D4H: Data Science meets Digital History

The mass digitisation of historical sources and the exponential growth native digital online sources have catapulted the discipline of history from an -age of scarcity- to an -age of abundance-. Making sense of the -big data of the past- requires new approaches to data management, data mining, visualisation and interpretation of data. In the future, the study of massive migration flows, climatic changes, or public opinion formation on social media platforms will both necessitate a critical digital literacy by historians and humanist approach to data analytics. -Deep Data Science of Digital History- (D4H) is a new Doctoral Training Unit funded through the FNR-s PRIDE programme, that will launch in autumn 2022.