2025-11-12
A new way of searching Sands & Mac
Source: Tim Sherratt |
Reading time: 5 minutes
In the fortnight I spent onsite at the State Library of Victoria, ‘Sands & Mac’ was mentioned many times. And no wonder. The Sands & McDougall’s directories are a goldmine for anyone researching family, local, or social history. They list thousands of names and addresses, enabling you to find individuals, and explore changing land use over time. When people ask the SLV’s librarians, ‘What can you tell me about the history of my house?’, Sands & Mac is one of the first resources consulted.
The SLV has digitised 24 volumes of Sands & Mac, one every five years from 1860 to 1974. You can browse the contents of each volume in the SLV image viewer, using the partial contents listing to help you find your way to sections of interest. To search the full text content you need to use the PDF version…
LLMs for Spain’s Official Languages
Source: CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
Reading time: 3 minutes
LLMs for Spain’s Official Languages
Written by Aritz Farwell and Ainara Estarrona
CLARIAH-ES consortium members, working through the ILENIA project, have developed several large language model families for Spain’s official languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque and Valencian. Part of the motivation behind the creation of these LLMs was the desire to promote
Large Language Model(s)
HiTZ, the Basque Center for Language Technology at the University of the Basque Country (EHU), created Latxa, a model family based on LLaMA models and comprising versions from 7 to 70 billion parameters. Launched at the beginning of 2024 and named after a breed of sheep native to the Basque Country that is famous for its cheese, Latxa was the first L…
HiTZketan: Deep Bilingual Speech-to-Speech Basque-Spanish Translation
Source: CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
Reading time: 2 minutes
HiTZketan: Deep Bilingual Speech-to-Speech Basque-Spanish Translation
Written by Aritz Farwell, Ainara Estarrona, and Inma Hernáez
Demonstration of the translation system interface.
HiTZketan, or ‘in conversation’ in Basque, is a bilingual (Basque-Spanish) speech-to-speech translation system designed to facilitate seamless communication between Basque and Spanish speakers. Developed by the HiTZ Center at the University of the Basque Country (EHU), HiTZketan aims to expand the availability of comprehensive language technology for Basque and to provide real-time, natural, and personalised voice translations. The freely accessible system allows users to speak in either Basque or Spanish. It automatically transcribes their speech utilising Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR…
Introduction: CLARIAH-ES
Source: CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Introduction: CLARIAH-ES
Written by Aritz Farwell and Ainara Estarrona
The 12 nodes of CLARIAH-ES.
Expanding the Digital Scope of SSH in Spain
CLARIAH-ES is the distributed digital research infrastructure that coordinates Spain's participation in the European Research Infrastructure Consortia CLARIN and DARIAH. Spain officially joined both European infrastructures as a full member in September 2023, following the work of the INTELE strategic network (2020-2022), which formulated a common proposal for a national CLARIAH-ES consortium. The consortium’s coordinating office is located at HiTZ, the Basque Center for Language Technology at the University of the Basque Country. It includes partners from twelve leading institutions and research groups across Spain that are ded…
Digital Humanities in Action: Tools for the Analysis of Historical Spanish-Language Press
Source: CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
Reading time: 3 minutes
Digital Humanities in Action: Tools for the Analysis of Historical Spanish-Language Press
Written by Ainara Estarrona and Aritz Farwell
International Hispanism Seminar in Soria, Spain, where CLARIAH-ES presented its winning project ‘Digital Humanities in Action: Tools for the Analysis of Historical Spanish-Language Press.’ The event, held July 2–4, 2025, brought together researchers from Spain, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Argentina to explore digitisation, accessibility, and computational analysis of historical newspapers.
CLARIAH-ES presented one of three projects that won the third edition of the International Hispanism Seminar Competition promoted by the Duques de Soria Foundation for Hispanic Science and Culture. This competition recognises the work of research team…
Tour de CLARIN: Interview with María Teresa Almeida Marrero
Source: CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
Reading time: 8 minutes
Tour de CLARIN: Interview with María Teresa Almeida Marrero
The conversation was led by Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič
María Teresa Almeida Marrero holds a degree in Classical Philology and a Master’s in The Classical World and its Western Projection. She is currently completing her PhD, which explores the representation of women in the Renaissance through the lens of classical authors as transmitted in 16th-century florilegia. As a predoctoral researcher at the Institute for Textual Analysis and Applications (IATEXT) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, she is part of the division of Rhetoric, Humanism, and Classical Tradition. Her research focuses on the influence of the classical world in shaping ideas about women, examining how Renaissance texts and com…
2025-10-31
RECOMMENDED: Letters from Freedom: New Digital Resource
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Last year, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) received a grant to digitize “655 pages of letters, notebooks, and photographs created by formerly enslaved people.” As part of that initiative, AAS created a new digital resource, “Letters from Freedom,” which features digitized and transcribed letters written between 1863 and 1870 by formerly enslaved students in the ...read more
PROJECT: OutHistory
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
OutHistory is a public history website dedicated to generating, presenting, and promoting high-quality, evidence-based LGBTQ+ historical research for broad audiences, with a non-exclusive focus on the United States and Canada. Founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, the platform’s core mission is to foster broad community participation in the process of discovering and writing LGBTQ+ histories, prioritizing under-represented ...read more
PROJECT: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) recently launched new online tools to make fragmented archival materials about Japanese war crimes in Asia and the Pacific during World War II more accessible to students, scholars, and the public. Led by historians, librarians, and GIS specialists, the initiative brings together trial records, ...read more
PROJECT: Save Our Signs (SOS)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Save Our Signs (SOS) is a rapid-response digital archive working to preserve U.S. National Park Service interpretive signs and exhibits at risk of removal under new federal mandates. The initiative began as an urgent response to Executive Order 14253 and Secretary Order 3431, which directed NPS sites to review and replace materials seen as “inappropriately ...read more
RESOURCE: In Our AI Era (Library’s Version)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Rebekah Cummings (University of Utah) has shared her keynote from the Utah Academic Library Consortium’s 2025 Professional Development Retreat, “Library Futures: Supporting Faculty, Students, and Librarians in a Changing Environment.” Cummings’ talk, “In Our AI Era (Library’s Version),” explores how libraries and librarians can respond to emerging opportunities and challenges posed by artificial intelligence across ...read more
RESOURCE: Digital Preservation and its Environmental Impact: The Effect of Digital Preservation on the Environment and Potential for Organizational Change
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
Elizabeth C. Bogar-Wyman (Johns Hopkins University) explores the intersection of digital preservation and environmental sustainability in her paper, “Digital Preservation and its Environmental Impact: The Effect of Digital Preservation on the Environment and Potential for Organizational Change,” shared via JScholarship, Johns Hopkins’ repository. From the paper abstract: Digital preservation is a process that inherently contributes ...read more
RESOURCE: Black Digital Humanities Projects & Resources
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) has curated a list of Black Digital Humanities Projects, Events, and Resources. The CCP is, as stated on their website, “a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life.” The list is currently 23 pages long and organized alphabetically ...read more
CFP: Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship Special Issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The open access, peer-reviewed Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (CJAL) invites submissions for a special issue entitled Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. From the call: Libraries have long served as mediators between people and technologies, from catalogues to databases to digitized surrogates. Recent literature has called for academic libraries to position themselves as ...read more
CFP: A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
“A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms” is a proposed edited collection seeking contributions that address the vulnerability and disappearance of digital resources related to modernist studies. The instability of the online realm has put digital archives, digital humanities projects, and crucial scholarly resources at risk; this collection aims to be a call-to-action that challenges the ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Minimal Computing Internship
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Archives and Special Collections has opened applications for a paid, fully remote minimal computing internship. From the posting: The minimal computing intern will take a leading role in the collaborative development of the Digital Health Humanities Toolkit, a static Jekyll-based website for online instruction. The intern will be responsible ...read more
EVENT: Data Rescue Project Hackathon
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Hosted by the Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Association, the upcoming Data Rescue Project Hackathon invites attendees of all skill levels to help capture, describe, upload, and preserve federal datasets at risk of deletion or alteration. The Hackathon is part of a broad community effort launched in 2025 by members of IASSIST, RDAP, and ...read more
CFP: AI and the Study of Antiquity
Source: Digital Humanities Initiative |
Reading time: 7 minutes
Abstracts due: 21 November 2025 Conference: 12–13 March 2026 at Rutgers University–New Brunswick Download CFP as PDF On the afternoon/evening of Thursday 12 March and all day Friday 13 March 2026, the Department of Classics at Rutgers–New Brunswick will host a central Atlantic regional conference on developments in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the study of antiquity. The Rutgers–based journal Critical AI aptly explains the current meaning of “Artificial Intelligence” as “a computer model’s ability to ‘optimize’ for useful predictions while ‘training’ on data,” a process known in short as “deep learning.” The application of AI to the study of antiquity is still in its earliest
Editor’s Digest October 2025: Northeast Asian Studies
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
Reading time: 15 minutes
In my first editor’s digest, I explored all publications in The Digital Orientalist within Northeast Asian Studies from September 2023 …
2025-10-16
RECOMMENDED: The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
Librarians, archivists, and knowledge workers must continually grapple with ethical ways of working with unethical collections. Sean Purcell, Kalani Craig, and Michelle Dalmau offer one possible digital humanities intervention in their recently published article, “The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object” in In The Library With The Lead Pipe. “The Digital Opaque” reflects on their experiences ...read more
RECOMMENDED: The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
Librarians, archivists, and knowledge workers must continually grapple with ethical ways of working with unethical collections. Sean Purcell, Kalani Craig, and Michelle Dalmau offer one possible digital humanities intervention in their recently published article, “The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object” in In The Library With The Lead Pipe. “The Digital Opaque” reflects on their experiences ...read more
POST: Learning to Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
In a recent “Topics in Dataviz” post in Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, Alyxander Burns reflects on the use of data comics to help students learn data and information literacy skills. In “Learning To Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics,” Burns (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College) shares ...read more
POST: Learning to Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
In a recent “Topics in Dataviz” post in Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, Alyxander Burns reflects on the use of data comics to help students learn data and information literacy skills. In “Learning To Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics,” Burns (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College) shares ...read more
EVENT: Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Digital Propaganda in Black Communities
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network at the University of Michigan is hosting a hybrid panel, “Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda” on Thursday, November 6, 2025 from 4:00-5:30 PM ET. The panel features: Brooklyne Gipson (she/her), Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers ...read more
EVENT: Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Digital Propaganda in Black Communities
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network at the University of Michigan is hosting a hybrid panel, “Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda” on Thursday, November 6, 2025 from 4:00-5:30 PM ET. The panel features: Brooklyne Gipson (she/her), Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers ...read more
CFP: DLFteach Toolkit, Volume 5 – Digital Pedagogy in Music & Sound Studies
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group (#DLFteach) seeks proposal for an upcoming #DLFteach Toolkit focused on digital pedagogy in music and sound studies. From the call for proposals: We welcome contributions from faculty, instructors, librarians, archivists, technologists, and community educators across musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, composition, performance, sound art, podcasting, and related areas. While digital ...read more
CFP: DLFteach Toolkit, Volume 5 – Digital Pedagogy in Music & Sound Studies
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group (#DLFteach) seeks proposal for an upcoming #DLFteach Toolkit focused on digital pedagogy in music and sound studies. From the call for proposals: We welcome contributions from faculty, instructors, librarians, archivists, technologists, and community educators across musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, composition, performance, sound art, podcasting, and related areas. While digital ...read more
CFP: The Fourth Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH), to be held March 19-20, 2026 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, seeks proposals for its fourth conference. Faculty researchers, unaffiliated scholars, librarians, museum professionals, technologists, and undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply. CTDH is a free conference that “endeavors to bring together a network ...read more
CFP: The Fourth Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH), to be held March 19-20, 2026 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, seeks proposals for its fourth conference. Faculty researchers, unaffiliated scholars, librarians, museum professionals, technologists, and undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply. CTDH is a free conference that “endeavors to bring together a network ...read more
CFP: 2026 IIIF Online Meeting
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) seeks proposals for its upcoming online meeting, to be held January 27-29, 2026. The meeting will focus on a “Working and Learning theme, with a program built to provide attendees with a look into new and innovative IIIF projects, implementations, developments, and tools, as well as opportunities to learn ...read more
CFP: 2026 IIIF Online Meeting
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) seeks proposals for its upcoming online meeting, to be held January 27-29, 2026. The meeting will focus on a “Working and Learning theme, with a program built to provide attendees with a look into new and innovative IIIF projects, implementations, developments, and tools, as well as opportunities to learn ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Humanities Methods in Librarianship Call for Reviewers
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
In anticipation of its launch, Humanities Methods in Librarianship seeks peer reviewers. From the announcement: Humanities Methods in Librarianship is a no-fee, open access journal that publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research with an emphasis on articles that push the boundaries — both thematically and formally — of what has been traditionally viewed as scholarship within ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Humanities Methods in Librarianship Call for Reviewers
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
In anticipation of its launch, Humanities Methods in Librarianship seeks peer reviewers. From the announcement: Humanities Methods in Librarianship is a no-fee, open access journal that publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research with an emphasis on articles that push the boundaries — both thematically and formally — of what has been traditionally viewed as scholarship within ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Mapping Black Digital and Public Humanities User Survey
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The project team for Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities Database seeks user feedback on the beta version of their interactive database and visualizations. Mapping BDPH users are invited to complete a brief anonymous survey to “be used solely for the purpose of internal project improvement and development.” The Mapping the Black Digital and ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Mapping Black Digital and Public Humanities User Survey
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The project team for Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities Database seeks user feedback on the beta version of their interactive database and visualizations. Mapping BDPH users are invited to complete a brief anonymous survey to “be used solely for the purpose of internal project improvement and development.” The Mapping the Black Digital and ...read more
JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (University of Kansas)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: Position Overview The Digital Humanities Librarian collaborates with faculty, staff, and students on the use of digital humanities (DH) scholarship, tools, and methods. Duties will include project consulting and development, working with course instructors to incorporate DH into the classroom, and providing training for faculty, staff, and students in digital humanities tools ...read more
JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (University of Kansas)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: Position Overview The Digital Humanities Librarian collaborates with faculty, staff, and students on the use of digital humanities (DH) scholarship, tools, and methods. Duties will include project consulting and development, working with course instructors to incorporate DH into the classroom, and providing training for faculty, staff, and students in digital humanities tools ...read more
Text+ Infrastructure Learning Videos
Source: CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Text+ Infrastructure Learning Videos
German-language video tutorials available on YouTube, produced with student involvement, to support users of the Text+ consortium, including CLARIN centres. The videos can be integrated into educational learning content to raise awareness about the tools and services available for researchers, lecturers and students doing language research in the German language.
Iulianna van d…
16 October 2025
Author
Multiple
Target Audience
Researchers
Skill Level
All
Keywords
Data collection
Corpora
Licence
CC-BY 4.0
Publication Date
16 January 2018
Last Modified
16 June 2025
Topic
Research Infrastructures
Media Type
video
CLARIN resources used in this course
Services and Tools from Text+ consortium, which is part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).
Organisation
Text+
Language
German
Learning Resource Type
Tutorial
URL To Resource
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYxx1t2OIuvjJWG3QQAQXtXcgcjIdPonD&si=bQmX8DL…
Citation
Not available
2025-10-08
Wiki pour les universitaires : engagement critique, enseignement et diffusion des connaissances (DHSI 2026)
Source: Digital Humanities Summer Institute |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Description Ce cours initie les participant·es à découvrir l’écosystème Wikimédia et à ses applications dans l’enseignement postsecondaire et la recherche académique. Les participant·es apprendront le fonctionnement de Wikipédia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons et d’autres projets Wiki, ainsi que la manière dont ces outils peuvent être utilisés pour favoriser la pensée critique, enseigner les enjeux liés à […]
Wiki for Academics: Critical Engagement, Teaching, and Knowledge Dissemination (DHSI 2026)
Source: Digital Humanities Summer Institute |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Description This course introduces academics to the Wikimedia ecosystem and its applications in teaching and research. The course will address questions of authority and content attribution, the reliability of sources, knowledge equity, and the political dimensions of open knowledge. Participants will learn how Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and other Wiki projects function, and how they […]
Python Programming for Multilingual Texts (DHSI 2026)
Source: Digital Humanities Summer Institute |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Description This course introduces digital history through multilingual text analysis using the Python coding language. It is designed for both beginners and those with some experience, teaching and revisiting Python basics through Jupyter Notebooks. Participants will complete a full digital history project, from sourcing primary materials to analysis and visualization. The course’s corpus will be […]
Introduction to Computational Text Analysis (DHSI 2026)
Source: Digital Humanities Summer Institute |
Reading time: 3 minutes
Description Computational text analysis offers powerful tools to explore patterns of style, meaning, and theme in large bodies of text. This intensive, intermediate-level course provides hands-on training in three foundational methods widely used in digital humanities and computational linguistics. Designed to build a solid foundation, the course empowers participants to work independently and develop their […]
[Foundations] Introduction to Digital Approaches in Music Research (DHSI 2026)
Source: Digital Humanities Summer Institute |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Description This course introduces current practices in encoding, analysing and presenting music information. It will begin by introducing the philosophy, theory, and practicalities behind encoding symbolic music notation and will then explore pathways for analyzing and publishing that encoded data. Participants should have a basic knowledge of how to read music, but no prior experience […]
2025-09-23
Call for EADH Small Grants (2025-2026)
Source: ALLC RSS |
Reading time: 6 minutes
23 Sep 2025 - 00:00
Call for EADH Small Grants (2025-2026)
We are delighted to announce that the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH) is launching a new Small Grants funding round. All current EADH members, including members of our Associate Organizations (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale [AIUCD]; the Czech Association for Digital Humanities [CzADH]; the Association for Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Areas [DHd]; Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries [DHNB]) are invited to apply for financial support for initiatives consistent with the scope of EADH's activities, as stated in the Article 2 of our Constitution:
The objectives of the Association are to promote the advancement of education in the digital humanities,…
Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
Reading time: 16 minutes
Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), created and maintained by F. Madore, is an open-access database that provides access to press clippings from the mainstream press in West African (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria) as well as Islamic publications, and video recordings, all of those documents related to Islam. Complex tools enable discourse analysis and answer various scientific questions through keywords mapping, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and spatial visualization.
Obituary: Martin Volk (1961-2025)
Source: CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Obituary: Martin Volk (1961-2025)
Written by Cristina Grisot
It is with great sadness that CLARIN
European Research Infrastructure Consortium see: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/european-research-infrastructures/eric_en
Martin Volk on September 15 at the age of 64. Martin Volk worked as professor of computational linguistics at the University of Zurich since 2008.
He made foundational contributions in natural language processing, machine translation technologies, historical language resources, and multilingual corpora which align strongly with CLARIN’s mission of making language data accessible, interoperable, and reusable. His projects such as Text+Berg Digital (digitizing historical Swiss texts) and the Bullinger Korpus
Text Encoding Initiative
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative
CLARIN-CH – the Swiss node of CLARIN.
Those who knew Martin personally will always remember his subtle humor, sincere interest in people, passionate teaching and constant support for his colleagues and students. Martin cared not only about people, but also about the sustainability of the language resources created. Two years before retiring scheduled for summer 2025, Martin contacted CLARIN-CH to ask for support to archive in a FAIR-compliant manner all various corpora produced in his projects. Martin, thank you for the person, the researcher, the colleague and the teacher you have been. You will be deeply missed.
Elisa Gorgaini
23 September 2025
Exploring SLV urls
Source: Tim Sherratt |
Reading time: 4 minutes
I like urls. They take you places. And if you know how to read them, they can tell you things about the systems that created them.
One of the first things I did when I started my residency at SLV LAB, was to try and understand how their collection urls work. There’s a couple of well-worn methods I use when digging into a new site.
The first is url hacking – this involves fiddling around with the parameters in a url and submitting the result to see what happens. The Trove Data Guide includes some examples of hacking Trove urls to change the delivery of search results.
The second method involves opening up the developer console in your web browser and watching the activity in the network tab as you click on links. This tells you where the information that gets loaded into your browser actual…
2025-09-22
Tyler Neill
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Monday, March 16, 2026 - 12:00pm
Williams 623
Tyler is an independent Sanskrit scholar and programmer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He completed a PhD at Leipzig University in 2022, with a focus on Sanskrit philosophy, philology, and digital humanities, and he worked professionally as a software engineer in New York City for three years after that. These days, Tyler is creating digital infrastructure to support Sanskrit textual studies, including web apps, data repositories, and new digitizations of classical Sanskrit works.
Subtitle:
Digital Humanities Seminar
Image for Left Column:
Creative Technologist-in-Residence at the State Library of Victoria!
Source: Tim Sherratt |
Reading time: 1 minutes
I’m very excited to be the new Creative Technologist-in-Residence at the SLV LAB. For the next few months I get to play around with metadata and images, think about online access, experiment with different technologies, and build things to help people to explore the State Library’s collections. In other words, I get to be in my happy place!
My group at the recent SLV WikiFest was thinking about ways of helping researchers find resources relating to particular locations – how do I find material about my suburb, or my street? Coincidentally, the main focus of my residency will also be place-based collections, so I get to really think through some of the possibilities. SLV staff have already pointed me to some amazing maps and photographs, such as the Committee for Urban Action collection, the Mahlstedt fire survey maps, the MMBW plans, and the Victorian parish maps.
At the same time, I’ll be using my usual GLAM hacking approach to poke around in the SLV website to try and understand what data is currently available, identify any roadblocks, and document opportunities for computational research.
The results of my residency will be shared on the SLV LAB site, in GitHub, in the SLV section of the GLAM Workbench, and of course here. As usual, I’ll be working in the open, documenting things as I go along, so please join me on the journey!
Although the residency was formally announced today, I’ve actually been working with SLV data for the last couple of weeks and I’ve already got a backlog of stuff I need to blog about. Here’s a taster – what happens when you generate bounding boxes for thousands of parish maps from the available metadata and throw them on a map…?
Multilingual Wordnets, Metaphor and a Warm Welcome in Wrocław
Source: CLARIN ERIC - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
Reading time: 3 minutes
Multilingual Wordnets, Metaphor and a Warm Welcome in Wrocław
Blog post by Francis Bond
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Wrocław University of Science and Technology thanks to a CLARIN Mobility Grant. Although I’d planned to arrive on Sunday, a PhD defense on Monday morning meant I only got there Monday afternoon—but the warm welcome more than made up for it!
My visit focused on strengthening collaboration between Palacký University Olomouc, CLARIN-PL, and the Global Wordnet Association, which I currently serve as president. My main goals were to prepare a proposal for a CLARIN Knowledge Centre dedicated to wordnets, convert the latest release of the Polish Wordnet (plWordNet) into the Global Wordnet Association’s
Lex…
2025-08-22
Jim English
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Academic Title:
John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, Penn
Jim English is the founder of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, where he served as Faculty Director from 2015 to 2024. From 2011 to 2018 he directed the Penn Humanities Forum and oversaw its relaunch as the Wolf Humanities Center. He is a former Chair of the English department and has served as interim Director of Cinema Studies and Moderator of the University Council.
Jim received his MA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Stanford, specializing in modernist and contemporary British fiction. His first book, Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain, explored the political dimensions of joke-work in the British novel from Conrad and Woolf to Lessing…
Marc Kohlbry
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Academic Title:
Independent writer, editor, and educator
Marc Kohlbry is a cultural theorist working at the intersections of literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and political economy. His first book, Committed Index: Cybernetic Poetics to Poetic Management, explores the imbrication of technoscientific thought with the avant gardes of postwar France. Elsewhere, his writing has appeared in such journals as Social Text, New Literary History, Modern Language Notes, boundary2, and Critical Inquiry. He received his PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University in 2022 and currently lives in Philadelphia.
Fellowship Date:
August, 2025
Nadejda Webb
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Academic Title:
Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities, Johns Hopkins
Nadejda I. Webb (she/her/they) is the Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities. She recently founded the We Live Language (WLL) lab within Black Beyond Data, a Computational Humanities and Social Sciences ecosystem. The WLL lab is centered on the writings and spoken word of Afro-diasporic poets, authors, and philosophers, exploring the intricate relationship between language and power.
Webb’s teaching and research interests encompass 20th and 21st-century African-American and Post-Colonial literature, as well as digital humanities, imaginaries, and belonging.
Webb’s research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, Columbia University’s Center for Oral History, the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Vanderbilt University.
She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from CUNY Hunter College and a joint Ph.D. in English and Comparative Media Analysis and Practice from Vanderbilt.
Fellowship Date:
August, 2025—August, 2026
Mélanie Péron
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Academic Title:
Senior Lecturer (French), Penn
Mélanie Péron is a Senior Lecturer in French. She teaches French History and Culture courses. In Fall 2016, she created the course "Paris during the German Occupation and its Places of [Non-]Memory" for which she received the Rutman Fellowship from the USC Shoah Foundation. The course explores the spatial occupation of the French capital as well as the occupation of the French memory and literature. The Price Lab and the Penn Libraries have supported two of her projects connected to the course: the creation of a multimedia map of Occupied Paris and the website entitled “Stitching the Fragmented – WWII Paris and the Shoah”. Both projects aim at making history more visible, mending the holes left by the vanished and giving shape to the voids and silences left in the national memory.
Fellowship Date:
August, 2025—August, 2026
2025-06-04
Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 12 minutes
Last spring dh+lib published the special issue “Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities,” which featured seven case studies on ways critical making could be integrated into a digital humanities (DH) research practice. This follow-up special issue features concrete ways we can integrate critical making into our (library) instruction. Given the ...read more
Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 12 minutes
Last spring dh+lib published the special issue “Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities,” which featured seven case studies on ways critical making could be integrated into a digital humanities (DH) research practice. This follow-up special issue features concrete ways we can integrate critical making into our (library) instruction. Given the ...read more
Tactile Pie Charts for Print Material Accessibility Data
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 20 minutes
Introduction Data visualizations—and, by extension, data physicalizations—often make data more accessible visually. Colour-coded graphs and flow charts with graphics and arrows can be easier and quicker to read at a glance than a long table of data or numbers and percentages hidden within long prose. Wearing that data as a scarf is also visually appealing, ...read more
Tactile Pie Charts for Print Material Accessibility Data
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 20 minutes
Introduction Data visualizations—and, by extension, data physicalizations—often make data more accessible visually. Colour-coded graphs and flow charts with graphics and arrows can be easier and quicker to read at a glance than a long table of data or numbers and percentages hidden within long prose. Wearing that data as a scarf is also visually appealing, ...read more
Weaving the Wayback Machine: Reflecting on Pedagogy, Materiality, and Digital Erasure
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 20 minutes
Delivering digital humanities workshops has been a major part of my work in libraries, spanning the “big tent” of DH through one-shots, course visits, and week-long institutes. Introducing humanities scholars to new methods and connecting them with the right tools is deeply rewarding—but also uniquely challenging. Workshops can veer toward disaster when seemingly simple instructions, ...read more
Weaving the Wayback Machine: Reflecting on Pedagogy, Materiality, and Digital Erasure
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 20 minutes
Delivering digital humanities workshops has been a major part of my work in libraries, spanning the “big tent” of DH through one-shots, course visits, and week-long institutes. Introducing humanities scholars to new methods and connecting them with the right tools is deeply rewarding—but also uniquely challenging. Workshops can veer toward disaster when seemingly simple instructions, ...read more
From Postcards to Pom-Poms: Expanding Data Literacy Through Visualization and Physicalization with Dear Data
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 18 minutes
Introduction Dear Data Binghamton started as an interdisciplinary discussion between the Digital Scholarship (DS) team and a professor from the Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership (TLEL). During their initial conversation they realized they had a shared admiration for Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec’s Dear Data project. Through Dear Data professional data illustrators Lupi ...read more
From Postcards to Pom-Poms: Expanding Data Literacy Through Visualization and Physicalization with Dear Data
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 18 minutes
Introduction Dear Data Binghamton started as an interdisciplinary discussion between the Digital Scholarship (DS) team and a professor from the Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership (TLEL). During their initial conversation they realized they had a shared admiration for Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec’s Dear Data project. Through Dear Data professional data illustrators Lupi ...read more
Quilling Perspectives: Shaping Literary Analysis Through Critical Crafting Methods
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 23 minutes
Since 2020, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Kalea Furmanek-Raposo have been crafting encounters with humanities data together as literary scholars and in collaboration with university librarians. First, we worked together in a pandemic-era online undergraduate classroom as instructor and student, combining archival research in 19th-century digital databases with 19th-century hands-on scrapbooking practices. Second, we collaborated as ...read more
Quilling Perspectives: Shaping Literary Analysis Through Critical Crafting Methods
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 23 minutes
Since 2020, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Kalea Furmanek-Raposo have been crafting encounters with humanities data together as literary scholars and in collaboration with university librarians. First, we worked together in a pandemic-era online undergraduate classroom as instructor and student, combining archival research in 19th-century digital databases with 19th-century hands-on scrapbooking practices. Second, we collaborated as ...read more
Maps that Glow: Teaching with Paper Circuits
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 18 minutes
Introduction I (Theresa Quill) have been teaching with maps in a library context for over a decade; supporting a wide range of disciplines, levels, and topics. Regardless of the discipline, I often use print maps to illustrate concepts such as visual literacy, authority, bias, accuracy, and the information creation process. I also lead library instruction ...read more
Maps that Glow: Teaching with Paper Circuits
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 18 minutes
Introduction I (Theresa Quill) have been teaching with maps in a library context for over a decade; supporting a wide range of disciplines, levels, and topics. Regardless of the discipline, I often use print maps to illustrate concepts such as visual literacy, authority, bias, accuracy, and the information creation process. I also lead library instruction ...read more
Top 8 Workshop: Exploring Embodied Cognition Through Data Visceralization
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 28 minutes
Introduction + Backstory This workshop is designed to provide librarians/ library workers/ information professionals with an alternative mode to help data learners create their own data visceralization exploration that goes beyond the traditional data visualization methods. By engaging the body, senses, and physical objects in their environment, workshop participants can better relate to seemingly abstract ...read more
Top 8 Workshop: Exploring Embodied Cognition Through Data Visceralization
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 28 minutes
Introduction + Backstory This workshop is designed to provide librarians/ library workers/ information professionals with an alternative mode to help data learners create their own data visceralization exploration that goes beyond the traditional data visualization methods. By engaging the body, senses, and physical objects in their environment, workshop participants can better relate to seemingly abstract ...read more
Toe Pick! Exploring Figure Skating Datasets Through Quilting
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 19 minutes
Introduction Quilting can appear a complicated task at the outset, and rightly so. It uses specialized equipment, patterns, and involves many phases to complete a project. But when broken down into discrete steps, it becomes manageable. The same is true of data visualization: it is a science and also an art, taking sets of data ...read more
Toe Pick! Exploring Figure Skating Datasets Through Quilting
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 19 minutes
Introduction Quilting can appear a complicated task at the outset, and rightly so. It uses specialized equipment, patterns, and involves many phases to complete a project. But when broken down into discrete steps, it becomes manageable. The same is true of data visualization: it is a science and also an art, taking sets of data ...read more
Invisible Stitches: A Semester at the Reference Desk, Quilted
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 15 minutes
Introduction Academic libraries love data. Reference transaction data is essential to how academic libraries function, we’re told; the aggregated number of questions answered helps justify the institutional budget. The material reality of this means that librarians spend time logging what they do—the questions they answer must be entered and collected. With these collected data points, ...read more
Invisible Stitches: A Semester at the Reference Desk, Quilted
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 15 minutes
Introduction Academic libraries love data. Reference transaction data is essential to how academic libraries function, we’re told; the aggregated number of questions answered helps justify the institutional budget. The material reality of this means that librarians spend time logging what they do—the questions they answer must be entered and collected. With these collected data points, ...read more
Knot your average friendship bracelet: a data spiral
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 17 minutes
At Princeton University, there is a two-week period every January in which all members of the institution are encouraged to teach and learn outside of the formal classroom contexts. This time between the Fall and Spring semester and all of its events and offerings is known as “Wintersession.” As part of a Wintersession offering facilitated ...read more
Knot your average friendship bracelet: a data spiral
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 17 minutes
At Princeton University, there is a two-week period every January in which all members of the institution are encouraged to teach and learn outside of the formal classroom contexts. This time between the Fall and Spring semester and all of its events and offerings is known as “Wintersession.” As part of a Wintersession offering facilitated ...read more
“Mnemonic Bracelets”: Physicalization of Quantified-Self Data to Encourage Mindfulness of Time-Specific Emotions and Goals
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 22 minutes
I. Introduction As introduced by Knight in “Black Ribbon for Mourning: Affective Solidarity and Feeling Very Difficult Data” [1], the quantified self movement (also commonly referred to as self-tracking or lifelogging) [2] has been growing and sweeping the nation for over a decade [3]. It has primarily brought attention to user-centered tracking of health data, ...read more
“Mnemonic Bracelets”: Physicalization of Quantified-Self Data to Encourage Mindfulness of Time-Specific Emotions and Goals
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 22 minutes
I. Introduction As introduced by Knight in “Black Ribbon for Mourning: Affective Solidarity and Feeling Very Difficult Data” [1], the quantified self movement (also commonly referred to as self-tracking or lifelogging) [2] has been growing and sweeping the nation for over a decade [3]. It has primarily brought attention to user-centered tracking of health data, ...read more
Digital Humanities interns 2024/25
Source: Digital Humanities at Exeter |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Each year we ask our interns to write a post reflecting on their time working in the DH Lab. Here is the first of this year’s from Natasha: I’m Natasha, a third year Archaeological Science student. My internship here at the Digital Humanities Lab is coming to an end but working alongside the DH team […]
2025-05-19
Call for Course Proposals for the January 2026 FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI)
Source: FORCE11 |
Reading time: 13 minutes
Part of Charleston Conference Asia—with a special welcome to professionals across Asia and neighbouring regions to share their expertise Bringing together two days of virtual courses taught online, with a capstone third day onsite, presented with the Charleston Conference Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, January 2026 We are pleased to announce that the FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute ... Read more
Collection stories – A Digital Botanical Archive of Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865–1953)
Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland |
Reading time: 7 minutes
Collection stories series The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) helps safeguard Ireland’s digital legacy by preserving and publishing social and cultural digital collections held by Irish institutions, generated by researchers in Ireland, or digital material pertaining to the island of Ireland. In this new ‘collection stories’ blog series, we’re pleased to delve deeper into some […]
The post Collection stories – A Digital Botanical Archive of Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865–1953) appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.
Confronting Decline (CONDE) – Challenges of Deindustrialization in European Societies since the 1970s
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Since the 1970s, deindustrialization has fundamentally changed Western industrial societies. In North America and Europe, thousands of jobs have been lost in traditional industrial regions, in particular in the textile industry, coal mining, the iron and steel industry and shipbuilding. Even in the electronic consumer goods sector and the watch and photography industries, many millions of jobs have been eliminated or relocated to other regions of the world. There is no question that deindustrialization is one of the most far-reaching transformation processes in contemporary history, fundamentally changing landscapes, economic structures and socio-cultural environments.
Starting from this observation, the conference, organized by the CONDE research group, will reflect on the impact and wide…
No more harvesting data from the National Archives of Australia
Source: Tim Sherratt |
Reading time: 2 minutes
A couple of weeks ago I bid farewell to Trove due to the cancellation of my API keys and the NLA’s lack of transparency around changes to API access. Now it seems I have to wave goodbye to 16+ years of work on RecordSearch, the National Archives of Australia’s online database.
I noticed this morning that my weekly harvest of recently digitised files in RecordSearch had failed. A quick check showed that my harvester was being blocked by Cloudflare’s bot protection software. I wasn’t really surprised. Websites are using tools like this to protect themselves against AI scraper bots, and I’d already seen it in action on another Australian government site. In the war between content providers and AI scrapers, researchers and digital preservation efforts are copping collateral damage.
But while …
2025-05-15
RECOMMENDED: dh+lib Summer Reading Series
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Calling all readers! The dh+lib Review is resuming our summer “What Are You Reading” Series. During our regular summer break, we invite our community to share their summer reading choices. Guest editors will create brief posts to discuss what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. The series ...read more
RECOMMENDED: dh+lib Summer Reading Series
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Calling all readers! The dh+lib Review is resuming our summer “What Are You Reading” Series. During our regular summer break, we invite our community to share their summer reading choices. Guest editors will create brief posts to discuss what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. The series ...read more
RESOURCE: Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
A recently published article in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS Vol 12, Article 3) highlights the Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project. Written by Emily Vinson (University of Houston) and Bethany Scott (Yale University), “The Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project: Providing Equitable Access to Houston’s LGBTQ Broadcast History,” ...read more
RESOURCE: Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
A recently published article in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS Vol 12, Article 3) highlights the Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project. Written by Emily Vinson (University of Houston) and Bethany Scott (Yale University), “The Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project: Providing Equitable Access to Houston’s LGBTQ Broadcast History,” ...read more
CFP: Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship, an open-access and open peer review journal, invites submissions focused on “feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.” From the call for submissions: We accept article manuscripts, literature reviews, and reviews of digital collections, as well as relevant multimedia explorations such as podcast episodes, information visualizations, ...read more
CFP: Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship, an open-access and open peer review journal, invites submissions focused on “feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.” From the call for submissions: We accept article manuscripts, literature reviews, and reviews of digital collections, as well as relevant multimedia explorations such as podcast episodes, information visualizations, ...read more
CFP: Hermeneutica in Practice: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stéfan Sinclair
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) is hosting “Hermeneutica in Practice: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stéfan Sinclair – A Conference on Text Analysis, Tool Building, and Critical Digital Humanities” September 10-12, 2025. From the call for proposals: We welcome submissions of papers, panels, and tool demonstrations for a bilingual ...read more
CFP: Hermeneutica in Practice: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stéfan Sinclair
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) is hosting “Hermeneutica in Practice: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stéfan Sinclair – A Conference on Text Analysis, Tool Building, and Critical Digital Humanities” September 10-12, 2025. From the call for proposals: We welcome submissions of papers, panels, and tool demonstrations for a bilingual ...read more
FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: 2025-2026 H-Net Spaces Cohort Program
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
H-NET Spaces invites applications for its 2025-2026 Cohort Program. This program supports projects that are still still in the early stages of development and/or scholars in need significant support and hands-on training in DH methods. The program provides additional support to scholars seeking to build a digital project with H-Net Spaces. Projects are open access ...read more
FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: 2025-2026 H-Net Spaces Cohort Program
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
H-NET Spaces invites applications for its 2025-2026 Cohort Program. This program supports projects that are still still in the early stages of development and/or scholars in need significant support and hands-on training in DH methods. The program provides additional support to scholars seeking to build a digital project with H-Net Spaces. Projects are open access ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: ACH DH in Libraries Special Interest Group Co-Chairs
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) DH in Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG) is looking for two new co-chairs for the next academic year. An MLIS is not required, just a passion for the role of libraries in digital humanities. ACH membership is required for the co-chairs (general members of the SIG do ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: ACH DH in Libraries Special Interest Group Co-Chairs
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) DH in Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG) is looking for two new co-chairs for the next academic year. An MLIS is not required, just a passion for the role of libraries in digital humanities. ACH membership is required for the co-chairs (general members of the SIG do ...read more
EVENT: Libraries & DH: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Libraries & DH Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is co-hosting Libraries & DH: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects Mini-Conference, a free gathering at this summer’s DH2025 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Being held Monday, July 14, 2025 from 1:30pm-8:00pm (UTC+0), this hybrid event “will consist of presentations, roundtables, and discussions of the ...read more
EVENT: Libraries & DH: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Libraries & DH Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is co-hosting Libraries & DH: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects Mini-Conference, a free gathering at this summer’s DH2025 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Being held Monday, July 14, 2025 from 1:30pm-8:00pm (UTC+0), this hybrid event “will consist of presentations, roundtables, and discussions of the ...read more
From the Bottom to the Top: The Rungis Marketplace and the Establishment of the European Common Market
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 1 minutes
The research project proposes to merge three analytical levels – European, national, and local – to tell the story of the European market through the removal of the Halles marketplace in the center of Paris and the establishment of Rungis wholesale marketplace (1950-1980). The project adopts a sociohistorical methodology to study the effects of the creation of the European Economic Community. By considering the markets of the Halles and Rungis as sites of internationalism and studying the experience of their actors this project will extend the frontiers of international organizations’ history.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
14.00 - 15.00
C²DH Open Space (4th floor Maison des Sciences humaines)
18 June 2025
Contemporary history of Europe
Economic history
Research seminars
Published
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2025-05-02
PROJECT: The Drug Policy Alliance Library
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Internet Archive has released a new digital collection, the Drug Policy Alliance Library. An Internet Archive blog, authored by Caralee Adams, describes the source of the collection and the impetus for digitization: For many years, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) maintained a large library of books on drug use and policy at its New York ...read more
POST: ManoWhisper Visualizations
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Nick Ruest (York University) posted a blog, “ManoWhisper Visualizations,” detailing his work on ManoWhisper in partnership with University of Waterloo for the Digital Feminist Network. ManoWhisper is a compilation of “an ever-growing dataset of podcast transcripts comprising over 11,000 episodes from 20 podcasts associated with the Intellectual Dark Web, conspiracy theories, QAnon, the Alt-Right, White Supremacist/Nationalist movements, and the Manosphere.” ...read more
RESOURCE: Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Programming Historian has released a lesson by Luling Huang (Missouri Western State University), titled “Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python.” The description for the lesson describes how, “Using two news media case studies, this lesson provides a practical guide for making digital humanities research outputs more accessible and engaging.” From ...read more
RESOURCE: TrOCR Model for Medieval Manuscripts (12th-16th Centuries)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
TRIDIS (Tria Digita Scribunt) is a Handwritten Text Recognition model trained on and for medieval and Early Modern manuscripts. While trained specifically for legal, administrative, and memorial writings from the Late Middle Ages, it may also be useful for a more diverse range of materials including literature and treatises. The model was originally trained on ...read more
EVENT: Immersive Realities in the Humanities and Intro to FrameVR for Pedagogical Applications of Public History
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center at the University of Houston is hosting two free online events in the month of May. On Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 2 p.m. Eastern time the Immersive Realities in the Humanities workshop with Amanda Licastro (Swarthmore College) “explores how emerging technologies are being used to cultivate community ...read more
EVENT: Technology and Evolving Research Practices in the Humanities
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
On Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 2 p.m. Eastern time, Choice 360 is hosting a webinar sponsored by the Modern Language Association (MLA) on how new technologies are affecting humanities research and scholarship. The webinar will be moderated by Angela Gibson, Senior Director of Operational Strategy at MLA and speakers include: Elizabeth Brookbank, Instruction Librarian ...read more
CFP: Scholars’ Lab Data Art Call For Proposals
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library has released a call for proposals for “creative works that tell evocative, artistic, and thought-provoking stories with data” to be displayed in the Scholars’ Lab community space. From the call: We use “data art” rather than “data visualization” to emphasize we seek physical, compelling, data-inspired or ...read more
CFP: Texas Digital Humanities Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Baylor Libraries and the Baylor Digital Humanities Initiative at Baylor University are hosting the Texas Digital Humanities Symposium taking place virtually September 9-11, 2025 and is seeking proposals for 30 minute and 60 minute sessions. From their website: This three-day symposium offers a unique opportunity to engage in stimulating discussions, share innovative research, and ...read more
2025-04-30
Talking history on YouTube
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 1 minutes
How can videos be used to talk about history on the Internet? What are the issues, processes and problems involved in popularising history on YouTube? How are these videos received by the public?
In his presentation, Robin Maillard will explore some thoughts on popularising history on Youtube, one of the most popular social networks.
Robin Maillard holds a Masters in Contemporary History from Université de Besançon (2007). He creates content for his history youtube channel “L’Histoire avec une grande hache” since 2014. Since 2020, he is President of “Collectif Hérodote”, a french association of video-makers and popularisers in the fields of history, art history and archeology, and since january 2025, he is also President of “ALDHHAA”, a french association which is fighting disinformation and rewriting of historical facts, and promotes critical thinking.
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
11.00 - 12.00
"Aquarium", 4th floor Maison des Sciences humaines, Belval Campus
and online
13 May 2025
Public history
Public History
Conferences
Published
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Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss – Tracing Digital Remains
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 2 minutes
This hands-on history lecture explores the often-overlooked phenomenon of digital disappearance and what happens when data seemingly vanishes. While much attention has been paid to data accumulation and preservation, this talk examines the equally important yet understudied dynamics of data loss, asking: How do digital remains persist even as information disappears? What can the material traces of deletion reveal about power structures in our datafied world? Through concrete case studies ranging from platform architectures to digital administrations, this lecture demonstrates how technical practices of data removal create complex patterns of presence and absence that challenge simple narratives of complete erasure. The exploration invites participants to rethink fundamental assumptions abo…
Manufacturing Colonial Consent : Diplomacy, media and propaganda at the Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 2 minutes
Propaganda is often viewed as a twentieth-century phenomenon, closely associated with the era of totalitarian regimes and mass media. Yet the rhetoric that justified European expansion in the late 19th-century was no less sophisticated or influential.
This Research Seminar talk focuses on the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) as a foundational moment in the development of modern propaganda. Regarded as a key stage in the imperial partition of Africa, the Conference has been studied primarily from the point of view of diplomacy, economics and international law. However, the propagandist dimension of this event remains underexplored. Through a comparative study of the French Livres Jaunes, contemporary press coverage, and international diplomatic archives, this presentation will show how imperial powers, and particularly France, mobilized ideals of civilization, progress, and moral responsibility, to reframe imperial domination as a service to humanity. Rather than being centrally orchestrated, colonial propaganda at this time emerged through a decentralized network of diplomats, explorers, journalists, and political actors. By applying Harold Lasswell’s model of communication, the presentation will examine how these narratives were constructed, who shaped and disseminated them, which audiences they targeted, and what effects they sought to produce.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
14.00 - 15.00
C²DH Open Space
21 May 2025
Digital history & historiography
Colonialism Media history
Research seminars
Published
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2025-01-13
Lawyers and capitalism. The History of Lawyers as Key Actors in the Development of Global Capitalism
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 3 minutes
The legal profession has long been identified as a power broker between political, corporate, state-bureaucratic and academic elites. Recent research has focused on the emergence of new professionals who are willing and able to work across national frontiers. As professional go-betweens, lawyers – alongside accountants, financial advisers or wealth managers – have become essential actors of the emerging “transnational legal field”, coordinating strategies across jurisdictions and forming a strong component of professional services firms.
The objective of this workshop is threefold. First, it aims to take stock of the ongoing international and interdisciplinary debates. Second, it intends to focus on the historical dimension and to deepen our understanding of the changes over time of the le…
The Jews of Romania and Luxembourg: An Entangled History (1914-1947)
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 2 minutes
In the framework of the Digital Shoah Memorial and the exhibition “Fruit Trees, Railway Tunnels, and Seamless Tubes. Luxembourgish presence in Romania (1890-1950)”, the C²DH and the Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations humaines, Dudelange, organise a symposium regarding Jewish migration from eastern Austria-Hungary and Romania to Luxembourg and vice versa, within the broader context of antisemitism in Russian-occupied Bukovina during the First World War, and in Romania in the first half of the 20th century. Two Romania-based specialists, Andrei Cușco and Bronwyn Cragg, will dive into the history of antisemitic discourse and violence, a driving force behind the emigration of Jews, as well as a Luxembourgish Jew’s first-hand experience of antisemitism in Romania, while Philippe Blasen from the C²DH/CDMH will retrace the migration of Jews from Romania to Luxembourg during the interwar period.
Programme
Moderation: Nora Chelaru, member of the «Présence luxembourgeoise en Roumanie (1890-1950)» project, CDMH
Andrei Cușco, researcher at A.D Xenopol Institute of History, Iași
Russian Military Occupation, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Ethnicity in a Multiethnic Borderland: The ‘Jewish Question’ in Bukovina (1914-1917)
Bronwyn Cragg, PhD student at A.I. Cuza University, Iași, member of the «Présence luxembourgeoise en Roumanie (1890-1950)» project, CDMH
Luxembourgish Experiences of Romanian Antisemitism: Jean-Baptiste Duhr (1903-1976) and Maurice Kahn (1885-after 1947)
Philippe Blasen, postdoc researcher at the C²DH, University of Luxembourg, and associate researcher at CDMH
Romania’s Jews in Luxembourg: Facing an Arbitrary Administration (ca. 1919-1933)
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
16.00 - 19.00
Black Box, Maison des Sciences humaines, Belval Campus
Free entrance
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2024-03-14
Cambridge Social Data School: September 2024
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 14 minutes
The Social Data School (SDS), taking place in Cambridge between 9-13 September 2024, welcomes applications from individuals working in the media, academia, civil society organisations, trade unions, the public sector and industry. This programme equips participants with the skills and knowledge to conduct data-driven investigations in the public interest. This year, the SDS will focus
Applications now open for Cambridge Social Data School, 9-13 September 2024
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
CDH is thrilled to announce that applications for the in-person Social Data School (SDS), taking place in Cambridge between 9-13 September 2024, are now open. Individuals working in the media, academia, civil society organisations, trade unions, the public sector and industry - as well as those who work with social data in other capacities -
CDH shines at the Cambridge Festival
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Reading time: 6 minutes
Cambridge Digital Humanities returns to the Cambridge Festival, which runs from 13-28 March this year, to deliver a variety of events that engage with the four themes of the festival: Discovery, Environment, Health and Society. Peruse our fascinating programme below. Am I Normal? Friday 15 March, 11am-5pm, GR04 in the Faculty of English Dreamy Cops
AI and the Digital seminar series announced
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Reading time: 5 minutes
Cambridge Digital Humanities has joined forces with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) and Gloknos at Cambridge, and the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn and the Stiftung Mercator in Germany to co-sponsor a brand new seminar series exploring how AI and other digital technologies are influenced by concepts
Dr Irving Huerta
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Irving Huerta is a Research Associate and Data School Convenor of our Data Schools (four scheduled for 23-24). His background is in journalism, collaborating with organisations like Forensic Architecture, the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism and others. He is interested in the intersection between politics, media, and accountability. His research revolves around the politics of
Dr Anne Alexander
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Reading time: 5 minutes
Anne Alexander has been Director of Learning at CDH since its foundation. She was previously Co-ordinator of the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network. Her research interests include ethics of big data, activist media in the Middle East and the political economy of the Internet. She is a member of the Data Ethics Group and the Humanities and
Dr Eleanor Dare
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Reading time: 6 minutes
Dr Eleanor Dare is a CDH Methods Fellow and Associate Researcher for the Forensic AI project lead by Dr Leonardo Impett. The aim of the project is to identify, analyse, and mitigate cultural biases within AI-powered computer vision systems by employing methodologies from the digital humanities, digital art history, and digital visual studies. Eleanor was