publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar. keywords such as 'classics' are included in the BibTeX and thus, let you search for topics even when that particular word is not present in the publication title.

2027

  1. Two-tier Computational Humanities: A Labour History of Undervalued Contributions in DH
    Sarah Lang
    In Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship, 2027
    Forthcoming
  2. Two-tier Computational Humanities: A Labour History of Undervalued Contributions in DH
    Sarah Lang
    In The De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship, Berlin/Boston, 2027

2026

  1. Zwischen Experimental und Computational History of Science: Digitales Experimentieren an alchemischen Prozessvorschriften
    Sarah Lang
    In Veröffentlichungen des Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2026
  2. Confabulated Transliterations? Managing the Lure of Plausibility in LLM-Detected Arabic Terms in an Early Modern Lexicon
    Sarah Lang, Jonas Müller-Laackmann, Hazem Lashen, and 1 more author
    In Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition, 2026
    Forthcoming
  3. Dataset Audits for Mitigating Data Gaps
    Sarah Lang and Elena Suárez Cronauer
    Computational Humanities Research, 2026
    Accepted, forthcoming
  4. A Discipline, Divided: On the Digital Humanities and Ideologies of Knowledge Work
    Tessa Gengnagel and Sarah Lang
    In DH2026 Book of Abstracts, 2026
  5. Mediating Alchemical Language across Terminologies and Cultures in Ruland’s Lexicon Alchemiae: A Data-Driven Study of Arabic Terms
    Sarah Lang, Farzad Mahootian, and Hazem Lashen
    Ambix, 2026
    Forthcoming
  6. Contextual Word Embeddings for Paracelsian Lexicography: Tangled Terminologies and Their Origins in Ruland’s Alchemical Dictionary
    Vojtěch Kaše and Sarah Lang
    Ambix, 2026
    Forthcoming
  7. Introduction: Computational Approaches to the Histories of Alchemy and Chemistry
    Farzad Mahootian, Sarah Lang, and Guillermo Restrepo
    Ambix, 2026
    Forthcoming
  8. Epilogue: A Computational Turn? Digital and Computational History of Science, Knowledge and Technology
    Sarah Lang
    Ambix, 2026
    Forthcoming
  9. (Doing) Computational History: On the Role of Data Work in Computational Approaches
    Sarah Lang
    Histories, 2026
    DOI
  10. Ways of making digital editions of historical recipes and experimental texts: The Making and Knowing Project
    Sarah Lang
    RIDE, 2026
  11. Critical Concerns for Using LLMs in the (Computational) Humanities and Beyond
    Sarah Lang
    In Understanding Science with Large Language Models?, 2026
  12. The Dark Sides of DH Revisited: From Utopia to Reality
    Matthias Arnold, Alíz Horváth, Sarah Lang, and 2 more authors
    In DHd2026 Book of Abstracts, 2026
    DOI
  13. Beyond Data Feminism: Towards Ethical Data Work in the (Digital) Humanities
    Sarah Lang and Elena Suárez Cronauer
    Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften, 2026
    Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften / Working Papers, 4
    DOI

2025

  1. Fine-Tuning Machine Learning with Historical Data: An Alchemical Object Detection Dataset for Early Modern Scientific Illustrations
    Sarah Lang
    Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften, 2025
    DOI
  2. Quantifying the Environmental Footprint of Curating Datasets with LLMs
    Sarah Lang, Wishyut Pitawanik, Pascal Belouin, and 4 more authors
    2025
    DOI
  3. Towards a Data-Driven History of Lexicography: Two Alchemical Dictionaries in TEI-XML
    Sarah Lang
    Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2025
    DOI
  4. Embedded in the Labyrinth: Investigating Latin Word Senses through Transformer-Based Contextual Embeddings and Attention
    Vojtěch Kaše, Sarah Lang, and Petr Pavlas
    In Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2025, 2025
    DOI
  5. Documenting Datasets as a Tool for Change
    Sarah Lang
    In Digital Humanities 2025: Book of Abstracts, 2025
  6. Review of \emphThe Alchemical Laboratory in Visual and Written Sources, by Ivo Purš and Vladimír Karpenko
    Sarah Lang
    2025
  7. eScriptorium Meets LLMs: Moderne KI-Systeme im Kontext der Volltexterschließung
    Larissa Will, Jan Kamlah, Thomas Schmidt, and 2 more authors
    In Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2025: Book of Abstracts, 2025
    DOI
  8. Documenting Datasets as a Tool for Change
    Sarah Lang
    In DH2025 Lisbon Book of Abstracts, Lisbon, 2025
    DOI

2024

  1. Project Overhaul Und Refactoring Der Digitalen Edition Der ’Urfehdebücher Der Stadt Basel’ Mithilfe Von GPT-4 Und LLM
    Christopher Pollin, Martina Scholger, Elisabeth Steiner, and 3 more authors
    In DHd 2024 Quo Vadis DH, 2024
    DOI
  2. Defining Chymistry Through Insults? Michael Maier’s Accusations of Alchemical Fraud in the Entrepreneurial Marketplace
    Sarah Lang
    Daphnis, 2024
  3. Imago et error. Decrypting the Allegorical Images of Michael Maier’s Viatorium (1618)
    Sarah Lang
    In Michael Maier und die Formen (al)chemischen Wissens um 1600, 2024
    DOI
  4. DH, wir müssen reden! Eine Konversation über das Scheitern in den Digital Humanities
    Sarah Lang
    Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, 2024
    DOI
  5. Sources of Alchemical Cryptography
    Sarah Lang, Sergei Zotov, and Megan Piorko
    In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2024), 2024
    DOI

2023

  1. Zur Transkription von Alchemica mithilfe der Transkribus-Software: Zu Handschriften, Drucken und dem NOSCEMUS GM 6 Modell
    Michael Fröstl, Stefan Zathammer, and Sarah Lang
    In Alchemistische Labore: Praktiken, Texte und materielle Hinterlassenschaften / Alchemical Laboratories: Practices, Texts, Material Relics, 2023
  2. Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics. An Introduction
    Sarah Lang
    In Alchemistische Labore. Praktiken, Texte und materielle Hinterlassenschaften / Alchemical Laboratories. Practices, texts, material relics, 2023
  3. Toward a Computational Historiography of Alchemy: Challenges and Obstacles of Object Detection for Historical Illustrations of Mining, Metallurgy, and Distillation in 16th–17th Century Print
    Sarah A. Lang, Bernhard Liebl, and Manuel Burghardt
    In Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023 (CHR 2023), 2023
  4. Alchemische Labore. Texte, Praktiken und materielle Hinterlassenschaften / Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics
    2023
    DOI
  5. Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics. An Introduction
    Sarah Lang
    In Alchemische Labore. Texte, Praktiken und materielle Hinterlassenschaften / Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics, 2023
    DOI
  6. Zur Transkription von Alchemica mithilfe der Transkribus-Software. Zu Handschriften, Drucken und dem NOSCEMUS GM 6 Modell
    Michael Fröstl, Stefan Zathammer, and Sarah Lang
    In Alchemische Labore. Texte, Praktiken und materielle Hinterlassenschaften / Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics, 2023
    DOI
  7. Furnace and Fugue. A multimedia edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens
    Sarah Lang
    RIDE, 2023
  8. Deciphering the Hermeticae Philosophiae Medulla: Textual Cultures of Alchemical Secrecy
    Megan Piorko, Sarah Lang, and Richard Bean
    Ambix, 2023
    Abs DOI Bib PDF
  9. Digital Scholarly Editions of Alchemical Texts as Tools for Interpretation
    Sarah Lang
    In Digitale Edition in Österreich, 2023
  10. Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln (GRaF, 2017–2019)
    Sarah Lang and Ursula Gärtner
    In Digitale Edition in Österreich, 2023
    Bib
  11. The cipher of Emperor Rudolf II’s “Alchemical Hand Bell”
    Richard Bean, Corinna Gannon, and Sarah Lang
    In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2023, 2023
  12. Situating ciphers among alchemical techniques of secrecy
    Sarah Lang
    In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2023, 2023
  13. Seven metals, ringed with four magical inscriptions: what other secrets does the ‘Alchemical Hand Bell’ hold?
    Richard Bean, Corinna Gannon, and Sarah Lang
    Jun 2023
  14. Data Feminism as a Challenge for Digital Humanities?
    Luise Borek, Elena Suárez Cronauer, Pauline Junginger, and 3 more authors
    Jul 2023
    English version
  15. Data Feminism als Herausforderung für die Digital Humanities?
    Luise Borek, Elena Suárez Cronauer, Pauline Junginger, and 3 more authors
    Jul 2023
  16. Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots
    Tessa Gengnagel, Sarah Lang, Nora Probst, and 6 more authors
    In DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture. 9. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2023), Mar 2023
    DOI
  17. Herausforderung, Lesson Learned oder Chance? Der Zusammenhang zwischen Kulturen des Scheiterns und Open-Bewegungen in den Digital Humanities
    Ulrike Wuttke, Dario Kampkaspar, Jonas Müller-Laackman, and 4 more authors
    In DHd2023: Open Humanities, Open Culture, 2023
  18. Data Feminism in DH
    Sarah Lang, Luise Borek, and Nora Probst
    In DHd2023: Open Humanities, Open Culture, 2023
  19. Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots
    Tessa Gengnagel, Sarah Lang, Nora Probst, and 6 more authors
    In DHd2023: Open Humanities, Open Culture, 2023
  20. Exploring the borderlands. A revolutionary potential for DH
    Luise Borek, Sarah Lang, Quinn Dombrowski, and 5 more authors
    In DH 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity, 2023

2022

  1. Experiments in the digital laboratory. What the Computational Humanities can learn about their definition and terminology from the History of Science
    Sarah Lang
    In Fabrikation von Erkenntnis. Experimente in den Digital Humanities, 2022
  2. Solving an alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee
    Richard Bean, Sarah Lang, and Megan Piorko
    In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2022), 2022
  3. A Machine Reasoning Algorithm for the Digital Analysis of Alchemical Language and its Decknamen
    Sarah Lang
    Ambix, 2022
  4. Experiments in the digital laboratory. What the Computational Humanities can learn about their definition and terminology from the History of Science
    Sarah Lang
    In Fabrikation von Erkenntnis. Experimente in den Digital Humanities, 2022
    DOI
  5. Solving an alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee
    Richard Bean, Sarah Lang, and Megan Piorko
    In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2022), 2022
    DOI
  6. Vom ‘Wissen in Buchform’ zum formalen Wissensmodell. Digitale Aufbereitung wissenschaftshistorischer Drucke am Beispiel der Alchemica Michael Maiers
    Sarah Lang
    In Wissen und Buchgestalt (Tagungsband zu ‘Wissen in Buchgestalt’ 30.09.2019 – 02.10.2019), 2022
  7. Matteo Soranzo. Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524) and Renaissance Alchemy: A Critical Edition of “Chrysopoeia” and Other Alchemical Poems, with an Introduction, English Translation and Commentary
    Sarah Lang
    Isis, 2022
  8. Book review: LaTeX Beginner’s Guide, second edition, by Stefan Kottwitz
    Sarah Lang
    The Communications of the TeX Users Group TUGboat, 2022

2021

  1. An alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee [Work In Progress]
    Sarah Lang and Megan Piorko
    In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2021), 2021
  2. Assessing Michael Maier’s Contributions to Francis Anthony’s Apologia (1616) Using Stylometry
    Sarah Lang
    In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021, 2021
  3. An alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee [Work In Progress]
    Sarah Lang and Megan Piorko
    In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2021), 2021
    DOI
  4. Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone: how we cracked a 400-year-old alchemical cipher
    Richard Bean, Megan Piorko, and Sarah Lang
    Oct 2021
  5. Digitale Erschließungsmethoden für alchemische Texte am Beispiel der Symbola Aureae Mensae Michael Maiers
    Sarah Lang
    In Alchemie – Genealogie und Terminologie, Bilder, Techniken und Artefakte, 2021
  6. LZA-Datenformate: Vektorgrafikformate
    Sarah Lang
    2021
  7. Text Mining
    Sarah Lang
    2021
  8. Michael Maier, Viatorium, hoc est, de monitibus planetarum septem seu metallorum, Oppenheim: Johann Theodor de Bry 1618, Exemplar Universitätsbibliothek der Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Slg. G. Freytag H 1329 und Signatur Bibliothek Senckenberg 8° R 523.670
    Sarah Lang
    2021
  9. Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln (GRaF, 2017-2019)
    Sarah Lang and Ursula Gärtner
    2021
  10. Digital Humanities studieren. Digitale Methoden zu erlernen steht für Studierende hoch im Kurs
    Sarah Lang
    Der Standard, Blog Digitale Geisteswissenschaften, Oct 2021
  11. Alchemische Decknamen digital entschlüsseln. Polysemantische Annotation und Machine Reasoning am Beispiel des Korpus des Iatrochymikers Michael Maier (1568–1622)
    Sarah Lang
    University of Graz, 2021
    English Title: Decoding alchemical Decknamen digitally. Polysemantic Annotation and Machine Reasoning on the example of the corpus of iatrochymist Michael Maier (1568–1622)

2020

  1. The Computational Humanities and Toxic Masculinity? A (long) reflection
    Sarah Lang
    Apr 2020
  2. Digitale Lernplattformen und Open Educational Resources im altsprachlichen Unterricht I: Technische Spielräume am Beispiel ‚Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‘ (GRaF)
    Sarah Lang and Lukas Spielhofer
    Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (zfdg), 2020
    DOI
  3. Poésie (al-)chimique. Comment approcher le langage de l’alchimie néo-latine du XVII e siècle à travers un thesaurus Semantic Web ?
    Sarah Lang
    In Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et Applications. Actes de la conférence. TOTh 2019. Le Bourget du Lac – 6 & 7 juin 2019, 2020
  4. Digitale Annotation alchemischer Decknamen. Die Allegoriae werden uns nit mehr verborgen seyn
    Sarah Lang
    In Annotations in Scholarly Editions and Research. Functions, Differentiation, Systematization, 2020
  5. Die Fabel lehrt – Fabula docet. Das Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln als fachdidaktische digitale Ressource
    Sarah Lang
    In Funktion und Aufgabe digitaler Medien in Geschichtswissenschaft und Geschichtsunterricht, 2020
  6. Webportal
    Sarah Lang
    2020
  7. Liste online verfügbarer Ressourcen für den altsprachlichen Unterricht
    Sarah Lang
    2020
  8. Zur Benutzung des Textportals
    Sarah Lang
    2020
  9. Dokumentation
    Sarah Lang
    2020
  10. Digitale Lernplattformen und Open Educational Resources im altsprachlichen Unterricht II: Didaktische Spielräume am Beispiel ‚Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‘ (GRaF)
    Lukas Spielhofer and Sarah Lang
    Ianus: Informationen zum altsprachlichen Unterricht, 2020
  11. Benedek Láng, Real Life Cryptology. Ciphers and Secrets in Early Modern Hungary
    Sarah Lang
    Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (JIPSS), 2020
  12. Comined book review of: Katherine Ellison, Susan Kim (eds.), A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers. Cryptography and the History of Literacy & Katherine Ellison, A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals
    Sarah Lang
    Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (JIPSS), 2020

2018

  1. Tragisches Ritual? Zum Aigisthosmord der euripideischen Elektra im Opferkontext
    Sarah Lang
    Eisodos: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Theorie, 2018
  2. Perseus Digital Library
    Sarah Lang
    RIDE: A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources, 2018