@eirikursmari
Philosopher at the University of Iceland with interest in Ancient Greek philosophy, the societal impact of the humanities, research evaluations and more recently in various aspects of digital humanities and arts.
Exciting news! @vanlinduist.bsky.social & @eirikursmari.bsky.social's paper “Engaging the Fragmented Archive: A Unified Portal for Icelandic Cultural Heritage” has been accepted for #DH2026
We are looking forward to sharing our work on unifying Icelandic heritage data. See you all in Daejeon!
What’s new in #DH Iceland? Our March spotlight is out! ✨
Our lecture series, Lunch with Digital Humanities, continues on Tuesday, and we host a session on #HTR and #OCR at the annual conference of the University of Iceland School of Humanities.
Link in the comments 👇
#LunchwithDH Lecture Series 📜🐍
Alexander Peter Pfaff, University of Iceland
"How Many Ways Can You Say It? Measuring Language Diversity with Digital Methods"
📅 Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 12:00 GMT
📍 Veröld VHV-208 & LIVE on YouTube @MSHLIceland
ANTIDOTE in the Austrian news!
Read about our Novice Week in December 2025:
noe.orf.at/stories/3335...
📣 Hlutastarf í boði!
Umsóknarfrestur: 2. febrúar
Umsóknir með ferilskrá & stuttu myndbandi 👉 mshl@hi.is
Við leitum að hugmyndaríkum nemanda í BA eða MA námi með reynslu af miðlun á samfélagsmiðlum í um 20% starf.
If you're looking for advice on how to plan, create, collect, process, share, and deposit data in the humanities, social sciences, education, and the arts, check out these guides I wrote for @mshl-cdha.bsky.social.
They mainly target an Icelandic audience, but the info is universal!
Do you have a #digitalhumanities project that could use a hand from our smart students in a from of an internship? Reach out to the director of MA in digital technologies applied to history Emmanuelle Bermès of @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social
Honor goes to @mshl-cdha.bsky.social for the first day of the @dariaheu.bsky.social Advent Calendar!
Fitting, too, as our Icelandic friends really love to decorate for Christmas :)
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✨ November is packed with exciting #DH events!
Here’s what we’ve got in store this month.
More info about each event can be found in our latest newsletter — link in comments!
Don’t forget to sign up to stay up to date with all upcoming MSHL events.
#DigitalHumanities #DigitalArts #Events
📢 New deadline for #DHNB2026, Aarhus, March 9-13, 2026
Lost in Abundance: Encounters with the Non-Canonical
Submission deadline: October 29th
CfP at dhnb.eu/call-for-pap...
#digitalhumanities #glam
#DHAfterHours fyrirlestraröð
Pétur Húni Björnsson, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum
"Miðlun mynda með IIIF"
📅 Þriðjudaginn, 14. október kl. 16:30
📍 Í Eddu 209 & á Youtube @MSHLIceland
Our October spotlight is out! If you are not yet on our mailing list and want to keep up with our latest news and events, you can sign up for future editions. Link below 👇
#Newsletter #DH #DigitalHumanities
An Old Norse taught be Dr Ryder Patzuk Russell. Ryder is excellent!
Please share.
www.paideiainstitute.org/introduction...
📢 Call for Applications:
Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts
Novice training: Klosterneuburg, Dec 1–5, 2025
Joint training: Bratislava, May 25–29, 2026
TEI-XML, Unicode/MUFI, XSLT, ODD/XSD, eXistDB, TEI-TOK, web technologies, preservation & open science
antidote.hi.is/courses-year-two
#DHAfterHours Lecture Series 🏡🖥️
Kathryn Teeter, University of Iceland
"Future-Proofing the Past: 3D Scanning Icelandic Turf Houses"
📅 Tuesday, 16 September 16:30 GMT
📍 Edda 209 & LIVE @ youtube.com/@MSHLIceland
Full schedule: mshl.is/vidburdir/dh-after-hours
Sigurður will talk about creating faithful digital reproductions, getting colors just right, and the trusted methods and standards professionals use to make sure the artwork looks as true to life as possible.
We're kicking off our #DH lecture series next Tuesday 😊
Don't miss out on it!
mshl.is/vidburdir/dh-after-hours
Amazing presentation of the Corpus of Early Modern Icelandic (CEMI), 1540-1850 by Jóhannes B. Sigtryggsson at #sagaconference2025. So useful for historical studies of syntax and lexicography!
The project is coordinated by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social
mshl.is/en/projects/early-modern-icelandic-corpus/
🔬 Exciting news!
We’re proud to share that the HONE project ('How Narratives Emerge: A Complexity Science Approach to Public Discourse') has been awarded funding through the Aurora Exploratory and Collaborative Research scheme!
aurora-universities.eu
CfP for IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026 The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time Sponsor: Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, Iceland Submission deadline: 1 September 2025 The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. While we particularly welcome research with a focus on the Northern World, this call is open to comparative or globally situated projects across disciplines, periods, and geographies that approach time as both a subject of inquiry and a structuring principle. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): Visualising medieval perceptions or structures of time Tools and technologies for measuring, representing, or distorting medieval time Digital editions of computus texts Digital reconstruction of objects or texts, lost or transformed over time Manuscript temporality (e.g. mise-en-page, palimpsests, gloss traditions, marginalia) using computational approaches Modelling temporal rhythms in liturgy, agriculture, politics, or narratives Analysis of long-term temporalities in environmental, climatic, or landscape data Artificial intelligence and the automation of temporal interpretation Temporal modelling in metadata, databases, markup languages, and DH infrastructures Interface design and user experience in projects that convey or manipulate medieval temporalities Re-mediating or reimagining medieval time in games or immersive digital environments Temporal poetics and the aesthetics of time in digital medievalism Please submit an abstract of around 200 words, a short bio including affiliation and contact information, and indicate your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual). Proposals and queries should be sent to Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (kll@hi.is) no later than 1 September 2025.
CfP for #IMC Leeds 6–9 July 2026
“The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time”
Sponsored by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social
How can digital methods help us study or represent medieval ideas of time?
Submit by 1 Sept 2025
#IMC2026 #DigitalHumanities #MedievalSky
IMC Padlet: tinyurl.com/52dbx5ey
Are you at #DH2025 and interested in pre-modern data?! Come by to the session on #openaccess, #medieval #manuscripts and #digitalhumanities. I’ll be talking about ATR/HTR/OCR for #OldNorse.
The session starts at 16:00 in Aud B3 and we have AC. :)
The #ANTIDOTE joint workshop participants were warmly received by Dr Beeke Stegmann, research lecturer at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík.
Afterwards, the group visited the manuscript exhibition "Worlds in Words"
worldinwords.is
Our trip to Þingvellir National Park offered a breathtaking encounter with history and landscape, standing at the site of the world’s oldest parliament amid stunning Icelandic scenery.
A memorable moment of reflection during a packed week!
antidote.hi.is
That’s a wrap on the Joint Training Week in Reykjavík, and with it, the first year of #ANTIDOTE! All six Working Groups presented their impressive final projects.
Thank you to everyone who made this week inspiring, productive, and unforgettable.
Takk fyrir okkur!
antidote.hi.is
What a ride it’s been. Organising the @antidote-network.bsky.social event took blood, sweat, tears, laughter, and love, and it’s been such a memorable experience to see it all come together successfully!
Grateful for everyone who made it happen. I'm already looking forward to next year 💙
Thank you for all your help Ed! We are very happy to be onboard.
Minjavefsjá is a GIS map developed by the Cultural Heritage Agency of Iceland. It offers a detailed view of over 23,000 archaeological remains, buildings, structures, monuments, and protected areas in Iceland, along with archaeological reports and metadata.
🗺️ 👉 minjastofnun.gis.is/mapview/?app...
🗺️📍 Á minjavefsjá Minjastofnunar er að finna ýmsar upplýsingar um menningarminjar í landinu og leyfisskyldar fornleifarannsóknir sem og friðuð hús og mannvirki. Hægt er að velja mismunandi þekjur og þannig fram þær upplýsingar sem hver og einn hefur áhuga á.
minjastofnun.gis.is/mapview/?app...
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