AVOBMAT has been introduced at several conferences and workshops including the West Virginia University (2024), University of Oxford (2023); the University of Vienna (2023), Charles University (2023), the Institute of Literature, the Czech Academy of Sciences (2022) and DARIAH Annual Events (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025).
The beta version of AVOBMAT is publicly available on the infrastructure of Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG). It features sample databases including the ELTeC novels (15 databases in 14 languages) and DraCor dramas (16 databases in 12 languages). AVOBMAT is free to use for the duration of the pilot with GWDG, which runs through 25 March 2026. As currently planned by the University of Szeged, researchers who register during this period will retain ongoing access to their user accounts, public corpora, and private datasets after the pilot concludes. To ensure a sustainable service, text preprocessing will become a paid feature following the pilot.
After a successful application, we can utilise the high-performance servers of the Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies Horizon 2020 project.
Proof of Concept research project (University of Szeged, funded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office) in 2023.
The AVOBMAT team was honored to receive the University of Szeged’s Innovation Prize in 2022.
Shortly after the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, we made 63,000 COVID-19-related articles available in AVOBMAT to aid in the fight against the virus. The database was utilized in 44 countries and promoted by numerous scientific institutions, including the Universities of Toronto and Beirut.
Baird, Ileana; Regan, John; Róbert, Péter; Lahti, Leo; Hill, Mark J. “Data Visualization: A Tool for Collaboration, Communication, and Engagement” in Burrows, Simon; Baird, Ileana and Montoya, Alicia (eds.). Building Digital Humanities. Radboud University Press forthcoming.
Labov, Jessie, Maróthy, Szilvia, Péter, Róbert. 2025. “Foreign Authors in Early Twentieth Century periodicals “in Hajdu, Péter; Varga, Zoltán (eds). Hungarian Literature as World Literature (London: Bloomsbury Publishing) forthcoming. Appendix with AVOBMAT Supplementary Visualizations.
Péter, R.; Szántó, Zs; Biacsi, Z.; Berend, G.; Bilicki, V. (2024). “Multilingual Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Texts with the AVOBMAT Research Tool” Journal of Open Humanities Data 10: 1-10.
Péter, R. (2024). “Multilingual Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Texts with AVOBMAT.” Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace (run by the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC))
Malínek, V.; Umerle, T.; Gray, E.; et al. (2024). “Open Bibliographical Data Workflows and the Multilinguality Challenge.” Journal of Open Humanities Data. 10 pp., 1-14
Armin Stefanović, “Universalism as a Factor in the Global Popularity of the Harry Potter Universe” The ESSE Messenger, 31-2 (2022), 66-80.
Péter, R.; Szántó, Zs.; Bilicki, V.; Berend, G. (2021). “Az AVOBMAT (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Texts) többnyelvű kutatási eszköz bemutatása.” Digitális Bölcsészet. 4: 9-34.
Péter, R.; Szántó, Zs.; Seres, J.; Bilicki, V.; Berend, G. (2020). “AVOBMAT: A Digital Toolkit for Analysing and Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata and Texts.” In: Berend, G.; Gosztolya, G.; Vincze, V. (eds.). XVI. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia: MSZNY 2020, Szeged, University of Szeged. 43-55.
“REMITHRA: The Faces of Mithras: The Material and Cultural Heritage of an Ancient Cult in Central and Eastern Europe” Momentum project of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2025-2030.
Textmining of the Hungarian Charter Repository (Regesta) of the Anjou Period (HUN-REN–MNL–SZTE Hungarian Medieval Studies Research Group)
Textming the Magyar Bányászlap (Hungarian Miners’ Journal, 1913-1961). Appalachian Hungarian Heritage Project
Cost Action Project (2024-2028): Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe 1500–1800 (PCPSce)
“Multilingual Analysis and Visualization of Metadata and Texts in Central and Eastern Europe Literary Studies: Opportunities and Challenges” Digital Methods for a Comparative Study of Central European Literary History Workshop, 1-4 October, 2025, Kraków
“Multilingual Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Texts With the AVOBMAT Research Tool ”A Decade of Open Humanities Data – Anniversary event of the Journal of Open Humanities Data Online Conference, 26 September 2025.
“Representations of Hungary in the Eighteenth-century British Press”, Newspapers and Periodicals. The 17th St Andrews Book History Conference, 17-21 June, 2025. Edinburgh. (Online presentation)
“Exploring the past with the AVOBMAT (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Text) multilingual research tool,” DARIAH Annual Event, Göttingen, 18-20 June, 2025
Gray, E.; Chambers, S.; Lindemann, D.; Malínek, V.; Péter, R.; Rißler-Pipka, N.; Tolonen, M. (2024) Discussing SSH Open Marketplace Workflows: User Experiences, Editorial Policy and Future Development. DARIAH Annual Event 2024, Lisbon.
Baird, I.; Péter, R.; Regan, J.; Wrisley, D. J.; Lahti, L.; Hill, M. J.; (2022). “Data Visualisation: a Tool for Collaboration, Communication and Engagement”, Digital Humanities Research Initiative, Building Digital Humanities, Western Sidney University.
Wang, L. L.; Lo, K.; Grimes, S.; Péter, R. (2020).“The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), with Lucy Lu Wang & Kyle Lo of Allen AI + Robert Peter.” New York Natural Language Processing Meet-up.
Malínek, V.; Umerle, T.; Péter, R. (2021). “Bibliographical Data Workflows: discover, analyse, and improve them (DARIAH 2020).” DARIAH Annual Event 2020: Scholarly Primitives.