Embedding the Past: From Visual Artefact to Semantic Data - AI-Supported Workflows in Digital Scholarly Editing

by Prof. Michael Schonhardt (Technical University of Darmstadt)

Friday 22 May 2026, 10:00 → 11:30 Europe/Berlin

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The presentation will focus on the AI-driven datafication of historical sources, ranging from medieval manuscripts to early modern correspondence, into structured and semantic data. It will explain the Digital Editing Toolkit, a modular AI-based editorial workflow, and discuss the potential of vector embeddings and entity linking for new heuristic approaches to digitised source corpora. Finally, it will evaluate how these methods reshape the role of the editor in the age of large-scale datafication.