Publications
Journal Articles
Galka, Selina, and Georg Vogeler. “Annotating, Projecting, and Interpreting Named Entities in Digital Scholarly Editions with LLMs.” International Journal of Digital Humanities, published ahead of print, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-025-00114-8. (peer-reviewed)
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
Galka, Selina, Marcella Tambuscio, Rolf Wissmann, Cristina Scuderi, and Georg Vogeler. “From Violin Lessons to Linked Open Data: Reconstructing Tartini’s Scuola delle Nazioni through Digital Prosopography and Digital Editions.” In Proceedings of the 15th AIUCD Annual Conference, 762–67. Cagliari: Università di Cagliari, 2026. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/8980. (peer-reviewed)
Klug, Helmut W., and Selina Galka. “Digitale Edition vermitteln: Das KONDE Weißbuch.” In Edition als Vermittlung, edited by Anke Bosse and Artur R. Boelderl. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112212059-018.
Galka, Selina, and Elisabeth Steiner. “Digital Minimal Editions: Pragmatische Lösungen zwischen Langzeitarchivierung und Service.” In Edition als Vermittlung, edited by Anke Bosse and Artur R. Boelderl. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112212059-019.
Galka, Selina, and Sebastian Schiller-Stoff. “GAMS, DERLA und Data Science: Experimentelle Datenanalyse der langzeitarchivierten Forschungsdaten.” In Erinnerungskultur und Holocaust Education im digitalen Wandel, edited by Victoria Kumar, Gerald Lamprecht, Lukas Nievoll, Grit Oelschlegel, and Sebastian Schiller-Stoff, 191–211. Bielefeld: transcript, 2024. (peer-reviewed)
Editorship
Galka, Selina, Sebastian Kühn, Ines Peper, Chiara Petrolini, Michael Pölzl, and Joëlle Weis, eds. Religiosity, Women’s Self-Writing and Court Networks in Early Modern Europe (ca. 1650–1750). Forthcoming.
Reviews
Galka, Selina. Review of August Wilhelm Ifflands dramaturgisches und administratives Archiv: Digitale Edition, edited by Klaus Gerlach, with Stefan Dumont, Markus Schnöpf, and Sascha Grabsch. Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in cooperation with Landesarchiv Berlin, 2016–. https://iffland.bbaw.de/index.xql. RIDE: A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources, forthcoming.
Galka, Selina. Review of Digitale Edition und Kommentierung der Tagebücher des Fürsten Christian II. von Anhalt-Bernburg (1599–1656). RIDE: A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources 16 (2023). https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-16/tagebuecher-christian-ii/. (peer-reviewed)
Conference Abstracts
Galka, Selina, Diana Korol, Ingeborg Zechner, Jakob Leitner, Véronique Braquet, and Georg Vogeler. “Automatic Annotation and Modelling of Works in Eighteenth-Century (Music) Theatre.” In DHd 2026: Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten, edited by Silke Schwandt, Gabriel Viehhauser, Tara Andrews, Thomas Wallnig, Beatrice Nava, and Patrick Helling, 117–20. Zenodo, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18696428. (peer-reviewed)
Weis, Joëlle, Selina Galka, Ines Peper, Michael Pölzl, and Chiara Petrolini. “Die Memoiren der Gräfin Schwerin (1684–1732): Zur digitalen Edition eines einzigartigen Selbstzeugnisses.” In DHd 2024: Quo Vadis DH. Passau, 2024. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10698228. (peer-reviewed)
Pollin, Christopher, Martina Scholger, Elisabeth Steiner, Sarah Lang, Selina Galka, and Sebastian Schiller-Stoff. “Project Overhaul und Refactoring der digitalen Edition der ‘Urfehdebücher der Stadt Basel’ mithilfe von GPT-4 und LLM.” In DHd 2024: Quo Vadis DH. Passau, 2024. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10698240. (peer-reviewed)
Galka, Selina, Suzana Sagadin, and Martina Scholger. “(Re)Visual(izing) Archive Southeastern Europe: A Data Model and Interface Redesign.” In Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity. Graz, 2023. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8107812. (peer-reviewed)
Zechner, Ingeborg, Mirijam Beier, and Selina Galka. “Digital Edition of Philipp Gumpenhuber’s Chronicle of the Viennese Theatrical Life between 1758 and 1763.” In Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity. Graz, 2023. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8107786. (peer-reviewed)
Galka, Selina, and Helmut W. Klug. “Weißbuch Digitale Edition.” In DHd 2023: Open Humanities, Open Culture. Trier/Luxembourg, 2023. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715323. (peer-reviewed)
Galka, Selina, and Helmut W. Klug. “Minimal Editing: Die Hyperdiplomatische Transkriptionsplattform.” In DHd 2023: Open Humanities, Open Culture. Trier/Luxembourg, 2023. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715321. (peer-reviewed)
Lexicon Articles
Galka, Selina. “Annotationsstandards,” “Annotationsumgebung,” “Barrierefreies Webdesign,” “DTA-Basisformat,” “Datenvisualisierung,” “Denkmäleredition,” “Digitale Musikedition,” “Facettierte Suche,” “Farbdesign,” “Gamification,” “Genetische Edition,” “Gesamtausgabe,” “Handschriftenbeschreibung,” “Historisch-kritische Ausgabe/Edition,” “Interpretation,” “Kontrollierte Vokabularien: GND,” “Liste der Hybrid-Editionen,” “Markup,” “Minimal Edition,” “Modellierung,” “Music Encoding Initiative (MEI),” “Normalisierung,” “Ontologie,” “Preprocessing,” “Reguläre Ausdrücke,” “Relax NG,” “Responsive Web Design,” “Schema,” “Studienausgabe,” “TEI Customization,” “Tagebuchedition,” “Textmodellierung,” “Transkribus,” “Usability,” “User-Centered Design,” “User-Testing,” “Visualisierungstools,” “Werkausgabe,” “XSLT,” and “Mobile First.” In Erweiterung des Weißbuchs „Digitale Edition“, edited by Selina Galka and Helmut W. Klug, with Susanne Höfer. Project “Enlarging ‘Weißbuch Digitale Edition.’” 2024. https://www.digitale-edition.at. (peer-reviewed)
In Preparation
Galka, Selina, and Joëlle Weis. “‘…écrite par elle même’: A Comparison of the Memoirs of the Countess of Schwerin and Madame Guyon.” In Writing the Soul, Navigating the Court: Religiosity and Court Networks in Women’s Self-Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Selina Galka, Joëlle Weis, Sebastian Kühn, Ines Peper, Chiara Petrolini, and Michael Pölzl. In preparation.
Editions and Databases
Zechner, Ingeborg, Véronique Braquet, Diana Korol, and Jakob Leitner, eds. GuDiE: Gumpenhuber Digital Edition. With Christina Dittmann, Selina Galka, and Georg Vogeler. Graz: GAMS, 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/gudie. April 2024–February 2026. Role: conceptualization, technical realization, setup of workflows, data modelling, data curation, web development.
Galka, Selina, Ines Peper, Michael Pölzl, Chiara Petrolini, Georg Vogeler, and Joëlle Weis, eds. Digitale Edition der Memoiren der Gräfin Schwerin (1684–1732). With Sabine Amon. Vienna: Institut für die Erforschung der Habsburgermonarchie und des Balkanraumes (ÖAW); Graz: Institut für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften (Universität Graz), 2026. GAMS – Geisteswissenschaftliches Asset Management System. Last modified March 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:mgs. 2022–2026. Role: technical realization, setup of workflows, data modelling, data curation, web development.
Galka, Selina, and Helmut W. Klug, eds. Erweiterung des Weißbuchs „Digitale Edition“. With Susanne Höfer. Project “Enlarging ‘Weißbuch Digitale Edition.’” 2024. https://www.digitale-edition.at.
Scholger, Martina, Suzana Sagadin, and Selina Galka. VASE Redesign: Visual Archive Southeastern Europe. Graz, 2024. https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:vase.
Klug, Helmut W., ed. Hyperdiplomatische Publikationsplattform. With Selina Galka. Graz, 2022. Last modified March 2022. https://gams.uni-graz.at/hyper.
Neundlinger, Helmut, ed. Karl Wiesinger: Digitale Edition der Tagebücher (1961–1973). With Selina Galka, Georg Hofer, Helmut Klug, Elisabeth Steiner, and Michaela Thoma-Stammler. Graz, 2020. Last modified January 2021. https://gams.uni-graz.at/wiesinger.
Klug, Helmut W., ed. KONDE Weißbuch. With Selina Galka and Elisabeth Steiner. HRSM project “Kompetenznetzwerk Digitale Edition.” Graz: GAMS, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/11471/562.50.
Kastberger, Klaus, ed. Gerhard Roth Fotoarchiv. With Silvana Cimenti, Elisabeth Zehetner, Carina Koch, and Selina Galka. Graz, 2020. https://gams.uni-graz.at/roth.
Grazer didaktisches Textportal zur Literatur des Mittelalters: Lernerorientierte Digitale Edition und Aufbereitung mittel- und frühneuhochdeutscher Texte für den Unterricht an Schule und Universität. Graz. https://gams.uni-graz.at/lima.
Presentations
Galka, Selina, Ines Peper, Michael Pölzl, and Georg Vogeler. “Die Memoiren der Gräfin Schwerin: Erschließung eines einzigartigen Selbstzeugnisses.” Paper presented at Digital History – Doing Cultural Heritage, Salzburg, September 28–October 1, 2026.
Galka, Selina, and Marcella Tambuscio. “Narrated Networks: Social Network Analysis of the Memoirs of Countess Luise Charlotte von Schwerin (1684–1732).” Paper presented at the Historical Network Research (HNR) Conference 2026, University of Turin, July 20–22, 2026.
Galka, Selina, Marcella Tambuscio, and Georg Vogeler. “Modeling Networks of Musical Knowledge: A Prosopographical Data Model and First Analyses and Visualizations of Tartini’s ‘Scuola delle Nazioni.’” Paper presented at the conference “Pupils, Patrons, Printers and Violin Culture in 18th-Century Europe,” University of Graz, May 19–21, 2026.
Galka, Selina. “Die Memoiren der Gräfin Schwerin: Digitale Erschließung eines einzigartigen Selbstzeugnisses.” Lecture at the TCDH research colloquium “Perspektiven der Digital Humanities,” Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Trier, May 7, 2026.
Galka, Selina, Diana Korol, Jakob Leitner, Ingeborg Zechner, Véronique Braquet, and Georg Vogeler. “Automatic Annotation and Modelling of Works in Eighteenth-Century (Music) Theatre.” Paper presented at DHd 2026: Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten, Vienna, February 23–27, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18696428.
Galka, Selina. “Digital Humanities Perspectives of Transmitting Musical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Violin Playing.” Paper presented at the workshop “The Violin Schools in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Pedagogical Challenges, Professionalism, Musical Networks,” Milan, December 9–12, 2025.
Galka, Selina. “A Digital Edition as Performance-History Database: Modeling the Ephemeral in the Theater Chronicles of Philipp Gumpenhuber (1758–1763).” Paper presented at DH2025: Building Access and Accessibility, Open Science to All Citizens, Lisbon, July 14–18, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16267599.
Galka, Selina. “NER in historischen Texten: Die Digitale Edition der Memoiren der Gräfin Schwerin.” Paper presented at the workshop “Digitale Quelleneditionen und KI: Aktuelle Tendenzen, Herausforderungen und Probleme,” Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, April 10–11, 2025.
Galka, Selina, and Joëlle Weis. “‘…écrite par elle même’: Comparing the Memoirs of the Countess of Schwerin and Madame Guyon.” Paper presented at the workshop “Religiosity, Women’s Self-Writing and Court Networks in Early Modern Europe (ca. 1600–1800),” Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, February 20–21, 2025.
Braquet, Véronique, Christina Dittmann, Selina Galka, Jakob Leitner, and Ingeborg Zechner. “Werkstattbericht ‘GuDiE.’” Paper presented at the conference of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Cologne, September 14, 2024.
Galka, Selina, and Elisabeth Steiner. “Digitale Editionen als Forschungsdaten: Workflows, Herausforderungen und Best Practice zwischen Archivierung und Benutzung.” Paper presented at the workshop “Langzeitarchivierung von TEI/XML-Editionen: Prototypische Beispiele und Workflows,” University of Zurich, September 11, 2024.
Pollin, Christopher, Martina Scholger, Elisabeth Steiner, Sarah Lang, Selina Galka, and Sebastian Schiller-Stoff. “Project Overhaul und Refactoring der digitalen Edition der ‘Urfehdebücher der Stadt Basel’ mithilfe von GPT-4 und LLM.” Paper presented at DHd 2024: Quo Vadis DH?, Passau, February 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10698240.
Galka, Selina, Ines Peper, Michael Pölzl, and Georg Vogeler. “Digital Edition of the Memoirs of Countess Luise Charlotte von Schwerin (1684–1732): Application of Named Entity Recognition.” Paper presented at Open Up Digital Scholarly Editions, Zurich, January 26, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10571923.
Galka, Selina, and Georg Vogeler. “Relation³: How to Relate Text Describing Relationships with Structured Encoding of the Relationships?” Paper presented at Encoding Cultures: Joint MEC and TEI Conference 2023, Paderborn, September 6, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8320963.
Galka, Selina, Martina Scholger, and Suzana Sagadin. “Do Not Touch the Object: Extending the Object Element Based on the Example of the Visual Archive Southeastern Europe.” Paper presented at Encoding Cultures: Joint MEC and TEI Conference 2023, Paderborn, September 6, 2023.
Galka, Selina, Ines Peper, Chiara Petrolini, Michael Pölzl, and Joëlle Weis. “‘Tout Vienne me riait’: Familiäre und höfische Beziehungen in den Memoiren der Gräfin Luise Charlotte von Schwerin (1684–1732).” Project presentation, May 17, 2023.
Galka, Selina, and Helmut W. Klug. “Minimal Editing: Die Hyperdiplomatische Publikationsplattform.” Paper presented at DHd 2023: Open Humanities, Open Culture, Trier, March 16, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715321.
Galka, Selina, and Helmut W. Klug. “Digitale Edition vermitteln: Das KONDE Weißbuch.” Paper presented at the conference “Edition als Vermittlung,” University of Klagenfurt, September 22, 2022.
Galka, Selina, Elisabeth Steiner, and Thorsten Ries. “Digital Minimal Editions: Pragmatische Lösungen zwischen Langzeitarchivierung und Service.” Paper presented at the conference “Edition als Vermittlung,” University of Klagenfurt, September 22, 2022.
Stoff, Sebastian, and Selina Galka. “DERLA als digitale Edition am GAMS aus Perspektive der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung.” Presentation, Graz/online, September 24, 2021.
Schwinghammer, Ylva, Gerlinde Schneider, and Selina Galka. “Möglichkeiten und Grenzen digitaler Editionen im Kontext literarischen Lernens am Beispiel des Grazer didaktischen Textportals zur Literatur des Mittelalters.” Presentation, Graz, December 15, 2017.
Posters
Galka, Selina, Cristina Scuderi, Marcella Tambuscio, Rolf Wissmann, and Georg Vogeler. “From Violin Lessons to Linked Open Data: Reconstructing Tartini’s Scuola delle Nazioni through Digital Prosopography and Digital Editions.” Poster presented at AIUCD 2026, Cagliari, June 3–5, 2026.
Weis, Joëlle, Selina Galka, Ines Peper, Michael Pölzl, and Chiara Petrolini. “Die Memoiren der Gräfin Schwerin (1684–1732): Zur digitalen Edition eines einzigartigen Selbstzeugnisses.” Poster presented at DHd 2024: Quo Vadis DH?, Passau, February 26–March 1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10705997.
Galka, Selina, Helmut W. Klug, and Susanne Höfer. “Weißbuch Digitale Edition.” Poster presented at DHd 2023: Open Humanities, Open Culture, Trier, March 13–17, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715323.
Zechner, Ingeborg, Mirijam Beier, and Selina Galka. “Digital Edition of Philipp Gumpenhuber’s Chronicle of the Viennese Theatrical Life between 1758 and 1763.” Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, 2023. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8228544.
Galka, Selina, Suzana Sagadin, and Martina Scholger. “(Re)visual(izing) Archive Southeastern Europe: A Data Model and Interface Redesign.” Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, 2023. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8228451.
Galka, Selina. “Mehrschichtig-dynamische Edition der Erlangener Kochrezepttextsammlung Ms. B 37.” Poster presented at Gerichte mit Geschichte: Interdisziplinäre Fachtagung im Rahmen des Projekts “Nahrhaftes Mittelalter – Historische Kulinarik und Diätetik zwischen Orient und Okzident,” University of Graz, 2019.
Teaching
University Courses
"Tecnologie digitali e studio dei testi manoscritti e a stampa" con Francesca Guido e Klara Venglarova in Corso di Dottorato in Umanesimo e Tecnologie – Humanities and Technologies. Università di Macerata, SS 2026.
VU "Textkodierung und -verarbeitung: TEI und XSL" gemeinsam mit Martina Scholger an der Universität Wien. SS 2025.
VU "Datenbasierte Wissensproduktion und -organisation" gemeinsam mit Christian Steiner, Christopher Pollin, Helmut Klug und Elisabeth Steiner im Rahmen des ULG "Data Librarian" an der Universität Graz. SS 2025.
VU "Forschungsinfrastruktur" gemeinsam mit Roman Bleier, Otto Bodi, Christopher Pollin und Elisabeth Steiner im Rahmen des ULG "Library and Information Studies" an der Universität Graz. WS 2024/25.
VU "Annotation und Erschließung" at University Passau, WS 2022/23.
Schools
Workshop "Introduction to BERTopic" at CLARIAH-AT Summer School "Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions", 21 - 25th, September 2026, University of Graz.
Workshop "Introduction to Digital Editions and TEI/XML" at Summer School "Gender – Knowledge – Mobility Digital Perspectives in Musicology", 14 - 18th, September 2026, University of Arts, Graz.
Workshop "Introduction to BERTopic" at CLARIAH-AT Summer School "Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions", 8 - 12th, September 2025, University of Graz.
Workshop "Named Entity Recognition (NER)" at the Summer School "Computational Language Technologies for Medievalists", 08-12 July 2024, with Sandy Aoun and Ismail Prada-Ziegler. University of Graz.
Workshop "From Image to Transcription" at Winter School Masterclass for Digital Editing, organized by the IDE, 19-23 February, University of Saarbrücken.