2024-04-18
RESOURCE: DH RPG
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Mixing up table-top role playing games (RPG) with digital humanities project lifecycles, Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford) created The DH RPG for a course 2020. The resource remains a fun and relevant way to explore and teach project management and ethical collaboration, and explore infrastructures critically. The site includes a guide to play, character building templates, and ...read more
RESOURCE: DH RPG
Source: dh+lib |
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Mixing up table-top role playing games (RPG) with digital humanities project lifecycles, Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford) created The DH RPG for a course 2020. The resource remains a fun and relevant way to explore and teach project management and ethical collaboration, and explore infrastructures critically. The site includes a guide to play, character building templates, and ...read more
RESOURCE: Exploring LLM Weirdness
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
This week’s editors-at-large nominated “Exploring LLM Weirdness” by Cord, a quiz that requires players to convince Chat-GPT4 to select the right answer in a multiple choice quiz. It serves as an interactive lesson and teaching tool on the limitations of AI in certain scenarios.
RESOURCE: Exploring LLM Weirdness
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
This week’s editors-at-large nominated “Exploring LLM Weirdness” by Cord, a quiz that requires players to convince Chat-GPT4 to select the right answer in a multiple choice quiz. It serves as an interactive lesson and teaching tool on the limitations of AI in certain scenarios.
EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Registration is now open for the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops in Guelph, Ontario. The workshops will be in-person and will run over four days, 14-17 May 2024. Topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to Python Data AnalysisApproaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques Uncovering Hidden Trends ...read more
EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops
Source: dh+lib |
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Registration is now open for the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops in Guelph, Ontario. The workshops will be in-person and will run over four days, 14-17 May 2024. Topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to Python Data AnalysisApproaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques Uncovering Hidden Trends ...read more
EVENT: Digital Initiatives Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The University of San Diego will host its annual Digital Initiatives Symposium and celebrate the event’s tenth anniversary, on Monday, 29 April 2024, in San Diego, California. The schedule of events includes a series of workshops and presentations on acquiring commercial data sets, auditing diversity in library collections, designing digital exhibits, exploring generative artificial intelligence, ...read more
EVENT: Digital Initiatives Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
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The University of San Diego will host its annual Digital Initiatives Symposium and celebrate the event’s tenth anniversary, on Monday, 29 April 2024, in San Diego, California. The schedule of events includes a series of workshops and presentations on acquiring commercial data sets, auditing diversity in library collections, designing digital exhibits, exploring generative artificial intelligence, ...read more
CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The third Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) has been announced and will take place on 21-22 February 2025 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. The conference will also mark a return to the in-person format after a virtual version in 2021. From the call: We seek participation from a broad range of ...read more
CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH)
Source: dh+lib |
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The third Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) has been announced and will take place on 21-22 February 2025 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. The conference will also mark a return to the in-person format after a virtual version in 2021. From the call: We seek participation from a broad range of ...read more
CFP: DLF 2024 Virtual Event
Source: dh+lib |
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CLIR’s Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the Virtual 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held online, 22-23 October 2024. From the call: We invite proposals for live virtual presentations on all topics related to digital libraries, encompassing case studies, “show and fails,” practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, ...read more
CFP: DLF 2024 Virtual Event
Source: dh+lib |
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CLIR’s Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the Virtual 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held online, 22-23 October 2024. From the call: We invite proposals for live virtual presentations on all topics related to digital libraries, encompassing case studies, “show and fails,” practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Digital Projects Review Editor, American Quarterly
Source: dh+lib |
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The American Studies Association (ASA) Digital Humanities Caucus seeks nominations for a new Digital Projects Review Editor for American Quarterly, the journal of the ASA. From the email call: Digital project reviews carry on the traditions and guidelines of book reviewing in the American Quarterly, including the careful selection of projects based on the importance ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Digital Projects Review Editor, American Quarterly
Source: dh+lib |
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The American Studies Association (ASA) Digital Humanities Caucus seeks nominations for a new Digital Projects Review Editor for American Quarterly, the journal of the ASA. From the email call: Digital project reviews carry on the traditions and guidelines of book reviewing in the American Quarterly, including the careful selection of projects based on the importance ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Paid Usability Testing for trans, queer, bipoc, and disabled people
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The “Trans Mediascapes” research project at Carleton University seeks individuals to help test the Transgender Media Portal. In particular, the project team seeks individuals in Canada and the U.S. who are over the age of 16 and identify as Trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, gender nonconforming, queer Black, Indigenous, racialized, a person of colour Deaf, ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Paid Usability Testing for trans, queer, bipoc, and disabled people
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The “Trans Mediascapes” research project at Carleton University seeks individuals to help test the Transgender Media Portal. In particular, the project team seeks individuals in Canada and the U.S. who are over the age of 16 and identify as Trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, gender nonconforming, queer Black, Indigenous, racialized, a person of colour Deaf, ...read more
JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship (University of Pennsylvania)
Source: dh+lib |
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From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS), the Head of Digital Scholarship is responsible for the administrative management of libraries’ digital scholarship initiatives including those related to digital projects, digital humanities, public digital scholarship, and affiliated areas. In collaboration with the Research Data and Digital Scholarship team and ...read more
JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship (University of Pennsylvania)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS), the Head of Digital Scholarship is responsible for the administrative management of libraries’ digital scholarship initiatives including those related to digital projects, digital humanities, public digital scholarship, and affiliated areas. In collaboration with the Research Data and Digital Scholarship team and ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Developer (Providence College)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 4 minutes
From the announcement: Provide strategic leadership for the design, development, and implementation of digital scholarship at Providence College. Remote hybrid work is available at a maximum of two days per week based on approval. Develop and maintain applications, platforms, and tools that support digital scholarship projects and initiatives through the use of extensive technical skills ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Developer (Providence College)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: Provide strategic leadership for the design, development, and implementation of digital scholarship at Providence College. Remote hybrid work is available at a maximum of two days per week based on approval. Develop and maintain applications, platforms, and tools that support digital scholarship projects and initiatives through the use of extensive technical skills ...read more
Apply to the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Applications are now open for the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024. Since 2021 a partnership of UK institutions has been involved in the creation and delivery of a summer school aimed at researchers in the digital humanities who intend to professionalise their software engineering skills. This year's DH & RSE Summer
ZIM
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
ZIM
ZIM Centre for Information Modelling
root
18 April 2024
The centre's focus is on applied research in the area of information and data processing in the humanities.
Website
https://zim.uni-graz.at/
Centre type
B
Status
Certified
Expertise
Digital scholarly edition, long-term preservation, digital museology, semantic web technologies
Strict versioning
False
Assessment dates
B
26 May 2020
18 April 2022
CTS certificate
https://www.coretrustseal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GAMS-Geisteswissenscha…
Centre certification URL
http://hdl.handle.net/11372/DOC-161
Location
Recenter
47.064, 15.4399
ZIM Centre for Information Modelling
Faculty for Arts and Humanities
University of Graz
Institute Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Address
Elisabethstraße 59/III
8010 Graz
Austria
Administrative contact
Walter Scholger
walter.scholger [at] uni-graz.at_test
+433163802292
Contact website
https://zim.uni-graz.at/
Technical contact
Gerlinde Schneider
gerlinde.schneider [at] uni-graz.at_test
+433163808011
Contact website
https://zim.uni-graz.at/
UkrNLP-Corpora
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
UkrNLP-Corpora
CLARIN K-Centre for Ukrainian NLP and Corpora
root
18 April 2024
The CLARIN K-Centre for Ukrainian Language (UkrNLP-Corpora) serves as a pivotal hub for language researchers, offering a comprehensive platform for Ukrainian language resources and tools.
Website
https://uacorpus.org/k-centre/
Centre type
K
Strict versioning
False
Location
Recenter
50.930099, 11.585155
CLARIN K-Centre for Ukrainian
Natural Language Processing
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
Institute of Slavic and Caucasus Studies
Institute of Slavic and Caucasus Studies
University of Jena
Address
Jenergasse 8
Jena
07743
Ukraine
Administrative contact
Olha Kanishcheva
k.center.ukr [at] gmail.com_test
Technical contact
Olha Kanishcheva
k.center.ukr [at] gmail.com_test
Monitoring contacts
Olha Kanishcheva
k.center.ukr [at] gmail.com_test
UdS
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
UdS
Universität des Saarlandes
root
18 April 2024
Website
http://fedora.clarin-d.uni-saarland.de/
Centre type
B
Status
Certified
Expertise
Creation and annotation of corpora, empirical corpus linguistics, language variation and register analysis.
PID status
Handle via EPIC.
Repository system
Fedora Commons
Strict versioning
False
Assessment dates
B
15 February 2019
15 February 2022
CTS certificate
https://www.coretrustseal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CLARIND-UDS.pdf
Centre certification URL
http://hdl.handle.net/11372/DOC-92
Location
Recenter
49.256004, 7.039011
Universität des Saarlandes
Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Fakultät P
Universität des Saarlandes
Address
Campus A2.2
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
Administrative contact
Prof. Elke Teich
e.teich [at] mx.uni-saarland.de_test
Technical contact
Jörg Knappen
j.knappen [at] mx.uni-saarland.de_test
+49 681 3024484
TextLab
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
TextLab
CLARINO Text Laboratory Centre
root
18 April 2024
Goal: We want our linguistic resources (corpora, tools and word lists) to be available to the CLARIN community.
Website
http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/clarino/
Centre type
C
Expertise
Language technology, corpora, grammatical tools and corpus tools
PID status
We use the PID service from the National Library of Norway
Strict versioning
False
Location
Recenter
59.9421883, 10.722153
CLARINO Text Laboratory Centre
Department of Lingusitics and Scandinavian Studies
University of Oslo
The Text laboratory
Address
P.O. Box 1102 Blindern
0317 Oslo
Norway
Administrative contact
Jan Halvor Undlien
j.h.undlien [at] iln.uio.no_test
+47 22856747
Contact website
http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/
Technical contact
Kristin Hagen
tekstlab-post [at] iln.uio.no_test
+47 22857110
Contact website
http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/
TRTC
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
TRTC
CLARIN Knowledge Center for Terminology Resources and Translation Corpora (TRTC)
root
18 April 2024
Helpdesk, material and training about the preparation and documentation on terminology resources and translation corpora
Website
https://trtc.univie.ac.at
Centre type
K
Status
Certified
Strict versioning
False
Assessment dates
K
8 March 2022
7 March 2025
Centre certification URL
http://hdl.handle.net/11372/DOC-150
Location
Recenter
48.209117, 16.37708
CLARIN Knowledge Center for Terminology Resources and Translation Corpora (TRTC)
Centre for Translation Studies
University of Vienna
University of Vienna, Centre for Translation Studies
Address
Gymnasiumstraße 50
1190 Vienna
Austria
Administrative contact
Vesna Lusicky
clarin [at] univie.ac.at_test
Contact website
https://trtc.univie.ac.at
Technical contact
Vesna Lusicky
clarin [at] univie.ac.at_test
Contact website
https://trtc.univie.ac.at
TROLLing
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
TROLLing
The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics
root
18 April 2024
The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) is a repository of linguistic data, (statistical) code, and other related materials. The repository is open access, which means that all information is available to everyone. All postings are accompanied by searchable metadata that identify the researchers, the languages and linguistic phenomena involved, the statistical methods applied, and scholarly publications based on the data (where relevant).
Website
https://trolling.uit.no/
Centre type
C
PID status
DOI
Repository system
Dataverse
Strict versioning
False
CTS certificate
http://site.uit.no/dataverseno/2020/03/30/dataverseno-is-coretrustseal-certifie…
Location
Recenter
69.6798027, 18.9712161
The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics
University Library
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Address
Postboks 6050 Langnes 9037 Tromsø
9037 Tromsø
Norway
Administrative contact
Philipp Conzett
philipp.conzett [at] uit.no_test
+4777645361
Contact website
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6754-7911
Technical contact
Obiajulu Odu
obiajulu.odu [at] uit.no_test
+4777645299
Contact website
https://en.uit.no/om/enhet/ansatte/person?p_document_id=41242
TG-rep
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
TG-rep
TextGrid Repository
root
18 April 2024
The TextGrid Repository offers an extensive searchable and adaptable corpus of XML/
Text Encoding Initiative
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative
Website
https://textgridrep.org/
Centre type
C
Strict versioning
False
CTS certificate
https://www.coretrustseal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/TextGrid-Repository.pdf
Location
Recenter
51.53382, 9.93212
TextGrid Repository
Research and Development Department
Göttingen State and University Library
DARIAH-DE
Address
Papendiek 14
37073 Göttingen
Germany
Administrative contact
DARIAH-DE Coordination Office
info [at] de.dariah.eu_test
Contact website
https://de.dariah.eu/kontakt
Technical contact
DARIAH-DE Technical Support
support [at] de.dariah.eu_test
Contact website
https://de.dariah.eu/support
Sprakbanken
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Sprakbanken
Språkbanken
root
18 April 2024
To offer repository, resources and services. Additional A-services and virtual K-centre.
Website
http://spraakbanken.gu.se
Centre type
C
Repository system
LINDAT-Dspace
Strict versioning
True
Location
Recenter
57.6938986, 11.9815064
Språkbanken
Department of Swedish
University of Gothenburg
Språkbanken
Address
Box 200
405 30 Göteborg
Sweden
Administrative contact
Lars Borin
sb-info [at] svenska.gu.se_test
Technical contact
Leif-Jöran Olsson
sb-sysadmin [at] svenska.gu.se_test
Spanish K-Centre
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Spanish K-Centre
Spanish CLARIN K-Centre
root
18 April 2024
Distributed CLARIN K Centre consisting of HiTZ – Basque Center for Language Technology (University of the Basque Country, Donostia), ILG – Instituto da Lingua Galega (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela), and UNED – LINHD: Laboratorio de Innovacion de Humanidades Digitales (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid).
Website
https://www.clariah.es/k-centre/
Centre type
K
Status
Certified
Expertise
Services to researchers working with Spanish texts and, additionally, HiTZ can afford experience in handling Basque texts and ILG Galician texts.
Strict versioning
False
Assessment dates
K
29 November 2021
28 November 2024
Centre certification URL
http://hdl.handle.net/11372/DOC-111
Location
Recenter
43.3074524, -2.0107231
Spanish CLARIN K-Centre
Department of Humanities
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
HiTZ – Basque Center for Langauge Technology (University of the Basque Country), coord Spanish cons.
Address
Manuel de Lardizabal Pasealekua, 1
20018 Donostia-San Sebastián
Spain
Administrative contact
Mikel Iruskieta
mikel.iruskieta [at] ehu.eus_test
+34 946017569
Contact website
http://ixa2.si.ehu.eus/iruskieta/
Technical contact
Mikel Iruskieta
mikel.iruskieta [at] ehu.eus_test
+34 946017569
Contact website
http://ixa2.si.ehu.eus/iruskieta/
SWELANG
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
SWELANG
CLARIN Knowledge Centre for The Languages of Sweden
root
18 April 2024
Information service offering advice on the use of digital language resources and tools for the Swedish language, minority languages in Sweden, Swedish sign language, Swedish dialects et al.
Website
https://sweclarin.se/eng/centers/sprakradet
Centre type
K
Status
Certified
Expertise
language technology, corpus linguistics and language counseling
Strict versioning
False
Assessment dates
K
2 November 2021
1 November 2024
Centre certification URL
https://hdl.handle.net/11372/DOC-136
Location
Recenter
59.334591, 18.06324
CLARIN Knowledge Centre for The Languages of Sweden
Språkrådet (The Language Council of Sweden)
Institute of Language and Folklore in Stockholm, Uppsala and Göteborg
Språkrådet (The Language Council of Sweden)
Address
Box 20057
104 60 Stockholm
Sweden
Administrative contact
SWE-CLARIN_sprakochfolkminnen
swe-clarin [at] sprakochfolkminnen.se_test
Contact website
http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/swe-clarin
Technical contact
SWE-CLARIN_sprakochfolkminnen
swe-clarin [at] sprakochfolkminnen.se_test
Contact website
http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/swe-clarin
Generative AI and The Automation of Creative Labour
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
A visual artist and a law professor walk into a seminar room to talk about generative AI. There’s a thought that machines doing busywork for humans are now being enabled to be creative, whereas humans are doing busywork for machines. In this session, Eryk Salvaggio and Andrea Wallace will discuss the realities, tradeoffs, and opportunities,
DHd2024: Quo Vadebas II. Ein studentischer Erfahrungsbericht von Theresa Beckert
Source: RaDiHum 20 |
Reading time: 9 minutes
Heute geht es weiter mit unserer Mini-Serie mit Gastfolgen zur DHd2024. In diesem Special haben wir das Vergnügen, drei exklusive Episoden zu präsentieren, in denen Theresa Beckert, eine DH-Studentin (MA, 3. FS) der Universität Dresden und zugleich Doktorandin der ÄdL, ihre ersten Erfahrungen auf einer Konferenz der Digital Humanities teilt. Diese Folgen, die jeweils einen […]
Der Beitrag DHd2024: Quo Vadebas II. Ein studentischer Erfahrungsbericht von Theresa Beckert erschien zuerst auf RaDiHum 20.
What do you want to do with Trove data?
Source: Tim Sherratt |
Reading time: 1 minutes
In my work on the Trove Data Guide I’ve started sketching out a series of research pathways. These are intended as ways of connecting Trove data to tools and questions – providing examples of the steps involved in gathering, preparing, and using data to explore particular research topics.
I’ve currently defined six pathways, roughly based on different types of data that you can get from Trove:
Text
Images
Structured data
Maps and places
Networks and relationships
Creating collections
‘Creating collections’ is a bit different I suppose, as it’s meant to relate to the work of assembling research collections from data in Trove – for example, creating a collection of annotated newspaper articles in Omeka.
I have some ideas, of course, about the types of tutorials and examples to include in each pathway, but I’m wondering what you would like to see. What would you like to be able to do with Trove data?
You might get some inspiration by browsing through what’s already in the Trove Data Guide and the GLAM Workbench, or perhaps you have a research question that’s foundered because you couldn’t get the data you needed out of Trove. If you have any ideas please share them via the TDG’s ideas board. This is a chance to get some of your gnarly Trove data problems solved!
Note that the TDG links in this post go to the development version, which changes frequently. There is also a published version that doesn’t include the latest content.
Update! Saving Trove newspaper articles and pages as images
Source: Tim Sherratt |
Reading time: 2 minutes
You probably know that when you select the Download as Image option for a digitised newspaper article in Trove what you get back is not actually an image – it’s an HTML document, in which the original image has been sliced up to try and fit on an A4 page when printed. So this article:
Ends up looking like this!!
So what do you do when you just want an image of an article as it appeared in the newspaper? Some years ago I figured out a workaround that involves scraping the OCR positional data that’s embedded in Trove’s newspaper viewer and cropping the article from a high-resolution image of the page. The method is documented in the GLAM Workbench and the Trove Data Guide, and I’ve packaged up the code in trove-newspapers-images so you can embed it in your own projects.
I also created a…
2024-04-05
Marc Ridgell
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Academic Title:
Doctoral Student, Africana Studies
Marc Ridgell is a first-year PhD student in Africana Studies and William Fontaine Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Their prospective dissertation uses critical ethnography and GIS mapping to examine how Black queer and trans people experience community amid active gentrification, policing, and larger neoliberal affects in Philadelphia. Their summer Price Lab project envisions a public-facing website that exhibits archives, oral histories, and maps of Black LGBTQ+ life and organizing in Philadelphia.
They graduated magna cum laude with their B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in May 2023. While at WashU, they completed a senior thesis through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute, and Leadership Alliance at the University of Chicago.
Fellowship Date:
April, 2024—August, 2024
An Experiment with Gemini Pro LLM for Chinese OCR and Metadata Extraction
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
Reading time: 17 minutes
This is a guest post by Eric H. C. Chow. For more information, see at the end of this post. …
Dr Arild Stenberg
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Arild's background combines experience as a composer and conductor with a more recent focus on research in music psychology and music cognition. As a composer, he was always interested in the effect of notational choices on performance and had already started to explore how the design of a musical text affected practice and rehearsal. After
Reisekostenstipendien des DHd-Verbands für DH-nahe Tagungen (Sommer 2024)
Source: Tagungen |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Der Verband »Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.« (http://www.dig-hum.de) schreibt dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal fünf Reisestipendien zu je 500 € aus, die nicht an die…
JOB: Digital Collections Librarian (University of Wyoming)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 2 minutes
UW Libraries seeks a collaborative and creative librarian to join our Digital Collections team. The Digital Collections Librarian will oversee the digitization of materials in a variety of formats, both 2D and 3D, planning and execution of new digital collections and exhibits, and the maintenance of existing digital collections. The Digital Collections Librarian will coordinate ...read more
JOB: Research Informatics Specialist (University of Oklahoma)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Salary Range: Targeted salary $72,000 annually, based on experience Benefits Provided: Yes Required Attachments: Resume, Cover Letter, Other Document (See Job Requirements for details) Job Description — The University Libraries seeks to recruit a technical professional who has a passion for the higher education environment to support data-intensive research and digital scholarship projects. The Research Informatics Specialist is ...read more
JOB: Digital Community Partnerships Specialist (Smithsonian Institution)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 14 minutes
Come join the team at the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum! We’re working to expand the story of America through the often-untold accounts and accomplishments of women individually and collectively—to better understand our past and inspire our future. We’re looking for dedicated individuals to help us create space for women’s history on the National Mall ...read more
JOB: Digital Stewardship Librarian (Amherst College)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Amherst has taken a leadership role among highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities in successfully diversifying the racial, socio-economic, and geographic profile of its student body. The College is similarly committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration and staff. Job Description: Amherst College ...read more
JOB: Digital Collections Librarian (University of Wyoming)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 2 minutes
UW Libraries seeks a collaborative and creative librarian to join our Digital Collections team. The Digital Collections Librarian will oversee the digitization of materials in a variety of formats, both 2D and 3D, planning and execution of new digital collections and exhibits, and the maintenance of existing digital collections. The Digital Collections Librarian will coordinate ...read more
JOB: Research Informatics Specialist (University of Oklahoma)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Salary Range: Targeted salary $72,000 annually, based on experience Benefits Provided: Yes Required Attachments: Resume, Cover Letter, Other Document (See Job Requirements for details) Job Description — The University Libraries seeks to recruit a technical professional who has a passion for the higher education environment to support data-intensive research and digital scholarship projects. The Research Informatics Specialist is ...read more
JOB: Digital Community Partnerships Specialist (Smithsonian Institution)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 14 minutes
Come join the team at the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum! We’re working to expand the story of America through the often-untold accounts and accomplishments of women individually and collectively—to better understand our past and inspire our future. We’re looking for dedicated individuals to help us create space for women’s history on the National Mall ...read more
JOB: Digital Stewardship Librarian (Amherst College)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Amherst has taken a leadership role among highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities in successfully diversifying the racial, socio-economic, and geographic profile of its student body. The College is similarly committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration and staff. Job Description: Amherst College ...read more
EVENT: UT Humanities Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Humanities Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville will host “A Counterhistory of Data Visualization” on April 15 as part of their 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series. The talk will be given by visiting scholar Lauren Klein of Emory University and will focus the “return to the origins of modern data visualization in order excavate this ...read more
CFP: Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Proposals are now being accepted for Cultures of Scale: Discipline, Data, and Labor, part of the Debates in Digital Humanities book series from The University of Minnesota Press. From the call: This volume is designed for a wide array of perspectives. We have much to gain from the complex and critical debates on scale within ...read more
CFP: Digitorium 2024
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Digitorium, the annual Digital Humanities conference hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at University of Alabama Libraries, is now accepting proposals. They specifically “encourage submissions that ask big questions, present puzzles for problem-solving, and share outside of the box ideas.” Presentation formats include: Papers: 15 minute presentations (max 2000 words). Papers are an opportunity for ...read more
EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The DH@Guelph team, partnered with Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities (CC:DH), has announced their 2024 Summer Workshops which are set for May 14th- 17th. The workshops will focus on topics related to digital humanities research and teaching from a variety of disciplines. Workshop topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to ...read more
JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (Florida International University)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Florida International University Libraries (FIU Libraries) serves as the intellectual heart of our students’ academic journeys, offering pathways to knowledge and discovery, ultimately paving the way for student success. Our libraries provide essential resources crucial for research and innovation, fostering collaborative research endeavors and supporting scholars throughout the entirety of their research lifecycle. FIU Libraries ...read more
RESOURCE: Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer (Programming Historian)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The latest lesson from Programming Historian is “Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer” by Susan Grunewald and Ruth Mostern. The lesson takes the learner through the process of creating a gazetteer from historical texts and then shows how one might leverage the gazetteer’s data using linked open data and GIS. ...read more
EVENT: UT Humanities Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Humanities Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville will host “A Counterhistory of Data Visualization” on April 15 as part of their 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series. The talk will be given by visiting scholar Lauren Klein of Emory University and will focus the “return to the origins of modern data visualization in order excavate this ...read more
CFP: Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Proposals are now being accepted for Cultures of Scale: Discipline, Data, and Labor, part of the Debates in Digital Humanities book series from The University of Minnesota Press. From the call: This volume is designed for a wide array of perspectives. We have much to gain from the complex and critical debates on scale within ...read more
CFP: Digitorium 2024
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Digitorium, the annual Digital Humanities conference hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at University of Alabama Libraries, is now accepting proposals. They specifically “encourage submissions that ask big questions, present puzzles for problem-solving, and share outside of the box ideas.” Presentation formats include: Papers: 15 minute presentations (max 2000 words). Papers are an opportunity for ...read more
EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The DH@Guelph team, partnered with Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities (CC:DH), has announced their 2024 Summer Workshops which are set for May 14th- 17th. The workshops will focus on topics related to digital humanities research and teaching from a variety of disciplines. Workshop topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to ...read more
JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (Florida International University)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Florida International University Libraries (FIU Libraries) serves as the intellectual heart of our students’ academic journeys, offering pathways to knowledge and discovery, ultimately paving the way for student success. Our libraries provide essential resources crucial for research and innovation, fostering collaborative research endeavors and supporting scholars throughout the entirety of their research lifecycle. FIU Libraries ...read more
RESOURCE: Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer (Programming Historian)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The latest lesson from Programming Historian is “Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer” by Susan Grunewald and Ruth Mostern. The lesson takes the learner through the process of creating a gazetteer from historical texts and then shows how one might leverage the gazetteer’s data using linked open data and GIS. ...read more
EVENT: Black Digital Humanities Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The Black Digital Humanities Lab will host a Black Digital Humanities Symposium on April 12. The symposium “brings together graduate students, practitioners, community activists, and artists to discuss the future of this field, exploring what it means to come together to weave Black futures.” Sessions include panels on representation & resistance in digital media and ...read more
EVENT: Black Digital Humanities Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Black Digital Humanities Lab will host a Black Digital Humanities Symposium on April 12. The symposium “brings together graduate students, practitioners, community activists, and artists to discuss the future of this field, exploring what it means to come together to weave Black futures.” Sessions include panels on representation & resistance in digital media and ...read more
2024-03-21
RECOMMENDED: Empowering GLAM Institutions: The Launch of Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) recently published the Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines, a “collaborative document provides guidance for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) to implement accessibility best practices through policies and workflows.” From the announcement: Some topics discussed and key takeaways include: Policies should commit to accessibility, name standards like ...read more
RECOMMENDED: Empowering GLAM Institutions: The Launch of Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) recently published the Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines, a “collaborative document provides guidance for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) to implement accessibility best practices through policies and workflows.” From the announcement: Some topics discussed and key takeaways include: Policies should commit to accessibility, name standards like ...read more
PROJECT: Pockets of Information
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
Claudia Berger (Sarah Lawrence College/Pratt) and Gabriella Evergreen (Pratt) created Pockets of Information: Community Care in a Speculative New York, a StoryMap as a companion to an in-person exhibit. Project of Information “imagines how data could be shared in the aftermath of severe flooding and climate change in New York City. It is a garment-based ...read more
PROJECT: Pockets of Information
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Claudia Berger (Sarah Lawrence College/Pratt) and Gabriella Evergreen (Pratt) created Pockets of Information: Community Care in a Speculative New York, a StoryMap as a companion to an in-person exhibit. Project of Information “imagines how data could be shared in the aftermath of severe flooding and climate change in New York City. It is a garment-based ...read more
PROJECT: The Federal Community Art Center Initiative, 1935-1942
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Sara Woodbury (William & Mary) created the StoryMap, “The Federal Community Art Center Initiative, 1935-1942: Mapping Art Access in the Great Depression.” From the introduction, In 1935, the Federal Art Project (FAP) launched one of its most ambitious arts-sharing initiatives when it opened its first community art center in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in cooperation ...read more
PROJECT: The Federal Community Art Center Initiative, 1935-1942
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Sara Woodbury (William & Mary) created the StoryMap, “The Federal Community Art Center Initiative, 1935-1942: Mapping Art Access in the Great Depression.” From the introduction, In 1935, the Federal Art Project (FAP) launched one of its most ambitious arts-sharing initiatives when it opened its first community art center in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in cooperation ...read more
CFP: Survey on Digital Humanities/Digital Skills Workshops
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Implementing New Knowledge Environment (INKE) invites people who have taken part in a digital humanities or digital skills workshop in the last five years (2019-2023) as a learner, instructor, and/or organizer to participate in a survey about Digital Humanities/Digital Skills Workshops. From the survey instrument: If you HAVE ATTENDED, TAUGHT, and/or ORGANIZED digital humanities/digital ...read more
CFP: Survey on Digital Humanities/Digital Skills Workshops
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The Implementing New Knowledge Environment (INKE) invites people who have taken part in a digital humanities or digital skills workshop in the last five years (2019-2023) as a learner, instructor, and/or organizer to participate in a survey about Digital Humanities/Digital Skills Workshops. From the survey instrument: If you HAVE ATTENDED, TAUGHT, and/or ORGANIZED digital humanities/digital ...read more
CFP: DigiCAM25
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The School of Advanced Study at the University of London seeks proposals for Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory, to be held April 2-4, 2025. From the call: Digital research in the arts and humanities has traditionally focused on digitised objects and archives. However, born-digital cultural materials that originate and circulate across a range of formats ...read more
CFP: DigiCAM25
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The School of Advanced Study at the University of London seeks proposals for Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory, to be held April 2-4, 2025. From the call: Digital research in the arts and humanities has traditionally focused on digitised objects and archives. However, born-digital cultural materials that originate and circulate across a range of formats ...read more
EVENT: Who Owns Black Data
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Black Beyond Data Ecosystem at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University invites you to attend Who Owns Black Data: Slavery & Data hosted on March 29, 2024 in Baltimore, MD. This historic convening will gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, activists and archivists to discuss, elucidate, and provide public answers to the ...read more
EVENT: Who Owns Black Data
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The Black Beyond Data Ecosystem at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University invites you to attend Who Owns Black Data: Slavery & Data hosted on March 29, 2024 in Baltimore, MD. This historic convening will gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, activists and archivists to discuss, elucidate, and provide public answers to the ...read more
EVENT: Supporting Text Analysis and Language Models in the Library
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Constellate and the ACRL Digital Scholarship Section (DSS) Professional Development Committee, in collaboration with the DSS Numeric and Geospatial Data Services Discussion Group, the DSS Digital Humanities Discussion Group, and the DSS Digital Scholarship Center Discussion Group are pleased to host “Supporting Text Analysis and Language Models in the Library,” a 3-part virtual workshop series ...read more
EVENT: Supporting Text Analysis and Language Models in the Library
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Constellate and the ACRL Digital Scholarship Section (DSS) Professional Development Committee, in collaboration with the DSS Numeric and Geospatial Data Services Discussion Group, the DSS Digital Humanities Discussion Group, and the DSS Digital Scholarship Center Discussion Group are pleased to host “Supporting Text Analysis and Language Models in the Library,” a 3-part virtual workshop series ...read more
JOB: Data Literacies Lead (Stony Brook University)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: Responsibilities & Requirements: We’re looking for a creative, forward-thinking, and enthusiastic person with a strong background in data analytics or related skills to join our dedicated team of Academic Engagement library faculty. Reporting to the Head of Academic Engagement, the Data Literacies Lead is responsible for building a robust data literacies program ...read more
JOB: Data Literacies Lead (Stony Brook University)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: Responsibilities & Requirements: We’re looking for a creative, forward-thinking, and enthusiastic person with a strong background in data analytics or related skills to join our dedicated team of Academic Engagement library faculty. Reporting to the Head of Academic Engagement, the Data Literacies Lead is responsible for building a robust data literacies program ...read more
JOB: Data Librarian (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: UNLV University Libraries seeks nominations and applications for an innovative and collaborative tenure-track/tenured faculty member to serve as the Data Librarian. Reporting to the Head, Scholarly Communication and Data Services (SCADS), the Data Librarian will develop and extend the library’s role in providing expertise on data management methods and standards, open science/research, ...read more
JOB: Data Librarian (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: UNLV University Libraries seeks nominations and applications for an innovative and collaborative tenure-track/tenured faculty member to serve as the Data Librarian. Reporting to the Head, Scholarly Communication and Data Services (SCADS), the Data Librarian will develop and extend the library’s role in providing expertise on data management methods and standards, open science/research, ...read more
“Respect is a Recurring Choice” | Award-Winning Poet SAF-S2E Reflects on the Burdened Integrity of Artistry
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 11 minutes
Photograph by Al Conteh The grace of deep knowing and craft buoys the work of award-winning artist and poet Safwat Elsenossi aka SAF-S2E, as he lyrically meditates on the burdened integrity of artistry in a newly commissioned poem Solo be Thy Destiny[i] presented in a video by Al Conteh now live on AndWhat TV, an
AI and the Digital
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
AI and the Digital is a seminar series that explores how AI and other digital technologies are influenced by concepts of the human and how they can be designed to be responsible, socially just, and ecologically sustainable. Together with international experts, participants are invited to discuss the entanglement of thought and technology. The series is
Le Luxembourg au cœur d’un réseau transnational : le cas de la presse anarchiste en italien publiée dans les aires francophones (1870-1950)
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 3 minutes
Parmi les Italiens qui se sont installés au Luxembourg figurent de nombreux militants politiques. Si les communistes font l’objet d’études, de recherches et de publications, la présence, le rôle et les activités des anarchistes sont peu connus. Le propos de cette intervention est de donner les éléments pour une meilleure connaissance de cette présence des anarchistes au Luxembourg, en la replaçant dans le contexte de la circulation des anarchistes italiens pour qui, alors qu’ils sont souvent forcés à l’exil et expulsés des démocraties européennes, le Luxembourg, notamment la ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette, est un point de passage obligé sur les routes européennes.
Bien qu’aucun journal anarchiste en italien n’y ait vu le jour, le cas du Luxembourg est particulièrement intéressant dans le cadre d…
AI Café for Humanities and Social Science Research
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Are you using AI methods in your research, or considering doing so? Would you like to meet other researchers exploring the challenges and possibilities of deploying AI to answer humanities or social science research questions? Do you need practical advice and guidance on proposal writing, software, hardware, data collection methods, data security, privacy and compliance,
Two CLARIN B-centres recertified: PORTULAN CLARIN and LINDAT-CLARIAH/CZ
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Two CLARIN B-centres recertified: PORTULAN CLARIN and LINDAT-CLARIAH/CZ
We are pleased to announce that two B-centres have been successfully re-certified: PORTULAN CLARIN and LINDAT-CLARIAH/CZ. Congratulations to our colleagues in Portugal and Czechia!
PORTULAN CLARIN is a research infrastructure for the science and technology of Language, belonging to the Portuguese National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Relevance. PORTULAN CLARIN has been a B-centre since 2018 and was successfully re-certified in March 2024. The mission of PORTULAN CLARIN is to support researchers, innovators, citizen scientists, students, language professionals and users in general whose activities rely on research results from the science and technology of language by means of the distribution of scientific resources, the supplying of technological support, the provision of consultancy, and the fostering of scientific dissemination. Read more about PORTULAN CLARIN.
The LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ Centre for Language Research Infrastructure in Czech has been a B-centre since 2014, and was successfully re-certified in March 2024. The centre provides technical background and assistance to institutions or researchers who want to share, create and modernise their tools and data used for research in linguistics and related research fields. The project also provides an open digital repository and archive open to all academics who want their work to be preserved, promoted and made widely available. Read more about LINDAT-CLARIAH/CZ.
Christine Dijkstra
21 March 2024
L’Europe autrement
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 3 minutes
À la croisée du lieu de mémoire mais aussi du lieu d’histoire dans ce qu’il a de plus vivant, la Maison Schuman est heureuse de vous proposer différentes activités autour de l’Europe pour les grands et les petits.
Entrez et voyagez dans l’histoire de l’Europe à travers différentes stations découvertes:
Jeux d’énigmes sur Robert Schuman (pour jeunes dès 9 ans)
1. De Clausen à l’Athenée: Sur les pas du jeune Robert !
Son école primaire se dressait juste en face de chez lui, mais le chemin jusqu'au lycée était un véritable périple. L'Athénée, à cette époque, se trouvait près de la cathédrale. Utilisez votre lampe magique pour retracer le chemin emprunté par le jeune Robert et replacer au bon endroit les images des monuments emblématiques qui ont jalonné son parcours. Prêt pour cette aventur…
2024-03-08
The Age of Digital Technology: Silk Road Archaeological Sites and Artefacts (Part 2)
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
Reading time: 17 minutes
In Part One, we explored how digital technology has transformed Silk Road archaeology through the digitization of archaeological sites and …
DH Teaching Forum
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Our termly online DH Teaching Forum is open to anyone at the University of Cambridge interested in teaching Digital Humanities or teaching the Humanities (and Social Sciences) digitally. They provide an informal space for peer learning and networking, skill sharing and discussion, and short invited talks and presentations on topics the group decides. This term's
RECOMMENDED: Preserving Geospatial Data: DPC Technology Watch Report
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Digital Preservation Coalition has made freely-available online Preserving Geospatial Data, written by Meagan A. Snow, Geospatial Data Visualization Librarian at the Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress: This report is designed as a resource for use by librarians, archivists, and digital preservation specialists who may be new to the realm of ...read more
RECOMMENDED: Preserving Geospatial Data: DPC Technology Watch Report
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The Digital Preservation Coalition has made freely-available online Preserving Geospatial Data, written by Meagan A. Snow, Geospatial Data Visualization Librarian at the Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress: This report is designed as a resource for use by librarians, archivists, and digital preservation specialists who may be new to the realm of ...read more
CFP: Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) invites submissions for a special issue on, “Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation.” From the call: We are all digital humanists now: we are all interpellated as users of platforms, workers in the marketized university, subjects to a changing political ...read more
CFP: Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) invites submissions for a special issue on, “Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation.” From the call: We are all digital humanists now: we are all interpellated as users of platforms, workers in the marketized university, subjects to a changing political ...read more
CFP: Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
This year, the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) is celebrating its ten year anniversary, and hosting its annual event on 20 September 2024, at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, entitled, “Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation.” From the call: This conference will focus on exploring the intricate ...read more
CFP: Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
This year, the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) is celebrating its ten year anniversary, and hosting its annual event on 20 September 2024, at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, entitled, “Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation.” From the call: This conference will focus on exploring the intricate ...read more
CFP: TEI 2024: Texts, Languages, and Communities
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The annual Text Encoding Initiative conference, TEI 2024, is set for 7–11 October 2024 in-person at Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the organizers invite submissions for papers, posters, panels, demos, and workshops. This event, marking the Text Encoding Initiative’s twenty-fourth conference, is themed around, “Texts, Languages, and Communities,” which encourages contributions that ...read more
CFP: TEI 2024: Texts, Languages, and Communities
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The annual Text Encoding Initiative conference, TEI 2024, is set for 7–11 October 2024 in-person at Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the organizers invite submissions for papers, posters, panels, demos, and workshops. This event, marking the Text Encoding Initiative’s twenty-fourth conference, is themed around, “Texts, Languages, and Communities,” which encourages contributions that ...read more
EVENT: AI UK Fringe 2024, Alan Turing Institute
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Throughout the month of March, the Alan Turing Institute is hosting AI UK Fringe 2024, a series of in-person and online events including talks and workshops exploring artificial intelligence. Topics relate directly to our work in library and information science, digital humanities, and data pedagogy. Here is a sample of events likely of interest to ...read more
EVENT: AI UK Fringe 2024, Alan Turing Institute
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Throughout the month of March, the Alan Turing Institute is hosting AI UK Fringe 2024, a series of in-person and online events including talks and workshops exploring artificial intelligence. Topics relate directly to our work in library and information science, digital humanities, and data pedagogy. Here is a sample of events likely of interest to ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Specialist (University of Michigan)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 3 minutes
From the announcement: Summary The Digital Scholarship Specialist partners with students, faculty, staff, and librarians to enhance learning, teaching, and scholarship through technologies and knowledge of emerging digital research methods across departments. You will join a network of functional and subject experts, contributing to the evolution of digital scholarship and consultation services at the University ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Specialist (University of Michigan)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: Summary The Digital Scholarship Specialist partners with students, faculty, staff, and librarians to enhance learning, teaching, and scholarship through technologies and knowledge of emerging digital research methods across departments. You will join a network of functional and subject experts, contributing to the evolution of digital scholarship and consultation services at the University ...read more
JOB: Research & Digital Humanities Librarian (Allegheny College)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 6 minutes
From the announcement: ROLE TITLE: Research & Digital Humanities Librarian REPORTS TO: Dean of the Library — Summary of Position The Research & Digital Humanities Librarian provides research guidance, information literacy instruction, and digital technologies collaboration and support for faculty, academic staff and students through the lenses of the Library, the Center for Research and ...read more
JOB: Research & Digital Humanities Librarian (Allegheny College)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: ROLE TITLE: Research & Digital Humanities Librarian REPORTS TO: Dean of the Library — Summary of Position The Research & Digital Humanities Librarian provides research guidance, information literacy instruction, and digital technologies collaboration and support for faculty, academic staff and students through the lenses of the Library, the Center for Research and ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (UC Irvine)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 12 minutes
From the announcement: Position overview Salary range: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience based on the University of California pay scales. Appointment is anticipated to be at the Assistant or Associate Librarian rank with a salary of $61,920 – $92,345. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and salary point ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (UC Irvine)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
From the announcement: Position overview Salary range: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience based on the University of California pay scales. Appointment is anticipated to be at the Assistant or Associate Librarian rank with a salary of $61,920 – $92,345. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and salary point ...read more
2024-02-22
RECOMMENDED: Modeling Doubt: A Speculative Syllabus
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Shannon Mattern (University of Pennsylvania) has published an open-access piece in the Journal of Visual Culture titled “Modeling doubt: a speculative syllabus.” Adapted from Mattern’s May 2023 King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities at King’s College London, the piece explores “where humanistic conceptions of doubt do, or could or should, reside within our digital systems: ...read more
RECOMMENDED: Modeling Doubt: A Speculative Syllabus
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Shannon Mattern (University of Pennsylvania) has published an open-access piece in the Journal of Visual Culture titled “Modeling doubt: a speculative syllabus.” Adapted from Mattern’s May 2023 King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities at King’s College London, the piece explores “where humanistic conceptions of doubt do, or could or should, reside within our digital systems: ...read more
PROJECT: Alice Dunbar-Nelson Correspondence Network Dataset
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
A Collections as Data pilot project at the University of Delaware, the network dataset for Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s correspondence is now available for download via the UDel institutional repository. Alice Dunbar-Nelson was an African-American civil rights activist, author, educator, wife of notable poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; the correspondence collection contains her literary, professional, and personal papers, ...read more
PROJECT: Alice Dunbar-Nelson Correspondence Network Dataset
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
A Collections as Data pilot project at the University of Delaware, the network dataset for Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s correspondence is now available for download via the UDel institutional repository. Alice Dunbar-Nelson was an African-American civil rights activist, author, educator, wife of notable poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; the correspondence collection contains her literary, professional, and personal papers, ...read more
RESOURCE: AI for Humanists Tutorials
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The collaborative, NEH-funded AI for Humanists project (formerly the BERT for Humanists project) creates learning resources aimed at empowering humanities scholars to use machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs) in creative new ways. Adding to its repository of tutorials, primarily for python coding, two new tutorials have recently been published ...read more
RESOURCE: AI for Humanists Tutorials
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The collaborative, NEH-funded AI for Humanists project (formerly the BERT for Humanists project) creates learning resources aimed at empowering humanities scholars to use machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs) in creative new ways. Adding to its repository of tutorials, primarily for python coding, two new tutorials have recently been published ...read more
CFP: DH Inside Out (DH2024 Mini-Conference)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
DH2024 is seeking submissions and reviewers for the mini-conference at DH2024, “DH Inside Out,” which will be held August 6-9 at George Mason University. Rather than focusing on research and theoretical applications, this conference will focus on the technical details within the context of a project – from design and implementation to tools and code. ...read more
CFP: DH Inside Out (DH2024 Mini-Conference)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
DH2024 is seeking submissions and reviewers for the mini-conference at DH2024, “DH Inside Out,” which will be held August 6-9 at George Mason University. Rather than focusing on research and theoretical applications, this conference will focus on the technical details within the context of a project – from design and implementation to tools and code. ...read more
CFP: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
DH@Guelph is seeking course proposals for its 2024 Summer Workshops, May 14th-May 17th. From the call, the committee seeks: 4-day workshops on any aspect of digital humanities. Proposals will be selected by the local organizing committee with a view to maintaining the workshops’ emphasis on diversity in the digital humanities, meeting demand for particular topics, ...read more
CFP: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
DH@Guelph is seeking course proposals for its 2024 Summer Workshops, May 14th-May 17th. From the call, the committee seeks: 4-day workshops on any aspect of digital humanities. Proposals will be selected by the local organizing committee with a view to maintaining the workshops’ emphasis on diversity in the digital humanities, meeting demand for particular topics, ...read more
CFP: Texas Digital Humanities Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Texas Digital Humanities Symposium will be held September 5-6, 2024, at Baylor University’s Moody Memorial Library. The keynote will be Dr. Tanya Clement of University of Texas at Austin. “Digital Humanities Unveiled: A Practical Exploration” is the theme of this year’s symposium, and proposals will address topics in the following areas: DH Content: Diverse ...read more
CFP: Texas Digital Humanities Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Texas Digital Humanities Symposium will be held September 5-6, 2024, at Baylor University’s Moody Memorial Library. The keynote will be Dr. Tanya Clement of University of Texas at Austin. “Digital Humanities Unveiled: A Practical Exploration” is the theme of this year’s symposium, and proposals will address topics in the following areas: DH Content: Diverse ...read more
CFP: MLA 2025 Panels
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Modern Language Association’s 2025 Annual Convention will be offering several panels with overlaps in digital humanities and librarianship. The 2025 Convention theme is “Visibility,” and will be in New Orleans in January of 2025, with proposals due for submission in various dates in March 2024. Here are two panels with particular connections: Invisible Labor: ...read more
CFP: MLA 2025 Panels
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Modern Language Association’s 2025 Annual Convention will be offering several panels with overlaps in digital humanities and librarianship. The 2025 Convention theme is “Visibility,” and will be in New Orleans in January of 2025, with proposals due for submission in various dates in March 2024. Here are two panels with particular connections: Invisible Labor: ...read more
EVENT: Discovering DH: Honoring Women’s Stories
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Baylor University will host “Discovering DH: Honoring Women’s Stories” on February 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm CST. Speakers are women faculty at Baylor who have contributed to DH scholarship. The event will take place in Baylor’s Moody Memorial Library, but will also be offered as a virtual session for registrants. Speakers will include: Heidi Hornik, ...read more
EVENT: Discovering DH: Honoring Women’s Stories
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Baylor University will host “Discovering DH: Honoring Women’s Stories” on February 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm CST. Speakers are women faculty at Baylor who have contributed to DH scholarship. The event will take place in Baylor’s Moody Memorial Library, but will also be offered as a virtual session for registrants. Speakers will include: Heidi Hornik, ...read more
EVENT: DHSI-East 2024
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
This intensive 4-day workshop, “Understanding and Deploying the Basics of Generative A.I.” will be held April 29-May 2 on the campus of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Instructors will be Aaron Tucker (University of Toronto), Meghan Landry, and Adnane Ait-Nasser (ACENET), with a keynote from Teresa Heffernan (St. Mary’s University) on “Mecha ...read more
EVENT: DHSI-East 2024
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
This intensive 4-day workshop, “Understanding and Deploying the Basics of Generative A.I.” will be held April 29-May 2 on the campus of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Instructors will be Aaron Tucker (University of Toronto), Meghan Landry, and Adnane Ait-Nasser (ACENET), with a keynote from Teresa Heffernan (St. Mary’s University) on “Mecha ...read more
EVENT: MSU Global Digital Humanities Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
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Sponsored by Michigan State University and H-net, the 9th annual GlobalDH Symposium will have virtual proceedings March 18-20 and in-person events March 22-23. Keynote speakers are Rachel Adams, Sara Morais do Santos Bruss, Alex Gil, and Bill Hart-Davidson, and talks will highlight intersections of AI, DH, and inequalities. The full program for both the online ...read more
EVENT: MSU Global Digital Humanities Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Sponsored by Michigan State University and H-net, the 9th annual GlobalDH Symposium will have virtual proceedings March 18-20 and in-person events March 22-23. Keynote speakers are Rachel Adams, Sara Morais do Santos Bruss, Alex Gil, and Bill Hart-Davidson, and talks will highlight intersections of AI, DH, and inequalities. The full program for both the online ...read more
FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: HTRC TORCHLITE Hackathon
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The TORCHLITE project is hosting a hackathon May 21-23, 2024 in Champaign, Illinois for researchers and programmers interested in text analysis and data mining/visualization using HathiTrust Research Center tools. The hackathon deliverables include data visualizations, Jupyter notebooks, applications, and creative uses for its new tools. Participants who are selected to attend will receive up to ...read more
FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: HTRC TORCHLITE Hackathon
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The TORCHLITE project is hosting a hackathon May 21-23, 2024 in Champaign, Illinois for researchers and programmers interested in text analysis and data mining/visualization using HathiTrust Research Center tools. The hackathon deliverables include data visualizations, Jupyter notebooks, applications, and creative uses for its new tools. Participants who are selected to attend will receive up to ...read more
Ankündigung Aktivitäten DHd-AGs auf der DHd2024 in Passau
Source: Tagungen |
Reading time: 4 minutes
Liebe DHd-Mitglieder,
im DHd-Verband sind mittlerweile 17 Arbeitsgruppen aktiv, die sich ganz unterschiedlichen Themen und Fragestellungen widmen. Um die Vielfalt unserer AGs zu…
New Super Model: Dutch Demeter I
Source: READ-COOP |
Reading time: 21 minutes
Exciting news for Dutch history enthusiasts and researchers! Following the announcement at last week’s Transkribus Users Conference 24, the new Super Model Dutch Demeter I is now available for use. This new Super Model is designed to significantly improve text recognition for Dutch manuscripts and printed materials from the 16th to 20th centuries. But what […]
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DHd2020: Reflexionen mit RaDiHum20
Source: RaDiHum 20 |
Reading time: 8 minutes
Unsere heutige Folge der 6. Staffel widmet sich der DHd-Konferenz 2020, einer Konferenz, die unter außergewöhnlichen Umständen in Paderborn stattfand, nur wenige Tage bevor die Welt in den Corona-Lockdown ging. Das Motto „Spielräume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation“ lud zur Diskussion über methodische und theoretische Freiheiten sowie die Rolle der Digital Humanities in der […]
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2024-02-08
RECOMMENDED: Large Language Models and Academic Writing
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The South African Journal of Science recently published an article by Martin Bekker (University of the Witwatersrand) that explores a tiered model for assessing academic authors’ engagement with large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Large language models and academic writing: Five tiers of engagement” offers guidance for academic journal editors, university instructors and curriculum ...read more
RECOMMENDED: Large Language Models and Academic Writing
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The South African Journal of Science recently published an article by Martin Bekker (University of the Witwatersrand) that explores a tiered model for assessing academic authors’ engagement with large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Large language models and academic writing: Five tiers of engagement” offers guidance for academic journal editors, university instructors and curriculum ...read more
EVENT: 2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The 2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities, African Stories, and Agency will take place on February 15-16, 2024, from 8:30AM-5:00PM GMT at the University of Ghana-Legon and online via Zoom. The 2024 symposium “seeks to stimulate a dialogue that addresses the intersections of the digital humanities and African stories and agency. We will ...read more
EVENT: 2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The 2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities, African Stories, and Agency will take place on February 15-16, 2024, from 8:30AM-5:00PM GMT at the University of Ghana-Legon and online via Zoom. The 2024 symposium “seeks to stimulate a dialogue that addresses the intersections of the digital humanities and African stories and agency. We will ...read more
EVENT: Queer and Trans Art as Knowledge Mobilization
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The University of Toronto’s Critical Digital Humanities Initiative hosts a Lightning Lunch series on Zoom. Coming up on Wednesday, February 14, at 12:00pm EST, speakers Cait McKinney (Simon Fraser University), Chris Vargas (Western Washington University), and Dallas Fellini (University of Toronto) will share their work in a discussion titled “Queer & Trans Art as Knowledge ...read more
EVENT: Queer and Trans Art as Knowledge Mobilization
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The University of Toronto’s Critical Digital Humanities Initiative hosts a Lightning Lunch series on Zoom. Coming up on Wednesday, February 14, at 12:00pm EST, speakers Cait McKinney (Simon Fraser University), Chris Vargas (Western Washington University), and Dallas Fellini (University of Toronto) will share their work in a discussion titled “Queer & Trans Art as Knowledge ...read more
EVENT: Indigenous Knowledges – Introductory Workshop
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Indigenous Knowledges, a free introductory workshop presented by AHRC-NEH Indigenous Knowledges, will take place on Thursday, February 15, 2024, from 10:00-11:30am GMT. This workshop will be the first in a series of four that “will explore relationship building, Indigenous research ethics, Protocols, data sovereignty, and developing digitally curated collections through the CMS platform Mukurtu.” Peter ...read more
EVENT: Indigenous Knowledges – Introductory Workshop
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Indigenous Knowledges, a free introductory workshop presented by AHRC-NEH Indigenous Knowledges, will take place on Thursday, February 15, 2024, from 10:00-11:30am GMT. This workshop will be the first in a series of four that “will explore relationship building, Indigenous research ethics, Protocols, data sovereignty, and developing digitally curated collections through the CMS platform Mukurtu.” Peter ...read more
CFP: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 2024
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the in-person 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held in partnership with Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU College of Arts and Letters in East Lansing, Michigan, July 29-31, 2024. Office hours will be held on February 15 (register here) for prospective presenters to learn more ...read more
CFP: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 2024
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the in-person 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held in partnership with Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU College of Arts and Letters in East Lansing, Michigan, July 29-31, 2024. Office hours will be held on February 15 (register here) for prospective presenters to learn more ...read more
CFP: Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2024
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the seventh annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship which will be hosted in person, July 14-19, 2024, by Pitts Theology Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Collaborative digital project teams are invited to submit proposals to participate in the week-long summer institute. From the call: ILiADS ...read more
CFP: Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2024
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the seventh annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship which will be hosted in person, July 14-19, 2024, by Pitts Theology Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Collaborative digital project teams are invited to submit proposals to participate in the week-long summer institute. From the call: ILiADS ...read more
CFP: Summer 2024 Open Education Publishing Institute
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced a call for participants for their Open Education Publishing Institute to be held in Summer 2024. The three-week hybrid institute will take place in person June 12th-14th, 2024 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and virtually via Zoom June 17th-27th, with ...read more
CFP: Summer 2024 Open Education Publishing Institute
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced a call for participants for their Open Education Publishing Institute to be held in Summer 2024. The three-week hybrid institute will take place in person June 12th-14th, 2024 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and virtually via Zoom June 17th-27th, with ...read more
CFP: Keystone DH 2024 Conference
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
Keystone DH — a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic — has announced that the annual Keystone DH conference will be hosted in-person by the DIGIT program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College on May 20-22, 2024. Conference organizers have shared ...read more
CFP: Keystone DH 2024 Conference
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
Keystone DH — a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic — has announced that the annual Keystone DH conference will be hosted in-person by the DIGIT program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College on May 20-22, 2024. Conference organizers have shared ...read more
CFP: Boston DH 2024 Conference
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The call for proposals for Boston DH 2024, a “one day symposium of greater Boston-area scholars, community members, library and archives professionals, students, and practitioners across disciplines who engage with digital approaches, pedagogy, and methods in humanities and social sciences research” has been extended to February 16, 2024. The event will take place on April ...read more
CFP: Boston DH 2024 Conference
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The call for proposals for Boston DH 2024, a “one day symposium of greater Boston-area scholars, community members, library and archives professionals, students, and practitioners across disciplines who engage with digital approaches, pedagogy, and methods in humanities and social sciences research” has been extended to February 16, 2024. The event will take place on April ...read more
FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Civic Switchboard Institutes
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 11 minutes
With the support of IMLS funding, Civic Switchboard aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems. The project team has announced a series of institutes taking place throughout 2024 that may be of interest to library workers engaged with digital research support and data literacy instruction. From the announcement: ...read more
FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Civic Switchboard Institutes
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
With the support of IMLS funding, Civic Switchboard aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems. The project team has announced a series of institutes taking place throughout 2024 that may be of interest to library workers engaged with digital research support and data literacy instruction. From the announcement: ...read more
FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Statistics and Network Analysis Workshops (Mathematical Humanists Project)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Mathematical Humanists project, from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History at New Media at George Mason University and the University of California-Los Angeles, is offering a series of workshops “on the mathematics that underpins common Digital Humanities (DH) methods.” Workshops will cover topics such as applied statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete ...read more
FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Statistics and Network Analysis Workshops (Mathematical Humanists Project)
Source: dh+lib |
Reading time: 0 minutes
The Mathematical Humanists project, from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History at New Media at George Mason University and the University of California-Los Angeles, is offering a series of workshops “on the mathematics that underpins common Digital Humanities (DH) methods.” Workshops will cover topics such as applied statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete ...read more
Walking with Constable: The Cambridge Edition | CDH x Cambridge Festival
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Walking with Constable is a university-wide research project led by Cambridge Digital Humanities, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge University Library, which has been exploring how we can use digital technologies to take archive material out of museums and libraries and interact with it in the landscape. On this ‘Cambridge Edition’ we’ll experience how we’ve
Making Meaning out of Data: Machine Learning for Humanities Research
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Convenor: Estara Arrant (CDH Methods Fellow) This methods workshop will teach students three powerful machine learning algorithms appropriate for Humanities research projects. These algorithms are designed to help you identify and explore meaningful patterns and correlations in your research material and are appropriate for descriptive, qualitative data sets of almost any size. These algorithms are
Theorising Transparency in Digital Culture
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Convenor: Carleigh Morgan (CDH Methods Fellow) This project begins from the premise that ‘transparency’ is not clear at all. Transparency is historically mediated, culturally constructed, and ideologically complex. Understood expansively, transparency is enmeshed with a variety of functions and associations, having been mobilised as a political call to action; a design methodology; a radical practice
Seeing the Database Differently: Qualitative Data Analysis in Cultural Heritage
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Convenor: Orla Delaney (CDH Methods Fellow) What does it mean to prioritise small data over big data? Cultural heritage datasets, such as museum databases and digital archives, seem to resist the quantitative methods we usually associate with data science work, asking to be read and explored rather than aggregated and analysed. This workshop provides participants
Creative-Critical Methods: Bearing Witness to Personal and Collective Trauma
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 8 minutes
Convenor: Dita N. Love (CDH Methods Fellow) Sarah Ahmed and Jackie Stacey wrote that “speaking out about injustice, trauma, pain and grief have become crucial aspects of contemporary life which have transformed notions of what it means to be a subject, what it means to speak, and how we can understand the formation of communities
Harvesting Data and Visualising Cultural Transmission
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Convenors: Leah Brainerd & Alex Gushurst-Moore (CDH Methods Fellow) Centuries of ceramics. Millenia of maquettes. How do we grapple with large datasets? Join archaeologist Leah Brainerd and art historian Alex Gushurst-Moore to increase your computational literacy, learn how to scrape data from collections databases, and interpret that data through visual means. Over two, two-hour sessions,
Video Data Analysis for social science and humanities
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Convenor: Tom Kissock (CDH Methods Fellow) This Methods Workshop will offer Video Data Analysis for Social Science and Humanities students. It’s a relatively new, broad, and innovative multi-disciplinary methodology that helps students understand how video fits into modern research, both inside and outside academia. For example, Cisco has estimated that video will make up 80% of
Introduction to R Studio and R Markdown
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Convenor: Giulia Grisot (CDH RSE Methods Fellow and a Visiting Academic) This Methods Workshop will deliver an introduction to R Studio and R Markdown; the workshop will run through the functionalities and advantages of using R Studio and related tools for organising and analysing data, as well as for writing and referencing. Workshop requirements: It
Faust Shop: Discover your artificial double | CDH x Cambridge Festival
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Technology offers us the world – but what does it take away? What is the bargain here? The Faust Shop, an augmented theatrical experience embedded in a lab environment, asks these and related questions. Faust Shop 2.0 adapts Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s version of the Faust legend to the digital age. It focuses on the Homunculus
Am I Normal? | CDH x Cambridge Festival
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Please note, tickets are available but not required for this exhibition. ‘Am I Normal?’ and ‘Dreamy Cops’ are two art installations by Tristan Dot which investigate notions of AI, including Computer Vision, surveillance, the human body and normativity. The first, ‘Am I normal?’, is an interactive installation reflecting on body control in public spaces through
Share Your Expertise: A Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon | CDH x Cambridge Festival
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 6 minutes
How do we learn about the world around us and what sources do we trust for information? We may turn to teachers and books, but we also turn to collective knowledge online. Each month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia entries are viewed over 20 billion times. And those pages are fed into AI tools like ChatGPT to share answers
2024-01-08
『デジタル・ヒューマニティーズ』論文募集(2024年5月7日締切り)
Source: Japanese Association for Digital Humanities |
Reading time: 0 minutes
デジタル・ヒューマニティーズ(人文情報学)の査読付きオープンアクセス日本語論文誌『デジタル・ヒューマニティーズ』第4号の論文募集を行っております。
投稿規定は以下のURLにてご確認ください。
https://www.jadh.org/jjdh
投稿は以下のURLからお願いいたします。
https://journals.jadh.org/index.php/jjdh/login
締切りは2024年5月7日です。
論文誌のバックナンバーは以下のURLにてご覧ください。
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jadh/-char/ja
ぜひともご投稿いただきますよう、よろしくお願いいたします。
Yixun Zhou
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Yixun Zhou is curious about how computation and programming can be applied to large-scale literary text analysis. After finishing his Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics at the University of Nottingham, he joined Mphil Digital Humanities to explore metaphor recognition through natural language processing. He is interested in any cultural values and features revealed by
Yerin Kim
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Yerin Kim is an MPhil student at CDH. Her bachelor's degree is from Yonsei University Underwood International College (Seoul, South Korea) in Justice and Civil Leadership. She also completed an MA in International Relations at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and an MS in Applied Artificial Intelligence at Sungkyunkwan University. As a researcher at
Yashila Bordag
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
I am a recent UC Berkeley graduate with a BA in Classics and Data Science, minoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and I previously worked as a software engineer in Cisco Systems. I was also a research assistant in the Sumerian Networks project in Berkeley where we used NLP on Sumerian Tablets to aggregate
Xiaoyi Jiang
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Art Administration from Renmin University of China, I became interested in the critical theory of emerging digitisation trends within museums and galleries. Specifically, I will focus on how museums engage with decolonisation through digital and artistic practices. Related to this, I am also concerned with the
Wanjia Wang
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Wanjia (Olivia) Wang is an MPhil student at the CDH, who is interested in cultural development in the digital ages. She comes from Shanghai and graduated from Tongji University in China with a Bachelor's degree in Cultural Industry Management. In Cambridge, she will study how to use digital technology to protect and develop agricultural cultural
Shuxian Liu
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Shuxian Liu is an MPhil student at CDH. She grew up in Chengdu and completed her Bachelor's degree in Archival Science at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. During her undergraduate study, she focused on the digital divide, community informatics, the relationship between migration, acculturation, and information practice of migrant workers in China, as well as
Shuangyuan Cao
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Shuangyuan (Kevin) Cao is a digital media designer and student interested in the deconstruction and interpretation of visual culture. When being an undergraduate in Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, he pursued the study of video game programming in the Digital Media Arts programme, which has given him some insights into computer science. As a media designer, he focuses
Maya Dharampal-Hornby
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
I grew up in London and did my English Literature undergraduate degree at Cambridge, and have now left the red bricks of Robinson College behind for the less-red bricks of Jesus College to do my Masters in DH. Having been attracted to mathematical and scientific patterns in literature – whether it be Boolean algebra in
Laurel Boxall
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Laurel Boxall is an MPhil student at the CDH, specialising in the depictions of Artificial Intelligence within literature and film (and the implications of this!) Having completed her undergraduate in English Language & Literature at Jesus College, Oxford, Laurel has since been involved in numerous projects within the DigHums field. This includes ongoing work for
John Schaefer
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Hailing from Michigan, John is an MPhil student with CDH and recently received his A.B. from Harvard University in History and Science, focusing on the history of biology. His current research examines the use of handwritten text recognition (HTR) models in volunteer-based digital transcription projects. He is also interested in the interdisciplinary application of plants as
Gefeng Liu
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Gefeng Liu has completed her undergraduate in archaeology at Renmin University of China and graduated from Peking University with a major in sociology. Her initial interest in digital humanities was sparked by involving in the curation of exhibitions and designing visual products when AI, VR, and AR were amazingly applied. Fascinated by urban sociology, she
Dominic Chivers
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Dominic is currently a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge undertaking an MPhil in Digital Humanities. He is exploring the use of data analysis and computational methods in the study of historical archives. He received his bachelors' degree in History (First-Class Honours) from the University of Warwick. Dominic is a former Associate at global
Christian Fernandez Perotti
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
I am from Buenos Aires, Argentina, but I have lived and worked in Cambridge for almost four years now. I graduated in Classics at the Catholic University of Argentina with a dissertation on the literary genre of Apuleius' Metamorphoses and moved from academia to Librarianship, Education, Government, Entertainment and most recently Information Technology. I am
Beyza Cicik
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Beyza Cicik is an MPhil student at the CDH, who focuses on the semiotic, aesthetical and socio-spatial roles that architecture assumes in the digital age and how these roles reshape and recontextualise the concept of the modern city as an urban “palimpsest”. Having completed her double major undergraduate programme in English Language & Literature and
CLARIN and Libraries 2023: A Recap
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
Reading time: 5 minutes
CLARIN and Libraries 2023: A Recap
In May 2022, the first CLARIN and Libraries took place in the Hague, Netherlands. The aim was to bring together the CLARIN community and national and academic libraries to present and discuss content delivery systems for researchers. The motivation for the workshop was the sense that various, mostly national, projects were disconnected from each other and also disconnected from research infrastructures such as CLARIN. The workshop resulted in a mailing list, blog post, keynote and a panel discussion at the 2022 CLARIN Annual Conference, two poster presentations, the CENL Dialogue Forum ‘National libraries as data’ and, finally, the plan to organise a second iteration of CLARIN and Libraries, to be hosted in Norway.
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 409 – Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān… (Video Orientation)
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
Reading time: 18 minutes
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 409, two brief alchemical works written by a father for his son. Encoded alphabets are used occasionally in the manuscript, and a key is included (f. 3r). The item is undated; possibly copied in the 16th orContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 409 – Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān… (Video Orientation)"
Nelya Koteyko
Source: CDH |
Reading time: 5 minutes
Nelya Koteyko is Professor of Language and Communication at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the relationship between media discourse and everyday practices and identities, including stance taking and identity construction in social media. She is PI on the ESRC funded project Autistic Adults Online and recipient of Wellcome Trust Discovery Award
The biography of heritage relations in historical research
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 2 minutes
The understanding of heritage greatly depends on its broad functions and use. Depending on their roles in specialist knowledge domains and society at large, heritage objects are categorized as either material or immaterial; static or dynamic; historical or contemporary in nature. For example, in societal debates, heritage needs to be fluid, debatable, even contestable, while scientists of the past seek the robustness of historical sources in order to create a valid reconstruction of aspects of the past.
In this workshop, we are not going to make things easier. Approaching the matter from the domain of critical heritage theory, we find that heritage is best understood as an ongoing forging and recasting of relationships. These relations present themselves as connections between present and …
Lëtzebuerger Mickimausen aus den 70er an 80er Joren
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
Reading time: 1 minutes
An den 1970er an 1980er Joren gouf zu Lëtzebuerg eng Zeen vun onofhängege Bande-Dessinéeën, ronderëm Fansinnen, BD-Butteker, Artikelen a Strips an aus Zeitungen sou wéi Zäitschrëften asw. gebuer. Vun de Changementer an den Nopeschlänner inspiréiert, hate verschidde Männer - d’Frae waren, wéi et schéngt, absent - probéiert eng Bande Dessinée niewt de Mickymausen ze erschafen. Den Owend kréie verschidden Acteuren aus där Epoch d’Wuert.
Invitéën:
Dan ALTMANN (Zeechner)
Charel BAUER (BD-Sammler)
Lucien CZUGA (Szenarist)
Claude GENGLER (Zeechner)
Méindes, den 22. Januar 2024 em 19 Auer am Lycée Michel Rodange Luxembourg.
Den Entrée as fräi.
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2023-11-17
How To Talk About DH (*particularly on the job market)
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
Reading time: 1 minutes
Friday, November 17, 2023 - 2:45pm
Williams 623
While digital methods are increasingly common in the humanities, the status of "Digital Humanities" has evolved over the years. Once a cutting edge buzzword, DH has grown into a vast umbrella covering a myriad of scholarly activities that can nevertheless be a polarizing concept.
The purpose of this meeting of the Graduate Student Working Group in Digital Humanities is to have a candid discusion about strategies for talking about and represernting digital work in professional contexts including but not limited to job interviews. It should be useful for students who have solid DH expereince but also students who are wondering if their work even counts as digital.
Panelists will be:
Brent Cebul, History
Emily Hammer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Jim English, English
Whitney Trettien, English
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The Sanskrit WordNet: a new database for the study of the Sanskrit lexicon
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This is a guest post by Erica Biaggetti WordNets are valuable resources in linguistics, offering structured and comprehensive databases that …
From Clusters to Graphs – Toward a Scalable Viewing of News Videos
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Speaker: Nicolas Ruth, Manuel Burghardt and Bernhard Liebl
Affiliation: Computational Humanities Group, Institute for Computer Science, Leipzig University, Germany
Title: From Clusters to Graphs – Toward a Scalable Viewing of News Videos
Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel approach that combines density-based clustering and graph modeling to create a scalable viewing application for the exploration of similarity patterns in news videos. Unlike most existing video analysis tools that focus on individual videos, our approach allows for an overview of a larger collection of videos, which can be further examined based on their connections or communities. By utilizing scalable reading, specific subgraphs can be selected from the overview and their respective clusters can be explored in more detail on the video frame level.
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Beyond Canonicity: Modeling Canon/Archive Literary Change in French Fiction
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Speaker: Jean Barré and Thierry Poibeau
Affiliation: 1, École normale supérieure - Université PSL, 45 rue d’Ulm, Paris, 75005, France; 2, Lattice (Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition), 1 rue Maurice Arnoux, Montrouge, 92049, France
Title: Beyond Canonicity: Modeling Canon/Archive Literary Change in French Fiction
Abstract: This study offers a fresh perspective on the Canon/Archive problem in literature through computational analysis. Following Tynianov’s understanding of literature, we adopt a dynamic approach to literature by proposing a model of literary variability using the Kullback-Leibler divergence. We retrieve key authors and works that shape the broad outlines of literary change. Our aim is to evaluate the importance of canonical authors on literary variability. We opt for a cohort-driven setup to analyze the variability contributed by a given text, focusing on specific formal and semantic aspects of texts such as topics, lexicon, characterization, and chronotope. The findings reveal that canonical authors tend to contribute slightly more to literary change than those from the archive.
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Beyond canonicity. Modeling Literary Change in French Novelist Production: Canon vs. Archive
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Speaker: Jean Barré and Thierry Poibeau
Affiliation: 1, École normale supérieure - Université PSL, 45 rue d’Ulm, Paris, 75005, France; 2, Lattice (Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition), 1 rue Maurice Arnoux, Montrouge, 92049, France
Title: Beyond canonicity. Modeling Literary Change in French Novelist Production: Canon vs. Archive
Abstract: This study offers a fresh perspective on the Canon/Archive problem in literature through computational analysis. Following Tynianov’s understanding of literature, we adopt a dynamic approach to literature by proposing a model of literary variability using the Kullback-Leibler divergence. We retrieve key authors and works that shape the broad outlines of literary change. Our aim is to evaluate the importance of canonical authors on literary variability. We opt for a cohort-driven setup to analyze the variability contributed by a given text, focusing on specific formal and semantic aspects of texts such as topics, lexicon, characterization, and chronotope. The findings reveal that canonical authors tend to contribute slightly more to literary change than those from the archive.
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Unraveling the Synoptic puzzle: stylometric insights into Luke's potential use of Matthew
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Speaker: Sophie Robert-Hayek, Jacques Istas and Frédérique Rey
Affiliation: 1, Laboratoire Ecritures, Université de Lorraine, France; 2, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Title: Unraveling the Synoptic puzzle: stylometric insights into Luke’s potential use of Matthew
Abstract: The literary sources behind the three canonical Synoptic Gospels, namely Luke, Matthew and Mark, have long intrigued scholars because of the Gospels striking similarities and notable differences in their accounts of Jesus’s life. Various theories have been proposed to explain these textual relationships, including common oral witnesses, lost sources or communities possessing each other’s works. However, a universally accepted solution remains elusive. Leveraging advancements in statistics…
Formulas and decision-making: the case of the States General of the Dutch Republic
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Speaker: Marijn Koolen, Rik Hoekstra, Ronald Sluijter and Joris Oddens
Affiliation: 1, Huygens Institute, Netherlands; 2, DHLab, KNAW Humanities Cluster, Netherlands
Title: Formulas and decision-making: the case of the States General of the Dutch Republic
Abstract: Formulaic expressions are commonly used in administrative texts, and may reflect standardisation of the decision-making process or its recording process. In this paper we investigate whether the use of formulas in the Resolutions of the Dutch States General (1576-1796) reveal an increase in standardisation. % We use stylometric analysis and measures of textual repetition to identify shifts in the use of formulas, and study how the fraction of paragraphs that is covered by formulas changes over time to identify templates consisting of frequent combinations of formulas. Our findings are that there are stylistically clearly distinguishable periods, and that the use of formulas and templates increases between subsequent periods.
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The Middle Dutch Manuscripts Surviving from the Carthusian Monastery of Herne (14th century): Constructing an Open Dataset of Digital Transcriptions
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Speaker: Wouter Haverals and Mike Kestemont
Affiliation: 1, Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), Princeton University, USA; 2, Antwerp Center for Digital Humanities and Literary Critcism (ACDC),
Title: The Middle Dutch Manuscripts Surviving from the Carthusian Monastery of Herne (14th century): Constructing an Open Dataset of Digital Transcriptions
Abstract: A substantial collection of Middle Dutch manuscripts survives from the Carthusian monastery of Herne ( Hérinnes-lez-Enghien ) in nowadays Belgium. During the latter half of the fourteenth century, Herne served as a significant literary hotspot in the region around Brussels, with a devoted community of monks deeply involved in the production of (vernacular) texts and manuscripts, often as collaborative efforts. The corpus offers abundant material for the (computational) exploration of authorship, translation, and scribal cultures in the premodern Low Countries. Yet, much of this material has remained digitally inaccessible. Here we describe the creation of an almost exhaustive, open-access dataset comprising diplomatic transcriptions of all known Middle Dutch Herne manuscripts, acquired through handwritten text recognition. Apart from rich codicological and textual metadata, we include a normalized text layer (with expanded abbreviations), as well as a linguistic annotation layer (with lemmas and part of speech tags). We conclude by discussing our work against current trends in medievalist scholarship. The dataset is released together with this paper and we encourage its re-use in future research.
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A Topological Data Analysis of Navigation Paths within Digital Libraries
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Speaker: Bayrem Kaabachi and Simon Dumas Primbault
Affiliation: 1, Laboratory for the history of science and technology (LHST), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; 2, Biomedical Data Science Center (BDSC), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), CH-1002 Lausanne, Switzerland; 3, OpenEdition (UAR 2504, CNRS/EHESS/AMU/AU), 22 rue John Maynard Keynes, 13013 Marseille, France; 4, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris, France
Title: A Topological Data Analysis of Navigation Paths within Digital Libraries
Abstract: The digitization of library resources and services have opened up physical informational spaces to new dimensions by allowing users to access a wealth of documents in ways that differ from browsing bookshelves traditionally organized according to the “tree of knowledge”. How do readers of digital library orient themselves within big corpora? What landmarks do they use to navigate masses of digital documents? Taking Gallica as a case study–the digital heritage platform of the French national library–, this paper presents an experimental research on the navigation practices of its users. Using methods from topological data analysis, we inferred from Gallica’s server logs an informational space as it is roamed by readers. Coupled with user interviews, this mixed-methods study allowed us to identify a set of “regimes of navigation” characterizing how readers deploy various strategies to browse the digital library’s corpus. From directed search to wandering to crawling, these regimes answer different needs and show that a single corpus can, in turns, be apprehended as a heritage collection, a database, a set of documents, and a mass of information.
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Putting Dutchcoref to the Test: Character Detection and Gender Dynamics in Contemporary Dutch Novels
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Speaker: Joris van Zundert, Andreas van Cranenburgh and Roel Smeets
Affiliation: 1, Department of Computational Literary Studies, Huygens Institute, The Netherlands; 2, Department of Language Technology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 3, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Title: Putting Dutchcoref to the Test: Character Detection and Gender Dynamics in Contemporary Dutch Novels
Abstract: Although coreference resolution is a necessary step for a wide range of automated narratological analyses, most of the systems performing this task leave much to be desired in terms of either accuracy or their practical application in literary studies. While there are coreference resolution systems that demonstrate good performance on annotated fr…
Make Love or War? Monitoring the Thematic Evolution of Medieval French Narratives
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Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Camps, Nicolas Baumard, Pierre-Carl Langlais, Olivier Morin, Thibault Clérice and Jade Norindr
Affiliation: 1, École nationale des chartes - Université PSL,
Title: Make Love or War? Monitoring the Thematic Evolution of Medieval French Narratives
Abstract: In this paper, we test a famous conjecture in literary history put forward by Seignobos and de Rougemont according to which the French central medieval period (12-13th centuries) is characterized by an important increase in the cultural importance of love. To do that, we focus on the large and culturally important body of manuscripts containing medieval French long narrative fictions, in particular epics ( chansons de geste , of the Matter of France) and romances (chiefly romans on the Matters of Britain and of Rome), both in verse and in prose, from the 12th to the 15th century. We introduce the largest available corpus of these texts, the Corpus of Medieval French Epics and Romances , composed of digitised manuscripts drawn from Gallica , and processed through layout analysis and handwritten text recognition. % We then use semantic representations based on embeddings to monitor the place given to love and violence in this corpus, through time. We observe that themes (such as the relation between love and death) and emblematic works well identified by literary history do indeed play a central part in the representation of love in the corpus, but our modelling also points to the characteristic nature of more overlooked works. Variation in time seems to show that there is indeed an phase of expansion of love in these fictions, in the 13th and early 14th century, followed by a period of contraction, that seem to correlate with the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.
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Oscillation between Contemplation and Revelation - Recurrence and Change in the Life History of Teresa of Ávila
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Speaker: Kristoffer Nielbo, Jan Kostkan, Katrine F. Baunvig, Ekaterina Borisova and Armin W. Geertz
Affiliation: 1, Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University, Denmark; 2, The Grundtvig Study Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark; 3, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany; 4, Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University, Denmark
Title: Oscillation between Contemplation and Revelation - Recurrence and Change in the Life History of Teresa of Ávila
Abstract: Advancements in language technology and applied mathematics offer a plethora of tools that can enrich textual cultural heritage research. Using an information-theoretical approach to author profiling, this paper tries to leverage some of these tools to reconstruct mental states in the Early Modern Spanish author Teresa of ' A vila. We shift away from traditional static textual feature analysis and instead approach author profiling as a dynamic problem, requiring a representation of the author’s life history. Teresa of ' A vila was an Early Modern Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun whose authorship offers a unique dataset due to her prolific output and well-preserved, digitized writings. We model Teresa’s letter corpus as a complex system with multiple states and try to track her mental and socio-cultural dynamics through lexical co-occurrence structures and affective valences in her letters. We find that Teresa’s letters reflect a life history of state switching between contemplation and revelation. This relatively new approach offers a more robust and dynamic perspective on author profiling in cultural heritage research.
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“The library is open!”: Open data and an open API for the HathiTrust Digital Library
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Speaker: John A. Walsh, Glen Layne-Worthey, Jacob Jett, Boris Capitanu, Peter Organisciak, Ryan Dubnicek and J. Stephen Downie
Affiliation: 1, HathiTrust Research Center, Indiana University Bloomington and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; 2, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, 700 N Woodlawn Ave., Rm. 2132, Bloomington IN 47408, USA; 3, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 614 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA; 4, Department of Research Methods , &, Information Science, University of Denver, USA
Title: “The library is open!”: Open data and an open API for the HathiTrust Digital Library
Abstract: This paper describes the history, policy, semantics, and uses of the HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features dataset, an open-access representation of the 17+ million volume HathiTrust Digital Library, including a major current effort to extend computational access in a variety of more flexible and easily implemented ways, including a modern API supporting customizable visualizations and analyses.
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Studying Tonal Evolution of Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy
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Speaker: Christof Weiß and Meinard Müller
Affiliation: 1, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS), Universität Würzburg, Germany; 2, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Title: Studying Tonal Evolution of Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy
Abstract: The availability of large digital music archives combined with significant advances in computational analysis methods have enabled novel strategies for musicological corpus studies. This includes approaches based on audio recordings, which are available in large quantities for different musical works and styles. In this paper, we take up such an audio-based approach for studying the tonal complexity of music and its evolution over centuries. In par…
Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative With Time? Using neural network text embedding model to measure cultural innovation
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Speaker: Dubourg Edgar, Mogoutov Andrei and Baumard Nicolas
Affiliation: Institut Jean Nicod, Département d’études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Université PSL, EHESS, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
Title: Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative With Time? Using neural network text embedding model to measure cultural innovation
Abstract: Current discourse reflects a growing skepticism towards contemporary popular culture, specifically the realm of cinema, with an emerging consensus that its creative capacity is on a waning trajectory. This study introduces a novel approach which employs natural language processing techniques and embedding methods to measure semantic novelty of cultural items’ descriptions. We apply this methodology to cinema, analyzing plot summaries of over 19,000 movies from the United-States spanning more than a century. Our measure’s robustness is validated through a series of tests, including a fit with a genre-based novelty score, a manual inspection of films identified as highly innovative, and correlations with award recognitions. The application of our Innovation Score reveals a compelling pattern: an increase in the rate of cinematic innovation throughout the 20th century, followed by a stabilization in the rate of innovation in the 21st, despite an ever-growing production of films. Contrary to the often-voiced lament that cinema is losing its innovative edge, our study suggests that the level of innovativeness in cinema is not in decline.
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Towards a Phenomenographic Framework for Exploratory Visual Analysis of Bibliographic Data
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Speaker: Martin Ruskov and Sara Sullam
Affiliation: Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, University of Milan, Italy
Title: Towards a Phenomenographic Framework for Exploratory Visual Analysis of Bibliographic Data
Abstract: A recurring challenge when studying history of translation is interpreting catalogue metadata. On one hand such interpretation is limited by the fact that data present in catalogue records is tabular and nominative, and not quantitative. On the other hand, such research is guided by tacit knowledge of scholars in the humanities, and thus it could be challenging to reproduce its results. We take inspiration from phenomenography, a discipline within educational research that examines how students perceive the phenomena being learned. We adopt the view that scientific inquiry is a collective form of learning. By doing this, we turn to the phenomenographic theory that variation is necessary to understand the phenomena being studied, and is achieved through three distinct patterns of variance: contrast, generalisation and fusion. We propose an approach to visualise the combination of nominal data and tacit knowledge by subjecting it to these three patterns. We illustrate our approach with two case studies from literary translations between Italy and the UK in the post-war 20th century. Our claim is that on one hand this guides scholars on how to analytically approach their research questions, on the other it drives them to externalise and validate hidden assumptions. Our approach offers a way of doing reproducible science not only when conducting literature research with bibliographic data. It is also applicable in the wider cases within the humanities when tabular data are available.
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Profiling Anonymous Authors in the Corsican Autonomist Press of the Interwar Period
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Speaker: Vincent Sarbach-Pulicani
Affiliation: Université Côte d’Azur, Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine, Campus Carlone, 06100 Nice, France
Title: Profiling Anonymous Authors in the Corsican Autonomist Press of the Interwar Period
Abstract: With the emergence of nationalism in the 19 th ~century came regionalist movements to assert and claim cultural particularities. Corsica fitted very well within this dynamic and even presented itself as a favourable location for the development of such ideas. The centralization of the state around a strong capital and the policies of assimilation of the indigenous populations on the border with France led certain players to defend these particularisms. It was in this context that the Corsican autonomist newspaper A Muvra was born in May 1920 in Paris, under the impetus of Petru and Matteu Rocca. For almost 19 years, hundreds of authors participated in the writing of this massive dialectal work. This paper presents the results of a research that aimed to carry out author profiling, i.e., to determine the style and subjects covered by an author. The goals of this study were to determine the identity behind certain authors and also to highlight the role pseudonyms played in the newspaper’s propaganda. We conducted authorship attribution to achieve the first objective before completing these analyses with topic modelling in order to meet the second one.
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Detecting Psychological Disorders with Stylometry: the Case of ADHD in Adolescent Autobiographical Narratives
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Speaker: Juan Barrios, Simon Gabay, Florian Cafiero and Martin Debbané
Affiliation: 1, Unité de psychologie clinique développementale, Université de Genève, Switzerland; 2, Unité d’humanités numériques, Université de Genève, Switzerland; 3, École nationale des chartes - PSL, Centre Jean Mabillon, France
Title: Detecting Psychological Disorders with Stylometry: the Case of ADHD in Adolescent Autobiographical Narratives
Abstract: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychological neurodevelopmental disorder among children and adolescents, with a prevalence of 5.6 % in teenagers aged 12 to 18 years salari_global_2023 . Its diagnosis is reliable and valid when evaluated with standard criteria for psychiatric disorders faraone_attention_2015 , but it is …
Emoji, language games and political polarisation
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Speaker: Sara Luxmoore, Pedro Ramaciotti Morales and Jonathan Cardoso-Silva
Affiliation: 1, LSE Data Science Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom; 2, University of California, Berkeley, United States; 3, Complex Systems Institute of Paris Île-de-France, CNRS, France; 4, médialab Sciences Po, Paris, France; 5, LPI University of Paris Cité, France
Title: : Emoji, language games and political polarisation
Abstract: Are emoji political? In an increasing body of research, emoji have variably been viewed as emotional data or personality identifiers. However, little attention has been paid to the social and political import of emoji. Using a dataset of politically active Twitter users in Poland, including 334 members of parliament and their 1,288,950 followers, we ask whether emoji are used for political self-representation, and discuss the implications for political identity formation and mobilisation online. Adapting a new method of ideal point estimation, we identify patterns in the employment of emoji in user Twitter bios across a latent political space computed from a Twitter following network. We find that emoji are used as stand-ins for offline political symbols such as flag-european-union , rainbow-flag and latin-cross . Additionally, we find that the use of emoji without recognisable political meaning, such as victory-hand , flexed-biceps , hundred-points and seedling is contingent on a users estimated political ideal point. Users on the left are likelier to employ victory-hand and seedling , while those on the right are likelier to employ flexed-biceps and hundred-points . Using Ludwig Wittgenstein’s theory of language games, we argue that this points to the use of emoji for communication of both political values and affect, and to the development of a new political language game of emoji.
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If the Sources Could Talk: Evaluating Large Language Models for Research Assistance in History
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Speaker: Giselle Gonzalez Garcia and Christian Weilbach
Affiliation: 1, Department of History and School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; 2, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Title: If the Sources Could Talk: Evaluating Large Language Models for Research Assistance in History
Abstract: The recent advent of powerful Large-Language Models (LLM) provides a new conversational form of inquiry into historical memory (or, training data, in this case). We show that by augmenting such LLMs with vector embeddings from highly specialized academic sources, a conversational methodology can be made accessible to historians and other researchers in the Humanities. Concretely, we evaluate and demonstrate how LLMs have the ability of assisting researchers while they examine a customized corpora of different types of documents, including, but not exclusive to: (1). primary sources, (2). secondary sources written by experts, and (3). the combination of these two. Compared to established search interfaces for digital catalogues, such as metadata and full-text search, we evaluate the richer conversational style of LLMs on the performance of two main types of tasks: (1). question-answering, and (2). extraction and organization of data. We demonstrate that LLMs semantic retrieval and reasoning abilities on problem-specific tasks can be applied to large textual archives that have not been part of the its training data. Therefore, LLMs can be augmented with sources relevant to specific research projects, and can be queried privately by researchers.
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On Character Perception and Plot Structure of German Romance Novel
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Speaker: Leonard Konle, Agnes Hilger and Fotis Jannidis
Affiliation: Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
Title: On Character Perception and Plot Structure of German Romance Novel
Abstract: In this paper, we describe a plot model for German dime novel romances. Starting with the identification of essential structural parts of their plot based on scholarly analysis of romances, we then formalize this conceptual model. After a description of the corpus with its 950 novels, mostly from the last 20 years, and the annotation guidelines for the selected plot elements, we automatically detect these elements using a fine-tuned German Bert (with LoRA adapters). While it is clear how to evaluate the performance of the automatic extraction of the plot elements, it is less clear how to evaluate the quality of the model in total. We apply it to two texts and compare the result to summaries of these novels based on reading them, to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the plot model in making aspects of the plot structure visible. For the quantitative evaluation each novel is represented as a multidimensional time series data. Classifications of this data distinguish between publishers, genres and series respectively; we see the performance in this task as an indication of the quality of the model. Finally, applying the model to a larger corpus of romance novels, we detect patterns of the genre. The more modern form of the romance novel, published by the publishing house Cora , is characterized by the importance of the physical perception and the reduction of the plot with the high and exclusive focus on the relationship of the lovers.
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Algorithms for the manipulation and transformation of text variant graphs
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Speaker: Tara L. Andrews
Affiliation: Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien, Austria
Title: Algorithms for the manipulation and transformation of text variant graphs
Abstract: While text variant graphs are increasingly frequently used for the visualization of a text transmitted in multiple versions, the graph is also a very appropriate model for the querying and transformation of such a text in the course of producing a critical edition. This article describes the algorithms used in the StemmaREST repository for variant text traditions.
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Enhancing HTR of Historical Texts through Scholarly Editions: A Case Study from an Ancient Collation of the Hebrew Bible
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Speaker: Luigi Bambaci and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
Affiliation: 1, Archéologie , &, Philologie
Title: Enhancing HTR of Historical Texts through Scholarly Editions: A Case Study from an Ancient Collation of the Hebrew Bible
Abstract: Printed critical editions of literary texts are a largely neglected source of knowledge in computational humanities. However, under certain conditions, they hold significant potential for multifaceted exploration: First, through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of the text and its apparatus, coupled with intelligent parsing of the variant readings, it becomes possible to reconstruct comprehensive manuscript collations, which can prove invaluable for a variety of investigations, including phylogenetic analyses, redaction history studies, linguistic inquiries, and more. Second, by aligning the printed edition with manuscript images, a substantial amount of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) ground truth can be generated. This serves as valuable material for paleography, layout analysis, as well as for assessing the quality of the collation criteria adopted by the editor. The present paper focuses on the challenges mastered in the processes of the OCR, the apparatus parsing, the text reconstruction, and the alignment with the manuscript images, taking as a case study the edition of the Hebrew Bible published by Kennicott in the late eighteenth century. %After a brief introduction (§ \ref{introduction}) and a description of this edition (§ \ref{kennicott}), we will provide an overview of the adopted method (§ \ref{pipeline}), from image acquisition (§ \ref{image_acquisition}) to the final textual reconstruction (§ \ref{text_reconstruction}). Finally, we will conclude with an assessment of the work carried out and an outlook on potential future developments (§ \ref{conclusion}).
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Testing the Limits of Neural Sentence Alignment Models on Classical Greek and Latin Texts and Translations
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Speaker: Caroline Craig, Kartik Goyal, Gregory Crane, Farnoosh Shamsian and David A. Smith
Affiliation: 1, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States; 2, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States; 3, School of Arts and Sciences , &, School of Engineering, Tufts University, 419 Boston Ave, Medford, MA 02155, United States; 4, Leipzig University, Augustuspl. 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Title: Testing the Limits of Neural Sentence Alignment Models on Classical Greek and Latin Texts and Translations
Abstract: The Greek and Latin classics, like many other ancient texts, have been widely translated into a variety of languages over the past two millennia. …
Greetings from! Extracting address information from 100,000 historical picture postcards
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Speaker: Thomas Smits, Wouter Haverals, Loren Verreyen, Mona Allaert and Mike Kestemont
Affiliation: 1, Antwerp Center for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism (ACDC), University of Antwerp, Belgium; 2, Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN), University of Antwerp, Belgium; 3, Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), Princeton University, USA; 4, Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Title: Greetings from! Extracting address information from 100,000 historical picture postcards
Abstract: This paper details the development and validation of computational methods aimed at creating a comprehensive dataset from a vast collection of historical picture postcards. The dataset associated with this research can be accesse…
Modeling Narrative Revelation
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Speaker: Andrew Piper, Hao Xu and Eric D. Kolaczyk
Affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2M7, CANADA
Title: Modeling Narrative Revelation
Abstract: A core aspect of human storytelling is the element of narrative time. In this paper, we propose a model of narrative revelation using the information-theoretic concept of relative entropy, which has been used in a variety of settings to understand textual similarity, along with methods in time-series analysis to model the properties of revelation over narrative time. Given a beginning state of no knowledge about a story (beyond paratextual clues) and an end state of full knowledge about a story’s contents, what are the rhythms of dissemination through which we arrive at this final state? Using a dataset of over 2,700 books of contemporary English prose, we test for various time-dependent characteristics of narrative revelation against four stylistic categories of interest: audience age level, prestige, point-of-view, and fictionality.
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Blind Dates: Examining the Expression of Temporality in Historical Photographs
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Speaker: Alexandra Barancova, Melvin Wevers and Nanne van Noord
Affiliation: 1, Faculty of Humanities, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2, Faculty of Humanities, Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 3, Faculty of Science, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Title: Blind Dates: Examining the Expression of Temporality in Historical Photographs
Abstract: This paper explores the capacity of computer vision models to discern temporal information in visual content, focusing specifically on historical photographs. We investigate the dating of images using OpenCLIP, an open-source implementation of CLIP, a multi-modal language and vision model. Our experiment consists of three steps: zero-shot classification, fine-tuning, and analysis of visual content. We use the De Boer Scene Detection dataset, containing 39,866 gray-scale historical press photographs from 1950 to 1999. The results show that zero-shot classification is relatively ineffective for image dating, with a bias towards predicting dates in the past. Fine-tuning OpenCLIP with a logistic classifier improves performance and eliminates the bias. Additionally, our analysis reveals that images featuring buses, cars, cats, dogs, and people are more accurately dated, suggesting the presence of temporal markers. The study highlights the potential of machine learning models like OpenCLIP in dating images and emphasizes the importance of fine-tuning for accurate temporal analysis. Future research should explore the application of these findings to color photographs and diverse datasets.
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The Chatbot and the Canon: Poetry Memorization in LLMs
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Speaker: Lyra D’Souza and David Mimno
Affiliation: 1, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, USA; 2, Department of Information Science, Cornell University, USA
Title: The Chatbot and the Canon: Poetry Memorization in LLMs
Abstract: Large language models are able to memorize and generate long passages of text from their pretraining data. Poetry is commonly available on the web and often fits within language model context sizes. As LLMs continue to grow as a tool in literary analysis, the accessibility of poems will determine the effective canon. We assess whether we can prompt current language models to retrieve existing poems, and what methods lead to the most successful retrieval. For the highest performing model, ChatGPT, we then evaluate which features of poets best predict memorization, as well as document changes over time in ChatGPT’s ability and willingness to retrieve poetry.
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Introducing Traveling Word Pairs in Historical Semantic Change: A Case Study of Privacy Words in 18th and 19th Century English
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Speaker: Thora Hagen and Erik Ketzan
Affiliation: 1, Chair of Computational Philology, University of Würzburg, Germany; 2, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, UK
Title: Introducing Traveling Word Pairs in Historical Semantic Change: A Case Study of Privacy Words in 18th and 19th Century English
Abstract: In recent years, Lexical semantic change detection (LSCD) has become a central task of NLP. Because most studies in LSCD only consider the semantic change of words in isolation, in this paper, we propose a new direction for the analysis of semantic shifts: traveling word pairs . First, we introduce shift correlation to find pairs of words that semantically shift together in a similar fashion. Second, we propose word relation shift to analyze how the relationship between two words has changed over time. As a test case, we investigate the word privacy (and related words identified by a pre-existing dictionary), as an example of a word that has shifted semantics historically and remains vibrantly explored as a concept in contemporary humanistic discourse. We report that the term privacy in comparison shows relatively little change initially – with correlation analysis revealing more about how key terms surrounding privacy have shifted in tandem, and explore nuanced changes through word pair analysis, suggesting a shift toward concreteness in particular.
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(De)constructing Binarism in Journalism: Automatic Antonym Detection in Dutch Newspaper Articles
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Speaker: Alie Lassche, Ruben Ros and Joris Veerbeek
Affiliation: 1, Leiden University, Institute of History, Doelensteeg 16, 2311 VL Leiden, The Netherlands; 2, Utrecht University, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Drift 13, 3512 BR Utrecht, The Netherlands
Title: (De)constructing Binarism in Journalism: Automatic Antonym Detection in Dutch Newspaper Articles
Abstract: Binary oppositions, since their introduction by Claude Levi-Strauss and other structuralists in the seventies, are under pressure, especially because they legitimatize societal power structures. Deconstruction of binary oppositions such as man/woman, black/white, left/right, and rich/poor is therefore increasingly encouraged. The question arises of what kind of effect the debate about binary oppositions has had on its linguistic use. We have therefore detected antonyms in a corpus of Dutch newspaper articles from the period 1990-2020, to study the development of binarism in journalism. Our method consists of two parts: the use of a good-old lexicon, and the finetuning of a BERT model for antonym detection. In this paper, we not only present our results regarding the (de)construction of binary oppositions in Dutch journalism, but we also reflect on the two methodological stages and discuss their gain.
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German Question Tags: A Computational Analysis
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Speaker: Yulia Clausen
Affiliation: Germanistisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Title: German Question Tags: A Computational Analysis
Abstract: The German language exhibits a range of question tags that can typically, but not always, be substituted for one another. Moreover, the same words can have other meanings while occurring in the sentence-final position. The tags’ felicity conditions were addressed in previous corpus-based and experimental work and attributed to semantic and pragmatic properties of tag questions. This paper addresses the question of whether and to what extent the differences among German tags can be determined automatically. We assess the performance of three pretrained German BERT models on a tag question dataset and fine-tune one of these models on the tag word prediction task. A close examination of this model’s output indicates that BERT can identify properties relevant for the tags’ felicity conditions and interchangeability consistent with previous studies.
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Operationalizing and Measuring Conflict in German Novels
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Speaker: Julian Häußler and Evelyn Gius
Affiliation: fortext lab, Technical University of Darmstadt,
Title: Operationalizing and Measuring Conflict in German Novels
Abstract: In this contribution we explore ways of detecting conflict representation in literary texts. First, we operationalize Glasl’s concept of social conflict for manual annotation and second, we adapt a word embedding-based sentiment analysis ( SentiArt ) for the attribution of conflict values based on two scalar conflict operationalizations. By translating the values of the latter approaches into binary labels, we compare the embedding approaches with the manual annotation. Though correlation between the approaches is low, the paper demonstrates possible approaches to conflict analysis in literary texts and outlines directions for future research.
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Modeling temporal uncertainty in historical datasets
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Speaker: Vojtěch Kaše, Adéla Sobotková and Petra Heřmánková
Affiliation: 1, Department of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic; 2, Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
Title: Modeling temporal uncertainty in historical datasets
Abstract: This paper explores several approaches to assess temporal trends within archaeological and historical datasets containing records marked with significant extent of uncertainty accompanying their dating. We evaluate the strengths and pitfalls of these methodologies by employing two datasets: one comprising ancient shipwrecks and the other ancient Greek inscriptions. While these objects can, in principle, be precisely dated to specific years, they are often assigned broader date ranges, spanning centuries or longer historical periods. We propose that the most promising approaches involve using these date ranges as defining probabilities. By randomly assigning specific dates based on these probabilities, we enable hypothesis testing for temporal trends. As we want to encourage other scholars to employ the methods we propose, we offer a detailed description of the implementation of these methods using functions from the Python tempun package.
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How Exactly does Literary Content Depend on Genre? A Case Study of Animals in Children’s Literature
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Speaker: Kirill Maslinsky
Affiliation: 1, INALCO, Paris; 2, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Saint Petersburg
Title: How Exactly does Literary Content Depend on Genre? A Case Study of Animals in Children’s Literature
Abstract: The content of literary fiction at least partly depends on literary tradition. The dependence is attested quantitatively in the association of genre with lexical statistical patterns. This short paper is a step to formal modeling of the content-moderating processes associated with literary genres. The idea is to explain prevalence of the particular lemmas in a literary text by the genre-dependent accessibility of the semantic category during the creative process. Data on animals mentioned in various sub-genres in a corpus of Russian children’s literature is used as an empirical case. Vocabulary growth models are applied to infer genre-related differences in overall diversity of animal vocabularies. A constrained topic model is employed to infer preferences for particular animal lemmas displayed by various genres. Results demonstrate the models’ potential to infer genre-related content preferences in the context of high variance and data imbalance.
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Using Online Catalogs to Estimate Economic Development in Classical Antiquity
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Speaker: Charles de Dampierre, Valentin Thouzeau and Nicolas Baumard
Affiliation: Institut Jean Nicod, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS
Title: Using Online Catalogs to Estimate Economic Development in Classical Antiquity
Abstract: Despite significant progress, economic development in Classical Antiquity remains difficult to study: proper economic data (e.g. agricultural production, wages) are scarce, estimates of urbanization, GDP or population remain highly uncertain, and the use of indirect markers of development such as shipwrecks or coin hoards is limited. Here, we propose a different approach based on the production of immaterial works (e.g. poems, philosophical treatises, musical pieces, scientific work). Immaterial works require time, energy, resources, and human capital to be produced, disseminated and appreciated, and thus indirectly reflect a wide range of economic processes. Moreover, their survival rate tends to be higher because they can be abstracted from their initial material incarnation (e.g. scrolls, manuscripts) and preserved throughout the centuries. We build a large database of cultural producers (painters, scientists, etc.) that exist in online catalogs (Library of Congress ID, GND ID, VIAF ID, Iranica ID etc) and create an estimate of immaterial production that is robust and consistent across cultures and sources. We show that immaterial production in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome is closely related to economic development, and reveals important phases of economic development. Overall, immaterial production provides new insights into the roots and the evolution of economic development in the very long run in Classical Antiquity.
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RECOMMENDED: Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Data
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A recently published paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data titled “Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Data” explores the complexities of datasets created from digital cultural heritage collections, with the purpose of providing recommended standards for documenting these datasets. Their interest in better describing these kinds of datasets relates primarily to the Collections as ...read more
PROJECT: Virtual Viking Longship Project
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An interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students, library workers, and faculty from Carleton College and Grinnell College are using 3D modeling and VR technology to explore the social and cultural roles of Viking longships, in collaboration with museum professionals from the Viking Museum Haithabu and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. The Virtual Viking ...read more
CFP: Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices: Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme between Collaboration and Exploitation
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Conveners of the Sixth Annual Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, have released their call for proposals. The Conference, to take place in March 2024, will be held at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) with hybrid options, and is organized in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), the ...read more
CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing”
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The Journal of Electronic Publishing invites proposals for their special issue, “On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing.” From the call: When we think of scholarly communication, we’re usually thinking of something that can be shared independent of its creator(s). A book, a journal article, multimodal work, conference proceedings—the formal ...read more
CFP: Digital Humanities 2024
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The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has posted a call for proposals for Digital Humanities 2024: “Reinvention and Responsibility.” The DH2024 conference will be held August 6-9, 2024, at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, USA. From the call: Reinvention is a call to act with creativity, compassion, and intentionality to better meet the ...read more
EVENT: HASTAC Scholars Digital Friday
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The HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholars are hosting informal virtual get-togethers to workshop projects, exchange ideas, and build community. “Digital Fridays is an exciting platform where HASTAC Scholars and expert speakers come together to explore cutting-edge topics at the intersection of technology and the arts, humanities, and sciences.” The next ...read more
EVENTS: Representations of AI
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The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the University of London are hosting two upcoming seminars, in which scholars and researchers “scrutinize representations of ‘intelligent machines’, and discuss how memes, literature, gender stereotypes, and colonial histories shape AI and the role it plays in today’s society. Conceived as a series of conversations, the seminar brings together ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: CollectionBuilder LIS Student Program
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The CollectionBuilder 2023 Incentives Program is the latest grant-funded opportunity for using and contributing to CollectionBuilder, and open-source, Lib-Static tool and infrastructure. Currently, applications are being accepted to their Library & Information Science (LIS) Student Program. The program offers eight $400 stipends to current LIS students interested in learning more about and using CollectionBuilder for ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: NEH, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new program, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, “to support research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI. NEH is particularly interested in projects that explore the impacts of AI-related technologies on truth, trust, and democracy; safety and ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Team Leader, Case Western Reserve University
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From the post: Employer Case Western Reserve University Location Cleveland, Ohio Salary This position is a Librarian 3 with a minimum of $77,780. Posted Date Oct 17, 2023 Case Western Reserve University seeks a forward thinking, inclusive, and collaborative individual for the Digital Scholarship Team Leader position. POSITION DESCRIPTION The Digital Scholarship Team Leader heads ...read more
JOB: Data Services Librarian, Middlebury College
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From the post: The Data Services Librarian leads the library’s efforts to support digital scholarship and data science research and teaching. They lead the management and use of the Federal Depository documents collection. They act as a library liaison, teach information literacy skills, provide outreach, and build relationships with students, faculty, and staff, contributing knowledge ...read more
Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2
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Learn about Kraken’s segmentation model and the process of training our own custom segmentation models for layout analysis tasks.
Out of the Shadows: A Wikipedia edit-a-thon
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After the fantastic success of our last Wikipedia edit-a-thon in May, we are once again calling on the expertise of students and staff here at Cambridge to bring underrepresented histories ‘out of the shadows’ and into the light on Wikipedia. No prior Wiki experience is required! We will host an online training session at 11am
Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School: April 2024 (Cambridge)
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The Cultural Heritage Data School (CHDS), taking place in Cambridge between 8-12 April, is open for applications from participants from across the cultural heritage sector and academia. This intensive in-person teaching programme will be structured around the digital collections and archives pipeline, covering the general principles and applied practices involved in the generation, exploration, visualisation, analysis
Colonial statues in postcolonial Africa, a multidimensional approach
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Colonial statues in Africa have often been analysed as isolated case studies. Moving beyond a one case study model, this presentation adopts a regional, thematic, and historical approach to elucidate the diverse ways in which African nations have grappled with colonial statues from the time of independences. The paper begins by examining the fate of colonial statues at the time of independences, exploring why certain monuments were removed, repurposed, or preserved. Subsequently, the paper delves into the reasons for the revival of (neo)colonial statues in the 1990s and early 2000s. Finally, the paper discusses recent and renewed contestations of colonial statues from the 2010s, in the light of global movements against symbols of oppression. This presentation aims to shed light on the comp…