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Pascal Belouin

Digital Humanities Scholar

Digital Humanities

MRes, MSc, MA, BSc

PBELOUIN@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE Room 256

Pascal Belouin holds a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from the University of La Rochelle, complemented by a Master of Research in Human Computer Interaction from Lancaster University and a Master of Arts in Social Sciences from the Open University, completed in 2010.

His professional career includes significant experience in the private sector and a leadership role with the Medical Schools Council Assessment Alliance, where he spearheaded the design and implementation of the MSCAA Item Bank—a comprehensive web-based platform that enhances collaboration across the United Kingdom's medical assessment community.

Currently serving as a Digital Humanities Scholar, he provides specialized support to historians implementing digital methodologies in their scientific research. His expertise encompasses various domains within Digital Humanities, including knowledge modeling, distant reading techniques, network analysis, and data visualization. He is also exploring innovative approaches to research data preservation through decentralized storage solutions.

Features & Digital Resources

Video

Commoning Biomedicine Public Launch Event

Website

Coins Data Visualization Platform

Website

Heavens Map

Website

Visualization of the Heavens Image Database

Projects

Current Completed

Central Knowledge Graph (CKG)

Commoning Biomedicine: Networking Decentralized Collections of Oral Histories

CORAL: Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge

Heavens Map

VoH Image Database: Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens

Measuring the Earth: A Digital Repository for the History of Modern Geodesy

RISE and SHINE: Research Infrastructure for the Study of Eurasia

Hennicke, Steffen, Pascal Belouin, Hassan El-Hajj, Matthew Fielding, Robert Casties, and Kim Pham (2024). “Sustainable Semantics for Sustainable Research Data.” In Semantic Digital Humanities 2024. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol…
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Belouin, Pascal, Kim Pham, and Steffen Hennicke (2023). “Investigating Decentralized Alternatives to Collaborative Long-term Research Data Preservation Infrastructure.” In Digital Humanities 2023. Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria…
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Belouin, Pascal, Shih-Pei Chen, and Sean Wang (2021). “Designing an API-Based Protocol for the Interoperability of Textual Resources.” Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 11 (1): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.8103.
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Belouin, Pascal and Sean Wang (2019). “Designing an API-Based Protocol for the Interoperability of Textual Resources.” SocArXiv 16.10.2019: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/BX8PW.
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