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Digital Humanities at the UAB

II Conference of the UAB Digital Humanities Network

The Second UAB Digital Humanities Network Conference will bring together experts and researchers on 14 November 2025 to present their most innovative projects in the field of Digital Humanities, featuring lectures, project presentations, and a round table on the latest trends in the digitalisation of cultural heritage and the humanities.

 

Poster for the 2nd Digital Humanities Conference at the UAB, featuring a symbolic image of a human hand and a mechanical one touching, representing the interaction between technology and the humanities.

Programme

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome. By the Vice-Rector for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship, Rosa Maria Sebastián Pérez, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Margarita Freixas Alás.

10:15 – 10:30 Presentation of the 2nd Digital Humanities Conference 2025. By Oriol Vicente (Coordinator of the Digital Humanities Network).

10:30 – 10:45 Presentation of CLARIAH-CAT and the Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities and Heritage. By Joan Antón Barceló (Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities and Heritage).

10:45 – 11:45 Project Presentations (12 projects). A selection of innovative research projects in the field of Digital Humanities, covering topics such as computer vision, artificial intelligence applied to historical documentation, and the creation of digital platforms to enhance accessibility to cultural heritage.

  • Gerard Corbella López: ArxIfutur: New systems of accessibility to historical documentation through computer vision and artificial intelligence
  • Igor Bogdanovic Rakic: Digital Laboratory – Experiences and Future
  • Ana Escañuela Barradas: Digital Humanities Projects at the UAB
  • Albert Sierra Reguera: The Eyes of History
  • Margarita Freixas Alás & Natalia Terrón: Model of a digital and hypertextual edition of the DRAE 1884 (e-DRAE 1884)
  • Ramón Valdés Gázquez: The subject Digital Philology in the Degree in Spanish Language and Literature
  • Sònia Boadas: THAL-IA. Golden Age Theatrical Heritage: Artificial Intelligence and Spectral Photography
  • Natàlia González: Advances in Machine Learning Applications in Prehistoric Archaeology. Classification and Spatio-temporal Modelling of Archaeological Data
  • Joan Anton Barceló Álvarez: Computer Visualisation of Architectural Cultural Heritage
  • David Merino Recalde: feniX-ML: Semi-automatic XML-TEI tagging for the PROLOPE Digital Library
  • David Merino Recalde: Disseminating the Classics: a digital portal for Lope de Vega’s “Fuenteovejuna”
  • Silvia Altafaja: The UAB Virtual Museum

12:15 – 14:00 Project Presentations (19 projects). A broader selection of research projects exploring the use of artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning applications, and the development of digital infrastructures for research in the humanities.

  • Marta Rial: Sound Archive of Radio in Catalonia
  • Emanuele Leboffe: Rethinking the critical edition of Golden Age theatre in the digital era: the case of three comedies from Lope de Vega’s dramatic corpus
  • Montserrat Ventura i Oller & Jaume Noguera Vila-Masana: Virtual Museum of the Tsachila Community
  • Paloma Valdivia Vizarreta: Heritage as a driver of innovation: the birth of a social and educational campus
  • Clara Masriera Esquerra: Investiga.edu Open Access
  • Patricia Rodríguez-Inés: GREANISSH (Gotriple for Raising Environmental Awareness in Social Sciences and Humanities)
  • Alicia Fornes Bisquerra: Computer Vision for Historical Documents
  • Ramon Sarobe Huesca: GoDoT (Gothic Documents Transcription)
  • Sara Rovira-Esteva: Description of Generatese in Second Languages and Translation (GENERATESE-2LT)
  • Matthias M. Tischler: “Carolingian Culture in Septimania and Catalonia”
  • Gerard Corbella López: Computer Vision and AI Applied to Cultural Heritage: Automatic Description in Historical Archives and New Forms of Accessibility
  • Estel·la Oncins: InclusiVRity
  • Estel·la Oncins: The ALFIE AI technology with ethical standards, ensuring that the resulting outputs meet ethical guidelines
  • Estel·la Oncins: WEL (From written to oral texts in Easy Language: easy audios in cultural visits and video games)
  • Laia Cutrina Gallart: The Index Magistri Cataloniae: The Digital Memory of Medieval Mediterranean Artists
  • Ana Zapatero Romero: Lliv-IA
  • Ana María Alarcón Jiménez: TADRI: Towards a Spanish Civil War and Francoist Repression Digital Research Infrastructure
  • Alicia Calvo Burés: EPICAT / SEFRE
  • Miriam Aurea Marcial Manzola: Digital Tourist Experiences at the Angelats Hotel

14:00 – 14:30 Conclusion and Closing of the Conference. Summary and official closing of the sessions.