Cologne Center for eHumanities, University of Cologne
Fellow at CAIS from May to October 2017
This project uses automated, computer-based comparative methods to examine digital documents. These methods are intended to help understand how current regulations or the state of knowledge in certain areas develop over time. For example, analyzing the EU directive on energy consumption can show how the directive has changed, and how it has affected the production of electrical appliances.
During my stay at CAIS, I will use encyclopaedic online projects (such as OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia) to investigate documents that users are constantly changing.
In doing so, I want not only to describe the data structure of large text collections, but also to analyze the knowledge represented by these data. My project aims to make methods of theoretical computer science usable for other disciplines, such as the social sciences.
