Digibib is a literature database of the Department of History, University of Basel, and offers digitalized versions of many thousand texts from relevant literature. This database is only accessible to affiliates of the Department of History for teaching and research purposes.

With over hundred published articles, the webpage „The History of Social Security in Switzerland“ provides a comprehensive insight into the current state of research on the development of the Swiss welfare state since the 19th century. Visit the project website.  

On 16.12.2016, experts from Basel DH-Lab and the Heidelberg Research Architecture, University of Heidelberg, met at the Institute for European Global Studies. In the centre of the one-day meeting was the development of infrastructure in the digital humanities, which was presented and discussed. The meeting was organised as a collaboration in the context of the […]

On 10.11.2016 and 24.11.2016, Prof. Peter Cornwell (Westminster University / Data Futures) held a two day workshop on “How to use digital history tools in your research project“. Following a short introduction on the topic, students of the Basel Graduate School of History and Eucor network presented their projects and designed a data extraction workflow […]

In the context of Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch’s lecture on “Global Moments: Fin de siècle and Orientalism in 1900”, the Institute for European Global Studies organized a one-day workshop on data extraction on 27.10.2016. In the process, workshop participants for the first time actively used the method of extracting and generating table of contents, a […]