Data is now indispensable in the humanities and seems ubiquitous and readily available: Digitized manuscripts and prints, metadata for publications, full texts, language corpora, etc. But are these data truly usable without obstacles? And what can be done with them without significant technical effort?

At Tool Tuesday, we want to explore low-threshold and well-established methods of the Digital Humanities and try them out with concrete examples. We’ll look at what can be achieved without needing to program – from text analysis tools to the possibilities offered by (large) language models.

Tool Tuesday is explicitly aimed at those interested who have no prior experience with the respective tools and methods. No programming skills are required.

The sessions are loosely structured as a DH ‘pipeline’: from data acquisition to data transformation and processing, to the visualization of results. However, all sessions can also be attended individually.

Following each session, concrete questions and your own project ideas can be discussed.

Dates:

Starting October 28, 2025, every other Tuesday, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

October 28, 2025: Data Sources and APIs

November 11, 2025: Data Structuring with OpenRefine – please download the software beforehand

November 25, 2025: Automatic Text Recognition

December 9, 2025: Named Entity Recognition

January 13, 2026: Topic Modeling

January 27, 2026: Network Visualization with Gephi – please download and install the software beforehand

Online (Webex): Join with this link (no registration required)

Contact: Roman Kuhn