Current and completed projects at Digital Humanities, University of Bern. Full details on the DH Bern projects page.
The Flow
Historical research increasingly benefits from digitisation, Handwritten Text Recognition, and Natural Language Processing. → Learn more
Economies of Space
Using the example of Basel, this project researches urban real estate management and the related economic discourses, practices, and actors. → Learn more
Confoederatio Ludens
CH LUDENS examines a vibrant game design and development scene in pre-Internet Switzerland. → Learn more
Bullinger digital
Handwriting models for automatic recognition of Heinrich Bullinger’s letters, in cooperation with the University of Zurich and HES-SO. → Learn more
BeNASch
Establishing a standard for projects working with pre-modern German texts. → Learn more
Bundesratsprotokolle
Processing the handwritten Swiss Federal Council minutes (1848–1903) for accessible full-text search. → Learn more
GeWiS – Grounded Knowledge
Investigating how relational databases and linked data approaches can be combined to model and interlink knowledge from the humanities. → Learn more
Text Generator for Style Imitation
How can machine-learning language models generate short texts that approximate the writing style of specific authors? → Learn more