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
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
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
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
Research Fellow
Digital Humanities Fellow
Research Fellowship
Research Internship
Recent Posts
Projects
Graz Repository of Ancient Fables (GRaF).
A learner-oriented digital edition of ancient fables.
Recent & Upcoming Talks
Recent Publications
Contact
- 94305 Graz
- Follow me on Twitter
- Read my blog