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Nadezhda Povroznik

PROFILE

Research Associate, Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt, with more than 15 years of experience in the Digital Humanities field, with a focus on Digital History, Digital Heritage, and Virtual Museology. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Digital History; Guest-editor of the Journal Internet Histories; Communication Officer ADHO.

  • Date of birth: 20 January 1984
  • Povroznik@pg.tu-darmstadt.de
  • Updated: 10 June 2023

SUMMARY

  • Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), FG Humanities Data Science and Methodology, Institute für Geschichte (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
  • Expert in Digital Humanities with over 15 years of relevant academic experience (including international collaborations and publications) 
  • co-chair of the CenterNet, the international network of the Digital Humanities Centers
  • member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Digital History (issued by University of Luxembourg and published by the De Gruyter)
  • Guest-editor of the Journal Internet Histories, Special Issue on the Museums on the Web
  • Languages: Russian (native), English (C1-C2), German (A2), Spanish (A2)

    EDUCATION

    • PhD (2009) in History, Perm State University, Perm (Russia) “Deputies of provincial Zemstvo meetings: Socio-cultural characteristics and activity: 1864-1890 (the cases of the Moscow, St.-Petersburg and Perm provinces);
    • Specialist degree in History (5 years, Master’s equivalent) (2006) Perm State University, Perm (Russia).

    Professional experience

    Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), FG Humanities Data Science and Methodology, Institute für Geschichte (Technische Universität Darmstadt) (2023 – present)

    • Research for the Chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology
    • Research on History of Virtual Museums
    • Development and teaching the courses on Digital Methods, Digital Heritage, Web History, Digital Editions

    Associate Professor, Faculty of History and Politics, Department of Interdisciplinary Historical Research, Perm State University (Perm, Russia) (2017 – 2022)

    • Prepared curriculums and designed courses Bachelors’ (in the direction of “History”, “Philosophy” and “Philology”) and for Masters’ programs (in the direction of “History” and “Culturology”) on the field of Digital History, Digital Heritage, and Digital Humanities (the list of courses is below);
    • Prepared and delivered lectures, seminars and practical exercises on the courses;
    • Supervising, subject coordination and support Master students (in the direction “History” and “Digital sociocultural and art practices”);
    • Conducting research in areas of Digital History, Digital Heritage and Virtual Museology (the list of project is below);
    • Supervision of bachelor and master students in conduction of the research.

    Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of History and Politics, Perm State University (Perm, Russia) (2020-2022)

    • Development of the Strategy of Development of the Faculty in Research;
    • Management of Research at the faculty in all areas: publishing, organizing scientific conferences, postgraduate and doctoral programs, etc.
    • Drawing up, together with the dean and heads of departments, annual and long-term plans for the Research work of the faculty.
    • Planning of the conferences at various levels.
    • Participation in the implementation of international agreements with the participation of Perm University.
    • Organization of work on grants and assistance in the preparation of applications for grants.
    • Supervising the Student Research Society in the organization of student research activities.

    Head of the Center for Digital Humanities, Perm State University (2020-2022)

    • Organization and coordination of research activities at the center including conferences, public lectures, seminars.
    • Determination of the activities of the center, development of strategy, and perspectives of the development of the center.
    • Preparation of grant applications.

    Visiting Researcher, Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) (2019, 2022)

    Senior Lecturer, Faculty of History and Politics, Perm State University (Perm, Russia) (2012-2016)

    • Prepared and delivered lectures, seminars and practical exercises on the courses;
    • Prepared curriculum for Bachelors’ programs;
    • Supervised Bachelor’ student researches;
    • Participation in Curriculum development (Computerized source study, Historical Information Science, Information technologies in Historical and Political Studies).

    Assistant Professor, Faculty of History and Politics, Perm State University (Perm, Russia) (2006-2012)

    • Delivered practical exercises and seminars;
    • Participation in Curriculum development (Information technologies in Historical and Political Studies, Political History of Russia).

    CURRICULUM and courses DEVELOPMENT (2016-2023)

    Bachelors’ level

    • Information Technologies in the Humanities;
    • Institutions of Historical and Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age.

    Masters’ level

    • Debating Digital heritage;
    • Digital Methods for Heritage Research;
    • Web History: Studying History of Information Society;
    • Digital Cultural Heritage information systems and processes;
    • Digital Heritage in Use;
    • Web History of Society and Social Institutions;
    • Virtual museums, Electronic Archives and Libraries;
    • Design of the Resources of Historical and Cultural Heritage and Their Use in Pedagogy;
    • Technologies of Preservation and Representation of Historical and Cultural Heritage;
    • Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Texts;
    • Fundamentals of 3D Modeling and Virtual Reconstructions;
    • Information Society.

    KEY AREAS OF FOCUS

    • Digital History;
    • Cultural History;
    • Web History;
    • Virtual Museums;
    • Digital Heritage;
    • Digital Humanities.

     

    RESEARCH PROJECTS

    1. Digital Heritage: Theory and Practice. A New course for Master Program, supported by Vladimir Potanin Foundation (2022);
    2. Scaffolding Creativity of Arts Students: Framework, Toolchain, and Educational Material on how to Create their Own Virtual Exhibitions’ [CREAMS] project (2022-2025);
    3. Permian religious wooden sculpture: Cultural ecology (2021-2022), a collaborative project with Perm Art Gallery;
    4. What is the Salt? (2022), a collaborative project with the Museum of Salt in Berezniki.
    5. Enhancing education programmes in Arts and Humanities via European STEM methods and tools (ARTEST). Im EU-Programm „Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education Call EAC/A02/2019“ (Funding reference number 618802-EPP-1-2020-1-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP);
    6. The web history of society and social institutions. New course for Master Program, supported by Vladimir Potanin Foundation (2020-2021);
    7. Digital History of Virtual Museums, supported by the Center for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg (May – November 2019);
    8. Virtual Multimodal Museum (VIMM), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). Expert in the section TA1 (profile), participate in the working group 1.1 “What is a Virtual Museum”, discuss the problems of virtual museums’ phenomenon and typology as well;
    9. Socio-cultural characteristics and patterns of behavior of the provincial Zemstvo deputies (the cases the Moscow, St. Petersburg and Perm Zemstvos in the second half of the XIX century) (supported by Russian Fund for Basic Research, grant № 17-06-00470, 2017-2019);
    10. Formation of the parliamentary sub-elite in Late Imperial Russia (supported by Russian Fund for Basic Research, grant № 16-06-00569, 2016-2018);
    11. History-oriented information systems: Methodological, theoretical and applied problems of creation and use (supported by Russian Fund for Basic Research, grant № 13-06-00655, 2013-2015);
    12. The Newspaper “Perm Provincial Vedomosti” in 1838-1844: Problems of source study and preservation of the historical and cultural textual heritage (supported by Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund, grant № 08-01-82101 a/U, 2008-2009);
    13. Journals of Zemstvo Assemblies as a source of studying the history of local self-government in Russia (second half of XIX – beginning of XX century). The Information system (supported by Russian Fund for Basic Research, grant № 04-07-90283-v, 2004-2006);
    14. Source-study analysis of the newspaper “Perm Provincial Vedomosti” (XIX – early XX centuries) based on the use of new computer technologies (supported by Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund, grant № 05-01-82102 a/U, 2005-2006).

    Invited presentations, WORKSHOPS, lectures – 2020-2023

    • Invited Lecture on the Web Archives as a Source to Reconstruct History of Information Society at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (China), 25 April 2023;
    • Presentation on History of Virtual Museums and Web Archives: Opportunities for Rescaling Research at the workshop on Transnational Web Archives at MUCEM, (Marseille, France), 7 June 2023;
    • Presentation on Evolution of the Museums on the Web:
      Bridging the Past and the Future at the workshop organised by the workgroup on history of computers in the University of Bonn (Fachgruppe Informatik-und Computergeschichte), 17 February 2023;
    • Invited speaker at the workshop on Perspectives on Digital Literacy in Museum Studies Programmes organized by the School of Performance and Cultural Industries in the University of Leeds (online), 15 July 2022;
    • International Workshop “Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities, 22 June 2022 (Belval, Luxembourg). Presentation: Adapting the optics:
      Zoom-in, Zoom-out, and Zoom-zero modes to understand religious sculptures;
    • Invited webinar “The History of virtual museums: from the roots to the contemporary time” (online), IPR-Media, 3 March 2022;
    • Invited presentation “Museum Identity in the Digital Age” at the international online workshop on Identity politics as a tool of security policy in the framework of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Network “Peace, War and the World in European Security Challenges”, 23 March 2022;
    • Keynote presentation “Web history for postgraduates: Opportunities for research of web archives” at the WARCnet Conference “Consolidation, reflection and transformation”, 4 November 2021, Aarhus (Denmark);
    • Invited presentation “Engaging with museum treasures via digital means: From curiosity to the social value” at the International Europeana symposium 21 May 2021;
    • Invited lecture “Digital Technologies, Museums and Public Engagement”, in the framework of a short-term course on Fundamentals of 3D-Modelling and Virtual Reconstructions, Higher School of Economics, 25 February 2021 (Moscow);
    • Presentation “Digital Technology and the University Museum: Expanding opportunities for Public Engagement and Research”, UK – Russia Creative Bridge 2020-21. Series of events “Cultural Current”, British Embassy in Moscow, 19 February 2021 (Moscow);
    • Public lecture «Preserving the Present for the Future: Web Archives, Resources, Losses», in the framework of the DH Week SPB, 26 January 2021 (Saint Petersburg);
    • Public lecture «Virtual Museums in a Historical Perspective: From the Inception of the Concept to the Present State», Nizhegorodsky State University, 1 December 2020 (Nizhny Novgorod);
    • Open lecture “Web Archive for the Historian: Exploring the Covered Digital Dust”, Perm University, 18 June 2020;
    • Public lecture “The History of Virtual Museums: An Internet Startup of the 1990s or 70 Years of Evolution?” at Higher School of Economics, 1 February 2020 (Moscow, Russia);
    • Workshop “3D-Modelling for Preservation and Representation of Cultural Heritage” at Higher School of Economics, 30-31 January 2020 (Moscow).

    Recent conference PRESENTATIONS (2020-2023)

    1. Presentation on the Museums on the Web at the International RESAW Conference (A Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) (Marseille, France), 6 June 2023;
    2. International Conference on Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries, 16-18 March 2022 (Uppsala, Sweden). Presentation “Museum Digital Identity: Building a New Vision of Museum Functions in Virtual Environments”;
    3. The ECREA Communication History Section Workshop, University of Luxembourg, 2-4 February 2022 (Luxembourg). Presentation: “The Evolution of Museum Representation via Media Environments: From Analogue to Digital Formats”;
    4. International Europeana Symposium “Research and Digital Cultural Heritage: New Impact Horizons”, 11-12 Мая 2021. Presentation “Engaging with museum treasures via digital means: From curiosity to the social value” (key note speaker);
    5. International Conference “Cultural Heritage in the Digital Dimension”, 20-22 October 2021 (Perm, Russia). Presentation “Digital volunteering in the Perm University History Museum” (in co-authorship);
    6. International Conference “Cultural Heritage in the Digital Dimension”, 20-22 October 2021 (Perm, Russia). Presentation “Origin of Virtual Museums”;
    7. International Symposium “Making History Together: Public Participation in Museums” 15 December 2020 (Luxembourg, Luxembourg). Presentation “Digital Skills, Technologies, Storytelling: Participatory and Collaborative Practices at Perm University History Museum”;
    8. International Conference “Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries”, 21-23 October 2020 (Riga, Latvia). Presentation “Digital history of Virtual Museums: The Transition from Analog to Internet Environment”;
    9. International Conference “Museum Big Data”, 22-24 October 2020 (UCL). Presentation “Museum Web-History & Museum Data: Changing the Role Through the Past”;
    10. International Conference DH-2020, July 2020 (Ottawa, Canada). Presentation “Digital History of Post-Soviet Virtual Museums”;
    1. International DH Benelux Conference, 3-5 July 2020. Presentation “Building Museum Identity Online: Two Decades of Progress”;

     Technologies for teaching and research

    • History-oriented information systems and databases (WordPress, MS Access);
    • Content-analysis of historical texts (services of TAPOR, AntConc, TagAnt, MAXQDA);
    • XML markup for digital editions and research purposes (TEI, XML editors);
    • Web-services for data visualization and analysis;
    • Data Visualization & Infografics (MS Excel, web-services and graphic apps);
    • Photogtrammetry based 3D (Agisoft Photoscan, 3DF Zephyr, Sketchfab);
    • Programming with Python.

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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Recent publications (2017-2023)

Books:

  • Povroznik N. (2022) Web History of Society and Social Institutions. Perm University Publishing House. Perm, 156 p.;
  • Kornienko S., Gagarina D., Povroznik N. (2021) Historical Information Systems: Theory and Practice. Higher School of Economics Publishing House. Moscow, 231 p.;
  • Povroznik N.G. (2017) Information and Analytical Technologies of State and Municipal Management. Perm State University publishing house, Perm. 164 p.

Book chapters:

  • Povroznik, Nadezhda; Renev, Daniil; Beresnev, Vladimir “Adapting the Optics: Zoom-in, Zoom-out, and Zoom-zero Modes to Understand Religious Sculptures”. Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities, edited by Florentina Armaselu and Andreas Fickers, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024, pp. 189-212. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111317779-008
  • Povroznik N. (2019) Modern trends for digital historical and cultural heritage infrastructure development. In “Humanities Research and the Digital Environment: Research and Practice”. Eds. Zhabko E. D. St.-Petersburg, 2019, pp. 38-53;
  • Povroznik N. (2018) Virtual exhibition of the ancient collection of the Museum of History of Perm University: Creation and use. In “Digital projects in modern information environment: Theory and Practice”. Ed. Zhabko E. D. Moscow, 2018, pp. 120-136;
  • Kornienko S.I., Povroznik N.G., Gagarina D.A., Harisova A.R. (2016) University and Library: Cooperation in the field of Conservation and Study of Provincial Periodicals. In: The Role of Libraries in the Information Support of Historical Research. Eds. Chubaryan А.О., Firsov V.R.. Moscow, 2016, pp. 500-515;

Selected journal articles:

  • Povroznik N. (2022) Web-history: designing a course, shaping the discipline. In: The International Journal of Digital Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-022-00045-8
  • Povroznik N. (2021) Digital History, Digital Historical Sources and Criticism: Reviewing Hannu Salmi’s book “What is Digital History?”. In: Journal “Historical Information Science. 2021. Vol. 1. pp. 182-188;
  • Povroznik N. (2020) Web Archives in Reconstructing History of Virtual Museums: Potential and Limitations. In: Perm University Herald. Series “History”. 2020, Vol. 4. Pp. 95-105;
  • Povroznik N. (2020) XML-based Analysis of Early 20th-Century Russian State Duma Verbatims (Analyse des verbatims de la Douma d’État russe du début du xxe siècle grâce au XML) In: Revue de l’Institut des langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie, 2020, vol. 39. URL: https://journals.openedition.org/ilcea/9338
  • Povroznik N., Ismakaeva I. (2019) Discussions in the provincial zemstvos in the reflection of text maps: From visualization to analysis. In: Herald of Perm University, series “History”. Vol. 3 (46), pp. 146-158;
  • Povroznik N. (2018) Structural Dynamics of the Indexes to the Verbatim Records of the State Duma at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Analysis of the Historical Corpus Based on XML Markup // Historical Information Science. Vol. 4. Pp. 73-83. DOI: 10.7256/2585-7797.2018.4.28053;
  • Kornienko S., Povroznik N., Ehlakova A. (2017) Socio-cultural characteristics of the deputies of the first triennum of provincial Zemstvo meetings in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Perm // Vlast. Vol. 12 (25), pp. 130-136;
  • Gagarina D.A., Kornienko S.I., Povroznik N.G. (2016) Information systems in the digital environment of historical science // Electronic scientific and educational journal “History”. 2016. No. 7 (51);
  • Povroznik N.G. (2015) Virtual museum: preservation and representation of historical and cultural heritage // Bulletin of Perm University. History. Vol. 4(31), pp. 213-222;

Published peer-reviewed conference papers:

  • Povroznik N. (2022) Reconstructing data for modelling collective biography: A case of Zemstvo deputies in Russia in the second half of XIX century. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2019, Varna (Bulgaria), 5-6 September 2019.
  • Povroznik N.G. (2021) Origin of virtual museums: Transit from analog to digital space. In: Proceedings of the International Conference “Cultural Heritage in the Digital Dimension”, 20-22 October 2021, pp. 198-201;
  • Uspenskaya-Bazanova R. S., Povroznik N. G., Romashova M. V. (2021) Digital volunteering in the Perm University History Museum. In: Proceedings of the International Conference “Cultural Heritage in the Digital Dimension”, 20-22 October 2021, pp. 192-195;
  • Povroznik N. (2020) Digital History of Virtual Museums: The Transition from Analog to Internet Environment. In: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020. pp. 125-136;
  • Povroznik N. (2020) Digital History of Post-Soviet Virtual Museums. In: DH2020. The Book of Abstracts. URL: https://dh2020.adho.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/281_DigitalHistoryofPostSovietVirtualMuseums.html
  • Povroznik N. (2020) Building Museum Identity Online: Two Decades of Progress. In: Proceedings of DH Benelux Conference, 3-5 July 2020;
  • Povroznik N. (2019) Documentation of Digital Heritage Information Resources: Expanding Access for Research and Education. In: Proceedings of the conference DH2019, 9-12 July 2019. Utrecht, Netherlands. URL: https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0403.html
  • Povroznik N. (2018) Towards a Global Infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage. In: Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection: 7th International Conference, EuroMed 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 29 – November 3, 2018, Proceedings, Part I. Pp. 607-615. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01762-0_53;
  • Arthur P., M. van Faassen, Hoekstra R., Povroznik N., Hearn L., Peters N. (2018) Migration Experiences: Acknowledging the Past, and Sustaining the Present and Future // Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection: 7th International Conference, EuroMed 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 29 – November 3, 2018, Proceedings, Part II. Pp. 224-234. DOI:  10.1007/978-3-030-01765-1_25;
  • Povroznik N. (2018) Virtual Museums and Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Solutions // Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018, pp. 394-402;
  • Povroznik N. (2018) 3D models of Ancient Greek Collection of the Perm University History Museum: Creation and Use. // Digital Cultural Heritage. M. Ioannides (Ed.): ITN-DCH 2017. LNCS 10605. Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature, 2018, pp. 144–154;
  • Povroznik N.G., Smetanin A.V. (2017) Social network analysis of the deputies of provincial Zemstvo meetings: to the formulation of the problem / / Proceedings of the Conference “Digital Humanities: resources, methods, research” 16-18May, 2017, Perm, Russia 2017. Vol. 1, pp.140-143;
  • Povroznik N.G. (2017) Indexes to the verbatim records of the State Duma meetings of the early twentieth century: An Analysis of the change in the source structure based on XML markup // Proceedings of the Conference “Digital Humanities: resources, methods, research” 16-18May, 2017, Perm, Russia 2017. Vol. 1, pp. 137-140;
  • Povroznik N.G., Shmoller E. (2017) Material culture of Islam in the post-Soviet space: Opportunities of studying on the basis of resources of virtual museums // Proceedings of the Conference “Digital Humanities: resources, methods, research” 16-18May, 2017, Perm, Russia 2017. Vol. 2, pp.196-199;
  • Kornienko S.I., Povroznik N.G. (2016) Possibilities of using XML for studying the Stenographic reports of the State Duma in the Russian Empire of the early 20th century // El’Manuscript-2016: Rasytinis palikimas ir informacines technologijos. VI tarptautine moksline konferencija Pranesimai ir tezes, Vilnius, 2016 m. rugpjucio 22-28 d, pp. 95-99;
  • Povroznik N. Typology of Virtual Museums and their Potential for Providing Information for Historical Sciences // The Proceedings of International Conference “Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts, EVA-2016”, St. Petersburg, June 23rd–24th, 2016, pp. 61-65;
  • Povroznik N.G., Tararukhina E.S. (2016) Creation of historical virtual museum of Perm University // Museums of universities of the Eurasian Association and their role in the preservation of cultural heritage: Proceedings of the II International Scientific and Methodical Conference, Tomsk, 25-29 September, 2016, pp. 144-151.

INTERNSHIPS, WORKSHOPS & FURTHER TRAININGS

  • Workshop organised by the workgroup on history of computers in the University of Bonn (Fachgruppe Informatik-und Computergeschichte)
  • Training Program “Methods and technologies based on data”. Innopolis University, October 8 – November 25, 2021 (Innopolis);
  • Training Program “Digital Didactics”, Perm State University (January – February 2021);
  • Digital Internship “Teaching Excellence in the Digital Age. Planned Learning Outcomes and Course Design”, Higher School of Economics with the support by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation (July 2020);
  • MOOC “DCHx: Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage community” a course of study offered by KULeuvenX, an online learning initiative of KU Leuven (March – May, 2020);
  • Training program “Inclusive education at the university” (Perm State University), February 2020;
  • Session “The Evolution of a Publisher/Faculty Relationship: Collaboratively developing the GaleDigital Scholar Lab” (Utrecht University, 10 July 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands);
  • Workshop “End of Man – Do Historical Studies lose their Antropological Fundamentals?” by Prof. Jorn Rusen (C2DH, University of Luxembourg, 8 May 2019, Luxembourg);
  • Network modeling. NodeGoat software training (C2DH, University of Luxembourg, 23-24 May 2019, Luxembourg);
  • MOOC “Essential Digital Skills for Museum Professionals” by the consortium of project “MU.SA: Museum Sector Alliance” , February – April 2019 (project coordinator Hellenic Open University);
  • Training program “Digitalization of Education: Technology, Quality, Involvement” by Urait-Academy (Moscow, January – February 2019);
  • Workshop “Investing in the future of our Digital Cultural Heritage: The EU Horizon 2020 CSA ViMM Roadmap” (EUROMED-2018, 01 November 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus);
  • Workshop “How digital technologies can contribute to the preservation and restoration of Europe’s most important and endangered cultural heritage sites” (EUROMED-2018, 29-30 October 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus);
  • Workshop “Introduction to Born-Digital Heritage: from harvesting to analysing Web archives” (DH Benelux 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2018);
  • International Summer School in Information Retrieval’2018: “Information Retrieval for Good” (Kazan, Russia, August 2018);
  • Training program “Digital Spring” by the Center for Digital Humanitarian Research of Higher School of Economics (Moscow-Voronovo, April 2018);
  • Further Training program “Historical and cultural educational standard: the Concept of modern historical education” (Perm State University, Perm, August 2017);
  • Workshop “Workflow for the Integration of Heritage Digital Resources” (Olimje, Slovenia, May 2017;
  • Russian-French seminar on discussing theoretical and applied problems of creating modern information resources for research in the fields of history, political science, linguistics and other humanities “Introduction to TEI and XML”, “Alternative systems of encoding, markup, processing and visualization of textual information”, “TXM Software for analysis of Russian texts corpuses” (ICAR Laboratory, École normale supérieure de Lyon, Lion, France, May 2015);
  • Russian-Austrian seminar “Documenting and analysis of Historical and Cultural Heritage using the methods of historical information science” (supported by Russian Fund for Basic Research and Austrian Scientific Fund, Graz, Austria, April 2009);
  • Academic exchange program “British culture and institutes” (University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain, November – December 2008);
  • Internship program “Scientific and educational information systems for historians” (Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, October 2007);
  • Internship program “Information technologies in teaching humanities” (F. Historische Fachinformatik und Dokumentation, Institute fur Geschichte, University of Graz, Austria, April 2007).

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

  • A member of the editorial board of the Journal of Digital History (initiated by the University of Luxembourg and published by De Greyter publishing house);
  • A member of the editorial board of the Journal “Digital Orientalia” (issued by the Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of Science) (2021-2022);
  • Co-chair of the CenterNet, the international network of the Digital Humanities Centers worldwide (2021 – present);
  • A reviewer for the EADH, ADHO, ACH, DHNB conferences, for the Journals “Internet Histories”, “Digital Heritage”, and academic publishers such as Scottish Universities Press;
  • Creation and supervision of the student Laboratory for 3D-modelling and digital museum technologies” (2018-2022). The Laboratory is co-created by the Center for Digital Humanities and Perm University History Museum;
  • Coaching of Bachelor’ and Master’ students for participation in the All-Russian Olympiad in Historical Information Science (2015-2022);
  • In 2017 students showed excellent results. Anna Sotnik became the leader in the personal championship, Daniil Renev took third personal place and the Perm University team became the leader in the team championship.
  • In 2018 team of Perm University won the second place in the team championship.

AWARDS

  • Winner of the competition for the grants to teachers of the Master’s courses by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation (2022);
  • Women in Science & Research 2021 in Perm University;
  • Winner of the WARCnet Twitter challenge (2021);
  • Winner of the competition for the grants to teachers of the Master’s courses by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation (2020);
  • Project “Laboratory for 3D-modelling and digital museum technologies” was recognized as one of the best (second place) in the competition for the Best Social Projects of the Perm University (2018);
  • As a member of the team won the nomination “The Team of innovators of the year in the social and humanitarian sphere – 2017” for the joint project of the Center for Digital Humanities and the Museum of History of Perm University “Museums of Perm University”;
  • As a member of the team of authors won the nomination “The Team of innovators of the Year in the Social and Humanitarian Sphere – 2016” with the “Information system for the Organization, Visualization and Analysis of Periodical Publications “The First World War in the Perm Provincial Periodicals”.
  • For participation in the International Competition of Pedagogical Excellence for the application of ICT in Professional Education “Formula Profy -2016” I was awarded a diploma for the work devoted to Information and Analytical Technologies of State and Municipal Management in the category “ICT in teaching humanities and social sciences, economics and management”.

Intellectual Property Patents and Certificates

  1. Certificate of state registration of the program No. 2018610539 “Program for the management of the portal” Museums of Perm University”, issued January 12, 2018 (in co-authorship).
  2. The Certificate of Rospatent No. 2016613311 for the Software product “Program for the systematization and cataloging of history-oriented information systems and publications about them”, was issued on March 24, 2016 (in co-authorship).
  3. Database “Deputies of the Zemstvo meetings: the second half of the XIX – the beginning of the XX centuries” (the Certificate was issued by Informregistr, No. 0220812825);
  4. Database “Historiography oriented bibliographic database “Zemstvo” (the Certificate was issued by Informregistr, No. 0220812824);
  5. As part of the group of authors: Information system “Journals of Zemstvo Assemblies as a source of studying the history of local self-government in Russia (second half of XIX – beginning of XX century)” (the Certificate was issued by Informregistr, No. 0220711469).

Organization of conferences

  • International Conference on Digital Humanities “Collaboration as Opportunity” (DH2023), Graz, 11-14 July (member of the Programming Committee);
  • International Conference on Digital Humanities “Responding to Asian Diversity” (DH2022), Tokyo, 25-29 July (member of the Programming Committee);
  • The Second International St. Petersburg Historical Forum “Dialogue and interaction of cultures in the post-Soviet space”, 10-16 October 2022 (St. Petersburg) (member of the Programming Committee);
  • International Symposium “New Concepts and Technologies in Interdisciplinary Domains of History and Culture” 22 October 2022 (Perm) (member of the Organizing Committee);
  • WARCnet network conference, 17-18 October 2022 (Aarhus, Denmark) (member of the Programming Committee);
  • International Round Table “Different Cultures in Digital History”, 6 June 2021 (Luxembourg);
  • International Conference “Cultural Heritage in the Digital Dimension”, 20-22 October 2021 (Perm);
  • International Round Table “Master Programmes in Digital Humanities”, 29 April 2021 (Perm-Cologne);
  • Series of the international workshops on Digital Humanities in October, December 2020, February, May 2021 (Perm);
  • Interdisciplinary student conference “Theory and practice of Digital Humanities” 29 April 2021 (Perm);
  • International Research Seminar “Information Technology and Cultural Heritage: Preservation, Study, and Use” 20 October 2020 (Perm);
  • Non-conference “Interactive Museum Technologies in the Education of Generation Z”, 18 April 2019 (Perm, Russia);
  • Conference “Natural Science Methods in the Digital Humanitarian Environment” by the Center for Digital Humanities of Perm State University, 16-18 May, 2018 (Perm, Russia);
  • International Scientific Conference “Digital Humanities: Resources, Methods, and Research” by the Center for Digital Humanities of Perm State University, 16-18 May, 2017 (Perm, Russia).

Main functions: selection of topics and sections, invitation of key speakers from Russian and foreign academic institutions, reviewing and selection of applications, program formation, organization and general coordination of the conference.

Professional Associations membership

  • CenterNet;
  • The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH);
  • The Association of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB);
  • Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA).