TIP 1 Jun 2023 InkVisitor website launched The official website of InkVisitor, a state-of-the-art environment for the collection of complex data from texts developed in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) at Masaryk University, is now launched.
22 May 2023 Map of Early Heresy cases in the West, c.1000-c.1150 The interactive map application presents dataset of early cases of heresy in the West, ca. 1000–1150, compiled from original Latin sources. It shows locations, heresy cases linked to those locations, and mentions in the sources, on which the description is based.
19 May 2023 Tomáš Glomb received the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35 Dr. Glomb's contributions to the digital research of religion were recognized by Martin Bareš, the rector of Masaryk University, at the Dies academics ceremony.
27 Apr 2023 CEDRR has a visiting researcher! Dr. José Carlos López-Gómez from the University of Málaga is on a three-month research stay at CEDRR to explore cultural transmissions on the Iberian peninsula in antiquity using the methods of Digital Humanities.
21 Apr 2023 Mapping the Latin of medieval inquisition records: DISSINET’s lexico-semantic network as a language resource As an important product of DISSINET analytical work, there is a specialised language resource for Latin on the horizon. The aim is to enrich the description of the medieval Latin language and improve the quality of computational analysis performed on Latin sources.
14 Mar 2023 CEDRR is a new member of the Czech Association for Digital Humanities From now on, CEDRR is an active participant in the debate on the shape and form of Digital Humanities on a national level.
20 Dec 2022 Can artificial intelligence read medieval inquisition records? ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, has taken the Internet by storm and has generated quite a fuss also in the DISSINET team. First impressions of ChatGPT’s reaction to medieval Latin texts are astonishing.
12 Dec 2022 Data on witchcraft trials in the Czech lands published online More on persons, places, charges, punishments, and material substances can be found in the the most comprehensive digital dataset of witchcraft trials in the Czech lands completed by Eva Brhelová, Veronika Praženková, Anna Bílková, Anna and David Zbíral.