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                            DH LU 2013
         Reading historical sources in the digital age: 5–6
                  December 2013, Luxembourg
    DHLU 2013 was co-organised by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), together with
the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE) and its
research programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-
Sociétés-Espaces (IPSE)) as well as the University of Luxembourg’s Master’s in Contemporary European History.
Its aim was to bring together likeminded researchers with a vested interest in the topic of “Reading historical
sources in the digital age”.
    The contributions to the symposium in this publication are structured around the following research clusters:
        • Distant/close reading — Data retrieval, analysis and visualization
             As increasing quantities of historical data are published on the web, the prospect of making simple
             use of these data — i.e. reading PDFs on screen or printing them out to read on paper — is
             becoming increasingly less realistic and methodologically sustainable. What options are open to
             researchers, and what are the concomitant methodological issues? This cluster will cover various
             themes, including: (big) data, text mining and semantic analysis, quantitative data approaches,
             network analysis, data visualization (including GIS), and more generally the links between distant
             and close readings.
        • Writing history & Assessing scholarship
             Once researchers begin to use digital thematic collections, will it change the way they write
             history? This cluster includes practical papers (e.g. on how to cite digital resources) as well as more
             theoretical ones. It embraces issues relating to the validity and quality of data and research outputs
             based on digital thematic collections, as well as the evaluation of those collections as a new kind of
             online scholarly publication.

    Based on the above clusters, researchers were asked to submit papers in an open call. We challenged them
to bridge the gap in Digital Humanities knowledge and share their methodological, scholarly activities and
experience of handling digital historical sources. This publication results from a selection of presentations at the
symposium. The papers presented therein where fully revised and updated in order to form this volume.
    The editorial team would like to thank the members of the program committee as well as all colleagues at
the former CVCE, which is now part of the University of Luxembourg, for their support in conducting the
symposium and publishing this volume. We would like to acknowledge in particular the work of Frédéric
Clavert, who organised the previous DHLU conferences and participated strongly in writing the call for DHLU
2013 as well as Mike Kestemont and Patrick Weber for their expertise in the review and edition of selected
papers.



1.        Program Committee
     •    Claire Clivaz (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland)
     •    René Leboutte (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
     •    Claudine Moulin (University of Trier, Germany)
     •    Serge Noiret (European University Institute, Italy)
     •    Stéfan Sinclair (McGill University, Canada)
     •    Marianne Backes (CVCE, Luxembourg)
2.       Editorial Committee
     •   Lars Wieneke (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
     •   Catherine Jones (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
     •   Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
     •   Florentina Armaselu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
     •   René Leboutte (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

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