Fabian Dombrowski

Fabian Dombrowski is a Researcher at the Educational Media Information Center (IZBM) of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media (GEI) since 2023. He contributes to projects like The Evolution of the Textbook (MWK) and a DFG-funded initiative on Digitization and Indexing of Historical Textbooks focusing on religious education. Previously, he worked on the DFG OCR4all project.

• Education: MA in Latin, European Ethnology, and History (with Digital History focus) from Humboldt University Berlin
• Research Focus: Digital methods for historical analysis, knowledge systems' evolution, and materiality of recording techniques (card indexes, textbooks, databases)
• Technical Expertise: Named Entity Recognition (NER), Named Entity Disambiguation (NEL), OCR technologies, and network modeling for reconstructing historical relationships

His publications emphasize interdisciplinary approaches combining Digital Humanities with History of Knowledge, featuring projects like SchulbuchEvolution and DigiRel. He actively presents at conferences on topics like Textbook Digitization and Prosopographic Data Mining, while contributing to educational datasets on historical German textbooks.