Can I believe what I see? Data visualization and trust in the humanities

S Boyd Davis, O Vane, F Kräutli - Interdisciplinary Science …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Questions of trust are increasingly important in relation to data and its use. The authors focus
on humanities data and its visualization, through analysis of their own recent projects with …

Historical insights at scale: A corpus-wide machine learning analysis of early modern astronomic tables

O Eberle, J Büttner, H El-Hajj, G Montavon… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Understanding the evolution and dissemination of human knowledge over time faces
challenges due to the abundance of historical materials and limited specialist resources …

[HTML][HTML] CorDeep and the Sacrobosco Dataset: Detection of Visual Elements in Historical Documents

J Büttner, J Martinetz, H El-Hajj, M Valleriani - Journal of Imaging, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in object detection facilitated by deep learning have led to numerous
solutions in a myriad of fields ranging from medical diagnosis to autonomous driving …

Digital perspectives in history

A Siebold, M Valleriani - Histories, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article outlines the state of digital perspectives in historical research, some of the
methods and tools in use by digital historians, and the possible or even necessary steps in …

An Ever-Expanding Humanities Knowledge Graph: The Sphaera Corpus at the Intersection of Humanities, Data Management, and Machine Learning

H El-Hajj, M Zamani, J Büttner, J Martinetz, O Eberle… - Datenbank …, 2022 - Springer
The Sphere project stands at the intersection of the humanities and information sciences.
The project aims to better understand the evolution of knowledge in the early modern period …

Inflating the social aspects of cognitive structural realism

MD Beni - European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Inspired by Ronald Giere's (1989, 1992) cognitive approach to scientific models,
Cognitive Structural Realism (CSR) has presented a naturalist account of scientific …

The Network of Early Modern Printers and Its Impact on the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: Automatic Detection of Awareness Relationships

M Valleriani, M Vogl, H El-Hajj, K Pham - Histories, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work describes a computational method for reconstructing clusters of social
relationships among early modern printers and publishers, the most determinant agents for …

Earth scientists and sustainable development: Geocomputing, new technologies, and the humanities

S Trevisani, PD Omodeo - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
This opinion paper discusses some of the challenges and opportunities that earth scientists
face today in connection with environmental problems. It focuses on aspects that are related …

Cidoc2vec: Extracting information from atomized cidoc-crm humanities knowledge graphs

H El-Hajj, M Valleriani - Information, 2021 - mdpi.com
The development of the field of digital humanities in recent years has led to the increased
use of knowledge graphs within the community. Many digital humanities projects tend to …

The Hidden Praeceptor: How Georg Rheticus Taught Geocentric Cosmology to Europe

M Valleriani, B Federau, O Nicolaeva - Perspectives on Science, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
A corpus of 360 distinct early modern printed editions (from 1472 to 1650) containing
Johannes de Sacrobosco's Tractatus de sphaera is “dissected” into a corpus of 540 text …