Viktor Illmer
IT Researcher @ Freie Universität Berlin
I am interested in the way data models influence our perception of the world. In my research, I explore the representation of social phenomena such as gender within structured data systems in a digital humanities context.
You can reach me via email, view my open-source contributions on GitHub, or explore the content below.
Hyperlinks
Links to resources I find interesting, forming an interconnected hypertext
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git – ours & theirs
nitaym.github.io
Cheat sheet to demystify git terminology: What’s ‘ours’, what’s ‘theirs’? The answer might surprise you.
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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
jordaneldredge.com
Jordan Eldredge’s exploration yields some unlikely finds
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TIL: Why do UNIX text files end with a newline?
unix.stackexchange.com
By UNIX definition, a text file is a series of lines, and a line is any characters followed by a newline character. Without the newline, it’s not a text file.
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Symbols for Legacy Computing
en.wikipedia.org
These charming Unicode characters are a throwback to the early days of computing, featuring many block drawing characters and even stick figures.
Publications
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Literatur im Wikiversum – Eine praktische Annäherung über API-Abfragen und Wikipedia-Metriken
with Bart Soethaert, Lilly Welz, Frank Fischer and Robert Jäschke.
DHd2024. Quo Vadis DH, Passau. -
Internationale Autor*innen zu Gast in der DDR: Die Einreisekartei des Schriftstellerverbandes und ihre digitale Aufbereitung
with Frank Fischer, Lukas Nils Regeler, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Luise von Berenberg-Gossler and Franziska Diehr.
DHd2023: »Open Humanities, Open Culture«, Trier/Luxemburg. -
Modelling gender diversity: Research data representation beyond the binary
with Lisa Poggel, Franziska Diehr and Lindsey Drury.
DH2022: Responding to Asian Diversity, Tokyo/Online.
Talks
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Chasing ‘Carmen Nova’: Encoding and Analysis of a TEI Version of the Crime Novella Allegedly Written by Umberto Eco
tei2024.tei-c.org
with Frank Fischer, Dîlan Canan Çakir, Nils Penke, Mark Schwindt and Lilly Welz.
TEI 2024. Texts, languages, and communities, Buenos Aires. -
DraCor und die Einakter-Datenbank als infrastrukturelle Voraussetzung für die digitale Gattungshermeneutik
with Dîlan Canan Çakir and Frank Fischer.
Digitale Gattungshermeneutik, München. -
Decoding Gender in Digital Humanities Datasets: A Critical Quantitative Perspective
dh2024.adho.org
with Lisa Poggel, Aleksandr Lange, Pauline Junginger and Zeynep Ecem Pulas.
DH2024: Reinvention & Possibility, Washington, D.C.. -
Measuring Public Engagement and the Valuation of Literature on Wikipedia
temporal-communities.de
with Bart Soethaert and Frank Fischer.
EXC 2020 Annual Conference 2024. Literary Value: Artistic, Academic and Critical Practices, Berlin. -
Programmable Corpora and Network Analysis for Beginners
clsinfra.io
with Frank Fischer.
CLS INFRA Training School ExploreCor: Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies, Vienna.