Robert Aspenskog
PhD Student
Bio
Robert Aspenskog is a WASP-HS doctoral student in Library and Information Science at Linnaeus University. He holds an MA in Digital Humanities from the University of Gothenburg, and an MA in history from Umeå University. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked as a research assistant at Lund University. His PhD project examines how human–AI co-creation reshapes methodological practice in the humanities, focusing on the transformation of historical ephemeral print—specifically 20,000 digitised restaurant menus—into structured, analysable data. By situating dialogic code generation and computational workflows (so-called vibe coding or distant coding) within the field of knowledge organisation, the project explores how artificial intelligence can function as a methodological partner rather than merely a technical tool, thus relieving the humanities researcher of extensive technical implementation work.