Meet the RELEVEN Model Explorer, a tool that makes WissKI-based data models easier to explore, understand, and use beyond the technical backend. In this blog post, Kevin explains how it works and why it matters 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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News and updates from the ERC-funded research project RELEVEN, led by @tla.bsky.social at the University of Vienna. Website: releven.univie.ac.at
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Can AI help historians untangle who said what, and why it matters, in a world full of unreliable information? Read @jubalbarca.bsky.social's blog post to see whether LLMs can trace claims, authority, and argument in ways that could matter beyond medieval history. releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Turning research data into knowledge graphs doesn't mean messy code. Lukas introduces a Turtle-inspired approach to RDF graph generation that separates graph descriptions from construction and makes complex pipelines cleaner and more modular. Check it here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Behind every interface lies a complex technical story. Kevin takes us behind the scenes of the RELEVEN website, discussing the challenges of SPARQL tooling, scalability, and why frontend development in Digital Humanities is never "just frontend". Read it here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Our PI @tla.bsky.social and George Bruseker (TAKIN.solutions) presented PWRo, a reusable ontology developed for the RELEVEN database to model power, authority and social relations in historical prosopography, at the 2nd Prosopon Workshop in Munich last week.
Reflections from our coordinator Lale on recent milestones and the project's transition into its final technical phase 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
As their time on the project comes to an end, Katalin and Márton look back on their experiences and reflect on their key achievements. Read it here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
In their final blog post, Aleksander and @lewread.bsky.social recap the highlights of our Closing Conference, sharing insights about key presentations and lively discussions. Read more here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
From Constantinople to Kievan Rus', devotion to Archangel Michael left its mark in seals, cathedrals, and daily piety. Aleks shares his findings in a new blog post, written during a Dumbarton Oaks fellowship in Washington, D.C. Read more in here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Don't forget to sign up for our conference!!
📣Join us for the RELEVEN Conference: "Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives" 🗓️ 3–5 Sept 2025 |📍 University of Vienna (Hybrid) Exploring new digital tools and historical insights from the 11th century. 🗒️More info + program: releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
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📣Join us for the RELEVEN Conference: "Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives" 🗓️ 3–5 Sept 2025 |📍 University of Vienna (Hybrid) Exploring new digital tools and historical insights from the 11th century. 🗒️More info + program: releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
In her latest blog post, @tla.bsky.social reflects on a summer of RELEVEN highlights, including PhD defences, conference talks at IMC Leeds, and the preparations for our closing conference on 3-5 September 👀 Read her reflections here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Back from another great year at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Our RELEVEN team organized 4 panels under the theme Re-evaluating the 11th Century, covering knowledge, movement, and church politics. Big thanks to everyone who joined onsite or online! (Details & pics on the next post ⬇️) #IMC2025
Final highlight: our P.I. @tla.bsky.social gave a talk in the "From Medieval Sources to Big Data" panel titled: "That's just, like, your opinion, man": Historical Consensus and Disagreement as Structured Data. (and yes, that's a Big Lebowski quote 😄)
In this month's blog post, @lupl.bsky.social furthers his exploration of entity-aware pagination in SPARQL and shows how RDFProxy transforms paginated query results into structured and Pydantic-based API responses. Check it out here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Doctor in the house! 🎉 Our brilliant pre-doc @lewread.bsky.social is now Dr. Read!! 🙌 In his final blog post, he offers a brief insight into his PhD research on the RELEVEN project. Don't miss it ⏬ releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
We've been busy! Our coordinator just shared a project update on our latest digital tools, progress in data modeling, and something exciting coming up in September 👀 Curious what've been up to? Read our latest blog post here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Our frontend dev’s first blog post is here, sharing behind the scenes on why building a DH website is way more than just making things look pretty.🌟 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Want to know more about the sources behind our expanding corpus? Our postdoc, Katalina, shares insights into the documents she's gathered for our Italian sources collection. Read more in our latest blog post! 📜👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
How do we navigate conflicting historical narratives? 🤔 In our January blog post, Márton examines various accounts of the reconstruction of Hainburg and their implications for prosopographic research. Check out the full post here!👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
The RELEVEN project has discontinued its presence on Twitter / X. We will continue to provide news and updates on Bluesky and Mastodon [ hcommons.social/@RELEVEN ] as well as on our website releven.univie.ac.at !
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New publication in @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social ! Wherein I talk about data structures for capturing how interpretations of Byzantine lead seals evolve. journal.digitalmedievalist.org/article/id/1...
Last week @tla.bsky.social and @lewread.bsky.social participated in the 16th general conference of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, discussing digital approaches to medieval Armenian source material.
Sorry for the wait but our December blog post is finally here! This time, we’re diving into a more technical topic 👀 @lupl.bsky.social walks us through how entity-aware pagination works using SPARQL. Check it out and let us know your thoughts!🚀 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Nov&Dec: @lupl.bsky.social has submitted paper on RDFProxy for @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social. @lewread.bsky.social spoke at the Medieval Studies conference at Matenadaran on the production of a new digital corpus of Armenian colophons. And finally, we began planning next year's closing conference! 👀
Sep 2/2: @lewread.bsky.social went back to Yerevan to dive into archival research at the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. Kevin deployed the initial version of our website, and most importantly, we published our very first joint article! 🎉 ojs.elte.hu/hsce/article...
Oct: @lewread.bsky.social spoke as part of the conference "Between Athos and Antioch" in Lund on the subject of the 11th century translation programme of the Armenian Catholicos Grigos III Vkayaser. He also organized "Places of Faith, Places of Memory" workshop with RevIDEM.
Aug: @lewread.bsky.social attended DH Oxford Summer School to learn more about NLP and semantic analysis with ML. Meanwhile, Kevin has created the first version of RDF2Proxy, automating RDFProxy model configs from Wisski pathbuilder definitions.
July: 1/2: Aleks attended Byzantine Greek Summer School in Washington D.C. Meanwhile, @lewread.bsky.social organized a panel, and also delivered a paper at @imc-leeds.bsky.social titled "Conversion, Kafiyah, and Rhetorical Competition in 11th-Century Constantinople".
July 2/2: @lupl.bsky.social began building a Python library to connect SparQl results with Pydantic models. @tla.bsky.social represented our project at Armenological conference in Yerevan. It was a busy month!
May: @tla.bsky.social has given a keynote at the AIUCD conference, showing how digital methods can reshape our understanding of medieval Mediterranean histories🔎
Mar: @lewread.bsky.social headed to the Mekhitarist Monastery of San degli Armenia in Venice to work on Armenian colophon. Archival research with a lagoon view... not too shabby! 📜
Jan: we kicked off the year by welcoming @lupl.bsky.social to the team🎉 Meanwhile, Katalin launched her 2nd monograph in the Hungarian Academy in Rome - what a start to the year! 📚
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Will LLMs make ontologies like CIDOC-CRM obsolete? 🤔In our November blog post, @tla.bsky.social explains why these ‘old-school’ AI methods still play a crucial role in Digital Humanities, especially when working with sparse 11th-century data. Check it out here 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
From welcoming new team members to celebrating our first joint article, our coordinator shares a look at what's been happening lately. Read her latest reflections here👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Lewis revisited the Mesrop Mashtots Institute in Yerevan and worked on reconstructing the personal stories behind the colophons of 11th century Armenian Gospel manuscripts. Head over to our blog post to read about it! 👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Aleksandar spent July at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, enjoying the Byzantine Greek Summer School. He shares his reflections on this unforgettable experience in this blog post with some very nice pictures. Check it out here👇 releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...