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    Wikipedia as a source of historical knowledge: applying digital source criticism

    Dive into our newest lesson on Ranke.2 designed to revolutionize your approach to Wikipedia as a born-digital source for historical research.

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    Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance

    Joint lecture Series “ from the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).

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    Public Historians Unite: C²DH Hosts the 7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History

    From September 3 to 6, the C²DH at the University of Luxembourg, the headquarters of the IFPH, hosted over 300 public historians.

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    Creativy and AI – recording

    Recording of the conference with Alban Leveau-Vallier on Creativy and AI (12 June 2024).

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    C²DH goes global… Participation of A. Fickers in the conference “The Most Documented War: Ethics and Practice of International Collaborations” in Lviv

    From 6 to 8 June 2024 in Lviv (Ukraine), Andreas Fickers participated in a conference about collecting and archiving materials about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

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    Opportunities, challenges and next steps: A look back at the first Impresso workshop with partners

    What exactly does the Impresso project want to achieve with its research objectives in Natural language processing, design and history? What are the technical, conceptual and methodological challenges we face? How can we facilitate secure access to data with respect to copyright restrictions? These questions stood at the core of the first on-site Impresso workshop…

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    Mariupol. A Hundred Nights – A Story Not Yet Forgotten

    Thoughts about the animation film "Mariupol. A Hundred Nights" by Sofiia Melnyk and Andrii Palatnyi portraying a young girl who loses her family and home in Mariupol following the Russian invasion in 2022.

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    Forced labor at GDR prison – animated in award-winning “Kaputt” animation

    How does one visualize the tragic past of the Hoheneck imprisoned forced laborers, a reality that remained unseen for years? Three German directors, Volker Schlecht, Max Mönch, and Alexander Lahl, took on this daunting task by conducting extensive oral history research and transforming their findings into the award-winning animation “Kaputt.”

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    History’s New Chatty Companion: Putting the Chat Eluxemburgensia to the Test

    Members of the research area Contemporary History of Luxembourg and participants of the Strand Colloquium for Digital and Transnational History had a workshop to assess the capabilities of the Chat Eluxemburgensia, an AI-powered chatbot designed to provide historical information in response to natural language queries. The workshop identified the chatbot's strengths in answering specific, structured…

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    Werkstattbericht: Workshop rund um Re-Use digitalisierter Zeitungen & Zeitschriften in Darmstadt

    Ein zweitägiger Workshop zur Nachnutzung digitalisierter historischer Zeitungen und Zeitschriften fand am 13. und 14. Mai 2024 in Darmstadt statt.

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