The Annual Conference of the Association for Digital Humanities in the German-speaking world (Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum) took place February 23-28, 2015 in Graz (Austria). 

The theme of the second annual conference was "From Data to Knowledge: Ditigal Humanities as Intermediary between Information and Interpretation" ("Von Daten zu Erkenntnissen: Digitale Geisteswissenschaften als Mittler zwischen Information und Interpretation").

Hidden sources

EHRI's Veerle Vanden Daelen and Giles Bennett presented on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure in a presentation entitled "From Multilingual Metadata to Hidden Sources: The Example of German-language Perpetrator Sources in the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure" ("Über mehrsprachige Metadaten zu den versteckten Quellen: Das Beispiel deutschsprachiger Täterquellen in der European Holocaust Research Infrastructure").

German-language sources

By way of an example, the presentation addressed the new possibilities for resource discovery of German-language sources via the EHRI portal. Merging multiple descriptions of archival sources from different countries and written in many different languages, the EHRI portal leads to sources that remained hidden to most until now. One of the examples presented at the conference concerned a collection of German perpetrator documents concerning France, stored in Warsaw and described in Polish.

400 Participants

The conference was attended by about 400 participants and included 60 presentations on new theoretical and practical insights in the field of Digital Humanities.