The digital history and historiography axis is C2DH’s most experimental group, focused on a mix of applied and blue sky research.
In 2024 we are continuing a wide range of high profile, public-facing projects, each of which pushes the boundaries of humanities research methods and human-centered interface design. Our Luxembourg-based project teams mix a diverse array of early-career, mid-level, and senior researchers, with both technical and traditional humanities backgrounds. With a wide range of competitive external funding, these teams partner with researchers across Europe and the Americas.
Our ongoing projects are: Impresso2, DHARPA, Tropy, Zotero and Nexus Linguarum - European network for Web-centred linguistic data science.
Outreach
Our axis shares its research and software outputs widely. The interfaces and code we develop are generally released as freely-licensed, open-source software, and our team members regularly present their work at a wide range of national, regional, and international conferences. In 2023 and 2024 our teams’ work has featured or will appear at nearly 100 scientific conferences in Europe and North America.
AI
Our axis is particularly committed to investigating and exploiting the opportunities afforded by artificial intelligence. Nearly every initiative — whether ongoing or planned — now has some elements inflected by AI. Our team members all have access to paid premium accounts with the major AI players — OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude — and at our last team retreat we developed three quick prototypes of AI tools and interfaces. Going forward we have just launched an informal AI working group which provides all of C²DH a chance to share current experiments with large language models and other AI platforms.