30–2Nov – Dec 2026
UpcomingFrom Stone to Screen: Digital Tools for Epigraphy
Ghent University and KU Leuven, Belgium
Description
Bibliographies, indexes and other documentary resources are usually created to organise knowledge and support information retrieval. Yet the structures produced through bibliographic work can also become a basis for new forms of humanities research. This presentation explores how scholarly indexes can be transformed into relational data and examined through network analysis without losing sight of their original documentary function. Using the Monumenta Indica Network Explorer as a case study, I will discuss the process of extracting, normalising and modelling index data, defining what relationships in the resulting network actually mean, and designing an interactive research environment that allows scholars to move between patterns and their underlying sources. The presentation will also consider how research software can turn existing bibliographic resources into exploratory spaces for generating and testing new research questions.
Speaker’s biography
Cezary Rosiński is a researcher at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His work lies at the intersection of bibliography, literary studies and digital humanities. He is particularly interested in the reuse of bibliographic and documentary data for computational research, including network analysis, knowledge graphs and interactive research applications. His current work examines how resources originally created for documentation and information retrieval – such as bibliographies, indexes and scholarly editions – can be transformed into structured research data while preserving provenance, source context and the interpretative limits of the underlying material.
Registration link
https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/or7OvGobS2GXoZ7XPMOrOg
30–2Nov – Dec 2026
UpcomingGhent University and KU Leuven, Belgium
8January 2027
Upcoming