Viktor Illmer
IT Researcher @ EXC Temporal Communities, 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.
Publications
Research publications and papers
2025
- Schreibwirtschaft – Dramatikerinnen um 1800 in der Digitalen Einakter-Datenbank
w/ Dîlan Canan Çakir, Felix Lempp
BreiterKanon. Wiederentdecken, Lesen, Edieren Berlin
- Schreibwirtschaft – Dramatikerinnen um 1800 in der Digitalen Einakter-Datenbank
2024
- Univariate statistical analysis of a non-canonical literary genre
w/ Dîlan Canan Çakir, Frank Fischer, Carsten Milling, Lilly Welz
CHR2024 Aarhus - Chasing ‘Carmen Nova’
w/ Dîlan Canan Çakir, Frank Fischer, Mark Schwindt, Niels Penke, Lilly Welz
TEI 2024: Texts, languages, and communities Buenos Aires - Just the Type
w/ Julia Jennifer Beine, Frank Fischer
DH2024: Reinvention & Possibility Washington, D.C. - Decoding gender in Digital Humanities datasets
w/ Lisa Poggel, Aleksandr Lange, Pauline Junginger, Zeynep Ecem Pulas
DH2024: Reinvention & Possibility Washington, D.C. - Literatur im Wikiversum
w/ Bart Soethaert, Lilly Welz, Frank Fischer, Robert Jäschke
DHd2024. Quo Vadis DH Passau
- Univariate statistical analysis of a non-canonical literary genre
2023
- Internationale Autor*innen zu Gast in der DDR
w/ Frank Fischer, Lukas Nils Regeler, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Luise von Berenberg-Gossler, Franziska Diehr
DHd2023: »Open Humanities, Open Culture« Trier/Luxemburg
- Internationale Autor*innen zu Gast in der DDR
2022
- Modelling gender diversity
w/ Lisa Poggel, Franziska Diehr, Lindsey Drury
DH2022: Responding to Asian Diversity Tokyo/Online
- Modelling gender diversity
Talks
Presentations and workshops given at conferences
2025
- Statistik für Geisteswissenschaftler:innen
Lecture Einführung in die digitalen Geisteswissenschaften Berlin
- Statistik für Geisteswissenschaftler:innen
2024
- Univariate statistical analysis of a non-canonical literary genre
w/ Dîlan Canan Çakir
Computational Humanities Research 2024 Aarhus - Chasing ‘Carmen Nova’
w/ Frank Fischer, Dîlan Canan Çakir, Niels Penke, Mark Schwindt, Lilly Welz
TEI 2024: Texts, languages, and communities Buenos Aires - Infrastrukturelle Voraussetzungen für die digitale Gattungshermeneutik
w/ Dîlan Canan Çakir, Frank Fischer
Workshop: Digitale Gattungshermeneutik München - Decoding gender in Digital Humanities datasets
w/ Lisa Poggel, Aleksandr Lange
DH2024: Reinvention & Possibility Washington, D.C. - Measuring Public Engagement and the Valuation of Literature on Wikipedia
w/ Bart Soethaert, Frank Fischer
Workshop EXC 2020 Annual Conference 2024. Literary Value: Artistic, Academic and Critical Practices Berlin - Programmable Corpora and Network Analysis for Beginners
w/ Frank Fischer
Workshop CLS INFRA Training School ExploreCor: Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies Vienna - Literatur im Wikiversum
w/ Frank Fischer, Bart Soethaert
Workshop DHd2024: Quo Vadis DH Passau - Statistik für Geisteswissenschaftler:innen
Lecture Einführung in die digitalen Geisteswissenschaften Berlin
- Univariate statistical analysis of a non-canonical literary genre
2023
- Querying the Wikipedia API to Explore the Positioning of Authors and Works
w/ Frank Fischer
Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies Berlin
- Querying the Wikipedia API to Explore the Positioning of Authors and Works
Teaching
Courses taught at university spanning a full term
2024
- Wikipedia und Wikidata in den Geisteswissenschaften
w/ Frank Fischer
Freie Universität Berlin
- Wikipedia und Wikidata in den Geisteswissenschaften
Events
Conferences and workshops I co-organised
2024
- Digital Humanities Code Review Day
w/ Lisa Poggel, Melanie Althage, Dillwyn Thier, Roya Zendebudie
Workshop Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities Berlin - Linked Open Data and Literary Studies
w/ Frank Fischer
Conference EXC Temporal Communities Berlin
- Digital Humanities Code Review Day
Hyperlinks
Links to resources I find interesting
2024
- Linking directly to text fragments
Short reminder that linking to text on a webpage is now widely supported and can be useful for citations
- telo misikeke
ilo sitelen tawa toki pona – a Toki Pona grammar checker
- git – ours & theirs
Cheat sheet to demystify git terminology: What’s ‘ours’, what’s ‘theirs’? The answer might surprise you.
- The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
Jordan Eldredge’s exploration yields some unlikely finds
- FFV1 Video Format
An open format for lossless video encoding
- TIL: Why do UNIX text files end with a newline?
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.
- Symbols for Legacy Computing
These charming Unicode characters are a throwback to the early days of computing, featuring many block drawing characters and even stick figures.
- On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git
A choose-your-own-adventure-style resource to guide you out of many of Git‘s sticky situations.
- Linking directly to text fragments
Notes
It’s like a blog, remember those?
2024
- TIL: HTML Standard §13.1.2.4: Optional tags
Many end tags can simply be omitted in HTML5, making it read a bit like Markdown.
- TIL: The case against self-closing tags in HTML
Self-closing tags (e.g.
<br />) are not a thing in HTML. - Execute a Command when Files ChangeUsing watchexec for automatic re-execution
- TIL: HTML Standard §13.1.2.4: Optional tags
2023
- Using Apple Emoji in ZulipHow to use Apple emoji in the Zulip team chat app
- nimi pi toki pini
jan tu kama li lon poka la, ona li toki e «toki!».
taso ona li pini la, ona li toki e seme?
- Using Apple Emoji in Zulip
2022
- Citing Web Archive URLs in BibLaTeX-APAWith link rot, web archives are becoming more important. But how do we cite them?
- Citing Web Archive URLs in BibLaTeX-APA
2020
- Make Microsoft Planner Remember Your “Group By” SettingThis fixes a big annoyance of mine.
- Use Tab Titles in Google Ad ManagerBrowser extension to get your tab bar under control
- Attach Outlook Email to Planner Tasks via Power AutomateThere’s no way (yet) to turn an email into a task. In the meantime, you can use this automation.
- Make Microsoft Planner Remember Your “Group By” Setting