Lecture: Embedding the Past: From Visual Artefact to Semantic Data – AI-Supported Workflows in Digital Scholarly Editing, 22.05.2026, online

We invite you to the online lecture by Prof. Dr. Michael Schonhardt (TU Darmstadt) on 22.05.2026 from 10:00 to 11:30, organised as a part of the seminar series ‘Legal History Meets Digital Humanities’ at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

The presentation will focus on the AI-driven datafication of historical sources, ranging from medieval manuscripts to early modern correspondence, into structured and semantic data. It will explain the Digital Editing Toolkit, a modular AI-based editorial workflow, and discuss the potential of vector embeddings and entity linking for new heuristic approaches to digitised source corpora. Finally, it will evaluate how these methods reshape the role of the editor in the age of large-scale datafication

Registration and more information here: https://plan.events.mpg.de/event/762