Our Philosophy

All research activities have come to rely on information technologies. But there are different ways of conceiving and applying digital approaches. We help you identify leading principles that fit to your project while developing solutions according to your needs.

We care for new technologies and we care for sustainability. We strive to preserve resources at all stages of the research process.
Project outputs we develop are to be made available in the long run.

Our Offer

We discuss your requirements and wishes, then provide a tailored analysis of your situation, and develop a dedicated portfolio on this basis.
Our solutions rely on a network of stable open-source infrastructures, facilitating the integration of your project to a dynamic institutional ecosystem. It is our ambition to empower you to further interactions with the community.

We think of tomorrow along the way, taking into account the environmental footprint of our concepts and solutions.
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Innovation and sustainability

Technological innovation is still trending in Digital Humanities. Heritage institutions, on the other hand, address sustainability requirements more systematically.
We propose a combination of both approaches, following up on the recommendations of the German Research Foundation.

Why Stripes and Strings?

The warming stripes and the biodiversity stripes display graphically the emergency of the global situation caused by the climate and biodiversity crisis. We want to contribute to adaptation efforts and make the stripes greener again - and with them, further hopes for a livable future on our planet.
The environmental impact of digital technologies is currently comparable to that of civil aviation and keeps growing dramatically (Source). We are convinced that this situation can be leveraged at various levels, including ICT-based research.

Who we are

We are a small team of two, both with an academic background. Our scientific areas of expertise include literary history, scholarly editions, machine learning and natural language processing. We are well established in the Digital Humanities community

Anne Baillot

... studied in France and then stayed for a while in Berlin as a researcher. Since 2017, she is a professor in France. She is a strong advocate of Open Science in the Humanities and pushes for a sober approach of digital technologies.

David Lassner

... studied and completed his PhD in Berlin. His interests include Natural Language Processing and its application to Digital Humanities, with a focus on the analysis of text variation and translation styles. He also has experience as a successful startup founder.

You can find here an overview of our current projects.

Contact

Write us at hello@stripesandstrings.org in English, German or French.