Sébastien de Valeriola
Associate Professor, Digital Humanities chair
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Research interests
I am the coordinator of the Ratio DH research center, and more broadly of the QuaDiHum center of excellence, dedicated to the application of quantitative and digital methods in humanities at ULB.
My current research interests primarily focus on the interesection of the two trends of my career, i.e. on the application of quantitative and numeric methods to humanities questions. I am currently involded in projects touching history, archeology, linguistics, journalism...
Any quantitative method draws my interest, but at present I am mainly working with the following topics:
- Social/Historical Network Analysis
- Text Mining
- Stylometry
- Digital Paleography
- Image Processing
- Data visualization
- Machine Learning
- Medieval History (and more specifically: economic and social history of Middle Ages, hagiography)
Scientific memberships
- Co-chair of the DARIAH-EU Mediaevalist’s Sources Working Group
- Chairman of the Executive board of DH Benelux
- President and founding member of the FRS-FNRS contact group Les humanités des données / Data-driven humanities
- Webmaster of the Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire
- Member of the steering committee of the QFame project (ULB-Universidade de Sao Paulo)
- Member of the scientific committee of the DHNord 2021 conference
- Member of the organizing committee of the EGC 2020 conference (Knowledge Extraction and Management)
Reviewing activites
I am a reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science, Revue Mabillon, Journal of Historical Network Research, and Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science.Recorded talks
Here is a list of recorded talks that can be freely consulted:
- Can We Trust Centrality? The Robustness of Centrality Metrics in Historical Networks, 15 September 2022, Historical Network Research Lunch Lectures, online (invitation from Ingeborg van Vugt and Aline Deicke)
- Culture(s) du risque et pratiques de l’écrit à Tournai au début du XIVe siècle : une approche quantitative, 2 June 2022, séminaire ScriptHis (Les scripturalités dans l’histoire), Université de Strasbourg (invitation from Thomas Brunner)
Publications
- See also my ORCID page
Here is a wordcloud with the words contained in my main publications:
