publications

2025

1. Digitalisierung und das textuelle Kulturerbe der Gesellschaften des globalen Südens: Wege für den Umgang mit den Auswirkungen der infrastrukturellen Hegemonie lateinischer Schriftsysteme und Sprachen des globalen Nordens

   Till Grallert

   In Clio Guide. Ein Handbuch zu digitalen Ressourcen für die Geschichtswissenschaften, 2025

   Bib

   @incollection{Grallert2023Clio,
     title = {{Digitalisierung und das textuelle Kulturerbe der Gesellschaften des globalen S{\"u}dens: Wege f{\"u}r den Umgang mit den Auswirkungen der infrastrukturellen Hegemonie lateinischer Schriftsysteme und Sprachen des globalen Nordens}},
     booktitle = {{Clio Guide. Ein Handbuch zu digitalen Ressourcen f{\"u}r die Geschichtswissenschaften}},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {{Laura Busse} and {Wilfried Enderle} and {R{\"u}diger Hohls} and {Thomas Meyer} and {Jens Prellwitz} and {Annette Schuhmann}},
     year = {2025},
     edition = {3},
     address = {Berlin},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     langid = {ngerman},
     keywords = {Project: Sihafa,writing: 2023 stylometry,writing: 2024 Jaraid}
   }

2. Adding Every Arabic Periodical Published Before 1930 to Wikidata: Moving the Scholarly Crowd-Sourcing Project Jarāʾid to the Digital Commons

   Till Grallert

   Apr 2025

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   This paper documents the contribution of comprehensive bibliographic data on all Arabic periodicals published worldwide until 1930 to Wikidata. We discuss the need for such a data set, which originated with scholarly crowd-sourcing project Jarāʾid and comprises information on more than 3000 periodicals, about 2700 editors, and almost 350 holding institutions, the weaknesses of our original approach, and how the move to Wikidata, the largest public and open knowledge graph, addresses them. We demonstrate how Wikidata also satisfies the two predominant use cases of this data set not currently served by available library and discovery systems. Finally, we show how the move to Wikidata generates continuous engagement with wider Wikimedia communities and demonstrate the reusability of our approach with a second data set of periodicals from the Ottoman Empire.

   @misc{Grallert2024AddingEveryArabic,
     type = {Preprint},
     title = {Adding {{Every Arabic Periodical Published Before}} 1930 to {{Wikidata}}: {{Moving}} the {{Scholarly Crowd-Sourcing Project Jar{\=a}ʾid}} to the {{Digital Commons}}},
     shorttitle = {Adding {{Every Arabic Periodical}}},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     year = {2025},
     month = apr,
     publisher = {Zenodo},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14112647},
     urldate = {2024-11-14},
     archiveprefix = {Zenodo},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {Arabic Periodicals,Digital Humanities,Linked Open Data,Union Catalogue,Wikidata},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/LVGFXKH9/Grallert - 2024 - Adding Every Arabic Periodical Published Before 1930 to Wikidata Moving the Scholarly Crowd-Sourcin.pdf}
   }

3. Investigating Ottoman Press Censorship in the Eastern Mediterranean through Conceptual History: The Peculiar Use of ’incident’ (Ḥāditha)

   Till Grallert

   Die Welt des Islams, Feb 2025

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   This paper re-evaluates the history of Ottoman censorship through the lens of conceptual history, focusing on how the periodical press of Damascus and Beirut reported incidents of violence between 1875 and 1914. I argue that well into the twentieth century, the Ottoman state had insufficient power to comprehensively enforce censorship. Instead, the press and the state were interdependent and shared the belief in a modernising project with the ever-expanding state at its core. The press largely understood its role as serving society as it moved along this path to progress and prosperity. Thus, we encounter deeply entrenched editorial tactics, epitomised by the reference to generic "incidents," to deal with the tension between violence as a quotidian phenomenon and its very occurrence being perceived as a fundamental challenge to the social contract. Analysing the tactics used to delegitimise acts of violence and their perpetrators, the paper establishes an ontology and a topography of the discourse on violence in the late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean.

   @article{Grallert2024Haditha,
     title = {Investigating {{Ottoman}} Press Censorship in the {{Eastern Mediterranean}} through Conceptual History: The Peculiar Use of 'incident' ({\d H}{\=a}ditha)},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     year = {2025},
     month = feb,
     journal = {Die Welt des Islams},
     doi = {10.1163/15700607-20240040},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {DOI: not found,writing: 2022 Entertainment},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/E8W2DDVX/Grallert - 2025 - Investigating Ottoman press censorship in the Eastern Mediterranean through conceptual history the.pdf}
   }

4. Editing Mundane Texts across the Digital Divide: The Case of Arabic Periodicals from the Late Nineteenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean

   Till Grallert

   In The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice, Feb 2025

   Bib

   @incollection{Grallert2025MundaneTexts,
     title = {Editing Mundane Texts across the Digital Divide: The Case of {{Arabic}} Periodicals from the Late Nineteenth-Century {{Eastern Mediterranean}}},
     booktitle = {The {{Companion}} to {{Digital Humanities}} in {{Practice}}},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {Crompton, Constance and Estill, Laura and Lane, Richard J. and Siemens, Ray},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Routledge},
     address = {London},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     isbn = {978-1-032-33385-4},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {Project: Sihafa,writing: 2023 stylometry,writing: 2024 Jaraid}
   }

5. Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata

   Till Grallert, Sophie Eckenstaler, Claus-Michael Schlesinger, and 2 more authors

   Mar 2025

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   This paper introduces the conceptual framework for open and community-curated tool registries, posing that such registries provide fundamental value to any field of research by acting as curated knowledge bases about a community’s past and current methodological practices as well as authority files for individual tools. This modular framework of a basic data model, SPARQL queries, bash scripts, and a prototypical web interface builds upon the well-established and open infrastructures of Wikimedia, GitLab, and Zenodo for creating, maintaining, sharing, curating, and archiving linked open data. We demonstrate the feasibility of this framework by introducing our concrete implementation of a tool registry for digital humanities, initially repurposing data from existing silos, such as TAPoR and the SSH Open Marketplace, and retaining the established TaDiRAH classification scheme while being open to communal editing in every aspect.

   @misc{GrallertEtAl2025OpenToolRegistries,
     title = {Open {{Tool Registries}}! {{Resolving}} the {{Directory Paradox}} with {{Wikidata}}},
     author = {Grallert, Till and Eckenstaler, Sophie and Schlesinger, Claus-Michael and Dresselhaus, Nicole and Trilling, Isabell},
     year = {2025},
     month = mar,
     publisher = {Zenodo},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15094816},
     urldate = {2025-03-27},
     archiveprefix = {Zenodo},
     copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {Digital humanities,Digital Humanities,Linked Open Data,TaDiRAH,Tool Registries,Wikidata},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/PGLMD4EK/Grallert et al. - 2025 - Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata.pdf}
   }

6. NER4all or Context Is All You Need: Using LLMs for Low-Effort, High-Performance NER on Historical Texts. A Humanities Informed Approach

   Torsten Hiltmann, Martin Dröge, Nicole Dresselhaus, and 9 more authors

   Feb 2025

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   Named entity recognition (NER) is a core task for historical research in automatically establishing all references to people, places, events and the like. Yet, do to the high linguistic and genre diversity of sources, only limited canonisation of spellings, the level of required historical domain knowledge, and the scarcity of annotated training data, established approaches to natural language processing (NLP) have been both extremely expensive and yielded only unsatisfactory results in terms of recall and precision. Our paper introduces a new approach. We demonstrate how readily-available, state-of-the-art LLMs significantly outperform two leading NLP frameworks, spaCy and flair, for NER in historical documents by seven to twentytwo percent higher F1-Scores. Our ablation study shows how providing historical context to the task and a bit of persona modelling that turns focus away from a purely linguistic approach are core to a successful prompting strategy. We also demonstrate that, contrary to our expectations, providing increasing numbers of examples in few-shot approaches does not improve recall or precision below a threshold of 16-shot. In consequence, our approach democratises access to NER for all historians by removing the barrier of scripting languages and computational skills required for established NLP tools and instead leveraging natural language prompts and consumer-grade tools and frontends.

   @misc{HiltmannEtAl2025NER4allPreprint,
     title = {{{NER4all}} or {{Context}} Is {{All You Need}}: {{Using LLMs}} for Low-Effort, High-Performance {{NER}} on Historical Texts. {{A}} Humanities Informed Approach},
     shorttitle = {{{NER4all}} or {{Context}} Is {{All You Need}}},
     author = {Hiltmann, Torsten and Dr{\"o}ge, Martin and Dresselhaus, Nicole and Grallert, Till and Althage, Melanie and Bayer, Paul and Eckenstaler, Sophie and Mendi, Koray and Schmitz, Jascha Marijn and Schneider, Philipp and Sczeponik, Wiebke and Skibba, Anica},
     year = {2025},
     month = feb,
     number = {arXiv:2502.04351},
     eprint = {2502.04351},
     primaryclass = {cs},
     publisher = {arXiv},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.04351},
     urldate = {2025-02-13},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     keywords = {Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence,Computer Science - Computation and Language},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/VSVYWVRQ/Hiltmann et al. - 2025 - NER4all or Context is All You Need Using LLMs for low-effort, high-performance NER on historical te.pdf}
   }

2024

1. Multilinguality in Action: Towards Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Humanities

   Alíz Horváth, Cosima Wagner, David Joseph Wrisley, and 14 more authors

   magazén: International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities, Dec 2024

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   The article addresses the multilingual landscape in Digital Humanities, focusing on understanding its practitioners. We adopt the concept of user profiles from UX design to help create visibility and empathy for the unique needs of multilingual scholars. In a DH2023 workshop, using a dataset of six user profiles, participants examined multilingual DH, exploring the complex interaction between language use, identity, inclusivity, and infrastructure. Only by including multilingual perspectives, we argue, can DH promote diverse knowledge systems towards more supportive infrastructures and a more inclusive scholarly community.

   @article{HorvathEtAl2024MultilingualityActionlinguistic,
     title = {Multilinguality in {{Action}}: {{Towards}} Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in {{Digital Humanities}}},
     author = {Horv{\'a}th, Al{\'i}z and Wagner, Cosima and Wrisley, David Joseph and Bernardi, Joanne and Chadha, Aanya and Garcia, Danielle and Grallert, Till and Ghosh, Sharanya and Ishida, Yuri and Kaye, Aleksandra and Meden, Ahac and Nagasaki, Kiyonori and Palmer, Dylan and Scheithauer, Hugo and {\'S}wietlik, Marta and Tharsen, Jeffrey and Wang, Yifan},
     year = {2024},
     month = dec,
     journal = {magaz{\'e}n: International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities},
     volume = {5},
     number = {2},
     doi = {10.30687/mag/2724‑3923/2024/02/001},
     copyright = {CC BY 4.0},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {DOI: not found,field: Digital Humanities (DH),Multilingual Digital Humanities (DH),writing: 2025 confab},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/GVVQIWWF/Horváth et al. - 2024 - Multilinguality in Action Towards linguistic diversity and inclusion in Digital Humanities.pdf}
   }

2023

1. Opening Sources – modulare Wege zur Quellenbereitstellung und -edition

   Daniel Burckhardt, Jörg Hörnschemeyer, Mareike König, and 3 more authors

   In DHd2025, Mar 2023

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   Bei der digitalen Bereitstellung von Quellen über Digitalisierungs-, Erschließungs- und Editionsprojekte klafft häufig eine Lücke zwischen Anspruch an die inhaltliche, technische und nachhaltige Umsetzung und die tatsächlich zur Verfügung stehenden finanziellen und personellen Mittel und Möglichkeiten. Wie gelingt es solchen Projekten, das selbstgesteckte Ziel des "Öffnens von Quellen" zu erreichen? Das Panel diskutiert anhand von internationalen Fallbeispielen aus der Max Weber Stiftung die Realität einer modularen Bereitstellungs- und Editionspraxis. Diese erfolgt wohl wissend um Standards, Richtlinien und Best practices und auch keineswegs komplett an diesen vorbei, aber dennoch mit notwendigen Beschränkungen und unter Entwicklung eigener Strategien und Schritt für Schritt auf dem Weg zu einer "Volledition". Angestrebt ist ein gemeinsames Nachdenken über diese sehr weit verbreitete Realität, die kleinere Institutionen genauso betrifft wie Einzelforschende, über Herausforderungen, Sackgassen und mögliche (gemeinsame) Lösungswege. Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture.

   @inproceedings{BurckhardtEtAl2023OpeningSourcesmodulare,
     title = {{Opening Sources -- modulare Wege zur Quellenbereitstellung und -edition}},
     booktitle = {{DHd2025}},
     author = {Burckhardt, Daniel and H{\"o}rnschemeyer, J{\"o}rg and K{\"o}nig, Mareike and Schulz, Julian and Grallert, Till and Keck, Jana},
     year = {2023},
     month = mar,
     publisher = {Zenodo},
     address = {Passau},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7715275},
     urldate = {2024-02-24},
     langid = {ngerman},
     keywords = {DHd2023,Digitalisierung,Edition,Forschungsprozess,Open Humanities,Transkription},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/K9WMJJWK/Burckhardt et al. - 2023 - Opening Sources – modulare Wege zur Quellenbereits.pdf}
   }

2. Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots

   Tessa Gengnagel, Sarah Lang, Nora Probst, and 6 more authors

   In DHd2023, Mar 2023

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   "Harkening back to the "big tent" metaphor (e.g. Terras 2013) which characterized debates about the inclusivity of DH ten years ago, the topic of ’openness’ in the conference theme invites associations of ’blue skies’, endless horizons, and the sense that everything is possible – in terms of participation, dissemination and objects of observation. This notion is complicated by several issues that discourses of cultural criticism have identified in the Digital Humanities in recent years (although they are not exclusive to the field): Among them monolingualism (Fiormonte 2021), a heritage of colonialism (Risam 2019) and gender imbalance (Gao et al. 2022, 330), to name but a few. Supposing that there is something to be learned from shifting the gaze towards these "borderlands" (Earhart 2018) of attention, the panel will interrogate the theme of the conference and probe the boundaries of its ’openness’ against this backdrop of socio-economic, political and infrastructural inequalities." Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture.

   @inproceedings{GengnagelEtAl2023OpenDHMapping,
     title = {Open {{DH}}? {{Mapping Blind Spots}}},
     shorttitle = {Open {{DH}}?},
     booktitle = {{{DHd2023}}},
     author = {Gengnagel, Tessa and Lang, Sarah and Probst, Nora and Gerber, Anja and Dang, Sarah-Mai and Duan, Tinghui and Grallert, Till and Keck, Jana and Nyhan, Julianne},
     year = {2023},
     month = mar,
     publisher = {Zenodo},
     address = {Passau},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7715329},
     urldate = {2024-02-24},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {data feminism,Decolonisation,DHd2023,multilingualism},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/4XX3U9TI/Gengnagel et al. - 2023 - Open DH Mapping Blind Spots.pdf}
   }

3. Looking at the Iceberg from below the Waterline: Stylometric Answers to Unattributed Texts in Early Arabic Periodicals

   Till Grallert

   In Digitale Methoden in Der Geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis: Fachliche Transformationen Und Ihre Epistemologischen Konsequenzen, Berlin, 23.-26.5.2023., Dec 2023

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   From the mid-nineteenth century onward, Arabic periodicals were the first mass-medium of South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) and formed an increasingly globalised public sphere. Consequently, they attract increasingly scholarly attention. However, most articles up until at least World War I were published without a proper byline, commonly causing scholars to conflate owners-cum-editors with their journals. This paper computationally addresses the question of authorship through stylometric authorship attribution applied to data sets derived from digital corpora of journals published in Baghdad (Lughat al-ʿArab), Cairo (al-Zuhūr, alMuqtabas), and Damascus (al-Muqtabas, al-Ḥaqāʾiq) between 1906 and 1918. It demonstrates, firstly, that titles were stylistically sufficiently different to identify a distinctive authorial voice for each periodical. Secondly, it shows that individual anonymous articles cannot be reduced to a single author for each journal and that ownerscum-editors should not be considered strong candidates for their authorship. Thirdly, it also rejects owners-cumeditors as strong candidates for the bulk of anonymous texts originally published in short chunks as part of news sections, announcements, miscellanea etc. Finally, this paper rejects all known authors in our corpus as potential editors thus necessitating further, non-computational research.

   @incollection{Grallert2023LookingIceberg,
     title = {Looking at the Iceberg from below the Waterline: {{Stylometric}} Answers to Unattributed Texts in Early {{Arabic}} Periodicals},
     shorttitle = {Looking at the Iceberg},
     booktitle = {Digitale {{Methoden}} in Der Geschichtswissenschaftlichen {{Praxis}}: {{Fachliche Transformationen}} Und Ihre Epistemologischen {{Konsequenzen}}, {{Berlin}}, 23.-26.5.2023.},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {Althage, Melanie and Dr{\"o}ge, Martin and Hiltmann, Torsten and Prinz, Claudia},
     year = {2023},
     month = dec,
     pages = {1--15},
     address = {Berlin},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10159446},
     urldate = {2023-12-13},
     copyright = {CC BY 4.0},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {talk: stylometry},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/723NEZ34/looking_at_the_iceberg_from_below_the_waterline.pdf}
   }

4. Proper Fun? Struggles over Popular Entertainment in Late Ottoman Damascus (c.1875-1914)

   Till Grallert

   In The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East, Dec 2023

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   @incollection{Grallert2023ProperFun,
     title = {Proper Fun? {{Struggles}} over Popular Entertainment in Late {{Ottoman Damascus}} (c.1875-1914)},
     booktitle = {The {{Arab Nahda}} as {{Popular Entertainment}}: {{Mass Culture}} and {{Modernity}} in the {{Middle East}}},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {Auji, Hala and Cormack, Raphael and Mahmoud, Alaaeldin},
     year = {2023},
     month = dec,
     pages = {17--38},
     publisher = {I.B. Tauris},
     address = {London},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     isbn = {978-0-7556-4740-8},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {Damascus,Entertainment,Era > 19th century,Era > 20th century},
   }

5. Ein weiteres Toolverzeichnis für die Digital Humanities?! Aber diesmal offen und mit Wikidata

   Till Grallert and Sophie Eckenstaler

   In FORGE 2023 - Anything Goes?! Forschungsdaten in den Geisteswissenschaften - kritisch betrachtet, Oct 2023

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{GrallertEckenstaler2023WeiteresToolverzeichnis,
     title = {{Ein weiteres Toolverzeichnis f{\"u}r die Digital Humanities?! Aber diesmal offen und mit Wikidata}},
     booktitle = {{FORGE 2023 - Anything Goes?! Forschungsdaten in den Geisteswissenschaften - kritisch betrachtet}},
     author = {Grallert, Till and Eckenstaler, Sophie},
     editor = {Helling, Patrick and Gietz, Peter and Derntl, Michael},
     year = {2023},
     month = oct,
     pages = {1--5},
     address = {T{\"u}bingen},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8386485},
     collaborator = {Tirtohusodo, Samantha and Schlesinger, Claus-Michael},
     copyright = {CC BY 4.0},
     langid = {ngerman},
     keywords = {Project: ConfTool export},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/ABZ4EJ3Q/grallert-eckenstaler_2023_ein_weiteres_toolverzeichnis_für_die_digital_humanities.pdf}
   }

6. Die AG Multilingual DH im DHd stellt sich vor

   Till Grallert, Jana-Katharina Mende, Jonas Müller-Laackman, and 1 more author

   Mar 2023

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   Vorstellung der AG Multilingual Digital Humanities im DHd anlässlich der DHd2023 in Trier. Die neue Version adressiert die ursprünglich fehlenden Hyperlinks zu den Ressourcen der AG.

   @techreport{GrallertEtAl2023AGMultilingual,
     title = {{Die AG Multilingual DH im DHd stellt sich vor}},
     author = {Grallert, Till and Mende, Jana-Katharina and {M{\"u}ller-Laackman}, Jonas and Wagner, Cosima},
     year = {2023},
     month = mar,
     institution = {Zenodo},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7744530},
     urldate = {2023-12-18},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     langid = {ngerman},
     keywords = {DHd-AG,DHd-AG Multilingual DH,Project: DHd AG Multilingual DH},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/7H2CBC7I/grallert-et-al_2023_die_ag_multilingual_dh_im_dhd_stellt_sich_vor.pdf}
   }

7. Dealing with Multilingualism in the DACH and DHd Association

   Till Grallert, Xenia Monika Kudela, Eliese-Sophia Lincke, and 4 more authors

   May 2023

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   This paper discusses the status quo and perspectives of and within the DHd Association with respect to multilingualism, including recommendations for action.

   @techreport{GrallertEtAl2023DealingmultilingualismDACH,
     title = {Dealing with Multilingualism in the {{DACH}} and {{DHd}} Association},
     author = {Grallert, Till and Kudela, Xenia Monika and Lincke, Eliese-Sophia and Lindermann, Colinda and Mende, Jana-Katharina and {M{\"u}ller-Laackman}, Jonas and Schmid, Larissa},
     year = {2023},
     month = may,
     institution = {Zenodo},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7965774},
     urldate = {2024-02-24},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {DHd,DHd Konferenz,field: Digital Humanities (DH),Multilingual Digital Humanities,Project: DHd AG Multilingual DH},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/VUECKHRK/Grallert et al. - 2023 - Dealing with multilingualism in the DACH and DHd a.pdf}
   }

8. Umgang mit Multilingualität im DACH und DHd Verband

   Till Grallert, Xenia Monika Kudela, Eliese-Sophia Lincke, and 4 more authors

   May 2023

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   Arbeitspapier, das den status quo und die Perspektiven auf DHd Konferenz und Verbandsarbeitn im Hinblick auf Mehrsprachigkeit beleuchtet und Handlungsempfehlungen gibt.

   @techreport{GrallertEtAl2023UmgangMit,
     title = {{Umgang mit Multilingualit{\"a}t im DACH und DHd Verband}},
     author = {Grallert, Till and Kudela, Xenia Monika and Lincke, Eliese-Sophia and Lindermann, Colinda and Mende, Jana-Katharina and {M{\"u}ller-Laackman}, Jonas and Schmid, Larissa},
     year = {2023},
     month = may,
     institution = {Zenodo},
     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7957187},
     urldate = {2023-12-18},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     langid = {ngerman},
     keywords = {DHd,DHd Konferenz,field: Digital Humanities (DH),Multilingual Digital Humanities,Project: DHd AG Multilingual DH},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/MC6NXQKV/grallert-et-al_2023_umgang_mit_multilingualität_im_dach_und_dhd_verband.pdf}
   }

2022

1. Open Arabic Periodical Editions: A Framework for Bootstrapped Scholarly Editions Outside the Global North

   Till Grallert

   Digital Humanities Quarterly, Jun 2022

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   This paper introduces and evaluates the project Open Arabic Periodical Editions (OpenArabicPE) as a case study of minimal computing. It confronts hyperbolic promises of mass digitization and computational methods for the exploration of digitized cultural heritage as a hegemonic episteme rooted in 20th-century, English-speaking, neoliberal capitalism from the margins. OpenArabicPE is a framework for open, collaborative, and scholarly digital editions of early Arabic periodicals from the late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. It addresses the specific affordances of a historical multilingual society, whose material heritage continues to be looted, destroyed, and neglected; whose material heritage resists digitization efforts by being dependent on non-Latin scripts and, for instance, non-Gregorian calendars; and whose contemporary heirs cannot draw on the vast resources in wealth and socio-technical infrastructures of the Global North. Centered around generosity and minimal computing, OpenArabicPE is run by volunteers and currently hosts six editions with some 630 journal issues and more than 7 million words, without any funding, by re-purposing data, software, and infrastructures.

   @article{Grallert2022DHQ,
     title = {Open {{Arabic Periodical Editions}}: {{A}} Framework for Bootstrapped Scholarly Editions Outside the Global North},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {Risam, Roopika and Gil, Alex},
     year = {2022},
     month = jun,
     journal = {Digital Humanities Quarterly},
     volume = {16},
     number = {2,  "Minimal Computing"},
     copyright = {CC BY-ND 4.0},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {application: 2020 MCSA-IF,applications,archived,Digital Divide,DOI: not found,field: Digital Humanities (DH),Global Digital Humanities (DH),language: Arabic,minimal computing,Politics of Digitisation,Postcolonial Digital Humanities (DH),Project: OpenArabicPE,talk: 2024 DARIAH,talk: stylometry,writing: 2023 DH in Practice,writing: 2023 stylometry,writing: 2024 Jaraid},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/9S66JXIP/grallert_2022_open arabic periodical editions.pdf}
   }

2. Establishing Parameters for Stylometric Authorship Attribution of 19th-Century Arabic Books and Periodicals

   Maxim Romanov and Till Grallert

   In Digital Humanities 2022: Conference Abstracts, Jul 2022

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   The paper presents the first systematic application of stylometric authorship attribution to nineteenth-century Arabic with the aim of a) empirically establishing thresholds for parameters for reliable attribution and b) contributing computational answers to a core question in Arab Periodical Studies.

   @inproceedings{RomanovGrallert2022Stylometry,
     title = {Establishing Parameters for Stylometric Authorship Attribution of 19th-Century {{Arabic}} Books and Periodicals},
     shorttitle = {Parameters for Stylometric Authorship Attribution},
     booktitle = {Digital {{Humanities}} 2022: {{Conference Abstracts}}},
     author = {Romanov, Maxim and Grallert, Till},
     year = {2022},
     month = jul,
     pages = {346--348},
     publisher = {The University of Tokyo},
     address = {Tokyo},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {Arabic Periodicals,Era > 19th century,Era > 20th century,field: Digital Humanities (DH),Method: Stylometry,talk: stylometry},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/LFKKNNM2/romanov-grallert_2022_establishing_parameters_for_stylometric_authorship_attribution_of_19th-century.pdf}
   }

2021

1. Catch Me If You Can! Approaching the Arabic Press of the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean through Digital History

   Till Grallert

   Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Jun 2021

   Abs DOI Bib

   The essay explores the use of digital history for the systematic study of the periodical press in the late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean (1906 –1918) as a discursive field. It evaluates the methodological and practical challenges of digital history as rooted in the socio-technical infrastructures of the Global North when applied to the Global South. It does so using a case study of four Arabic journals from Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, and Damascus. After outlining the need for building a corpus and the challenges presented by this effort, this article explores a digital corpus of a total of circa 2.65 million words through (social) network analysis and stylometric authorship attribution.

   @article{Grallert2021GG,
     title = {Catch {{Me If You Can}}! {{Approaching}} the {{Arabic Press}} of the {{Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean}} through {{Digital History}}},
     shorttitle = {Catch Me If You Can!},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {L{\"a}ssig, Simone},
     year = {2021},
     month = jun,
     journal = {Geschichte und Gesellschaft},
     volume = {47},
     number = {1, Digital History},
     pages = {58--89},
     doi = {10.13109/gege.2021.47.1.58},
     urldate = {2021-06-11},
     copyright = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {19th century,20th century,Arabic periodicals,Arabic Periodicals,corpus building,Digital editions,DOI: not found,Era > 19th century,Era > 20th century,event: DH2022,field: Digital history,field: Digital Humanities (DH),field: History,field: Intellectual history,field: Periodical Studies,Global Digital Humanities (DH),in peer review,Method: (social) network analysis (SNA),Method: Stylometry,Methodology/theory,Methodology/theory > Digital Humanities > Digital editions,Methodology/theory > History,Methodology/theory > History > Intellectual history,Methodology/theory > Postcolonial Studies,nahda,noNotes,Politics of Digitisation,Postcolonial Digital Humanities (DH),Postcolonial Studies,Project: Jaraid,Project: OpenArabicPE,Project: Sihafa,status: imported from Sente,talk: 2024 DARIAH,talk: stylometry,writing: 2020 DHQ,writing: 2023 DH in Practice,writing: 2023 stylometry,writing: 2024 Jaraid},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/5EXGGIW8/grallert_2021_catch me if you can_geschichte und gesellschaft_47.pdf}
   }

2020

1. Urban Food Riots in Late Ottoman Bilād Al-Shām as a ’Repertoire of Contention’

   Till Grallert

   In Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The ’Dangerous Classes’ since 1800, Jun 2020

   DOI Bib

   @incollection{Grallert+2019,
     title = {Urban Food Riots in Late {{Ottoman Bil{\=a}d}} Al-{{Sh{\=a}m}} as a 'Repertoire of Contention'},
     shorttitle = {Urban Food Riots},
     booktitle = {Crime, {{Poverty}} and {{Survival}} in the {{Middle East}} and {{North Africa}}: {{The}} '{{Dangerous Classes}}' since 1800},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {Cronin, Stephanie},
     year = {2020},
     pages = {157--176},
     publisher = {I.B. Tauris},
     address = {London},
     doi = {10.5040/9781838605902.ch-010},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {19th century,20th century,Collective action,Food riot,Lebanon,noNotes,Ottoman Empire,Project: Food Riots,status: imported from Sente,Syria,writing: 2022 Entertainment},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/EN6CKKE2/grallert_2019_urban_food_riots_in_late_ottoman_bilād_al-shām_as_a_'repertoire_of_contention'.pdf}
   }

2017

1. The Journal Al-Muqtabas between Shamela.Ws, HathiTrust, and GitHub: Producing Open, Collaborative, and Fully-Referencable Digital Editions of Early Arabic Periodicals—with Almost No Funds

   Till Grallert

   In Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing: Papers Presented at the DiXiT Conferences in The Hague, Cologne, and Antwerp, Jun 2017

   Bib

   @incollection{Grallert+2017,
     title = {The Journal Al-{{Muqtabas}} between {{Shamela}}.Ws, {{HathiTrust}}, and {{GitHub}}: Producing Open, Collaborative, and Fully-Referencable Digital Editions of Early {{Arabic}} Periodicals---with Almost No Funds},
     shorttitle = {The Journal Al-{{Muqtabas}} between {{Shamela}}},
     booktitle = {Advances in {{Digital Scholarly~Editing}}: {{Papers}} Presented at the {{DiXiT}} Conferences in {{The Hague}}, {{Cologne}}, and {{Antwerp}}},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {Boot, Peter and Cappellotto, Anna and Dillen, Wout and Fischer, Franz and Kelly, Aodh{\'a}n and Mertgens, Andreas and Sichani, Anna-Maria and Spadini, Elena and {van Hulle}, Dirk},
     year = {2017},
     pages = {401--406},
     publisher = {Sidestone Press},
     address = {Leiden},
     urldate = {2017-07-12},
     isbn = {978-90-8890-483-7},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {Digital editions,field: Digital Humanities (DH),Methodology/theory,Methodology/theory > Digital Humanities > Digital editions,noNotes,status: imported from Sente},
     uuid: 6CBCC699-4237-4567-BF88-FFCC96A16688},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/2JR92CUS/grallert_2017_the_journal_al-muqtabas_between_shamela.pdf}
   }

2. Digital Muqtabas CTS Integration in CLARIN

   Till Grallert, Jochen Tiepmar, Thomas Eckart, and 2 more authors

   In CLARIN 2017, Sep 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{Grallert+2017a,
     title = {Digital {{Muqtabas CTS Integration}} in {{CLARIN}}},
     booktitle = {{{CLARIN}} 2017},
     author = {Grallert, Till and Tiepmar, Jochen and Eckart, Thomas and Goldhan, Dirk and Kuras, Christoph},
     year = {2017},
     month = sep,
     address = {Budapest},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {applications,availability: digital copy,DOI: not found,Project: OpenArabicPE},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/B5YT9KCF/grallert et al_2017_digital muqtabas cts integration in.pdf}
   }

2016

1. Mapping Ottoman Damascus through News Reports: A Practical Approach

   Till Grallert

   In The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies, Feb 2016

   DOI Bib

   @incollection{Grallert+2015,
     ids = {Grallert+2016+MappingOttomanDamascus},
     title = {Mapping {{Ottoman Damascus}} through {{News Reports}}: {{A}} Practical Approach},
     shorttitle = {Mapping {{Ottoman Damascus}} through {{News Reports}}},
     booktitle = {The {{Digital Humanities}} and {{Islamic}} \& {{Middle East Studies}}},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     editor = {Muhanna, Elias},
     year = {2016},
     month = feb,
     pages = {175--198},
     publisher = {De Gruyter},
     address = {Boston},
     doi = {10.1515/9783110376517-009},
     copyright = {All rights reserved},
     isbn = {978-3-11-037454-4},
     langid = {english},
     keywords = {19th century,20th century,availability: digital copy,Damascus,Damascus (District),Damascus (Province),field: Digital Humanities (DH),Geographical Syria,GIS,Locations > Geographical Syria,Locations > Geographical Syria > Damascus (Province),Locations > Geographical Syria > Damascus (Province) > Damascus (District),Locations > Geographical Syria > Damascus (Province) > Damascus (District) > Damascus,mapping,Mapping,Methodological essay,Methodology,Methodology/theory,Methodology/theory > Digital Humanities > XML,Methodology/theory > Methodological essay,Newspapers,noNotes,Project: Jaraid,status: imported from Sente,XML},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/Z7569Q5N/grallert_2016_mapping ottoman damascus through news_.pdf}
   }

2014

1. To Whom Belong the Streets? Property, Propriety, and Appropriation: The Production of Public Space in Late Ottoman Damascus, 1875-1914

   Till Grallert

   FU Berlin, Apr 2014

   Bib

   @phdthesis{Grallert+2014,
     title = {To Whom Belong the Streets? {{Property}}, Propriety, and Appropriation: {{The}} Production of Public Space in Late {{Ottoman Damascus}}, 1875-1914},
     shorttitle = {To Whom Belong the Streets},
     author = {Grallert, Till},
     year = {2014},
     month = apr,
     address = {Berlin},
     langid = {english},
     school = {FU Berlin},
     keywords = {19th century,20th century,availability: digital copy,Damascus,Damascus (District),Damascus (Province),Era > 19th century,Era > 20th century,field: History,field: Social history,field: Urban history,Geographical Syria,Locations > Geographical Syria,Locations > Geographical Syria > Damascus (Province),Locations > Geographical Syria > Damascus (Province) > Damascus (District),Locations > Geographical Syria > Damascus (Province) > Damascus (District) > Damascus,Methodology/theory,Methodology/theory > History,Methodology/theory > History > Social history,Ottoman Empire,Project: Jaraid,Project: OpenArabicPE,status: complete,status: imported from Sente,status: old import,Topic > Ottoman Empire,urban studies,writing: 2019 GG,writing: 2022 Entertainment,writing: 2024 Jaraid},
     file = {/Users/Shared/Zotero/Till/storage/7D4GTES7/grallert_2014_to_whom_belong_the_streets.pdf}
   }

2012

1. To Whom Belong the Streets? Investment in Public Space and Popular Contentions in Late Ottoman Damascus

   Till Grallert

   Bulletin d’Études Orientales, Apr 2012

   DOI