, which was launched in 2009 and is managed by the CCeH. The aim of the project is to digitize and make available the 1127 aldermen’s registers and 457 account books of the city of Leuven.
The second contribution Using Git repos with webhooks in a common search portal for distributed collections of Byzantine seals presented the decentralized infrastructure of the project Unlocking the Hidden Value of Seals: New Methodologies for Historical Research in Byzantine Studies and how the use of webhooks in Git repositories can be used to distribute data to the project’s various web portals.
The last contribution Mapping of family relationships and topographical information using the example of the Cologne Beguinesis a poster for the project Beguines in Cologne: Social History of Urban Piety from the 13th to the 15th Century. It describes the extraction and visualization of prosopographic and topographic data. The data comes from the records of Cologne shrine books, which deal with beguines and their properties. The aim is to use them to locate the houses associated with beguines on a historical map of Cologne and to show the beguines’ family relationships.
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