Digital Publishing for Art History

The Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History hosts an international conference exploring the rapidly evolving landscape of digital publishing in art history. Moving beyond theoretical possibilities, this two-day event focuses on concrete, reproducible digital methods and real-world implementations. Generously supported by the DFG, this forum addresses the critical gap between FAIR data principles and their practical implementation in scholarly publishing.

The conference brings together scholars, digital humanities practitioners, and publishing innovators to share practical workflows, infrastructures, and technological approaches for art historical research and publication.

Program Highlights

The conference features three thematic sessions across two days:

Data for Digital Publishing explores encoding methodologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic resources, including presentations on Ethiopian manuscript iconography, CIDOC-CRM natural language interfaces, and structured query generation using LLMs.

Workflows for Digital Publishing showcases production pipelines and collaborative infrastructures, featuring talks on IIIF integration, Zotero as a semantic platform, digital epigraphy cooperation, and annotation systems for art historical research.

Beyond Digital Publishing examines future trajectories, including generative art style exploration, AI remediation of web content, and hybrid edition enrichment.

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