DH Lecture Series
The DH lecture series is a collaboration between the Digital Lab at the University Library in Bergen, D-Lab at NTNU and the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Orgainzation (DHKO). The lecture series addresses DH-related topics and gives researchers and others involved in DH projects or research the opportunity to share their experiences, successes and challenges related to the use of digital tools and/or methods.
Information about the lectures will be announced well in advance via the DHKO mailing list, and posted on the event calendar of the Digital Lab at UiB, where you can register to receive a Zoom link.
Do you have suggestions for topics you would like to hear more about, or are you working on something that you would like to share in a lecture? Do not hesitate to contact the organizers by e-mail.
DH Lectures Spring 2026
In the spring of 2026, you can attend digital DH lunches every last Thursday of the month at lunchtime from 11:30-12.00 on the following dates:
Follow the Digital Lab's calendar for more information.
January 2026
29.01.2026 - Exploring the Research Potential of Norway’s Web Archive
The National Library of Norway has preserved a vast digital footprint of the internet. Now, with the WEBDATA project, researchers will gain unprecedented access to explore and analyze this unique resource.
The talk will be held in Norwegian.
The WEBDATA project
Since the 1990s, the National Library of Norway (NB) has collected and preserved large amounts of content from the internet. This web archive is in demand among researchers and holds great potential for academic knowledge production. Through the WEBDATA project, a national research infrastructure is being developed that enables searching, exploring, and analyzing data from this archive.
Jon Tønnessen is an internet historian and researcher at NB. After presenting the main goals of the project, he will demonstrate a preliminary test platform for search and exploration. Tønnessen will also share insights from the work of mapping researchers’ needs. Participants are invited to contribute to this effort by answering a short survey, ensuring that the infrastructure provides maximum value for research communities.
The WEBDATA project partners are the National Library of Norway, the Norwegian Computing Center, the University of Oslo (LTG and Humit), and UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Get more information and register here.
February 2026
26.02.2026 - Building Termportalen
In this Digital Humanities lunch talk (DH-lunch) Jan Ole Bangen gives a developer's perspective on interdisciplinary collaboration in building the national language infrastructure Termportalen.
The talk will be held in English.
Termportalen is Norway's national terminology infrastructure, providing a search portal at termportalen.no, tools, and a competence milieu for terminology management. Government-funded and part of the University of Bergen Library's Language Collections since 2021, it serves as the hub for Norwegian terminology work in collaboration with the Language Council of Norway.
Termportalen's work requires close collaboration between terminologists and developers. This talk examines this interdisciplinary collaboration through three ongoing discussions from a developer's point of view: project-based vs. product-focused organization and its implications for terminology infrastructure; the use of evidence-based prioritization to address domain loss in Norwegian specialized language; and the collaborative development of digital workflows for terminology work and quality control. Throughout, the importance of explicitly coordinating responsibilities and competencies emerges as a recurring theme.
Jan Ole Bangen works as a developer at the University of Bergen Library.
Get more information and register here.
March 2026
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April 2026
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DH Lectures 2025
November 2025
27.11.2025 – Digital Reconstructions – Virtual Life for Lost Books
Åslaug Ommundsen presented the CODICUM project, exploring how medieval book fragments can be reconstructed virtually to illuminate Nordic book culture and scholarly networks between 1000 and 1500. More
October 2025
23.10.2025 – Digital collection of the Norwegian language from the runic inscriptions until 1814
Dag Trygve Truslew Haug presented “Norchron,” a diachronic corpus project building a digital text collection spanning from runic inscriptions to 1814. More
September 2025
25.09.2025 – What can literary travelogues tell us about 19th-century Norway?
PhD candidate Marit Sjelmo presented research using the Norwegian Travel Literature Corpus to examine depictions of Norway in 19th-century travel writing. More
May 2025
08.05.2025 – Predicting the Buried Past: Using Digital Tools in the Search for Hidden Graves in the Falstad Forest
Kristoffer Eliassen Grini presented digital and geophysical methods used to locate undocumented graves in the Falstad Forest, a protected memorial site linked to wartime executions. More
April 2025
10.04.2025 – How to streamline the process of cleaning and transforming data
This lecture introduced OpenRefine and demonstrated how it can address common data issues such as inconsistent formatting, duplicates, and incomplete entries. More
March 2025
13.03.2025 – Norway’s Forgotten Ballads – Digitizing a Cultural Heritage
Associate Professor Siv Gøril Brandtzæg discussed the digitisation of Norwegian skilling ballads and the creation of the first database dedicated to this material. More
February 2025
13.02.2025 – Four theses on algorithmic folklore
Gabriele de Seta introduced “algorithmic folklore,” reflecting on how algorithms shape creative production and digital culture in everyday life. More