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Distant Reading: analyzing the Gospels with Python and AI | MF In Digital Humanities, distant reading uses computational tools to explore patterns across texts - patterns that may be difficult to perceive through close reading alone. Instead of replacing traditio...

See what happens when we use AI-assisted coding to visualize the sentiment patterns and the vocabulary of the Four Gospels.

AI seminar: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities - New Opportunities and Challenges | MF On Tuesday 16 December 2025, the Lab for Manuscript Studies and Digital Research (L-MaSDR) at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society hosted a half-day seminar exploring the opportunitie...

What lies outside the AI model? And what happens between manuscript and machine?
In December 2025, we hosted a seminar about AI and the humanities. Read more about the seminar and watch the presentations here!
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A Visit to Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage | MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society A Visit to Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage During a two-week research stay in the United Arab Emirates, sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowships, the director of MF...

Lab director Mina Monier Visits Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage

Transcribing Old Manuscripts with AI: Transkribus or Chatbots? | MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society Should researchers rely on specialised platforms like Transkribus to transcribe old manuscripts, or can general AI chatbots do the job just as well? In this post, I share my experiences testing both a...

In this post, I share my experiences testing Transkribus and Chatbots in transcribing a medieval Latin manuscript.

Which Free AI Chatbot is Best for the Humanities? | MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society This post examines Claude (free) and how it compares to ChatGPT and Gemini, to evaluate which AI chatbot serves humanities research best - focusing on reasoning, multilingual ability, accuracy, privac...

Comparing Claude AI to ChatGPT and Gemeni for Humanistic research.

Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities: New opportunities and Challenges | MF vitenskapelig høyskole for teologi, religion og samfunn A seminar exploring ethics, applications, and strategy for AI in humanistic research

Join us at MF on 16 December for the seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities: New Opportunities and Challenges, exploring how AI reshapes humanistic research, ethics, and collaboration.

Reranking Hits in Public Library Catalog Search with Learning to Rank This article reports experiments with learning to rank (LTR) in the public library context. We used training labels based on human relevance judgments of query-document pairs, along with combinatio...

In our Digital Humanities Lab (L-MaSDR) at MF, lab member Henrik H. Andersen has co-authored a study showing how machine-learning ranking models can make public library searches more relevant and user-friendly.

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Exploring Digital Humanities Resources for Researchers at MF | MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society We want to highlight three particularly valuable platforms: DARIAH Teach The Carpentries, and The Programming Historian. Each provides practical, well-structured learning materials that align closely ...

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Summer School: Create a Digital Scholarly Edition From Scratch - University of Oslo Library A five-day Summer School introducing researchers to creating, visualising, publishing and preserving digital scholarly editions.

If you happen to be in Oslo in September, the Digital Humanities society (BaerUt) is organising a Summer School on the production of Digital Scholarly Editions. @mf-l-masdr.bsky.social will provide a module on the use of TEI/XML in New Testament Textual Criticism.

Mapping Early Christian Literature: A New Article Highlighting Collaboration with MF L-MaSDR  | MF MF Lab for Manuscript Studies and Digital Research (MF L-MaSDR) participates in a major new research initiative - The Generative Authority (GenAut) Project - led by Dr. Dan Batovici. The GenAut projec...

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Senior Researcher  (277289) | MF Norwegian School of Theology Job title: Senior Researcher  (277289), Employer: MF Norwegian School of Theology, Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2025

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