Early Access Launch: The Newspaper Research Companion || Aktuelles Archive - CrossAsia

Beitrag veröffentlicht am von Anna Stryjewska

(Deutsche Version: siehe unten) Dear CrossAsia users, We are excited to share that our new service, the Newspaper Research Companion (NRC), is now available in early access! Built by the CrossAsia Lab over the past year, the NRC is an AI-powered research platform that transforms how large digitized newspaper archives can be accessed and explored. […]

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Bibliotheksbestände der Cervantes-Institute im Discovery aktualisiert || Romanistik-Blog

Beitrag veröffentlicht am von Markus Trapp
Wie die langjährigen Nutzer:innen des Discoverys des FID Romanistik wissen, weisen wir die Bestände der Bibliotheken der deutschen Cervantes Institute auch im Suchsystem des FID nach. Schließlich können diese auch interessant für die romanistische Forschung sein. Kürzlich haben wir die Bestandsdaten wieder aktualisiert, sodass Ihnen bei Ihren Recherchen immer auch die Medien aus den Cervantes-Bibliotheken … „Bibliotheksbestände der Cervantes-Institute im Discovery aktualisiert“ weiterlesen

CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks – Born-digital Dictionary of Early Chinese Buddhist Translations || Aktuelles Archive - CrossAsia

Beitrag veröffentlicht am von CrossAsia

Dear users, On June 23rd at 12:30 pm (CEST), we are pleased to host the sixth session of the CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks 2026. This session will be led by Dr. Rafal Felbur (Heidelberg University), titled “Born-digital Dictionary of Early Chinese Buddhist Translations.” In this talk, Dr. Felbur will introduce a project aimed at creating a born-digital historical […]

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CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks – From Reading to Discovery: AI-Assisted Workflows for East Asian Historical Texts || Aktuelles Archive - CrossAsia

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image source provided by Dr. What does it mean to be a historian in the age of AI? AI is not the first such shift. The digital turn quietly reshaped how historians work. It raised accessibility. A historian today starts a project at a search engine, pulls sources from a digital archive, and turns archive photographs into research data at home. As Ian Milligan puts it, “we are all digital now.” If the digital turn brought accessibility, AI brings something accessibility alone could not: machine reading at the scale of the archive itself. Why scale? Historical research moves through stages: reading, extracting, structuring, analyzing, visualizing, asking new questions. Each works on a single document but breaks at archive scale. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty hold roughly 384,000 articles across five centuries. Reconstructing the careers of even one generation of officials requires linking and reasoning across more material than a single researcher can manage. In this talk I draw on several ongoing projects, including a vision-language model fine-tuned for Manchu and an agent-based record-linkage system across the Annals and the Bangmok (civil-examination rosters), to argue that AI does not replace any step in this sequence; it changes the scale at which each becomes possible. The Manchu model does not read more carefully than a Manchu specialist, but it makes an entire archive legible. The linkage system does not match identities more carefully than a historian by hand, but it tracks the same person across sources that no individual could reconcile end to end. Once reading, linkage, and structuring scale up, questions of a different order become askable: not one official’s career, but a generation’s; not one local pattern, but the structure of bureaucratic mobility across five centuries. The historian’s craft is unchanged; what changes is what becomes askable. To be a historian in the age of AI is to treat discovery, when the data itself begins to suggest the questions, as a stage of the craft.Dear users, On June 9th at 12:30 pm (CEST), we are pleased to host the fifth session of the CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks 2026. This session will feature a presentation by Dr. Donghyeok Choi titled “From Reading to Discovery: AI-Assisted Workflows for East Asian Historical Texts.” In this talk, Dr. Choi explores how the craft of historical research […]

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Neue Lizenzen: Korea Pro || Aktuelles Archive - CrossAsia

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(English below) Liebe Nutzer:innen, Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass wir Korea Pro abonniert haben – eine Plattform mit englischsprachigen Nachrichtenartikeln und Analysen zur südkoreanischen Außenpolitik, Politik und Wirtschaft. Zusammen mit unseren bestehenden Abonnements von NK News & Pro sowie KCNA Watch steht CrossAsia-Nutzerinnen und -Nutzern nun das vollständige Angebot der Korea Risk […]

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