Save the date! Prominent Ottomanists will gather in Vienna on 2-3 July 2026 to discuss Ottoman governance at the kickoff workshop of the ERC project OttomanCORE.
https://t.co/c7HBhvknGN
The Ottoman Archaeology Workshop in Sofia highlighted how studying the Ottoman past requires true interdisciplinarity. The key takeaway: only by combining archaeological, textual & spatial data in relational databases can we uncover patterns otherwise invisible.
Ottoman archaeology workshop coming up in Sofia, organized within the framework of the ERC OttomanCORE project. Check out the program at the link below.: https://t.co/hTjUzgUEOH
OttomanCORE team joined the workshop "The Tension between Data and Concepts in Ottoman Digital Humanities", organized by the Orient-Institut and IFEA and held in Istanbul, 16-17 April 2026. Many thanks to the organizers, especially for allowing enough time for quality discussions
Efe Erünal will be talking about "Archives as Data: AI Methods for studying Ottoman Governance" at the AI Symposium 2026 of Koç University.
https://t.co/sUgwxlMl6s
From Mount Sinai and Mount Athos to Rome, Melk, and Vienna—our workshop discussions spanned centuries, languages, and confessional worlds, from Byzantine nunneries to Ottoman documents and Armeno-Turkish heritage. Thank you all!
Productive brainstorming seminar with Chavdar Kirilov, Mariya Kiprovska, and Grigor Boykov, finalizing the architecture of the OttomanCORE PostgreSQL database. Next up: real-world data testing at our upcoming team seminar.