Center for Digital Textual Heritage

"From Boxes to Bytes" ?? The Digitization of H?jskolebladet. What does digitization look like in practice?? ? If you swipe between the two images, you will find H?jskolebladet in both pictures, however they are stored in two different ways. ???A wall of physical archive boxes containing issues of?H?jskolebladet, stored and organized for research and preservation. ???A single hard drive holding the same vast amount of textual history, making access easier, faster, and more sustainable. ? At Center for Digital Textual Heritage, we work to bridge the past and the future, ensuring that historical publications like?H?jskolebladet?are not just preserved but made digitally accessible. Digitization is not just about saving space—it’s also about?making archives searchable, and preserving cultural heritage in new and accessible ways. ?? Read more about Center for Grundtvigforskning's Carlsbergfondet project on digitizing H?jskolebladet in collaboration with Center for Humanities Computing here: https://lnkd.in/d-xfS7HA ?? Read more about digital preservation here: https://lnkd.in/dej3sJjB #Digitization #CulturalHeritage #DigitalPreservation #H?jskolebladet #Archives #DigitalHumanities

?? ?????? ??????????????: ???????????????????????? ?????????????????? ???? ?????? ????????-???????????????? ?????? ???????????????? ?????????????????? ?????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????????? The #AarhusNLP Group at the Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus Universitet, invites applications for ???????????????? three-year Postdoctoral Researcher positions. Starting date: June 1, 2025 (or as soon thereafter). The successful candidate will be physically based with the AarhusNLP Group on projects funded by the Digitaliseringsministeriets AI Initiative. This initiative stems from the 2024 national AI Strategy and is carried out in collaboration with major Danish universities, including Aarhus Universitet, K?benhavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark, and Alexandra Instituttet. The postdocs will work on cultural alignment and preference optimization of large language models (LLMs) for mid to low-resourced languages. The overarching goal is to develop advanced post-training techniques that align pre-trained transformer-based #LLMs with cultural values and linguistic conventions. By focusing on low-resource languages, this project addresses challenges such as data scarcity, cultural sensitivity, inclusivity, and the need for robust preference optimization methods that go beyond standard fine-tuning. ?????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ??????????????:? ???????????????????? ?????????????????? ????????-???????????????? ????????????????????: Exploring and designing post-training strategies (e.g., Supervised Fine-Tuning, Reinforcement Learning, or novel alignment protocols) targeting Danish and other Nordic languages. ???????????????? ?????? ?????????????? ??????????????????: Embedding Nordic cultural norms, ethical considerations, and societal values into LLMs, ensuring respectful and context sensitive language generation. ???????????????????? ???????????????????????? ?????? ????????????????????: Enhancing model performance on non-differentiable properties, including user satisfaction, cultural appropriateness, and domain-specific quality measures (e.g., information retrieval or question-answering for Nordic use cases). ?? For more information about the positions and how to apply, visit https://lnkd.in/dfUqHJAm #PostdocPosition #LargeLanguageModels ?? AU Foto

?? How to #digitize... when your data is not easily accessible? At the?Center for Digital Textual Heritage, a recurring challenge we encounter is how to effectively digitize materials when data is dispersed across multiple locations or when it is not feasible to physically collect and centralize resources. ?? For scholars and practitioners in?digital humanities, one potential solution to this challenge is the use of the?#ScanTent - tool designed for reliable, high-quality document scanning. ScanTents are now produced in various models, including the version featured in the image, which is manufactured by?Transkribus by read-coop sce. ?? This method offers an accessible and efficient means of generating high-resolution digital images, particularly when a smartphone is the only available device. In the context of Danish?cultural and textual heritage, where valuable sources such as?bibles, psalm books, or the works of N.F.S. Grundtvig?may be difficult to access in centralized archives, such mobile digitization solutions provide a practical and scalable approach for preservation and scholarly research. ?? Read more about our digitisation process here on our website: https://cas.au.dk/en/cdh ?? https://lnkd.in/dFs8kX_D

We are already looking forward to #DHNB2026 in Aarhus, Denmark! ??

It's a sunny and beautiful final day of the #DHNB Conference 2025 and beautiful may also be the right word to sum up this week!?? After a beautiful conference dinner at Estonian National Museum last night, friday marks of the end of DHNB - Digital Humanities in the Nordic & Baltic Countries - a conference that indeed has been full conversations, questions and collaborations! ??Futhermore, we were also gathered for the last beautiful key note where Meelis Kull, University of Tartu talked us through "Humans and AI: similarities, differences, and why it matters", raising valid questions of whether AI truly understands meaning, how examining the similarities and differences between human and AI cognition might help guide our choices in using these systems, and how much transparency or explainability we realistically can expect? This perfectly sums up a beautifully executed conference here in Tartu, Estonia, where a week of discussions and critical reflections on our use of AI and computational methods leads us to a broader understanding of the possibilities and limits of our own field! ?? Thank you again for the amazing organizing team! Estonian Literary Museum (Mari V?ina, Kadri Vider, liisi laineste, Olha Petrovych) Estonian National Museum (Pille Runnel, PhD, Agnes Aljas) Institute of the Estonian Language (Martin Eessalu) Tallinn University (Andres Karjus) University of Tartu (Liina Lindstr?m, Joshua Wilbur) Estonian Society for Digital Humanities - We look forward to seeing you all next year in Aarhus, Denmark for #DHNB 2026! ?? Faculty of Arts - Aarhus Universitet - Aarhus Universitet - Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Aarhus Universitet

#DHNB Day Two! ?? #Bias in historical data is often seen as a flaw, but what if we treated it as an?analytical tool? On day two of the DHNB - Digital Humanities in the Nordic & Baltic Countries Conference, Katrine Fr?kj?r Baunvig talked us through how computational methods can harness bias to uncover deeper historical insights. Using the?Digital Scholarly Edition (DSE) of Grundtvig’s Works, she discussed how data preservation strategies ensure that biases are not erased, but studied for their role in shaping cultural narratives. As #digital humanists, a key challenge for us is to evaluate how computational tools interact with bias—not as flaws to be eliminated, but as pathways to richer historical inquiry. The future of digital scholarship lies in maintaining a balance between the interpretive complexity of humanistic traditions and the power of #computational tools. Thank you to the fellow contributors to this paper: Krista, Jon and Kirsten ?? Additionally, the amazing Andrea Kocsis presented the keynote session: "More Than Feeling ? - Can Digital Humanities Rewrite Concepts from Non-digital Heritage Studies?" Andrea Kocsis?is Chancellor's Fellow in Humanities Informatics at The University of Edinburgh and her paper gave perspectives on how and when quantitative and qualitative methods might come to different conclusions, the reasons behind these instances, and points out the limitations of crowdsourced lexicon labels, lexicon-based methods and the lack of control studies and methodological triangulation. - thank you for raising very relevant and important questions! ?? Later tonight, we are looking forward to the #DHNB Annual General Meeting and the conference dinner at the Estonian National Museum Once again - thank you to the #DHNB 2025 organisers! Estonian National Museum - Estonian Literary Museum - University of Tartu Institute of the Estonian Language - Tallinn University

??#DHNB 2025 has officially begun! ?? Today, the opening of the DHNB - Digital Humanities in the Nordic & Baltic Countries Conference was marked by keynote Maciej Eder presenting “Text Analysis Is Easy, Unless It Is Not: Reliability Issues in Measuring Textual Similarities” Maciej Eder is the director of the Institute of Polish Language (Polish Academy of Sciences), chair of the Committee of Linguistics at the Polish Academy of Sciences and through his talk he raised questions regarding text analysis problems, including classification, clustering, and visualization. The first sessions have also begun with our own colleague Anne Agersnap presenting! ??To read more about Anne’s paper, you can check out hers and the other presenters' contribution in the book of abstracts here: https://lnkd.in/dkGXH3E9 - and check out Enhed for Sangforskning’s post dedicated to Anne’s paper ?? Later tonight, the opening reception will be marked by a guided tour at the beautiful University of Tartu Museum ???? Thank you to the organizers for a wonderful day! Estonian Literary Museum (Mari V?ina Kadri Vider, liisi laineste, Olha Petrovych) Estonian National Museum (Pille Runnel, PhD, Agnes Aljas) Institute of the Estonian Language (Martin Eessalu) Tallinn University (Andres Karjus) University of Tartu (Liina Lindstr?m, Joshua Wilbur) Estonian Society for Digital Humanities Faculty of Arts - Aarhus Universitet Center for Digital Textual Heritage #CulturalDynamics #TextAnalysis #DigitalHumanities #ResearchInTartu #DHNB2025 #ComputationalMethodologies

Destination ?? Estonia ???? It is 7 am at CPH airport and Anne Agersnap and Rie Eriksen are flying to #Estonia to join Katrine Fr?kj?r Baunvig , Kristoffer Nielbo and Pascale Feldkamp at #DHNB 2025 in Tartu! The next couple of days, will be full of presentations, networking and museum-tours at the wonderful venues Estonian National Museum and University of Tartu Museum! Stay tuned for the rest of the week, where we will be posting daily about #DHNB! Also, check out Enhed for Sangforskning’s page, where Anne Agersnap’s presentation on ‘Quantitative Close Reading’ and how it may be used in cultural and song studies will be posted tomorrow! See you in Estonia!??????

?? ???????? ???? ???? #???????? ???????? ???? ??????????! ???? Our team, including Kristoffer Nielbo and Pascale Feldkamp from the Center for Humanities Computing, and Katrine Fr?kj?r Baunvig and Anne Agersnap from the Center for Grundtvigforskning, is currently at DHNB - Digital Humanities in the Nordic & Baltic Countries 2025. Today, March 3rd, Katrine, Kristoffer, and Pascale presented their research at the workshop on ???????????????????????? ???? ?????? ???????????????? ???? ???????????????? ?????????????????? ???? ???????? ??????????????. ?? ????????’?? ?? ?????????? ???????? ???? ???????? ???? ??????????????????:? ?? Katrine Baunvig presented on "Word Embeddings and Semantic Graphs as Hermeneutic Strategies in Textual Analysis", focusing on the connection between qualitative and quantitative research, while emphasizing the 'hermeneutic strategies' inherent in quantitative approaches. ?? Kristoffer Nielbo presented "Modeling Change: A Framework for Event Detection in Sociocultural Dynamical Systems", offering a new method for gauging temporal trends in sociocultural contexts. ?? Pascale Feldkamp presented on gauging literary dynamics over time, focusing on experiments with novels from the Danish Modern Breakthrough (1870-1900). ?????? ??????????'?? ???????? ???? ???????? ???????? ????????! ?? On Thursday, Kristoffer will present "Multimodal Pre-training of Vision Models Yields Better Embeddings for Visual Art", showing how multimodal models enhance the quality of embeddings for visual art tasks. ?? Also on Thursday, Katrine will present "From Bias to Insight: Computational Challenges and Opportunities in the Humanities", arguing that bias in historical datasets can serve as a critical lens for deeper historical insights through computational methods. ?? Additionally, Anne Agersnap will present a collaborative effort from Center for Grundtvigsforskning titled "The Human Touch: Leveraging HITL for Quantitative Close Reading of Historical Corpora" on Wednesday. Faculty of Arts - Aarhus Universitet - Center for Digital Textual Heritage #CulturalDynamics #TextAnalysis #DigitalHumanities #ResearchInTartu #DHNB2025 #ComputationalMethodologies?

??Folk High School??Folkh?gskola??H?jskole ?? ? This week, Center for Digital Textual Heritage had the pleasure of hosting Erik Nylander, Senior Associate Professor at Link?pings universitet (Link?ping University), with Katrine Fr?kj?r Baunvig giving him the overview of what we do at Center for Grundtvig Studies, Center for Digital Textual Heritage, and Unit for Song Studies.? Nylander's research focuses on educational institutions, including folk high schools and higher vocational education. During his visit, he shared insights from his project, "The Folk High School as Mirrors of Society," (Vetenskapsr?det / Swedish Research Council) which involves digitizing archival data from Swedish folk high schools spanning 1868–2019.? ? This aligns closely with our ongoing projects, and this week involved variations of project cluster meetings at Center for Humanities Computing,?presentations of the ComSing project with Senior Researcher Lea Wier?d Borcak and presentations of various digitization-projects at Center for Digital Textual Heritage.? ?? We really look forward to follow Erik's project as it goes along and hopefully we can keep sharing our experiences and interests as new projects are developing Center for Grundtvigforskning - Enhed for Sangforskning #digital #humanities #h?jskole #folkhighschool #folkh?gskola