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We are very proud to announce that an article about our project has been published in National Geographic!

Explore our collection of c. 20,000 images using text or your own images!

The presentation reveals how the tool was created and discusses possible applications for the computer sciences and the humanities.

Metadata documentation published We are happy to present the “Travelogues

Thrilled to announce that you can now search over 22,000 of our images.

We are proud to announce that our bibliography of travelogues in Ottoman, Arabic, and Persian languages is openly accessible via Zotero.

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”).

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

Take a look at the process of scanning rare books in a major institution.

Our corpus and its enriched metadata are now accessible on the catalogue of the Austrian National Library.

Happily announcing that the Book of Abstracts of the DH 2023 conference is online.

Want to find out more about our predecessor project? Visit: https://www.travelogues-project.info/.

The "First International Symposium on Evliya Çelebi : History and Culture of Travel" takes place in Istanbul, October 5–7, 2023. The call is open until May 15!

We proudly announce that our paper "Revolution or Evolution? AI-Driven Image Classification of Historical Prints" has been accepted for presentation at the DH 2023 conference in Graz, July 10–14, 2023.

We proudly announce that Doris Gruber will co-host a panel and give a paper at ISECS SIEDS 2023 in Rome, July 3–7, 2023.

Michela Vignoli will present first results of our project at the conference "Schlüsselthemen der Reiseforschung" at Landesbibliothek Eutin, May 31 – June 3, 2023.

Our paper "Impact of AI: Gamechanger for Image Classification in Historical Research?" has been accepted for presentation at the "Digital History Conference 2023" at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Doris Gruber presents our project at the TU Dresden on April 20, 2023.

Congreso Patrimonio escrito en circulación: redes culturales y comerciales en la edad moderna at the Universidad del Rosario in  Bogotá on December 5.12. 2022