Infrastructure Lives

Thanks to @aboutgeo.bsky.social, version 0.7.5 is here! 🚀 This update brings bug fixes and an updated wiki with detailed instructions!

📖 Updated Wiki: github.com/rsimon/immar...

🔧 Need help with IIIF imports? Check out: github.com/rsimon/immar...

Give it a try and share your feedback with us!

Just tried it out and it indeed stirred waves of wows! 😀✨

I'm excited! This time, it's not just a prototype: AI-powered selection tools are *actually* coming to #IMMARKUS as a feature – thanks to the great team at @infralives.bsky.social. #DigitalHumanities #IIIF #ImageAnnotation #Annotorious

Publications - The Lives and Afterlives of Material Infrastructures

📖 Get instructions & more: www.infrastructurelives.eu/publications/

🚀IMMARKUS 0.7.2🚀

Try the latest release of our semantic image annotation platform: immarkus.xmarkus.org

✨Highlights:
🔹 Enhanced entity relations & knowledge graph search
🔹 #IIIF support

Big thanks to @aboutgeo.bsky.social for making this happen! 👏

#IMMARKUS #IIIF #DigitalHumanities

📢📢Today!
Join us for the workshop "The Epigraphic Habit: Everyday Politics in Chinese Histories of Infrastructure"!

📆November 21-23, 2024
📍Leuven, Belgium

🌐Event Page: infrastructurelives.eu/events/21-11...
✍️Register for Online Participation: tinyurl.com/t77tnhrr

Join us at #spathum2024 where our members will present the open-source methodology for spatial humanities developed by the #RegInfra team!
📆 September 27
📍 Bamberg
more on the 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4mddxate

08/07/2024 COMARKUS: Exporting data in context Dr. Sander Molenaar will be leading a workshop titled COMARKUS: Exporting data in context on July 8, 2024 at 09:00. This workshop is part of the pre-conference program for the Charting the European D-...

📣More workshops from the #RegInfra team 📣 Dr. Sander Molenaar will be leading a workshop titled COMARKUS: Exporting Data in Context!
📆 July 8, 2024
⏰ 09.00 CEST
📍 Berlin State Library
For more follow the🔗👇 www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/08-07...

Mark your calendars! Dr. Sunkyu Lee will lead a workshop on Creating a Data Model and Annotating Images in IMMARKUS! 📆 July 8, 2024
⏰ 13.00 CEST
📍 Berlin
more on the 🔗👇https://www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/11-07-2024/

06/06/2024 Poster Presentation: Mapping India in Pliny the Elder's Natural History: Exploring the Uses of Network Analysis for Corpora with Place Name Annotations Ms. Lizao (Dawn) Zhuang will take part in the poster presentations at the  DH Benelux Conference on June 6 from 15:45 to 17:00, in the historic KU Leuven University Library building.

Come see us at the poster session at #DHBenelux2024! Dawn Zhuang will present her work on network analysis for corpora with place name annotations!
📆June 6
⏰15:45 - 17:00
📍Historic KU Leuven University Library building!
More on the🔗👇 www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/mappi...

06/06/2024 Semantic Entity Recognition in Historical Texts: Extracting Information from Late Imperial China’s Inscriptions on Material Infrastructure Xi Wangzhi will present her paper Semantic Entity Recognition in Historical Texts: Extracting Information from Late Imperial China’s Inscriptions

More #RegInfra at the #DHBenelux2024! Don't miss Xi Wangzhi presentation on Semantic Entity Recognition in Historical Texts!
📆 June 6
⏰ 10.30
📍 Conference Room 2
more info on the 🔗 www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/06-06...

We are excited to present our work on next week's #DHBenelux2024! Prof. De Weerdt will join Dr. Priki and Prof. Joosen on a panel about #ERC funding in digital humanities! 📆 June 6
⏰ 9:00
🔗https://www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/06-06-2024/

22/05/2024 Two Corpora, Multiple Narratives: Masonry Wall Construction in Early Modern China Sunkyu Lee:  Two Corpora, Multiple Narratives: Masonry Wall Construction in Early Modern China

Next up on the #RegInfra calendar: Dr. Sunkyu Lee joins Prof. Chiara Palladino and Laura Soffiantini at The Representation of Space in Historical Sources!
📆 May 22, 2024
📍 KU Leuven, MSI 02.08
⏰ 10 AM
🔗 infrastructurelives.eu/events/22-05...

Next Tuesday and Wednesday join us for two fantastic events with Prof. Ruth Mostern!
More details
talk 🔗 www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/14-05...
seminar 🔗 www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/15-05...

Looking back with joy on a wonderful workshop last week! A big thank you to the keynote, Prof. Laura McAtackney, to all our presenters, and to everyone who came in person or online to hear us talk about the materiality of Chinese and European city walls!

This week on Friday and Saturday! Join us in person or online by scanning the QR code on the poster or visiting the event website: www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/persp...

East Coast friends, I will be in the Boston area next week.
First, in Cambridge to acclimatize and discuss some of our new digital annotation work.
Next, in Providence, for a workshop on the global history of political advice literature
Looking forward!

Event The 2024 annual conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), will focus on transitions and transformations of mobilities and infrastructures.

More great infrastructure-related events coming up in 2024! The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility conference will focus on the transition and transformation of mobility and infrastructures!
📆 23–25 September
📍Leipzig
🔗 leibniz-ifl.de/en/institute...

In all earnestness, yes, Prof Ruth Mostern is coming to Leuven for a talk and a reading seminar on #infrastructure and #environmentalhistory next month. For more information on presentation and reading seminar:
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/14-05...

www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/15-05...

first release of two annotation services:
IMMARKUS for the semantic annotation of images immarkus.xmarkus.org
COMARKUS for the organization of annotations in texts into higher-order data clusters comarkus.xmarkus.org
links to instructions & more: www.infrastructurelives.eu/publications/

The programme for the workshop Perspectives on the Materiality of City Walls in Chinese and European History is out!
📆 April 26-27
📍 KU Leuven
Event🔗: infrastructurelives.eu/events/persp...
Programme 🔗: infrastructurelives.eu/content/file...

10 days to go ⏳ join Prof. De Weerdt on the roundtable discussion on Critical Approaches to Material and Virtual Infrastructures at the #AAS2024.
See you in Seattle!

10 days to go ⏳ Dr. Sunkyu Lee talks visual strategies in her #AAS2024 paper!
See you in Seattle!

📣Dr. Sunkyu Lee talks visual strategies in her #AAS2024 paper Visualizing Others Beyond the Wall: Cartographic Ethnography and the Ming-Mongol Relation in the Early Seventeenth Century📣
See you in Seattle!
📆 March 16
🔗 infrastructurelives.eu/events/visuali

Upcoming event 📣Prof. De Weerdt will chair a roundtable discussion titled Critical Approaches to Material and Virtual Infrastructures at the #AAS2024. See you in Seattle!
📆March 16, 2024
🔗https://www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/critical-approaches-to-material-and-virtual-infrastructures/

Save the date! Prof. De Weerdt will join an exciting group of historians at the Top Historians Roundtable Global History & Chinese History!
📆 March 7
⏰3-4:30pm CET; 10-11:30pm Beijing Time
more on the🔗 infrastructurelives.eu/events/top-h...

Prof. De Weerdt will be giving a talk titled "From the Arts of Governance to the Disciplining of Emperors" today at 6 pm CET! The event is online and you can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Cheers to an incredible 2023!🎇Excited for things to come in the new year! Happy holidays from the #RegInfra team 🍾🎆🎉

CFA: two-year postdoc in the social history of material infrastructures at the IISH Amsterdam

Ad: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

Deadline for applications is January 7, 2024 (interviews will likely be held in late January)

For more information about the project: www.infrastructurelives.eu