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Nathalie Abadie Nathalie Abadie is a survey engineer at the French national mapping agency (IGN). She earned a PhD in Geographic Information Sciences from the University of Paris Est in 2012. Since then, she has been working as a researcher at LASTIG. Her research focuses on the development of ontologies and methods for creating geographical or geohistorical knowledge graphs and spatializing different types of resources: structured data, text documents or images.

Stéphane Baciocchi Stéphane Baciocchi is a research engineer in the social sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), within the Centre de recherches historiques (CRH). Specializing in methods of inquiry in the social sciences, he has led several collaborative projects focused on the history of scholarly practices, modes of social objectification, and mechanisms of quantification.

Danushka Bandara Danushka Bandara received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2009, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering and electrical and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. From 2019 to 2020, he worked as a Data Scientist at Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA. His research interests include applied machine learning, bioinformatics, human–computer interaction, and computational social science.

Briana Bettin

Jean-Baptiste Botul Jean-Baptiste Botul is a fictional French philosopher created in 1995 by the journalist Frédéric Pagès and other members of a group calling itself the Association of the Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul. Originating as a literary hoax, the names of both Botul and his philosophy of botulism derive from botulism, an illness caused by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. References to Botul were first made in publications by members of the association and later turned up in texts by writers who were not party to the hoax and thought Botul was a real person. There is now an annual Botul Prize awarded for a book that mentions Botul.

Kevin Brock Kevin Brock is an associate professor and Director of First-Year English in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of South Columbia, where he studies and teaches courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical and professional communication. His research primarily focuses on the rhetoric of code and software development.

Levi Burner

Matt Burton PLACEHOLDER

Evan Buswell Evan Buswell is a multidisciplinary scholar working in the intersection of code and mathematics, theory and philosophy, and economic history. He received his Ph.D. in cultural studies from UC Davis in 2020. His current research explores the long history of optimization, both as practice and ideology, from Malthus to machine learning. As a complementary practice, Evan engages in extensive critical making research. He worked on large scale coding projects at the UC Davis Modlab, created the Noneleatic Languages, a group of programming languages without the conditional branch, and currently creates analog electronic musical instruments as New Systems Instruments.

Josiah Carberry Professor Carberry is a fictious person, born on a bulletin board in 1929. He is said to still teach at Brown University, and to be known for his work in psychoceramics, the supposed study of cracked pots. He is also used by ORCID, Crossref, and now DHQ as a dummy account. His work has been published many times throughought in the intervening decades, most recently in the British Medical Journal in 2016.

Edwin Carlinet Edwin Carlinet is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at EPITA in Paris, France. His research interests include HPC, in particular, the optimization of algorithms dedicated to Mathematical Morphology and Image processing.

Joseph Chazalon Joseph Chazalon is an Assistant Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at EPITA Graduate School of Computer Science in Paris, France. His research focuses on automating the extraction and analysis of content from historical documents — from raw images to structured data — with the aim of producing meaningful, non-trivial insights for the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Fatima Chowdhury PLACEHOLDER

Pascal Cristofoli Pascal Cristofoli is a research engineer in the social sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), within the Centre de recherches historiques (CRH). He works on sociodemographic historical databases, social networks analysis and graph visualisation.

Silence Dogood Mrs. Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. She graciously translated this sample article from the original gibberish into English.

Nicole Dresselhaus Nicole Dresselhaus is a research software engineer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, contributing to NFDI4Memory task area data culture. She holds a Bachelor’s in Cognitive Informatics and a Master’s in Natural Sciences Informatics from Bielefeld University, with a background in machine learning, Haskell-based development, and academic teaching. Her career spans roles as an ML specialist, software architect for startups, and developer of research-oriented tools and documentation practices.

Bertrand Duménieu Bertrand Duménieu is a research engineer in GISciences at the Center for Historical Studies within the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). His work centers on digital history, with a focus on historical cartography, spatial analysis, and the creation of geohistorical databases. He collaborates on interdisciplinary projects linking history and data science with a focus on GIS.

Sophie Eckenstaler Sophie Eckenstaler designs and implements research software and digital infrastructures at the intersection of the humanities and computer science, with a focus on research software engineering, research data management, and open science. Her work centers on building sustainable, reusable data infrastructures for the humanities. She currently works as a software developer at the Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, where she develops a DSpace-based digital image archive in collaboration with Philipps-Universität Marburg.

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Adrian Gallant PLACEHOLDER

Filip Ginter

Till Grallert Till Grallert is a social and media historian. He currently heads the "Methods Innovation Lab" for digital history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of the NFDI4memory's effort to foster critical and practical data culture within historical disciplines. His research and teaching focusses on the social, intellectual, and conceptual histories of technologies and infrastructures in the predominantly Arabic-speaking, multilingual and multiscriptorial societies of the Eastern Mediterranean from the late 18th century onwards.

Julie Gravier Julie Gravier is a Permanent Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in ThéMA Laboratory. She obtained her PhD in Geography in 2018 from the University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the spatial and territorial dynamics of city systems over the long term, at the crossroads of geography, archaeology and history, and through modeling approaches.

Tim Hitchcock Tim Hitchcock has spent the last forty years making the primary sources for the histories of eighteenth and nineteenth century London available online. He is also author of a dozen books on the histories of poverty, sexuality and crime in eighteenth-century London.

Zachary Horton

Habibul Huq PLACEHOLDER

Veronika Laippala

Matti La Mela Matti La Mela is an Associate Professor (docent) in Digital Humanities at the Department of ALM, Uppsala University. La Mela’s background is in social science history, and he has broad experience in multidisciplinary digital humanities research. His current research regards digital history of patents, innovation, and access rights to nature, involving the digitisation of historical source materials from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Zachary Mann Zachary M. Mann is Associate Director of the Levan Institute for the Humanities and Program Coordinator for the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. He holds a PhD in English Literature from USC, where his research focused on the history of punch card systems and intellectual labor, from eighteenth-century France to the heyday of IBM computers. He has been a member of the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab at USC since 2019.

Jeffrey Moro

Hanna-Leena Paloposki Hanna-Leena Paloposki is an art historian who specialises in the networks of nineteenth-century artists, transnational cultural relations and exhibition studies. She has worked at the Finnish Literature Society as a researcher and data expert on the digital humanities consortium project Constellations of Correspondence: Large and Small Networks of Epistolary Exchange in the Grand Duchy of Finland (2021–2025), which is funded by the Research Council of Finland. She also has extensive experience of working with collections management and archival collections at the Finnish National Gallery.

Julien Perret Julien Perret is a senior researcher at the LASTIG lab, a research group in Geographic Information sciences. His research interest include geohistorical data, spatial humanities and geospatial simulation.

Wendell Piez Wendell Piez was born in Frankfurt, Germany to American parents, and raised in Somerville (Massachussets), Kabul (Afghanistan), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Manila (the Philippines), Reston (Virginia), and Tokyo (Japan), before attending university in New Haven (Connecticut). A graduate of the American School in Japan and of Yale College (MC 1984), where he received a BA in Classics (Ancient Greek), he has been using and programming computers since 1977 (BASIC, 6502 Assembler). From 1985 to 1998 he attended and taught at Rutgers University, where he specialized in English literature, critical theory, poetics and rhetoric. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1991 (writing on the aesthetic theory and prose practice of the Victorian literary critic and belletrist Walter Pater), he worked in Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives (1991-1995) and on the faculty at CETH (the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, 1995-1998). Since 1998, he has been employed by Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy in private practice, where he is responsible for the development and application of electronic text technologies both for clients and in house. Author and presenter of journal articles, papers and courses presented at academic and industry conferences and teaching events, he is a regular contributor to HUMANIST, TEI-L, and XSL-LIST, a recognized expert in XML, XSLT and related technologies such as SVG, and co-originator of LMNL, the Layered Markup and Annotation Language. He resides in scenic Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Ilona Pikkanen Ilona Pikkanen is a senior researcher in the Research Department at the Finnish Literature Society. A historian specialising in nineteenth-century historical culture and historiographical narratology, she is also the coordinator of the Finnish Network of Nineteenth-Century Studies. Since 2017, she has also participated in the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathons. She is the Principal Investigator of the digital humanities consortium project Constellations of Correspondence: Large and Small Networks of Epistolary Exchange in the Grand Duchy of Finland (2021–2025), which is funded by the Research Council of Finland.

Lidia Pivovatova Lidia Pivovatova is a university researcher at the University of Helsinki wiht background in computer science. She is involved in multiple digital humanities projects, where her role is to develop novel AI methods for humanities data analysis.

Giovanni Ruffini PLACEHOLDER

Yann Ryan Yann Ryan is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities and postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. He has worked on projects ranging from computational approaches to news, intellectual history, and the history of the book, to databases and digitisation. His recent publications include Communicating the News in Early Modern Europe, written with Hyde et. al.

Claus-Michael Schlesinger Claus-Michael Schlesinger's research specializes in the history of knowledge, with a focus on the technologies, epistemologies and esthetics of born-digital objects. He has worked as a digital scholarship expert with archives and libraries, planning and implementing strategies for accommodating research activities and research data and providing advanced services for researchers, archivists and librarians. Currently afk.

Stefanie Schneider Stefanie Schneider is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. After studying Statistics, Computer Science, and Sociology, she earned her PhD in Art History in 2024. Since 2016, she has been working in the field of Digital Humanities, with her research interests lying at the intersection of traditional hermeneutics and contemporary quantitative methods in art-historical research

Anna Sollazzo Anna Sollazzo is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow with the Centre for Computing Science Education. She obtained her BSc in Computer Science from the University of Victoria and MA in Digital Humanities from the University of Alberta. Her current research blends the two, looking at DH-specific approaches to computing education. Anna is also a member of the Comédie-Française Registers Project team.

John Stow PLACEHOLDER

Otto Tarkka Otto Tarkka is a Doctoral Researcher at the School of Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. He is part of the TurkuNLP group, who do interdisciplinary research on Natural Language Processing and Digital Linguistics. Otto’s research interests lie in the application of machine learning and AI methods to corpus linguistic research.

Melissa Terras Melissa Terras hails from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, and ignored computers until her final year of her undergraduate MA, in History of Art and English Literature at the University of Glasgow (1998). Discovering the Internet (and something that she was good at) led to an MSc in IT (Software and Systems), also at Glasgow in 1999. In 2002 she completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, which was a joint project between the Department of Engineering Science and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, on using image processing and artificial intelligence to try and read the Roman documents from Vindolanda.

Melissa then spent a year at the Royal Academy of Engineering, as assistant manager of the Policy unit, providing impartial advice to the UK government on matters scientific. Now at University College London, she is a lecturer in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies on Internet Technologies, Web Publishing, and Digital Resources in the Humanities. She is acting Secretary of ALLC (2005/6) and an Officer of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (2005-8), as well as being involved in other consultancy activities within the Digital Humanities field. She is interested in computational techniques which would allow research in the Humanities that would otherwise be impossible.

Mikko Tolonen Mikko Tolonen is professor of digital humanities at the University of Helsinki. His background is in intellectual history and Enlightenment studies. He is the director of Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) and leads the Helsinki Computational History Group (COMHIS).

Isabell Trilling Isabell Trilling received her master's degree in digital history from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a thesis on the semi-automatic detection of natural disasters in medieval city chronicles using large language models. Since 2025, she has works as a doctoral research associate on the TextPloring project. Previously, she was a student research assistant in NFDI4Memory's "Methods Innovation Lab" from 2023 to 2025.

Solenn Tual Solenn Tual is a PhD student at the LASTIG laboratory. She holds a Master's degree in Geographic Information Sciences. Her research focuses on the automatic extraction of information from historical documents and the creation of geohistorical knowledge graphs using this data.

Jouni Tuominen Jouni Tuominen is a university researcher at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH). He is a computer scientist specialized in ontology repositories and services, linked data publishing methods, ontology models for legacy data, and tooling for digital humanities. He has worked in multidisciplinary research projects on cultural heritage, history, archeology, parliamentary data, and legal data, and collaborated with museums, libraries, and archives on their collection cataloging and cultural heritage data publishing processes since 2007.

William J. Turkel William J Turkel has been writing code to support digital research since the early 1980s. His methodological tutorials and textbooks are available online with open licenses.

Joris Van Zundert PLACEHOLDER

John A. Walsh John A. Walsh is an Associate Professor of Information and Library Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University and Director of the HathiTrust Research Center. His research involves the application of computational methods to the study of literary and historical documents. Walsh is an editor on a number of digital scholarly editions, including: the Petrarchive, the Algernon Charles Swinburne Project, and the Chymistry of Isaac Newton. He has developed the Comic Book Markup Language, or CBML, for scholarly encoding of comics and graphic novels. Walsh is the creator of TEI Boilerplate, a system for publishing documents encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. He is the Technical Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access online journal published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Walsh’s research interests include: computational literary studies; textual studies and bibliography; text technologies; book history; 19th-century British literature, poetry and poetics; and comic books. Homepage: http://johnwalsh.name.

Ruilin Wang Ruilin Wang is a Doctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. With a background in Computer Science, his research focuses on applying cutting-edge deep learning techniques, particularly computer vision and natural language processing, to the study of historical 18th-century publishing practices.

Enes Yılandiloğlu Enes Yılandiloğlu is a research assistant in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. His MA thesis was on eighteenth-century century British travel writing on the Orient.