Digital Humanities

Department for Digital Humanities

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About us

The Department of Digital Humanities (IDH) was founded on 19 July 2017 by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Cologne and is an amalgamation of the Chairs of HKI and Linguistic Information Processing with a Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities.

The Digital Humanites are broadly represented at the University of Cologne. The IDH works closely with the other DH institutions of the University, the Cologne Center for eHumanities, the Data Center for the Humanities and Archaeoinformatics.

Recent Publications

Historie von Simon zu Trient. Digitale Edition, hg. von Marco Heiles und Michael Schonhardt, Darmstadt 2026, https://dekm-tud.github.io/Historie-von-Simon-zu-Trient.
Marco Heiles, Die Historie von Simon zu Trient – eine judenfeindliche Verschwörungserzählung aus dem Jahre 1475, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte 9 (2026), S. 28–67, https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/38991.
Axel Pichler, Janis Pagel. Evaluating Humanities Theory Alignment in Large Language Models: Incremental Prompting and Statistical Assessment. In Proceedings of the 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2026), pp. 280-294, Rabat, Morocco, March 2026. Url: https://aclanthology.org/2026.latechclfl-1.27.

Contributions of the IDH for DHd 2026

The following contributions of our institute were accepted at DHd2026 in Vienna:

Jürgen Hermes, Kai Niebes, Sarah Oberbichler, Andreas Wagner: LLMs unter Kontrolle: Offene Modelle in Forschung und Praxis (Workshop)
Elisabeth Reuhl, Maria Sotomayor Chicote, Théo Bouveyron, Lukas Wilkens, Areti Michalopoulou, Øyvind Eide, David Tischer: Ist das Baukunst oder kann das weg? – Entwicklung einer Augmented-Reality-Tour zur Architektur und Geschichte der Universität zu Köln (Poster)