Linda Freyberg
Information and Image Science
Linda holds a PhD in cultural sciences and was working on the project Restaging Fashion. Her research areas are Iconicity, Diagrammatic Reasoning, Visualization, Semiotics and Information Theory.
Projects
Restaging Fashion
Digital Contextualization of Vestimentary Sources
INFORMATION+ 2018
International Conference on Information Design & Visualization in Potsdam
Publications
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization
We propose critical interactivity as a concept to study and design the dynamic and transitory aspects of data visualizations. Theoretically, interactivity is often described as the means to support analytical tasks, while in practice, it encompasses …
in: Konferenzband zur 27. Berliner Veranstaltung der internationalen EVA-Serie: Electronic Media and Visual Arts
Tracing and Telling: Exploring collection holdings through graph-based narratives
Cultural collections have transcended the boundaries of physical showcases and storage cabinets, evolving into intricate digital webs of interconnected data. The research project Restaging Fashion aimed to expand the possibilities for experiencing …
ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 (DH2023)
“The research is happening in the text fields” – Are Linked Open Data and Art History a good match?
This contribution explores the instructive tensions between art-historical research and semantic data modeling. While the potential of LOD-applications is obvious in terms of standardization and precision some aspects of research may not be formally …
in: Konferenzband zur DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses
Digitale Kontextualisierung und Visualisierung der Quellen-Trias Bild-TextRealia zu historischer Kleidung, ihrer Ausformung, Zeichenhaftigkeit und Dreidimensionalität
Kleidung, Tracht und Mode kommunizieren die Vorstellung des Trägers von Schönheit, Status, Körper, Form, sozialer Hierarchie und religiöser Zugehörigkeit, kurz: die Identität des Trägers. Die Informationen in den historischen Quellen zur Kleidung, …
Berliner Handreichungen zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft; Band 484, Dissertation
Ikonizität der Information – Die Erkenntnisfunktion struktureller und gestalteter Bildlichkeit in der digitalen Wissensorganisation
Die vorliegende Dissertation „Ikonizität der Information“ befasst sich mit der ikonischen Dimension von Wissensorganisationssystemen (WOS) und dem epistemischen Potenzial von Bildlichkeit im Bereich des digitalen Kulturerbes. Dabei bezieht sich die …
In: E. Bisanz (ed.): Applied Interdisciplinary Peirce Studies, Peter Lang.
Iconicity as Simultaneous Plurality. Beyond the Restraints of Formal Knowledge Organization Systems
In this paper the relevance of Charles Sanders Peirce’s work in the realm of digital knowledge organization (KO) as a contribution to the challenges of the knowledge or information society is demonstrated. In particular his groundbreaking ideas …
in: Konferenzband zur DHd 2020 Paderborn - Spielräume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation
Ikonizität als Erkenntnismittel – Vollständigkeit, Verständlichkeit und Kontextualisierung als Grundprinzipien der Visualisierung
Das hohe Aufkommen und die vermehrte Relevanz digitaler Information haben den Bereich der Erschließung, Organisation und Vermittlung von Wissen nachhaltig verändert. Vilém Flusser wies bereits 1978 auf das „Ansteigen der Wichtigkeit von …
In: Knowledge Organization for Digital Humanities, Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Knowledge Organization WissOrg’17 of the German Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
Density of Knowledge Organization Systems
In this paper the category of density is introduced as a parameter for the measurement of the level of semantic contextualization of Knowledge Organization Systems. Based on previous research regarding the detailedness of description on a metadata …
Activities
Dagstuhl
Mark-Jan Bludau and Linda Freyberg participate in the Dagstuhl Seminar »Visualization and the Humanities: Towards a Shared Research Agenda« (23381).
DH
We are in Graz for the Digital Humanities conference DH2023 with two contributions: Giacomo Nanni and Linda Freyberg present a paper about structured data modeling and unstructured text entry during art historical research and Mark-Jan Bludau co-organizes a workshop on teaching visualization literacy.
LMU
Linda Freyberg gives a talk on »Visualisierung als Erkenntnismittel« at the department of Computational Social Sciences at LMU (6-8 pm virtual). The talk is in German and is open to guests. More info here .
IACS
Linda Freyberg gives a talk on »Information Visualizations as epistemic Tools – Peirce’s concept of diagrammatic reasoning in digital environments« at the 4th conference of the International Association of Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) – Semiotic complexities Theory & Analysis .
Kunstbibliothek Berlin
Sabine de Günther conducts a co-creation workshop at Kunstbibliothek Berlin in the context of the Restaging Fashion project with an input from Linda Freyberg, followed by hands-on sessions, where participants engaged with the collection.
CIDOC conference
Linda Freyberg and Giacomo Nanni participate at the CIDOC conference in Tallinn and gave a talk on »Visualizing cultural heritage – Visual approaches to modeling and presenting multimodal data«.
Kunsthistorikertag
Sabine de Günther and Lindy Freyberg presented at the Digital Art History section of this years Kunsthistorikertag in Stuttgart Digitale Kontextualisierung und visuelle Reinszenierung vestimentärer Quellen (Digital contextualisation and visual restaging of vestimentary sources).
DHd
We participate in DHd 2022 to present our latest digital humanities research from the projects Restaging Fashion, A visual exploration of two museum collections, and SoNAR (IDH).
Visualizing Open Access
We are preparing the »Visualizing Open Access Summer School« in cooperation with the Open-Access-Büro Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.
Dr. Freyberg
Linda Freyberg successfully defended her PhD thesis »Iconicity in Information – The epistemic function of implicit and explicit imagery in digital knowledge organization« at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Courses
Visualizing Open Access Summer School
The summer school focusses on visualizing open access in Germany (Open Access Bundesländer-Atlas) and beyond to raise awareness of this transformation in academic publishing.
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