Linking Persons and Places from Near Eastern History: Hands-on-Data Workshop

1 Nov 2024, 16:00 → 29 Nov 2024, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Nebengebäude 1.701 (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Nathan Paul Gibson (Goethe University Frankfurt), Robert Casties (MPIWG), Sinai Rusinek, Sinai Rusinek (GNOI), Tomer Sagi (Aalborg University, Denmark)

➔ Workshop program: PDF or interactive

➔ Directions to the workshop: PDF

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Join us in Frankfurt 15–17 November, 2024 to network with DH projects and platforms working on places and persons in Near/Middle Eastern history. Students and scholars are welcome!

Before and after, during the whole month of November, we'll be working online to link places and persons from these various projects. Bring your own project data or jump in with any of the participating projects! 

At the in-person meetup in Frankfurt, we'll learn more about each dataset and discuss challenges and solutions for linking our data.

CFP Hist-ME Hands-on Workshop Frankfurt.pdf

Program

Schedule - In-person events

Zoom-2024-11-01.mp4

Zoom-2024-11-08.mp4

Friday 15 November

Arrival & check-in

Welcome

Networking: Meet & greet

1 By language

2 By region

3 By project type

16:45 Break

Platform perspectives: Introduction & goals

4 World Historical Gazetteer

5 MEHDIE

Speakers: Sinai Rusinek (GNOI), Tomer Sagi (Aalborg University, Denmark)

18:30 Dinner

Saturday 16 November

09:00 Coffee & Pastries

Note the different room (directly under the one the previous day)!

Projects in focus

• What places & persons do you have?
• What difficulties did you have matching your persons & places to other projects? Conceptual/theoretical issues (definitions)? Practical/technical challenges?
• What kind of help/features do you need to do more effective matching?
• Do you have other kinds of data (entity types) such as literary works, manuscripts/documents, that you would in future like to link with other projects?
• What benefit might your project get from linking to other projects?

6 Matching Locations from Late Ottoman Palestinians Registers

Speakers: Enes Niziplioglu (Ruhr University Bochum), Olaf Berg (Ruhr University Bochum)

7 Mūsā Ṭrābulsī's Correspondence (1732-1787)

Speaker: Habib Ibrahim (University of Tübingen)

8 Approaching Byzantium

Speaker: Nicholas Melvani (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz)

9 Discussion & problem solving

Speaker: Nathan Gibson (Goethe University Frankfurt)

10:30 Break

Projects in focus

• What places & persons do you have?
• What difficulties did you have matching your persons & places to other projects? Conceptual/theoretical issues (definitions)? Practical/technical challenges?
• What kind of help/features do you need to do more effective matching?
• Do you have other kinds of data (entity types) such as literary works, manuscripts/documents, that you would in future like to link with other projects?
• What benefit might your project get from linking to other projects?

10 Princeton Geniza Project

Speaker: Amel Bensalim (Princeton University)

11 Sacred Geography and Legends of Origin in Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels

Speaker: Nimrod Baratz (Universität Leipzig)

12 Kima: Place names in the Hebrew script. An open, attestation based, historical database.

Speaker: Sinai Rusinek (University of Haifa)

13 Discussion & problem solving

Speaker: Nathan Gibson (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Networking: Lunch & networking

Projects in focus

• What places & persons do you have?
• What difficulties did you have matching your persons & places to other projects? Conceptual/theoretical issues (definitions)? Practical/technical challenges?
• What kind of help/features do you need to do more effective matching?
• Do you have other kinds of data (entity types) such as literary works, manuscripts/documents, that you would in future like to link with other projects?
• What benefit might your project get from linking to other projects?

14 Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae

Speaker: Sven Gronemeyer (Max Weber Stiftung)

15 MAJLIS. The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World

Speaker: Maximilian de Molière (University of Munich (LMU))

16 Communities of Knowledge: Interreligious Networks of Scholars in Ibn Abi Usaybia’s History of the Physicians

Speaker: Nathan Gibson (Goethe University Frankfurt)

17 Discussion & problem solving

Speaker: Nathan Gibson (Goethe University Frankfurt)

14:30 Break

Student & participant perspectives

Responses from participants in the matching activity who didn't report on a project.

Platform perspectives: Feedback, brainstorming, & feature testing for platforms

18 MEHDIE

Speakers: Sinai Rusinek (GNOI), Tomer Sagi (Aalborg University, Denmark)

16:00 City tour & dinner

Sunday 17 November

09:00 Coffee & pastries

Note we are back on the 1st floor!

Networking: Choose 1 problem from yesterday to try to solve

10:30 Break

Projects in focus: Documenting guidelines & new data

• What places & persons do you have?
• What difficulties did you have matching your persons & places to other projects? Conceptual/theoretical issues (definitions)? Practical/technical challenges?
• What kind of help/features do you need to do more effective matching?
• Do you have other kinds of data (entity types) such as literary works, manuscripts/documents, that you would in future like to link with other projects?
• What benefit might your project get from linking to other projects?

12:00 Lunch

Platform perspectives: Documenting & clarifying feature requests

19 WHG

20 MEHDIE

Speakers: Sinai Rusinek (GNOI), Tomer Sagi (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Wrap-up discussion & next steps

Convener: Nathan Gibson (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Departure

Monday 18 November

Asynchronous matching

Tuesday 19 November

Asynchronous matching

Wednesday 20 November

Asynchronous matching

Thursday 21 November

Asynchronous matching

Friday 22 November

Asynchronous matching

Monday 25 November

Asynchronous matching

Tuesday 26 November

Asynchronous matching

Wednesday 27 November

Asynchronous matching

Thursday 28 November

Asynchronous matching

Friday 29 November

Zoom meetup: Zoom wrap-up