ONiT in National Geographic
We are very proud to announce that an article about our project has been published in National Geographic!
ONiT Explorer Online via ÖNB Labs
Explore our collection of c. 20,000 images using text or your own images!
ONiT Explorer Presentation, January 20, 2025
The presentation reveals how the tool was created and discusses possible
applications for the computer sciences and the humanities.
Metadata documentation published
Metadata documentation published We are happy to present the “Travelogues metadata documentation” written by Martin Krickl and edited by Jacopo Jandl. This documentation in German language explains how rare books, and more specifically travelogues, have been catalogued and published during the projects “Travelogues: Perceptions of the Other 1500–1876 – A Computerized Analysis” (2018–2021)[1] and “Ottoman […]
ONiT Explorer Online!
Thrilled to announce that you can now search over 22,000 of our images.
Bibliography of Eastern Travelogues Online!
We are proud to announce that our bibliography of travelogues in Ottoman, Arabic, and Persian languages is openly accessible via Zotero.
Save the Date: Intermediality and Computational Humanities, Hackathon, 14–15 November 2024
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.
ONiT @ Technisches Museum Vienna
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.
This is how we create image material
Take a look at the process of scanning rare books in a major institution.