Build an interactive digital platform for community collaboration on historical research. We offer expertise in creating and managing wikis, databases, and online tools for audience involvement and data collection, like the LippeHäuserWiki.

Transform source tables and lists into actionable digital datasets. We use advanced table optical character recognition to convert scanned documents into ready-to-analyze spreadsheets.

Turn scattered information into a cohesive, custom dataset that fits your unique historical narrative. We excel in database development, data entry, and analysis, helping you manage and present complex data effectively.

Visualize your data with expertly designed maps and graphs, like this one. Digital History Consulting helps you explore and communicate historical information through clear and insightful data visualizations.

Create engaging applications that let your audience explore your history in their own way. We develop bespoke web platforms that visualize your data accurately and appropriately.

Create and maintain your own bespoke digital history projects. We offer accessible trainings designed to fit your ideas, your skill level, and your resources.

Obtain the necessary funding for your project with our help. We provide support in identifying funders and crafting compelling grant applications, leveraging our dual expertise in technology and history.

Justus Hillebrand, Ph.D., director of Digital History Consulting

I received my doctorate in History from the University of Maine in co-tutelage with the University of Cologne in 2021. In my graduate work, I received formal training in database management and geographic information systems (GIS) and applied these skills in several historical research projects. For my dissertation „To Know the Land with Hands and Minds: Negotiating Agricultural Knowledge in Late-Nineteenth-Century New England and Westphalia“, I used digital mapping and visualization of historical data to learn more about farm families who did not leave written historical sources.

In my work with the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, I have developed relational database designs, written rules for data entry, trained team members, and mapped data in GIS since 2016. I have co-published with Dr. Anne Knowles and other Collaborative members in the International Journal for Humanities and Arts Computing.

Since 2019, I have been working as a contractor with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Applied Research Division on the development of a large-scale relational database for the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Volume VII: Camps for Foreign Forced Laborers.

I also wrote about the connections between these projects to make the digital humanities more accessible for historians.