AI in translation lexicography – possibilities and limitations
The aim of the project is to establish relevant procedures for the use of AI in the creation of translation dictionaries, including a focus on, for example, the principles of translation dictionary inversion (e.g., an attempt to create a Czechia-Slovenian dictionary based on data from a Slovenian-Czech dictionary).
The ARCHES project focused on creating a European standard for archiving archaeological data with the aim of improving the management and protection of cultural heritage. The collaboration of eight partners from seven countries ensured uniform requirements for archaeological archiving and will support the international mobility of experts. The project outputs include a best practice guide and an online platform for knowledge sharing.
ARIADNE Research Infrastructure AISBL (ARIADNE RI) is a non-profit organization founded in 2022, which builds on the ARIADNE and ARIADNEplus projects. Its goal is to support digital methods in archaeology and cultural heritage, develop software tools, and manage open archives of digital data through the ARIADNE portal.
CESSDA offers extensive, integrated, and sustainable data services to the social sciences, uniting social science data archives across Europe. Its mission is to promote social science research results and support national and international research and cooperation.
Expansion of the Czech Poetry Corpus by approximately 700 collections (1948–1956). This follows on from the Czech Poetry Corpus project from 2016–2020.
A national project submitted under the call for large research infrastructures organized by the Ministry of Education, aimed at establishing the Czech node within the international DARIAH network.
Data, Algorithms, Power: Economic Theories of the Information Society
The project focuses on information economics, a key area of contemporary economic research, and explores the relationship between information and power. It analyzes the impact of the internet on exchange efficiency, the effects of information disclosure regulation, the economic value of data and algorithms, and the relationship between data centralization and social control.
Database of Early Modern Czech Book Illustration (e-ilustrace.cz)
The e-illustration database is a virtual research platform dedicated to the study of book illustrations from the earliest printed works produced in the Czech Lands. It combines an extensive online database with advanced digital tools for the exploration and analysis of visual materials.
Database of parliamentary representatives in the Czechia between 1848 and 1992, including members of Czechoslovak representative bodies elected in Slovakia.
The aim of the DESIR project was to strengthen the sustainability of DARIAH and support its role as a long-term leader and partner in the field of humanities. The DESIR consortium consisted of core members and representatives of potential DARIAH members, as well as external experts representing various European regions.
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001. Every two years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples.
The Czech EHRI node facilitates access to archival and other sources on the Holocaust, provides data on victims, and supports the application of innovative digital methods.
The project aims to model the key relations between 19th and early 20th century Czech poetry to “big” European literatures, as well as the mutual relations among these “big” literatures themselves by a machine-driven analysis of respective poetic corpora.
Generating Czech poetry in an educative and multimedia environment
The main goal of the project is to create an interdisciplinary educational tool that will provide an interactive introduction to Czech poetry and automatic text generation, offering new possibilities for digital education in today's media environment. Artificial neural models of Czech poetry will be created in collaboration with literary scholars, computational linguists, and artists. The software will form the basis for a didactic exhibit that will be installed in the Didaktikon educational center.
A portal gathering information about projects dedicated to processing historical correspondence related to the history of the Czech lands from the Middle Ages to the second half of the 20th century.
A project offering new tools to solve typical problems faced by scientists, researchers, students, and memory institution staff. They help to obtain the material and resources for research and study (INDIHU Index) and to work more efficiently with resources (INDIHU Mind and INDIHU OCR). The INDIHU Exhibition tool is used for the online creation of virtual exhibitions.
Knihověda.cz - The Portal of the History of Czech Book Culture up to 1800
The Knihověda.cz website represents a component of the necessary infrastructure for researching Czech book culture before 1800 in the form of integrated bibliographic sources, interpretive texts, and new research tools. The goal of the portal is to create a new platform for basic research into Czech book culture while taking advantage of its potential to educate and popularise the topic.
LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ is a joint, distributed national node of the Czech Republic in the European research infrastructures CLARIN ERIC and DARIAH ERIC. It consists of 17 research organizations active in the humanities and arts fields in the Czech Republic.
The project uses digital humanities methods to document the destruction of Mosul's historical architecture during the Islamic State occupation (2014–2017). Through satellite analysis, digital archives, interactive maps, and 3D reconstructions, it allows not only for monitoring the extent of the damage, but also for reconstructing lost cultural heritage and analyzing the ideological motives behind the destruction.
The aim of the project is to preserve and make accessible the national legal heritage of our countries as part of European and global legal culture. The current form of the National Legal Heritage offers literature including important historical handbooks, journals, historical collections of court decisions, period anthologies and tributes, as well as historical specialist monographs.
The project aims to build an online database of leading Czech intellectuals, analyze their correspondence, and visualize the results. The project also includes the development of HIKO software and an online platform for presenting this data.
The project focuses on making the graphic content of digital libraries, which is often overlooked, accessible using machine learning methods. The aim is to identify and categorize graphic elements in digitized documents, which will facilitate their search and expand the range of library services.
Ovid's Metamorphoses in Historical Book Illustrations
The project Ovid's Metamorphoses in Historical Book Illustrations, prepared by the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences to mark the 2000th anniversary of Ovid's death, focuses on illustrations in historical editions of Metamorphoses. The digitized books and detailed descriptions of the illustrations are available in an online database that can be searched by theme, author, or graphic technique, and are linked to the Digital Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The project serves not only experts and students of library science and art history, but also the general public for study and inspiration.
Parliament in the Age of Europeanisation: The Czech Republic and Slovenia (ParlAgE)
The aim of the project is a methodological in-depth analysis of the under-researched transformations of Czech and Slovenian national parliaments in the age of Europeanisation (1993-2004) and to examine their context in terms of deliberative decision-making and political representation. Harnessing the potential of Europeanization as a comparative analytical tool will fill gaps in parliamentary studies, but also offer multidisciplinary approaches combining historical analysis with DH methods and create comparative models for the study of Europeanization.
Persian Tadhkira Project
The project examines the production and circulation of tadhkir (biographical anthologies) of Persian poets in the period 1200–1900. It traces the macro-trends of this genre in order to elucidate the transformations of transregional interconnectedness in the Persian world across time and space.
Serving the homeland as a source of national identity
The aim of the project, which combines basic and applied research in the field of social sciences and humanities, is to identify, document, and present various types of historical sources on the history of compulsory military service in the Czech lands between 1868 and 2004.
SmartDigiLinka
The aim of the project is to develop tools using machine learning in the digitization process and to create a semi-operational digitization line so that this process becomes significantly more efficient and as many activities as possible that can be performed by modern software are eliminated.
Taiwan Biographical Ontology (TBIO) is a database designed as a platform and tool for prosopographical analysis for both researchers and individuals interested in the history of Taiwan and Republican China (1911–1949). The task of the database is, in addition to storing information and representing knowledge, also the possibility of creating your own data files for further analysis (Social Network Analysis, regression, Principal Component Analysis, GIS).
Urbanity: Inequality, Adaptation and Urban Public Space in the Historical Perspective
The Urbanity project aims to understand key issues in the development of urban public space in the Czech context from the Middle Ages to the present day. By combining historical, sociological, anthropological and geoinformation research, it seeks to offer new perspectives on the complex issues of urban inequality, adaptability to crises and the transformation of public space.
VISKALIA – Virtual open air museum of the vernacular architecture
The project aims to preserve and digitally access extensive collections documenting folk architecture in the Czech Republic. Through 3D modeling, interactive maps, and databases, the project innovatively presents cultural heritage to the general public, thereby promoting its perception, study, and protection. The outputs include a web portal, a specialized database, an exhibition, and the digitization of archival collections, thus linking traditional ethnological research with modern technologies.
