An interdisciplinary research hub at Heidelberg University, dedicated to advancing digital methods and tools in the humanities and fostering collaboration between technology and cultural studies.
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The Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) promotes research at the intersection of the humanities and computational sciences.
Our mission is to explore, develop, and apply digital methods and infrastructures that empower research in culture, language, and history.
We collaborate across disciplines to create sustainable, open, and reproducible digital research practices at Heidelberg University and beyond.
This GitHub organization hosts a collection of research prototypes, corpora, and tools developed as part of HCDH projects.
It includes datasets (e.g., chronorhetorics-corpus), software prototypes for digital humanities research, and codebases that support computational analysis, visualization, and critical AI applications.
All repositories are maintained collaboratively by interdisciplinary teams from the HCDH.
The Chronorhetorics Project investigates how political discourse constructs and transforms notions of time across historical and ideological contexts.
It combines computational linguistics, digital hermeneutics, and corpus-based methods to study temporal rhetoric and its cultural implications.
| Repository name | Description | Repository |
|---|---|---|
| chronorhetorics-corpus | A multilingual corpus of political speeches (German & English) curated for the analysis of temporal rhetoric and cultural discourse. Includes structured metadata (date, speaker, source, language) and full-text transcriptions for diachronic and comparative research. | 🔗 GitHub Repo |
CAEDHET (Critical AI Engineering, Digital Humanities and Educational Transfer) is an interdisciplinary working group jointly organized by the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH) and the Heidelberg School of Education (HSE).
It focuses on critical AI engineering at the intersection of AI development, digital humanities, educational transfer, and ethical reflection.
| Repository name | Description | URL |
|---|---|---|
| FLVM | Prototype for a local Flask-based video creation/editing workflow using ffmpeg/moviepy and optional AI narration or automation. | 🔗 GitHub Repo |
| IQM | AI-assisted quiz/assessment app (H5P support) that can ingest PDFs/URLs and run locally with Ollama/OpenAI backends. | 🔗 GitHub Repo |
| ASCVIT | Automatic Statistical Calculation, Visualization, and Interpretation Tool: Local app for statistical analyses with interactive Plotly charts and optional LLM interpretation. | 🔗 GitHub Repo |
| IEC | Companion code for the “Individual Educational Chatbot” article (Level Up Coding): Flask chatbot stack with scraping/tokenization utilities and LLM backends. | 🔗 GitHub Repo |
| FACTS | Pipeline for collecting, cleaning, topic modeling, and reporting on text corpora; part of the “Filtering and Analysis of Content in Textual Sources” article. | 🔗 GitHub Repo |
| GAMMA | Prototype for the GAMMA component of EDUMING: Educational tooling blending LLMs with game-development workflows (GameMaker Studio 2 integration). | 🔗 GitHub Repo |
| QUEST | Prototype app for question generation and assessment with TTS/STT and LLM backends for interactive learning. | 🔗 GitHub Repo |
🌐 Website: https://hcdh.de