Rhetorische Stilmittel, werden seit jeher in Texten verwendet, um Bilder zu erzeugen, Leser zu fesseln und wichtige Punkte hervorzuheben. Unter diesen Stilmitteln ist die Vossianische Antonomasie besonders für den Einsatz von Eigennamen als rhetorische Elemente beliebt. Genauer definiert beinhaltet die Vossianische Antonomasie, dass einem Eigennamen eine bestimmte Menge von Eigenschaften oder Attributen zugeordnet wird, indem ein anderer Eigenname, der für die entsprechenden Eigenschaften allgemein bekannt ist, genannt wird. Modifizierende Phrasen, die typischerweise in Kombination mit dem letztgenannten Eigennamen auftreten, helfen, diese Attribute zu kontextualisieren. Trotz ihrer Allgegenwärtigkeit in modernen Medien ist die Forschung zu ihrer Identifizierung, Verwendung und Interpretation selten. Dies motiviert das Thema dieser Arbeit: die automatische Erkennung, Extraktion und Analyse der Vossianischen Antonomasie. Wir präsentieren mehrere Methoden zur automatisierten Erkennung des Phänomens und entwickeln einen annotierten Datensatz. Die Methoden basieren zumeist auf neuronalen Netzen. Zusätzlich stellen wir verschiedene Ansätze zur Extraktion jedes Teils des Stilmittels in einem Satz vor. Darüber hinaus führen wir sprachübergreifende Extraktionsmodelle ein und verfeinern Erkennungsmethoden für eine verbesserte Leistung bei bisher unbekannten syntaktischen Variationen des Phänomens, indem wir uns ausschließlich auf den Schlüsseleigennamen des Stilmittels konzentrieren. Außerdem befassen wir uns mit einer anderen, aber ergänzenden Aufgabe, nämlich der Extraktion des zu beschreibenden Eigennamens in einem ganzen Textabsatz. Für ein tieferes Verständnis der Vossianischen Antonomasie präsentieren wir eine explorative Analyse des entwickelten Datensatzes. Wir führen zwei interaktive Visualisierungen ein, die die einzelnen Teile des Phänomens und ihr Zusammenspiel hervorheben, um weitere Einblicke zu gewinnen. / Stylistic devices, also known as figures of speech or rhetorical devices, have always been used in text to create imagery, engage readers, and emphasize key points. Among these devices, Vossian Antonomasia, which is closely related to metaphor and metonymy, is particularly popular for employing named entities as rhetorical elements. Defined more precisely, Vossian Antonomasia involves attributing a particular set of properties or attributes to an entity by naming another named entity that is generally well-known for the respective properties. Modifying phrases, which typically appear in combination with the latter entity, help contextualize these attributes. Despite its ubiquity in modern media, the research on its identification, usage, and interpretation is rare. This motivates the topic of this thesis: The automated detection, extraction and analysis of Vossian Antonomasia. We present several methods for the automated detection of the phenomenon and create an annotated dataset. Mostly, the methods are based on neural networks. Additionally, we introduce several approaches for extracting each chunk of the device in a sentence by modeling the problem as a sequence tagging task. Moreover, we introduce cross-lingual extraction models and refine detection methods for an improved performance on unseen syntactic variations of the phenomenon by focusing solely on the key entity of the device. Furthermore, we tackle a distinct but complementary task, namely, the extraction of the entity being described in an entire text paragraph. For a deeper understanding of Vossian Antonomasia, we present an exploratory analysis of the developed dataset. We introduce two interactive visualizations that highlight the chunks of the phenomenon and their interplay to gain more insights.

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Petra Janouchová - Hellenisation of Ancient Thrace based on epigraphical evidence Abstract: More than 4600 inscriptions in the Greek language come from Thrace, the area located in the Southeastern Balkan Peninsula. These inscriptions provide socio-demographic data, allowing the study of changing behavioural patterns in reaction to cross-cultural inter- actions. Traditionally, one of the essential indications of the influence of the Greek culture on the population of ancient Thrace was the practice of commissioning inscriptions in the Greek language. By using quantitative and systematic analysis, the inscriptions can be studied from a new perspective that places them into broader regional context. I use this methodology to assess the concept of Hellenization as one of the possible interpretative frameworks for the study of ancient society. Using a spatiotemporal analysis of inscrip- tions, this research shows that epigraphic production cannot be solely linked with the cultural and political influence of Greek speaking communities. However, the phenome- non of epigraphic production is closely connected to the growth of social complexity and consequent changes in the behavioural patterns of the population. The growth in social complexity is followed by an increase of epigraphic production of public and private...

Photographs and plans are an essential source for historical research (Münster, Kamposiori, Friedrichs, & Kröber, 2018) and key objects in Digital Humanities (Kwastek, 2014). Numerous digital image archives, containing vast numbers of photographs, have been set up in the context of digitization projects. These extensive repositories of image media are still difficult to search. It is not easy to identify sources relevant for research, analyze and contextualize them, or compare them with the historical original. The eHumanities research group HistStadt4D, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) until July 2020 consists of 14 people – including 4 post-doctoral and 5 PhD researchers. Since a focal interest is to comprehensively investigate how to enhance accessibility of large scale image repositories, researchers and research approaches originate from the humanities, geoand information technologies as well as from educational and information studies. In contrast to adjacent projects dealing primarily with large scale linked text data as the Venice Time Machine project (“The Venice Time Machine,” 2017), sources addressed by the junior group are primarily historical photographs and plans. Historical media and their contextual information are being transferred into a 4D – 3D spatial and temporal scaled - model to support research and education on urban history. Content will be made accessible in two ways; via a 4D browser and a location-dependent augmented-reality representation. The prototype database consists of about 200,000 digitized historical photographs and plans of Dresden from the Deutsche Fotothek (“Deutsche Fotothek,”).

Digitalisierung generiert ‚hybride‘ Objekte, die zwar als digitale Datei lesbar und manipulierbar sind, das zugrundeliegende kulturhistorische Objekt jedoch weiterhin ‚enthalten‘. Eine Bibliothek, die Objekte aus ihren Beständen digitalisiert, begründet also eigentlich keine sog. digitale Bibliothek, sondern eine hybride Bibliothek. Im Falle musikalischer Überlieferung ist die Sachlage aufgrund der medienhistorischen Komplexität musikalischer Artefakte besonders unübersichtlich. Verschärft wird die heutige Situation noch durch die Erzeugnisse der Digital Humanities, die keineswegs bloß ‚Informationen‘ sind, sondern ihrerseits komplexe und in der Regel hybride Textgebilde, die häufig komplette digitalisierte Re-Publikationen von Kulturobjekten einbinden, die digital ‚beschriftet‘ und vernetzt werden. Das digitale ‚Dickicht‘ erfordert einen gleichsam genetischen und relationalen Katalog, in dem die konkreten kulturhistorischen Objekte in ihren konkreten Sammlungskontexten – also als Unikate – Ankerfunktion haben. / Digitization produces ‚hybrid‘ objects that are readable as digital data files but at the same time still ‚contain‘ the original cultural-historical object. In this perspective, ‚digital collections‘, ‚digital libraries‘, etc. are in fact hybrid collections, or libraries. For musical artefacts, the range of historical media is especially complex, which again concerns the digital world. Digital Humanities publications also contribute to the complex and confusing situation as they themselves are not only ‚information‘, but as a rule, complex and hybrid textual systems that often contain complete digitized re-publications of cultural objects, providing them with digital ‚inscriptions‘, and interlinking them. So the hybridity of ‚digital libraries‘ increases as soon as Digital Humanities publications are integrated. Therefore, metadata should mirror precisely the hybrid nature of the digitized/digital objects catalogued.

Die Poster-Reihe des Digital Humanities Day Leipzig 2023 (DHDL) präsentiert eine facettenreiche Sammlung von Projekten und Forschungsarbeiten aus dem “Big Tent” der Digital Humanities und zeigt eindrucksvoll die interdisziplinären Verknüpfungen und die Breite des Feldes auf. Die Beiträge stammen von Forscher:innen aus Leipzig, aus der Region Mitteldeutschland und darüber hinaus. Sie bieten Einblicke in aktuelle Forschungsprojekte und demonstrieren die Anwendung digitaler Technologien in den Geisteswissenschaften. Beim DHDL 2023 stellten über 20 Gruppen aktuelle Forschungsprojekte in einer Poster-Session vor.

This study examines the object biographies of musical instruments and the function of age in the cultural and material history of the lute. It follows the central question of why old instruments were valued more greatly than new ones and what measures had to be executed to adapt the objects to the ever-changing musical style. It traces the lute in its several cultural functions from the 17th to the 19th century: as a musical instrument, as a symbol, as a commodity, and as an object that had to be adapted, repaired, and altered by several generations of lute makers. This interdisciplinary approach uses a broad spectrum of sources from treatises, lute manuals, forewords in printed lute music, and depictions of lutes in literature, poetry, and visual arts to construct a narrative of the appreciation of old musical instruments. It investigates the material changes that were necessary to ensure their continued use by a profound study of more than 100 instruments in public and private collections. The different business models and prices in the trade of lutes are compared and connected to the common knowledge about old instruments and their brand characteristics among lute players. This study employs methods from musicology, organology, material culture studies, acoustics, economics, art history, technology, and digital humanities. This multivalent approach enhances the understanding of the general dynamics of commodities as status symbols, object biographies, and functional objects and connects them to the material and cultural history of objects using the lute as a case study. / Die Studie untersucht die Objektbiografien von Musikinstrumenten und die Funktion des Alters für die kulturelle und materielle Geschichte von Lauteninstrumenten. Sie geht der zentralen Frage nach, warum alte Instrumente höher geschätzt wurden als neue und welche Maßnahmen ergriffen werden mussten, um die Objekte an den sich ständig verändernden Musikstil anzupassen. Sie verfolgt die Laute in ihren verschiedenen kulturellen Funktionen vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert: als Musikinstrument, als Symbol, als Gebrauchsgegenstand und als Objekt, das von mehreren Generationen von Lautenbauern angepasst, repariert und verändert werden musste. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz nutzt ein breites Spektrum von Quellen wie Traktate, Lautenhandbücher, Vorworte in gedruckter Lautenmusik und Darstellungen von Lauten in Literatur, Poesie und bildender Kunst, um die Geschichte der Wertschätzung alter Musikinstrumente nachzuverfolgen. Anhand einer eingehenden Untersuchung von mehr als 100 Instrumenten in öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen werden die Eingriffe untersucht, die notwendig waren, um ihre weitere Nutzung zu gewährleisten. Die unterschiedlichen Geschäftsmodelle und Preise im Handel mit Lauten werden verglichen und mit dem Wissensvorrat unter Lautenisten über alte Instrumente und deren Markencharakteristiken in Verbindung gebracht. Die Studie verwendet Methoden aus der Musikwissenschaft, der Organologie, der materiellen Kulturwissenschaft, der Akustik, der Ökonomie, der Kunstgeschichte, der Instrumentenbautechnologie und der Digital Humanities. Der multivalente Ansatz verbessert das Verständnis der allgemeinen Dynamik von Waren als Statussymbole, von Objektbiografien funktionaler Objekte und verbindet sie mit der materiellen und kulturellen Geschichte der Objekte am Beispiel der Laute.

Der Digital Humanities Day Leipzig ist eine seit 2017 jährlich am Dies academicus stattfindende Veranstaltung des Forums für Digital Humanities Leipzig (FDHL; fdhl.info), welche die regionale und überregionale Vernetzung von DH-Akteur:innen zum Ziel hat

Social Science scholars study how the New Left - the wave of leftist governments in Latin America since 1999 - redefines leftism in the Post-Cold War. Part of this redefinition is a new social pact between the Queer community and those Latin American governments. Chapter 1 traces the ideological itinerary of this new social agreement and establishes the methodology of the study. El lobo, el bosque y el hombre nuevo (The Wolf, the Forest and the New Man) by Senel Paz reformulated the relationship between the dissident subjects of the patriarchy and the leftist state in Cuban society of the 1990s. Chapter 2 highlights Paz's text for its separation from the Cold War narratives centered on the leftist armed insurgent movements. Chapter 3 studies how the film adaptation of Paz's work globalized the argument and structured it within the Post-Cold War. Chapter 4 analyzes the theatrical adaptations of Paz's work made in Latin American countries after 1999. Two are compared from countries with New Latin American Leftist governments, Venezuela and Argentina, with others made in non-Latin American countries, the United States and Spain. The critical reception of the two theatrical adaptations done in Latin America showed the argument as part of their reality, in contrast to the representations made in the United States and Spain. Chapter 5 analyzes the repercussions of Paz's text in popular culture through the reggaeton "Fresa y chocolate."

This dissertation examines the creation of innovative scholarly environments, publications, and resources in the context of a social knowledge creation affordances engendered by digital technologies. It draws on theoretical and praxis-oriented work undertaken as part of the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL), work that sought to model how a socially aware and interconnected domain of scholarly inquiry might operate. It examines and includes two digital projects that provide a way to interrogate the meaning of social knowledge creation as it relates to early modern studies. These digital projects – A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add. 17,492) and the Renaissance Knowledge Network – approach the social in three primary ways: they approach the social as a quality of material textuality, deriving from the editorial theories of D. F. McKenzie and Jerome McGann; as a type of knowledge work that digital technologies can facilitate; and as a function of consciously designed platforms and tools emerging from the digital humanities. In other words, digital humanities practitioners are uniquely placed to move what has until now been customarily an analytical category and enact or embed it in a practical, applied way. The social is simultaneously a theoretical orientation and a way of designing and making digital tools — an act which in turn embeds such a theoretical framework in the material conditions of knowledge production. Digital humanists have sought to explain and often re-contextualise how knowledge work occurs in the humanities; as such, they form a body of scholarship that undergirds and enriches the present discussion around how the basic tasks of humanities work—research, discovery, analysis, publication, editing—might alter in the age of Web 2.0 and 3.0. Through sustained analysis of A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17,492) and the Renaissance Knowledge Network, this dissertation argues argues that scholarly communication is shifting from a largely individualistic, single-author system of traditional peer-reviewed publication to a broadly collaborative, socially-invested ecosystem of peer production and public facing digital production. Further, it puts forward the idea that the insights gained from these long-term digital humanities projects – the importance of community investment and maintenance in social knowledge projects, building resources consonant with disciplinary expectations and norms, and the necessity of transparency and consultation in project development – are applicable more widely to shifting norms in scholarly communications. These insights and specific examples may change patters of behaviour that govern how humanities scholars act within a densely interwoven digital humanities. This dissertation is situated at the intersection of digital humanities, early modern studies, and to discussions of humanities knowledge infrastructure. In content it reports on and discusses two major digital humanities projects, putting a number of previous peer-reviewed, collaboratively authored publications in conversation with each other and the field at large. As the introduction discusses, each chapter other than the introduction and conclusion originally stood on its own. Incorporating previously published, peer-reviewed materials from respected journals, as well as grants, white papers, and working group documents, this project represents a departure from the proto-monograph model of dissertation work prevalent in the humanities in the United States and Canada. Each component chapter notes my role as author; for the majority of the included material, I acted as lead author or project manager, coordinating small teams of makers and writers. In form this means that the following intervenes in discussions surrounding graduate training and professionalization. Instead of taking the form of a cohesive monograph, this project is grounded in four years of theory and practice that closely resemble dissertations produced in the natural sciences. / Graduate