Viktor Illmer | |
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| IT Researcher @ EXC Temporal Communities, Freie Universität Berlin | |
| I am interested in the way data models shape our understanding of the world, particularly in representing social phenomena such as gender within structured data systems. Lately, I have been exploring how declarative development and build environments, enabled by Nix, may support the replicability of research workflows and results in the digital humanities. | |
| GitHub | v-ji |
| mail@viktor.im | |
Notes | |
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It’s like a blog, remember those? |
| linkding bookmarking on NixOS and Hugo | |
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| Summary | This site’s hyperlinks section is now powered by linkding. |
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| Date | 2025-02-23 |
| TIL: HTML Standard §13.1.2.4: Optional tags | |
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| Summary | Many end tags can simply be omitted in HTML5, making it read a bit like Markdown. |
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| Date | 2024-04-08 |
| TIL: The case against self-closing tags in HTML | |
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| Summary | Self-closing tags (e.g. |
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| Date | 2024-04-04 |
Hyperlinks | |
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Links to resources I find interesting |
| XSLT.RIP – Google are killing XSLT! | |
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| Date | 2025-11-10 |
| Don’t guess my language | |
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| Summary | The Accept-Language header exists for a reason |
| Date | 2025-05-20 |
| #genderUX (2015) | |
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| Summary | How to handle gender data on forms, if you have to |
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| Date | 2025-02-06 |
Publications | |
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Research publications and papers |
| “Works on My Machine”: A Case Study of Replicability Challenges in Computational Humanities Research | |
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| Part of | Anthology of Computers and the Humanities |
| Repository | v-ji/chr2025-works-on-my-machine |
| Date | 2025-11-21 |
| Schreibwirtschaft. Dramatikerinnen um 1800 in der Digitalen Einakter-Datenbank | |
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| With | Dîlan Canan Çakir, Felix Lempp |
| Part of | BreiterKanon: Wiederentdecken, Lesen, Edieren und mehr |
| Date | 2025-11-17 |
| Generating TEI Documents Through a Game of Dice | |
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| With | Nele Heindorf, Roya Zendebudie, Mark Schwindt, Frank Fischer |
| Part of | New Territories. Text Encoding Initiative Conference and Members’ Meeting 2025 |
| Location | Kraków |
| Date | 2025-09-18 |
Talks | |
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Presentations and workshops given at conferences |
| Before the Archive: Foundations for Reproducible Research in the Humanities | |
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| Event | Digital Exile Literature |
| Location | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) |
| Date | 2025-10-08 |
| Außerhalb der Norm? Geschlecht in den Daten der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek | |
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| Event | Literaturgeschichte intersektional weiterschreiben (GSA 2025) |
| Location | Arlington, VA |
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| Date | 2025-09-26 |
| Ganz, halb oder gar nicht? Herausforderungen und Strategien bei der Veröffentlichung sensibler Forschungsdaten aus einem Literaturarchiv | |
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| With | Frank Fischer |
| Event | FORGE 2025 |
| Location | Rostock |
| Date | 2025-09-25 |
Teaching | |
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Courses taught at university spanning a full term |
| Wikipedia und Wikidata in der Literaturwissenschaft | |
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| With | Frank Fischer |
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| Date | 2025-04-17 |
| Wikipedia und Wikidata in den Geisteswissenschaften | |
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| With | Frank Fischer |
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| Date | 2024-04-18 |
Events | |
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Conferences and workshops I co-organised |
| Digital Humanities Code Review Day | |
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| Type | Workshop |
| With | Lisa Poggel, Paul Bayer, Kleio Chrysopoulou Tseva |
| Location | IZ D2MCM, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Date | 2025-12-05 |
| Einakter als Daten. Statistik und digitale Erschließung einer vergessenen Gattung (1740–1850) | |
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| Type | Guest lecture |
| With | Dîlan Canan Çakir |
| Event | Vergessene Texte von 1800 bis heute (Prof. Dr. Martina Wernli) |
| Location | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Date | 2025-11-06 |
| Futures of Doing Literature | |
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| Type | Conference |
| With | Dîlan Canan Çakir, Frank Fischer, Rebecca Hardie, Bart Soethaert |
| Event | EXC Temporal Communities |
| Location | Berlin |
| Date | 2025-07-09 |