ONiT

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Welcome to the ONiT Project!

This interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project analyzes Ottoman “nature”  in travelogues on the Ottoman empire, printed between 1501 and 1850. 

The leading questions are what role representations of nature played in the reports, whether and, if so, why differences occurred in diachronic and synchronic perspectives, and how the texts and images related to each other. This analysis aims to shed new light on transnational environmental and natural history.

The Digital Humanities Team at the University of Vienna and the Ottoman Nature in Travelogues (ONiT) project are pleased to announce a hackathon dedicated to exploring current challenges and solutions related to the analysis of texts, images, and multimodal sources.

Michela Vignoli was invited to present current applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Humanities at the Symposium “AI in and for Research” organised by the Austrian organisations VWGÖ, ASAI, and Praevenire (“Künstliche Intelligenz in und für die Wissenschaft”).

ONiT in Der Standard

the Austrian newspaper Der Standard published an article about our ONiT project.