Viktor Illmer

Viktor Illmer
Research Software Developer @ Freie Universität Berlin, FUB-IT Digital Research Infrastructures
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
Email	[email protected]

Notes
It’s like a blog, remember those?

linkding bookmarking on NixOS and Hugo
Summary	This site’s hyperlinks section is now powered by linkding.
Tags	BookmarksHugoMetaNixNixos
Date	2025-02-23

TIL: HTML Standard §13.1.2.4: Optional tags
Summary	Many end tags can simply be omitted in HTML5, making it read a bit like Markdown.
Tags	Html
Date	2024-04-08

TIL: The case against self-closing tags in HTML
Summary	Self-closing tags (e.g. `<br />`) are not a thing in HTML.
Tags	HtmlXml
Date	2024-04-04

Hyperlinks
Links to resources I find interesting

XSLT.RIP – Google are killing XSLT!
Date	2025-11-10

Don’t guess my language
Summary	The Accept-Language header exists for a reason
Date	2025-05-20

#genderUX (2015)
Summary	How to handle gender data on forms, if you have to
Tags	Gender
Date	2025-02-06

Publications
Research publications and papers

“Works on My Machine”: A Case Study of Replicability Challenges in Computational Humanities Research
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
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
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
Presentations and workshops given at conferences

Metadaten lesbar machen: Genre, Inferenzstatistik und Replizierbarkeit in der Digitalen Einakter-Datenbank
Type	Guest lecture
With	Dîlan Canan Çakir
Event	Digital Humanities im Fokus: Methoden, Anwendungen und Perspektiven
Location	Rostock, Germany
Date	2025-12-15

“Works on My Machine”: A Case Study of Replicability Challenges in Computational Humanities Research
Event	Computational Humanities Research 2025
Location	Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Date	2025-12-10

Before the Archive: Foundations for Reproducible Research in the Humanities
Event	Digital Exile Literature
Location	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW)
Date	2025-10-08

Teaching
Courses taught at university spanning a full term

Wikipedia und Wikidata in der Literaturwissenschaft
With	Frank Fischer
Tags	WikidataWikipedia
Date	2025-04-17

Wikipedia und Wikidata in den Geisteswissenschaften
With	Frank Fischer
Tags	WikidataWikipedia
Date	2024-04-18

Events
Conferences and workshops I co-organised

Digital Humanities Code Review Day
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)
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
Type	Conference
With	Dîlan Canan Çakir, Frank Fischer, Rebecca Hardie, Bart Soethaert
Event	EXC Temporal Communities
Location	Berlin
Date	2025-07-09