Seminar by Cezary Rosiński, "From sources to findings: building research capacity in the humanities through computational methods"

This talk explores how computational methods transform humanities research by shifting the focus from sources to data infrastructures. It demonstrates how unstructured materials can be modelled as semantic data (e.g. knowledge graphs), where metadata, persistent identifiers, and interoperability standards become essential for enabling analysis at scale. Drawing on case studies from bibliographic and Jesuit studies, the presentation outlines a practical workflow – from data acquisition and cleaning to modelling and network analysis – showing how custom datasets generate new research questions about cultural and scholarly communication. The key argument is that computational approaches do not replace interpretation but reframe it: they enable the study of patterns, relations, and structures, with visualisations functioning as analytical arguments rather than mere illustrations.