Martina Trognitz

... studied Computational Linguistics and Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg and is currently working on a PhD thesis on the ‘Computer-Based Analysis of Multi-Sided Minoan and Mycenean Seals’ which involves applying machine learning, clustering and social network analysis to an archaeological research question. At the ACDH-CH, Martina is part of the research unit DH Research&Infrastructure. Before her time at the ACDH-CH, Martina was employed at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) where she was involved in the project IANUS to build a digital archive for the archaeologies in Germany and developed the IT guidelines IT-Empfehlungen für den nachhaltigen Umgang mit digitalen Daten in den Altertumswissenschaften. In 2017 Martina joined the team behind ARCHE at the ACDH-CH, which she is currently leading with Seta Štuhec.

Martina has accumulated over 10 years of experience in the fields of long-term preservation and data management, including a coverage of data formats suitable for long-term preservation, data management & planning for data management, FAIR data, metadata and metadata schemas, and controlled vocabularies. As a former fellow of the Open Science Fellows Program of Wikimedia Deutschland, Martina is an advocate for Open Science in all its facets.

Current research interests include the application of statistical and machine learning methods in Archaeology, Wikidata, network analysis, and Linked Open Data. Additionally, she is interested in everything involving photography and 3D, including RTI photography, spherical panoramas, photogrammetry and 3D scanning.

Memberships, achievements and other notable things

• Leads WG2 in the COST Action SEADDA (CA 15201, Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Ages)
• Winner of ACDH-CH Open Data Virtual Hackathon 2020 with Lukas Gehrig: CORIANDER
• Member of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Mathematical and Computational Methods in the Sciences (HGS MathComp)
• Winner of ACDH Virtual Hackathon Series 2019 - ODD Hack with Lukas Gehrig: xmlTEIontheMap
• Fellow of the Open Science Fellows Program of Wikimedia Deutschland in 2018/2019. Project: A Linked and Open Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age
• Received an Early Career Researchers Grant from RDA Europe in 2018
• Best poster award at CHNT Vienna 2016
• Member of the advisory committee of the AG Computer-Anwendungen und Quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie (CAA) since February 2016

Publications (Before ACDH)

M. Trognitz, Approaching Multi-Sided Aegean Seals with Machine Learning Techniques, in: R. O’Sullivan – C. Marini – J. Binnberg (Ed.), Archaeological Approaches to Breaking Boundaries: Interaction, Integration and Division. Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conferences 2015-2016, BAR International Series 2869 (Oxford 2017) 183-198

P. Gerth, A. Sieverling, M. Trognitz, Data Curation: How and Wyh. A Showcase with Re-use Scenarios, Studies in Digital Heritage, 1, 2, 2017, 182-193. DOI:https://doi.org/10.14434/sdh.v1i2.23235

M. Trognitz, F. Schäfer, M. Heinrich (Ed.) - IT-Empfehlungen für den nachhaltigen Umgang mit digitalen Daten in den Altertumswissenschaften. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13149/000.111000-a

F. Schäfer, M. Heinrich, A. Sieverling, M. Trognitz, Forschungsrohdaten für die Altertumswissenschaften – eine kurze Bilanz der aktuellen Situation, Archäologische Informationen 38, 2015, 1-12. Online unter: https://doi.org/10.11588/ai.2015.1.26156

M. Trognitz, EVA – An Expert system for Vases of the Antiquity, International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies. November 5–7, 2012