09.03.2025 | Conference

Data as a Bridge: Published Poster as Part of the Digital Humanities Conference 2025

From March 3rd to March 7th, the German-speaking Digital Humanities community gathered in Bielefeld for this year’s DHd conference "Under Construction: Geisteswissenschaften und Data Humanities." Nele Fuchs, our Data Scientist focusing on the field of Digital Humanities presented her poster "Data as a Bridge: Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Digital Humanities and Data Science in the DataNord Project."

Global issues like war, pandemics, and climate change shape our time – but simultaneously we are also witnessing transformative developments such as datafication and evolving gender roles. The DHd Conference 2024 in Bielefeld focused on this tension and posed the question: How can the humanities, cultural studies, and data sciences collaborate to collectively shape the experience of "being under construction"? Thus, at the heart of the discussion was the role of data in the Digital Humanities: How do we define data from a humanities perspective? How can we equally capture both analog objects (texts, architecture) and digital phenomena (internet culture, AI)? Critical discussions addressed potentials, blind spots (such as bias and sustainability), and the interdisciplinary promises of DHd – always with the aim of reinterpreting cultural practices and the data traces they leave behind.

All contributions from the conference have now been compiled in the "Book of Abstracts – DH ", including the abstract for the published poster. The poster provides an overview of how data is conceptualized in the (digital) humanities and connects this with the interdisciplinary initiatives of the DataNord project at the Data Science Center.

The "Book of Abstracts 2025 " can be found here and the published poster here .



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