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As sources for historiographical research are transformed from repositories into dynamic resources that can be searched, the potential for finding new questions to investigate and reconstructing developments in the history of linguistics yields real promise. This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing case-studies of new methods and tools in digital humanities applied to the study of the history of language sciences.
Background: Over the years, the range of digital humanities approaches has expanded and diversified, including in the field of the history of linguistics. Early encyclopedic-type pages (such as Romanistinnen.de, now defunct, or Romanisten Lexikon http://lexikon.romanischestudien.de) organize content alphabetically, while more recent aggregators such as CorrespSearch (https://correspsearch.net), Kalliope (https://kalliope-verbund.info/), or the Phonogrammarchiv (https://catalog.phonogrammarchiv.at/) gather material according to medium. On the more massive and generalist end of this scale are sites such as Europeana (https://www.europeana.eu), Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), as well as the digitized collections of national libraries. The latter allow a variety of search methods: free text or filtering by date/author/medium/theme, etc.
Somewhere in between these poles are “person-centered” sites that contain a variety of media (e.g. the Hugo Schuchardt Archiv http://schuchardt.uni-graz.at with written, printed, photographic, ethnographic items; Coseriu Online https://coseriu.ch/ with written and audio sources) and organize these resources broadly along the same lines as the very large sites named above (free text, keyword tagging, time/place/author). At the same time, automated tools are being developed that render digitization faster (e.g. Transkribus, handwriting comparison, keyword extraction, interactive network graphs such as the model underlying Connected Papers) and are effective in dealing with large quantities of material, while still requiring a certain amount of human supervision.
Call: The workshop organizers invite contributions that demonstrate how new tools in digital humanities have helped identify questions and answers that were previously invisible (either in terms of the quantity of work that would have been involved before the digital humanities approach was applied, or because tagging or the creation of keywords brought to light a topic and highlighted its importance). Contributions are welcome from across theoretical to technical experiences and cases.
Possible themes could include, but are not limited to:
Inclusion or addition of new material or different media
Linking to or uploading to larger aggregrator sites
Planning a database, creating filters, or populating the fields
Using visualizations (timelines, maps, networks)
Collaborations across archives, collections, museums
Documentation of languages, dialects (atlases, recordings)
The organizers are in contact with researchers/projects such as Digitized Letters to Eugenio Coseriu (https://coseriu.uzh.ch), Pares (https://pares.hypotheses.org/rencontres/atelier-numerique-2026-zurich), Early Manila Hokkien (https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:emho), CREOLES (https://cris.fau.de/projects/357168197/?lang=de_DE) the Pichl collection on African languages (https://afrika.univie.ac.at/forschung/drittmittelprojekte/projekt-das-koloniale-erbe-des-wiener-afrikanisten-walter-pichl/).
Background: Over the years, the range of digital humanities approaches has expanded and diversified, including in the field of the history of linguistics. Early encyclopedic-type pages (such as Romanistinnen.de, now defunct, or Romanisten Lexikon http://lexikon.romanischestudien.de) organize content alphabetically, while more recent aggregators such as CorrespSearch (https://correspsearch.net), Kalliope (https://kalliope-verbund.info/), or the Phonogrammarchiv (https://catalog.phonogrammarchiv.at/) gather material according to medium. On the more massive and generalist end of this scale are sites such as Europeana (https://www.europeana.eu), Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), as well as the digitized collections of national libraries. The latter allow a variety of search methods: free text or filtering by date/author/medium/theme, etc.
Somewhere in between these poles are “person-centered” sites that contain a variety of media (e.g. the Hugo Schuchardt Archiv http://schuchardt.uni-graz.at with written, printed, photographic, ethnographic items; Coseriu Online https://coseriu.ch/ with written and audio sources) and organize these resources broadly along the same lines as the very large sites named above (free text, keyword tagging, time/place/author). At the same time, automated tools are being developed that render digitization faster (e.g. Transkribus, handwriting comparison, keyword extraction, interactive network graphs such as the model underlying Connected Papers) and are effective in dealing with large quantities of material, while still requiring a certain amount of human supervision.
Call: The workshop organizers invite contributions that demonstrate how new tools in digital humanities have helped identify questions and answers that were previously invisible (either in terms of the quantity of work that would have been involved before the digital humanities approach was applied, or because tagging or the creation of keywords brought to light a topic and highlighted its importance). Contributions are welcome from across theoretical to technical experiences and cases.
Possible themes could include, but are not limited to:
Inclusion or addition of new material or different media
Linking to or uploading to larger aggregrator sites
Planning a database, creating filters, or populating the fields
Using visualizations (timelines, maps, networks)
Collaborations across archives, collections, museums
Documentation of languages, dialects (atlases, recordings)
The organizers are in contact with researchers/projects such as Digitized Letters to Eugenio Coseriu (https://coseriu.uzh.ch), Pares (https://pares.hypotheses.org/rencontres/atelier-numerique-2026-zurich), Early Manila Hokkien (https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:emho), CREOLES (https://cris.fau.de/projects/357168197/?lang=de_DE) the Pichl collection on African languages (https://afrika.univie.ac.at/forschung/drittmittelprojekte/projekt-das-koloniale-erbe-des-wiener-afrikanisten-walter-pichl/).