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Dirk Wintergrün’s research focuses on semantic modeling, network analysis, and text mining tools employed to analyze historical data. The concept of socioepistemic networks serves as the theoretical framework and aims to describe and analyze the dynamics of knowledge formation by applying methodologies from network theory and graph theory. The application of network theory is closely connected with a precise description of the underlying data. His work combines the semantic modeling of data with the representation of data as graphs, which bridges these usually unconnected fields from the theoretical analysis of complex structures.
In this context, Dirk is working on case studies for the Research Program on the History of the Max Planck Society (GMPG), specifically on the application of text-mining tools aiming at a structuring of the unstructured text corpus created by the project on the basis of Optical Character Recognition on a large scale, the formation of general relativity as a research field, and most recently on the history of exoplanet research as part of a project funded by the Berliner Zentrum für Maschinelles Lernen (BZML).
Dirk is developing, coordinating, and managing digital projects that support research in the history of science. In particular, he is involved in designing and implementing a large variety of digital projects currently curated by the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science. In addition, his work involves the design of databases and service development.
Projects
Selected Publications
Jost, Jürgen, Roberto Lalli, Manfred Dietrich Laubichler, Eckehard Olbrich, Jürgen Renn, Guillermo Restrepo, Peter Stadler, and Dirk Wintergrün (2023). “Computational History: Challenges and Opportunities of Formal Approaches.” Journal of Social…
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Lalli, Roberto, Riaz Tony Howey, and Dirk Wintergrün (2020). “The Socio-Epistemic Networks of General Relativity, 1925–1970.” In The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context, ed. A. S. Blum, R. Lalli, and J. Renn, 15–84. Basel: Birkhäuser. https…
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Lalli, Roberto, Riaz Tony Howey, and Dirk Wintergrün (2020). “The Dynamics of Collaboration Networks and the History of General Relativity, 1925–1970.” Scientometrics 122 (2): 1129–1170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03327-1.
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Damerow, Julia and Dirk Wintergrün (2019). “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Data in the History of Science.” Isis 110 (3): 513–521. https://doi.org/10.1086/705497.
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Past Events
Digital Humanities Workshop
Digital Humanities: Multilinguality, Non-Latin Scripts and the Library
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
Digital Scholarship in the Study of Historical Japanese Earthquakes
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
Visualizing the History of Knowledge: Methods and Epistemic Implications of Digital Humanities' Visual Techniques
MORESeminar
Interpreting Complex Data in the History of Science with Network Theory
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
DH BBL
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
Navigating between Political Authorities: Chinese Rockefeller Fellows in Biology and Chemistry and their Career Trajectories, 1949–66
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
The Crowd: Digital Prosopography of Public Participation in Science
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
Edition Open Access
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
Working with DevonThink: A One-Stop Solution to your Primary Source Mess
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
evoText
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
- Institute Event
Insights into the Data Analysis of the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG)
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
- Institute Event
Open Access
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
- Institute Event
Virtual Brown Bag Lunch in Digital Humanities: Home Office and Virtual Collaboration
MOREDigital Humanities Workshop
POSTPONED: Urban Complexity Lab
MOREPresentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
Villa Vigoni, DARIAH - Summer school
DHd – Konferenz, Graz
Workshop der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen zu Elektronischen Editionen
HSS Conference, Chicago
Berliner Gespräche zur Digitalen Kunstgeschichte
Oklahoma University, Library, September 2013
Digital History and Philosophy of Science Meeting, Indiana University, September 203
Digital Humanities - Kompetenzzentren in Deutschland, Berlin, June 28th, Berlin
HPS Consortium, Cambridge, UK, September, 2012
L’image-document face au numérique : mise en crise ou mise en lumière ?, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris
HPS Informatics Workshop, MBL, Woods Hole
First International DARE Conference, Cologne