Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 – 12:30
at HG154 (Vortragsraum), VMP3
Registration: [email protected]
In our era of vast technological developments, digital methods have unlocked a broad spectrum of new research possibilities, not only in the natural sciences but also in the social sciences and the humanities. Digital preservation, new tools for distant reading, and quantitative text analysis have revolutionized knowledge extraction from texts. However, as these fields are largely dominated by the Global North, research involving materials in languages from beyond that sphere often faces limitations that hinder the utilization of novel technologies.
The workshop “How to Preserve Diverse Data in a Monolingual Environment,” to be held on February 14 at the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, is part of an initiative to address this asymmetry. The research project Closing the Gap in Non-Latin-Script Data (based at the Freie Universität Berlin), in cooperation with the Referat für Digitale Forschungsdienste at the SUB Hamburg, has been conducting a survey and analysis of the field of Digital Humanities with a focus on low-resource and non-Latin-script (NLS) languages. The aim is to identify technical and structural limitations that may arise across various stages of projects working with such languages, particularly in terms of data analysis and sustainable data preservation. Furthermore, Closing the Gap strives to set an example for multilingual DH research aligned with FAIR principles, offering its workflows and solutions as guidelines for the community.
The goal of this workshop is twofold. First, members of the Closing the Gap team will present some of the data that the project has collected and the workflows that have been developed, as well as preliminary insights from this research—thereby providing an overview of challenges that are commonly faced in multilingual DH. Second, the workshop is intended to create a space for open discussion and exchange of ideas among DH practitioners, librarians, and others who are interested in improving the conditions for working with NLS textual data.
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M. Xenia Kudela (January 19, 2024). Workshop: How to Preserve Diverse Data in a Monolingual Environment: Introducing the Project Closing the Gap in Non-Latin-Script Data (14.02). Closing the Gap in Non-Latin-Script Data. Retrieved April 16, 2026 from https://ctg.hypotheses.org/75