Robert Schuman DTU event

The “Deep Dat Science for Digital History” doctoral training unit (D4H-DTU) hold its yearly event at the Robert Schuman House in Luxembourg. It was a fantastic day full of great workshops, excellent food, and a very nice working atmosphere!




Beyond Murdock: Moving Fast Enough to Matter, Carefully Enough to Count

Source code must survive before it can be used as a historical source, yet code has not traditionally been treated as something worth preserving. In practice, it runs, gets overwritten, deleted, lost to hardware failures, or simply neglected. That is why the question of whether code deserves preservation is not purely technical: it is historical and political, as is the question of who bears responsibility for ensuring that preservation.

Hello from the Website Team!

In this blogpost we would like to take you with us behind the scenes of the inner workings of this website! Therefore we would like to introduce you to the DTU website team (past and present!).




The Source Code Exhibition

Source code must survive before it can be used as a historical source, yet code has not traditionally been treated as something worth preserving. In practice, it runs, gets overwritten, deleted, lost to hardware failures, or simply neglected. That is why the question of whether code deserves preservation is not purely technical: it is historical and political, as is the question of who bears responsibility for ensuring that preservation.


The Lesvos Summer School, 2025

Born out of a previous brainstorm meeting at the Metochi Study Centre in 2024, the summer school’s key goal was for the participating PhD candidates to collaborate on a joint project: The Lesvos Time Machine. Inspired by the European Time Machine initiative and the Luxembourg Time Machine project, this time machine project sought to promote team-building and interactional expertise.