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Dagmar Freist @dagmarfreist.bsky.social · May 22

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Harvard, stay strong. The world needs independent and free research, international cooperation, transdisciplinary research and to embrace diversity

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · May 15

Concluding a rewarding visit to the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy with a workshop about the Printed Appeal Papers and fascinating insights into the workflow of our record specialists, conservators, and imaging operators!

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · May 16

What an impressive project and a fascinating way to bring early modern maritime history to life!

Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · May 16

A 3D ship model of the Bremen ship CONCORDIA – captured 1758 – is currently in development in close cooperation with Oliver Urrea from Flinders University. The model is based on historical documents from the @prizepapers.bsky.social as well as historical ship models.
#earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

Detail of a ship model (Die Stadt Elbing) - Picture: Nicole Werner.

Oliver visiting the Technikmuseum in Berlin, where an original model of a Galiot ship from the 18th century is on display. Thank you to Claudia Schuster from the Technikmuseum for the support.

Oliver and I in the Research Depot of the German Maritime Museum, first tests in the background.

Dennis Hoffmann, Oliver Urrea, Birsu Akyiğit and me scanning the model.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · May 16

Together with researchers and records specialists of the National Archives and @prizepapers.bsky.social, we facilitated a workshop where we discussed digitisation processes and potentials of digital humanities to engage with the printed appeal papers in record series HCA 45 and PCAP 6.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Apr 2

Provenance research is key to DiViAS! On April 9, join for Object Dating Provenance Research at Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch. Discover the histories of objects from North America & Oceania. Free entry!
www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/tdp/landesmu...
📸 Martin Henze, LMNM

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Apr 30

Transkribus is an important tool used in the DiViAS project. The case study “Movement in Space and Time” specifically benefits from the automatic transcriptions, which serve as the basis for subsequent named-entity recognition.
#DiViAS #transkribus
@rmkaiser.bsky.social

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · Apr 11

PAST Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records, 19 June 2025 at the UK National Archives – organised by our very own Dr Oliver Finnegan!

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-recor...

Looking for more information about the workshop? See the description in the comments below.

a box full of early modern letter bundles - two letters are lying on the top with the address wrapper showing.

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Dagmar Freist @dagmarfreist.bsky.social · Apr 12

Congratulations. Great first results of our transdisciplinary project @divias.bisky.social which closely cooperates with @prizepapers.bsky.social

DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Mar 27

At the FOSSGIS Conference in Münster Stefan Fuest and Maximilian Herbers presented various methods for visualising ship routes with uncertain data.

Video of the presentation: media.ccc.de/v/fossgis202...

#fossgis2025 #DiViAS #AI

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Apr 9

PNG meets DiViAS! 🌍
On April 7, researchers from Papua New Guinea, Oldenburg & Wilhelmshaven met at Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch for a workshop on colonial-era collections & digital access. Inspiring exchange & future ideas!

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Mar 12

Our researchers presented at #LeLa25 their work on transcriptions, analysis and reconstruction of shipping routes and let participants try a dashboard created by master students using AI extraction.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Mar 5

During #Dhd2025 in Bielefeld, DiViAS researchers held a workshop on spatiotemporal uncertainty and how to visualise movement data of the Gunboat Albatroß's (1886) with QGIS.

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Dagmar Freist @dagmarfreist.bsky.social · Mar 2

Wissenschaftsraum ProSaDi Provenance and Collection Research financed by the VWFoundation and the State of Lower Saxony. Great transdisciplinary project meeting at Oldenburg University with our partners. Thank you for your great presentations and questions.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Feb 27

How can objects held in European museums be made accessible to the #Tlingit in Alaska? What role can #3D-digitisation play? We were honoured to welcome representatives of the Tlingit community, Joe Zuboff & Garfield George, researchers and museum professionals at the State Museum Nature and Human.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Feb 27

Developments in #3D-digitisation pave the way for new approaches to researching museum and archival objects that aren't possible to achieve with conventional 2D methods. In our workshop, experts from the humanities and technical sciences came together to address questions around #materiality.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Feb 5

Meet our researchers working on the case study “Movement in Space and Time”.

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jan 30

The research network DiViAS brings together scientific methods and practices of digitising, researching and representing collection items from colonial contexts.
#research #3ddigitisation #AI #colonialcontexts #heritage #maritimehistory #museumcollections #transdisciplinary #prizepapers #divias

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DiViAS Project @divias.bsky.social · Jan 30

DiViAS systematically combines expertise from the fields of museum-, history- and cultural studies with that of technology and computer science – including artificial intelligence, data analysis, geoinformatics and threedimensional measurement technology. Meet the heads of the project.

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Dagmar Freist @dagmarfreist.bsky.social · Jan 30

Maischberger blendet die Beleidigungen des rechtsradikalen Tech Milliardärs Elon Musk gegen Scholz auf X in ihrer Sendung ein als Beleg für die Unpopularität des Bundeskanzlers. Der Rest des Interviews ist auf diesem Niveau. Das ist kein professioneller Journalismus der Öffentlich Rechtlichen.

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Dagmar Freist @dagmarfreist.bsky.social · Jan 20

We are online now, you can still join, highly interesting paper by Wim, see below

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · Jan 17

On Monday, 20 January, we welcome Dr Wim de Winter (KU Leuven) for the Prize Papers Talks. Paper: Marital Cooperation and Economic Agency of Maritime Women: Evidence from the Eighteenth-Century Southern Netherlands, 1pm CET.
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-...
#earlymodern #history 🗃️

Post shows: Paper title and date | Painting "The Sailor's Return, 1744", showing a sailor returning to his wife, colourful clothing, ship and harbour in the background | Portrait Wim de Winter

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Dagmar Freist @dagmarfreist.bsky.social · Jan 3

Dear followers, we are all devastated about what happened to our colleague Luan. Please consider donating, see below. And consider signing a petition to forbid private fireworks which you find here innn.it/boellerverbot

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Dagmar Freist @dagmarfreist.bsky.social · Jan 3

#Oldenburg Angesichts dieser furchtbaren Verletzungen auch in diesem Jahr von Unbeteiligten muss die Stadt aufgefordert werden, private Feuerwerke zu untersagen. Stattdessen könnte ein öffentliches Feuerwerk organisiert werden wie in anderen Ländern auch.

Felix Zimmermann @felixzimmermann.bsky.social · Jan 2

Auch in der Provinz verlief die Silvesternacht laut Nordwest-Zeitung #Oldenburg „wie erwartet“ mit Schwerverletzten etc.

Ausriss Nordwest-Zeitung mit einer Bilanz der Silvesternacht: Schwerverletzte gab es und Ärzte kämpften „um Leben und Augenlicht“

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Dagmar Freist @dagmarfreist.bsky.social · Jan 3

#Oldenburg Angesichts dieser furchtbaren Verletzungen auch Unbeteiligter ein weiteres Jahr muss die Stadt Oldenburg aufgefordert werden, private Feuerwerke endlich zu untersagen und stattdessen ein öffentliches Feuerwerk anzubieten.

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Felix Zimmermann @felixzimmermann.bsky.social · Jan 2

Auch in der Provinz verlief die Silvesternacht laut Nordwest-Zeitung #Oldenburg „wie erwartet“ mit Schwerverletzten etc.

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