We invite you to the lecture, organised as part of the seminar series ‘Legal History Meets Digital Humanities’ at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and held in a hybrid format on 10 December 2024 from 13:00 to 17:00.

The presentation held by Bärbel Kröger and Dr. Jörg Wettlaufer from Göttingen Academy of Science and Humanities in Lower Saxony introduces the use of the Wikidata platform, which serves as a central knowledge database in the field of Linked Open Data. The underlying Semantic Web standard will also be briefly explained to provide an understanding of the platform’s functionality and possibilities. In the second part of the lecture, the FactGrid platform will be presented. While it uses the same technical infrastructure as Wikidata, it focuses on the knowledge domain of historical research. Using practical examples from ecclesiastical history, the potential of both platforms, Wikidata and FactGrid, will be explored. The lecture aims to spark a discussion on how legal historical research might also benefit from open and interconnected datasets.

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We invite you to the lecture, organised as part of the seminar series ‘Legal History Meets Digital Humanities’ at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and held in a hybrid format on 3 December 2024 from 14:00 to 16:00.

This presentation held by Prof’in. Dr. Silke Schwandt (Bielefeld University) explores the influence of the digital condition of our society on the development of historical methods in recent years. Methods and practices in history are being transferred into the digital realm and transformed by it. The talk will use several examples from medieval legal history to explore these developments and ask for the institutional challenges and changes that come with the digital condition.

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We invite you to the lecture, organised as part of the seminar series ‘Legal History Meets Digital Humanities’ at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and held in a hybrid format on 14 November 2024 from 15:00 to 17:00.

This presentation held by Kilian Lüders (Humboldt University of Berlin) explores how digital humanities and natural language processing methods can be used to assess legal arguments, focusing on a case study of the proportionality test in the German Federal Constitutional Court decisions conducted by the LLCon research group. The project involved manually annotating court decisions and conducting descriptive analysis, while also applying machine learning to automate the recognition of proportionality tests in case law.

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We invite you to the lecture, organised as part of the seminar series ‘Legal History Meets Digital Humanities’ at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and held in a hybrid format on 22 October 2024 from 15:00 to 17:00.

In this session we will discuss the topic of scholarly digital editions. Our guest speaker Dr. Bernd Posselt (MGH) will present the experiences of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica project in the digital editing of mediaeval text sources. The talk will address the question of how digital approaches have transformed the field of editing at the MGH.

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Im Rahmen der Seminarreihe ‚Legal History Meets Digital Humanities‘ am Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie findet der Vortrag ‘Modelling Social and Legal Facts in the Context of the Semantic Data for Humanities and Social Sciences Ontology Ecosystem’ im hybriden Format am 16.05.2024 von 15:00 bis 17:00 statt.

In dieser Sitzung diskutieren wir das Thema der möglichen Anwendungen von Wissensgraphen und Linked Open Data (LOD) in der Forschung der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Unser Referent Dr. habil. Francesco Beretta (CNRS/ University of Lyon) wird über das Potenzial dieser semantischen Technologien für die gemeinsame Nutzung großer Mengen wissenschaftlicher Daten und die Förderung interdisziplinärer Innovation sprechen.

Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung und zur Anmeldung finden Sie hier. Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch.

Im Rahmen der Seminarreihe ‚Legal History Meets Digital Humanities‘ am Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie findet der Vortrag im hybriden Format am 12.12.2023 von 15:00 bis 17:00 statt.

In dieser Sitzung diskutieren wir das Thema der digitalen Nachhaltigkeit. Unser Gastreferent Dr. sc. Moritz Mähr (Universität Basel, Universität Bern) wird die Erfahrungen des Projekts Stadt.Geschichte.Basel bei der Anwendung von Nachhaltigkeitsprinzipien auf die Forschungspraxis eines digitalen Geschichtsprojekts vorstellen. Der Vortrag beleuchtet Strategien der Langzeitarchivierung und -verfügbarkeit sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen.

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Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch.