Modelling Between Digital and Humanities

Øyvind Eide is a professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Cologne. He holds a PhD in Digital Humanities from King's College London (2013). He was an employee in various positions at The University of Oslo from 1995 to 2013, working as a developer, analyst, and project manager in the area of digital humanities and cultural heritage informatics. From 2013 to 2015 he was a Lecturer and research associate at The University of Passau. He was the chair of The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) from 2016–19 and also actively engaged in several other international organisations including ICOM's International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC). His research interests are focused on conceptual modelling of cultural heritage information, with a focus on semiotic and medial aspects of models. He is also engaged in theoretical studies of modelling in the humanities as well as beyond

Cristina Marras is Director of research at the Institute for European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), she is a G. Wilhelm Leibniz’s specialist, she has been working for more than two decades on research management, and digital research infrastructure for humanities and in particular for philosophy, focusing on modeling of philosophical and scientific concepts. She couples her research in philosophy, philosophy of language and digital humanities with activities to enhance the interdisciplinary dialogue through the exploration of different languages and technologies that favor the sharing of research methods, practices and results. She is responsible of the ILIESI research area “Digital systems to support knowledge: Open Access, Digital Libraries, Digital Preservation”, and of the projects: “Digital infrastructure and tools for humanities and history of ideas”, and “Modelling of concepts, markup and metadata”. She participates in the activities of the ICDI Competence Center, Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure of the GARR consortium and she represents CNR in the Italian Join Research Initiative of the research infrastructure OPERAS. She is currently part of the H2IOSC, “Humanities and Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud” project. She lectured and published on philosophy and humanities computing, she has organised conferences, workshops and training courses in digital humanities and she taught “Digital Humanities for Philosophy” at Sapienza Università in Rome. From 2014 to 2017 member of the Associazione Italiana per l’Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) board, and from 2014 to 2023 of the editorial staff of the journal “Umanistica Digitale”. List of publications: https://publications.cnr.it/authors/cristina.marras

Patrick Sahle is a professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Wuppertal. He previously served as the managing director of the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), one of Germany's leading centers for Digital Humanities. In both positions he was and is responsible for numerous research projects bridging the gap between humanities and digital technologies. His work spans a wide array of disciplines, object types, text genres and methodologies in the humanities and the social sciences. Central to his expertise is the development and implementation of effective modeling solutions to facilitate digital research practices. These models address specific target objects and broader knowledge domains, facilitating advanced analysis and reasoning. Dr. Sahle is particularly renowned for his contributions to theories, models, and concepts related to text, which constitute a fundamental aspect of scholarship across the disciplines.