Prof. Dr. — Associate Professor Digital Humanities, University of Bern. Responsible for DH Master Major. Research at the intersection of history, machine learning and digital methods.
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Specialized machine learning model for medieval and early modern handwriting recognition based on Microsoft TrOCR.
Learn more →Development of HTR evaluation frameworks and digital paleography tools within the EU Horizon 2020 READ project.
READ Project →E-learning system for source analysis and auxiliary historical sciences (2015-2019), used by over 15,000 students.
Visit Platform →Tools for the digital edition of Königsfelden documents using TEI-XML and modern web technologies.
GitHub Profile →Transcribed medieval administrative documents from Königsfelden monastery (1300-1600) with complete TEI-XML encoding.
Access Dataset →Ground truth datasets for handwritten text recognition in multiple languages, developed within the READ project.
READ Datasets →Evaluation datasets for international handwriting recognition competitions with benchmarking frameworks.
Competition Data →Structured research data from digital edition projects with complete metadata and documentation.
Zenodo Profile →Management of urban real estate and economic discourse using Basel as an example.
Learn more →Historical research increasingly benefits from digitization, handwritten text recognition and natural language processing.
Learn more →Combining relational databases and linked data approaches for the humanities.
Learn more →For a detailed overview, see my complete CV.
Program director DH Master Minor (30/90 ECTS), MAS Extended Intelligence, MAS Archive, Library and Information Science. Doctoral program DH (Bern & Basel).