Academic staff. Main focus: Digital Medieval Studies, Linked Open Data, Image Analysis, Digital Codicology and Paleography.
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Hannah Busch studied German-Italian Studies (BA) at the Universities of Bonn and Florence and Textual Scholarship (MA) at the Free University of Berlin. She then worked as a research associate at the Trier Center for Digital Humanities from 2013 to 2018. From 2018 to 2022, Hannah was a PhD candidate within the project “Digital Forensics for Historical Documents” at the Huygens Instituut (KNAW) in Amsterdam and at Leiden University. In her doctoral thesis, she is working on the application of deep machine learning methods for the dating and localization of medieval Latin manuscripts. Her research interests also lie in various areas of digital medieval studies, in particular the (mass) digitization of medieval written documents and experimentation with computer-aided methods for manuscript research. Since June 2023, Hannah has been a research assistant at the CCeH in the academy project Formation of Europe .
In addition to her work at the CCeH, Hannah is a member of the DFG Network Open Middle Ages and the editorial team of the science blog Mittelalter – Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte. She is a founding member of the Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee and co-editor of the podcast Coding Codices.
Since October 2023, Hannah is representing the Mittelalterblog as a member of the Manuscript Portal’s academic advisory board.
publications (selection)
“Script Analysis in a World of Anonymous Writers”. Abstract and poster. Digital Humanities Conference 2019, 09/07 – 12/07, Utrecht, Netherlands. doi:10.34894/W3I1F5.
“Aktuelle Situation der RSEs: Karriere – welche Karriere?” Research Software Engineering in den Digital Humanities (DH-RSE). 2018. https://dh-rse.github.io/workshop/dhd2018/karriere/anerkennung/arbeitsbedingungen/2018/08/20/aktuelle-situation-der-rses-karriere-welche-karriere.html. [together with Klaus Rettinghaus, Torsten Schrade and Stefan Schulte]
Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 4 / Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 4. (Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 11.) Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2017. http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/7774/. [together with Franz Fischer and Patrick Sahle (ed.), with the collaboration of Bernhard Aßmann, Philipp Hegel and Celia Krause]
“Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Materialität. Kodikologie und Restaurierungswissenschaft im Zeitalter der (Massen-)Digitalisierung.” DHd 2018 | Kritik der digitalen Vernunft, Köln, 28.02.2018. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4622332. [together with Eva Bös]
“Automatic Layout Analysis and Storage of Digitized Medieval Books.” Digital Philology 6.2 (2017), 196–212. [together with Philipp Hegel]
Coding Codices. Episode 11: “Multispectral Imaging.” March 4, 2022. https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/episode-11-multispectral-imaging/.