Sarah A. Lang

Sarah A. Lang

Digital Humanities researcher

Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung (ZIM), University of Graz

Biography

Sarah Lang is a researcher and doctoral candidate in the Digital Humanities at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz / Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung (ZIM-ACDH).

Research interests include leveraging Computational Humanities for the historiography of Alchemy and Chymistry.

Feminist and author of the blog LaTeX Ninja’ing and the Digital Humanities. (Still) Deeply rooted in Classics. Currently Digital Humanities Fellow at Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Mainz.

Interests

  • Computational Humanities
  • Digital Humanities
  • History of Science
  • History of Alchemy & Chymistry
  • (Digital) Classics
  • (Neo-)Latin

Education

  • PhD in Digital Humanities, 2018-2021

    University of Graz

  • Mag. in History & Ancient Greek, 2020

    Teacher's Education, University of Graz

  • MA in Philosophy, 2019

    University of Graz

  • MA in Religious Studies, 2017

    University of Graz

  • Mag. in Latin & French, 2017

    Teacher's Education, University of Graz

  • BA in Archaeology, 2016

    University of Graz

Skills

History of Alchemy

Specializing on the Neo-Latin corpus of Michael Maier (1568-1622)

Computational Humanities

Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Organization Systems, Digital Editions

X-technologies

XML, XSLT, XML-Standards

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Digital Humanities Project Assistant

Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung

Oct 2018 – Sep 2020 Graz, Austria

Project Assistant of the Dean’s office with a the PhD project on digital humanities approach to Michael Maier = glossa.uni-graz.at/alchem

  • digital transcriptions of Michael Maier’s (1568-1611) print corpus (~3500p.): OCR correction, TEI modelling
  • creating a digital annotation algorithm for the use of knowledge organization system based machine reasoning for decoding alchemical Decknamen
 
 
 
 
 

Digital Humanities PraeDoc

Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung

Oct 2017 – Sep 2019 Graz, Austria

Graz Repository of Ancient Fables (GRaF Project) = gams.uni-graz.at/graf

  • Creating a suitable data model for teaching materials on ancient fables in TEI-XML
  • Helping Classicists to gather data (Citizen Science)
  • XSL transformations generating representations of data on-the-fly according to the single source principle
  • creating a web portal using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • creating PDF outputs using an XSL-to-LaTeX transformation
  • teaching and supervising Classicist colleagues to handle data in the GAMS infrastructure
 
 
 
 
 

Student Assistant

Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 Graz, Austria

Spectators / Moralische Wochenschriften (MWS Project) = gams.uni-graz.at/mws

  • Correcting TEI-XML data causing errors on the production server
  • XSL transformations
  • Handling data in the GAMS repository infrastructure

Research Stays and Fellowships

Beckman Center Short-Term Fellow

Continuing the work on Michael Maier’s Viatorium (1618)

Research Fellow

Finishing the German translation of Michael Maier’s Viatorium (1618)

Digital Humanities Fellow

Obscurum vocabulum Chymiae? Zur polysemantischen Annotation und Disambiguierung alchemischer Decknamen am Beispiel des Korpus des Arztalchemikers Michael Maier (1568–1622)

Research Fellowship

Obscurum vocabulum Chymiae? Zur polysemantischen Annotation und Disambiguierung alchemischer Decknamen am Beispiel des Korpus des Arztalchemikers Michael Maier (1568–1622)

Research Internship

Annotating 1167 regests from Falkenstein’s Nachlass for their transformation to CEI-XML and integration into Monasterium

Recent Posts

Projects

Graz Repository of Ancient Fables (GRaF).

Graz Repository of Ancient Fables (GRaF).

A learner-oriented digital edition of ancient fables.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

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