Soeben ist Heft 3/2021, Bd. 70, der Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies erschienen. Es handelt sich um das von Katja Wezel und Peter Haslinger betreute Themenheft „Embracing Digital Methods: Towards a New History of Space in Central and Eastern Europe“.

Aus der Einleitung:

“The articles of this special issue were first presented at the conference ‘New Approaches in Central and East European History: The Digital and Spatial Turn’ in 2019. This special issue unites the articles dealing with the Digital Turn. All articles provide a hands-on approach by discussing the projects of researchers who have faced a challenge that they were able to overcome using digital methods. On top of that, the authors also introduce readers to the processes behind their digital technology, and thus provide insight into how their data became capta. Moreover, all five articles address the question of why and how going digital profited their project and/or why this kind of project would not have been feasible without the application of digital technology.”

Die Aufsätze und Besprechungen sind im Open Access verfügbar. Bitte beachten sie auch das umfangreiche Volltextangebot der Zeitschrift für Ostforschung 1952–1994 (https://www.zfo-online.de/index.php/zf/issue/archive) sowie der Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung seit 1995 (https://www.zfo-online.de/index.php/zfo/issue/archive)

Heft 3/2021 enthält, neben einem umfangreichen Rezensionsteil, die folgenden Beiträge:

Katja Wezel, Peter Haslinger: Embracing Digital Technology—New Methods for the Critical Analysis of Sources from Central and Eastern Europe (309–323)

Niels Petersen, Bart Holterman, Angela Huang: Digitale Werkzeuge zur Analyse von Straßen und Wasserwegen als Rückgrat eines vormodernen Märktenetzwerks in Zentral- und Ostmitteleuropa (325–356)

Jan-Hinnerk Antons: Historisch-Geografische Informationssysteme (HGIS) in der Tourismusgeschichte: Transnationale Besucherströme des Ostseetourismus im 19. Jahrhundert (357–388)

Katja Wezel: The Most Successful Trading Hub in Late Imperial Russia: Using Historical GIS to Map Riga as a Global Port City (389–415)

Susan Grunewald: Digital Spatial Methods for Soviet-German History: An Investigation of German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union, 1941–1956 (417–438)

Jan Vondráček: War Economy, Local Administration and Everyday Life under German Occupation in Bohemia and Moravia: New Approaches for Digital Humanities through Digitization, Databases and Digital Analysis (439–465)