2023-01-23
Spring 2023 Events
Source: Digital Humanities Initiative |
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Greetings! We invite you to explore our list of Spring 2023 digital humanities events and workshops. Details and registration links are posted below. Alternatively, please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to reserve your spot (the information is the same in both places). Here you will also find information about the return of the Digital Humanities Showcase and the Graduate Seed Grants. The workshops will be taught by Suny Cardenas-Gomez, Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Specialist. Additional events may be added over the course of the next month. Build Digital Exhibitions with Omeka Monday, January 30, 4:00-5:30 pm, online (registration link | instructor: Suny
Call for Participation: ACH @ MLA 2024 Panel on Digital Mapping
Source: The Association for Computers and the Humanities |
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At their most basic, spatial technologies offer a way to bring in useful context when researching or teaching literature. But to what end? What does it mean to digitally map a text? How might the map–a fiction itself–intersect with the study of fictional worlds? How might we countermap, using digital methods to contest dominant narratives,…Continue reading.
Applications open for Archiving Reproductive Health Public Collection Day
Source: News |
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Archiving Reproductive Health, (ARH) a project of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), in partnership with Archives Ireland and Informa, are inviting applications for our Public Collection Day in Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse St, Dublin, on 10 March 2023.
EOSC Future Funding Call: Optimising RDA Open Science Frameworks and Guidelines
Source: News |
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Grant available! Have you used Research Data Alliance outputs or recommendations in your work with research data? The EOSC Future project is pleased to announce a new call for proposals to demonstrate how RDA-developed data-sharing concepts and solutions can be reused, optimised, and implemented in the European Open Science Cloud. This call aims to support and encourage the adoption of existing RDA outputs and recommendations within the wider EOSC community.
New Impact Story: ParlaMint - A Resource for Democracy
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
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New Impact Story: ParlaMint - A Resource for Democracy
Public discourse, the language we use in our exchanges with each other, in the media and in political debates, shapes and guides how we view the world. Dario Del Fante and Virginia Zorzi explore the public discourse on migration and migrants, using, among others, CLARIN’s ParlaMint dataset as a resource. Looking at parliamentary debates as well as news articles, the researchers set out to analyse how migration and migrants were referred to during the so-called migration crisis (2015/16) and the advent of COVID-19 (2020) in two countries – Italy and the UK – and show how this may impact public opinion on the topic.
Read the full impact story here.
Karina Berger
23 January 2023
New Impact Story: ParlaMint - A Tool for Democracy
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
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New Impact Story: ParlaMint - A Tool for Democracy
Public discourse, the language we use in our exchanges with each other, in the media and in political debates, shapes and guides how we view the world. Dario Del Fante and Virginia Zorzi explore the public discourse on migration and migrants, using, among others, CLARIN’s ParlaMint dataset as a resource. Looking at parliamentary debates as well as news articles, the researchers set out to analyse how migration and migrants were referred to during the so-called migration crisis (2015/16) and the advent of COVID-19 (2020) in two countries – Italy and the UK – and show how this may impact public opinion on the topic.
Read the full impact story here.
Karina Berger
23 January 2023
Stellenangebot: Sachbearbeitung Leibniz-Edition (m/w/d) an der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek
Source: Tagungen |
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Die Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek (GWLB) ist eine moderne Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek mit wertvollen historischen Beständen, einem umfangreichen Aufgabenspektrum und…
Keynote Speakers announced!
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Keynotes have been confirmed for DHNB 2023, check out more information on the Keynote speaker webpage! The events will be held on-site at the University of Oslo Library, University of Bergen Library, and the Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger. All keynotes will also be live-streamed for online participants.
Conference Registration is now open!
Source: DHNB |
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The DHNB 2023 Conference is now open for registration. The Conference will be held online and will feature a variety of topics on our theme of Sustainability: Environment, Community, and Data in the digital humanities. Create an account and register on ConfTool to secure your spot! The Program Committee and the Organising Committee are working […]
UX Design for DH Accelerator Program – Summer and Fall 2023
Source: Digital Humanities Network |
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Call for Expressions of Interest 23 January 2023 The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) is pleased to announce the next phase of the UX Design program launching this summer: […]
2023-01-16
Rejoignez l’équipe!
Source: CSDH / SCHN |
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La SCHN-CSDH est à la recherche de personnes intéressées à occuper le poste de secrétaire dans son comité exécutive. Ce rôle prend la responsabilité de maintenir les inscriptions de ses membres, de consigner ses activités, et des correspondances officielles. Il s’agit d’une excellente opportunité de développement professionnel, d’engagement dans la communauté des humanités numériques au […]
Join Our Team!
Source: CSDH / SCHN |
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CSDH-SCHN is currently looking for nominees interested in serving on its executive team as secretary. The Secretary is responsible for duties related to the maintenance of the membership, the history, and the general correspondence of the society. It’s also a great opportunity to build your CV, engage with dh, and meet colleagues from around the […]
Theorising Transparency in Digital Culture
Source: CDH |
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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
Call for Abstracts: CLARIN2023
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
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Call for Abstracts: CLARIN2023
Photo: Groot Begijnhof, Leuven, Belgium
The call for the submission of extended abstracts for the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 (CLARIN2023) is now open.
The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences community in order to exchange experiences in working with the CLARIN infrastructure, share best practices, and discuss plans for future developments. CLARIN2023 will be a face-to-face event, which will also be fully accessible virtually (hybrid format). The conference will take place in the historic city of Leuven, Belgium.
You are invited to submit your abstract until 14 April 2023
Read the full call here.
Julia Misersky
16 January 2023
Archiving with the Apsáalooke
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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In 1922, the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs ordered a photographic survey of every reservation in the West. The federal government planned to pass a law making all Native Americans citizens of the United States. The surveys would measure individual family’s readiness for citizenship. Among the Apsáalooke (Crow Nation), the Indian Agent surveyed 244 houses. While these surveys and photographs are instruments of surveillance, they also provide a unique snapshot into Crow daily life. However, the descendants of the families haven’t seen these photographs before. It is relatively easy to create a digital archive to rematriate the surveys. But is it possible to do something more? Can we reframe these images wrought of settler violence as family portraits?
Rebecca S. Wingo is a scholar of the I…
Georeferencing Ordnance Survey Maps
Source: Living with Machines |
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The British Library has digitised over 10,500 historical Ordnance Survey (OS) maps as part of the Living with Machines project (to know more about the selection process you can read our blogpost on Digitising Ordnance Survey maps). These maps were digitised as TIFF files – a high-quality format that is standard in libraries and archives. […]
Creating a national picture: digitising Ordnance Survey maps
Source: Living with Machines |
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Ordnance Survey (OS) maps are incredible resources for researchers interested in British history, such as the Living with Machines team who have developed the MapReader software library to analyze historical maps at scale. These maps contain details about the built and natural environments that are uniquely captured on a national scale over a period of […]
Machine Learning Political Orders: Louise Amoore
Source: CDH |
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The transformation from rules based algorithms to deep learning models has been a condition of possibility for the undoing of rules based social and political orders, from the Brexit challenges to EU integration to the austerity politics and digitalization of welfare states and the pandemic NHS. Where rules-based computation and decision was critical to the
Learning experiments in computer vision and visual literacy: Geoff Cox
Source: CDH |
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Referring to John Berger’s Ways of Seeing (1972) the presentation argues for an expansion of visual literacy to examine how machine vision further unsettles received humanist notions. When images are made by machines for other machines, and part of vast annotated datasets, how are worldviews reinforced differently, and what kind of literacy applies, if at
Networking Letters; Networking Archives: Ruth Ahnert
Source: CDH |
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This paper will present research from the linked projects Tudor Networks of Power and Networking Archives. These projects employ methods from the field of quantitive network analysis, as well as other digital methods and visualisation techniques, to analyse epistolary networks and the movement of information in the early modern world. These data-driven approaches to the
2023-01-10
Digital Humanities & the Academic Job Market
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Monday, February 13, 2023 - 12:00pm
Williams Hall 623
Digital Humanities is often invoked in academic job descriptions but what are search committees really looking for? How can job candidates talk about their experiences with technology in engaging and meaningful ways? What can you do as a Penn graduate student to get more experience? Join the Graduate Student Working Group in Digital Humanities to discuss the ideas with two campus experts.
Light snacks will be provided. Feel free to bring a lunch!
Subtitle:
With Dr. Jim English (Penn English) & Dr. Whitney Trettien (Penn English)
Image for Left Column:
Jim English
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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John Welsh Centennial Professor of English
Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities
Professorship (W3) “Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory” (m/f/d)
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Professorship (W3) “Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory” (m/f/d)
The Ruhr area, one of Europe’s largest metropolitan regions, offers attractive career opportunities for excellent scientists and scholars from around the world. In 2021, Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen established the Research Alliance Ruhr to bundle their cutting-edge international research on the most urgent challenges facing humankind. There are four research centers and a college. This is just the latest chapter in our long-standing collaboration as the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr), a community of 14,000 researchers and 120,000 students in the heart of Germany.
As part of the Research Alliance Ruhr, the College for Social Sciences and Human…
CfP ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN DIGITAL TRANSITION
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6 Mar 2023 - 00:00
CfP ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN DIGITAL TRANSITION
Conference | 6-7 July 2023 | NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – NOVA Institute of Communication
Invited Keynote speakers:
Yuk Hui, City University of Hong Kong (confirmed)
Claire Bishop, City University of New York
Transformations stemming from digital technologies are growing with every passing decade, even if the newness of new media is gradually fading. The idea of digital transition evokes a feeling of disruption, but also of inevitability and becoming, mixing the voluntarism or the design of the artificial with new evolutionary narratives. Between a lingering post-historical atmosphere and the spectre of an era of extinctions, the certainty of the digital transformatio…
CfP: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association launches Community Interest Groups
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17 Feb 2023 - 00:00
CfP: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association launches Community Interest Groups
The Association is announcing a Call for Proposals for Community Interest Groups (CIGs) - community-driven groups which are organised around a specific research interest, an existing community of practice, or a salient issue within the digital humanities community.
These groups will serve as one of the primary vehicles for community building within the Association. They will help the Association become more inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable by providing spaces that respond to community needs.
CIGs are meant to be flexible, so that CIGs can emerge, transform and disband as priorities change within the field. CIGs will receive support from the Association, including use of the Association’s social media channels, a place on the Association’s website, the opportunity to participate in Association events, regular chances to feedback on issues related to the CIG’s area of interest, and formal opportunities to collaborate with other CIGs and external organisations.
For information about the proposal process, please see the instructions here: https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/resources/cig_cfp/
Proposals can be submitted to uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk by 5:00 PM GMT on Friday, 17 February 2023. If you have any questions about the process, please email uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk.
If you'd like to learn more about the Association, please visit our website at https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/
UK Distributed Print Book Collection (UKDPBC)
Source: Research Libraries UK |
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In May 2022 the RLUK Board of Directors endorsed a vision for a UK Distributed Print Book Collection as part of the RLUK Library Transforming Strategy of which ‘Collective Collections’ is one of the five key strands. It is envisaged that this shared print collection will extend beyond RLUK libraries, with SCONUL, national libraries, [...]
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Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 3
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
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This is the third part of the interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian …
Recap: DH Virtual Discussion Group – Fall 2022 Edition
Source: The Scholarly Tales |
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In December we closed off our fifth edition of the DH Virtual Discussion Group, during which we heard from three different early career researchers in our community. The Discussion Group series was jointly organized this semester by Prof. Margherita Fantoli…
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Dr Michael Loy
Source: CDH |
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Dr Michael Loy is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics. His project, entitled ‘Cargo and conflict: Aegean networks after the Persian Wars’, uses GIS, network analysis and ABM to model economic exchange patterns in the fifth century BC, exploring, in particular, the distribution of transport amphoras in the archaeological record -
2022-12-21
Cities as Havens for Bees: Using Remote Sensing to Visualize Urban Bee Habitat
Source: Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio |
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By Austin Martin Introduction: Bees Are Declining, but Cities Can Be Havens for Bees Cities and urbanization are generally thought to negatively impact biodiversity. At the same time, urbanization can also increase...
Cities as Havens for Bees: Using Remote Sensing to Visualize Urban Bee Habitat
Source: Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio |
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By Austin Martin Introduction: Bees Are Declining, but Cities Can Be Havens for Bees Cities and urbanization are generally thought to negatively impact biodiversity. At the same time, urbanization can also increase...
CSDH/SCHN Congrès 2023
Source: CSDH / SCHN |
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York University, 29 mai au 31 mai, 2023 CFPCSDH/SCHN Congrès 2023 : Confronter le passé, réimaginer l’avenir La Société canadienne des humanités numériques (http://csdh-schn.org/) invite chercheur·se·s, practicien·ne·s et étudiant·e·s des cycles supérieurs à proposer des communications, des tables rondes et des démonstrations pour sa rencontre annuelle, qui aura lieu lors du Congrès 2023 des sciences […]
CSDH/SCHN Congress 2023
Source: CSDH / SCHN |
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York University, May 29th-May 31st, 2023 CFPCSDH/SCHN Congress 2023: Reckonings and Re-imaginings (Appel en français ci-dessous.) The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at York University, Toronto, as part of the 2023 […]
Try out the new Transkribus Learn: A Tool for Learning How to Read Old Handwriting
Source: READ-COOP |
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Historical documents can be an amazing window into the past, but if you can’t read the handwriting, they can also be frustratingly inaccessible. That’s where Transkribus Learn comes in. Transkribus Learn is a new tool for learning how to read old handwriting. Whether you’re a history student, an amateur genealogist, or just curious about reading […]
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Digital Archival Photography in-depth
Source: CDH |
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Workshop Tutor: Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of Digital Content Unit, Cambridge University Library Following the introductory Methods Workshops, held on 7th November 2022 or 27th February 2023, this session will focus on how to adopt the principles to the projects chosen by the participants. This will cover learning a practical approach to taking images fit for
Digital Archival Photography in-depth
Source: CDH |
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Workshop Tutor: Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of Digital Content Unit, Cambridge University Library Following the introductory Methods Workshops, held on 7th November 2022 or 27th February 2023, this session will focus on how to adopt the principles to the projects chosen by the participants. This will cover learning a practical approach to taking images fit for
Digital Archival Photography
Source: CDH |
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Workshop Tutor: Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of Digital Content Unit, Cambridge University Library This Methods Workshop will introduce advanced techniques used for the digitisation and preservation of archival material. The first workshop will introduce the following topics: Copyrights and sensitive data considerations Understanding Photography basics Digitisation Imaging Standards Scene and capture calibration Image post-processing Taking usable
Making Meaning out of Data: Machine Learning for Humanities Research
Source: CDH |
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Convenor: Estara Arrant (CDH Methods Fellow) Bookings will open soon! 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
Seeing the Database Differently: Qualitative Data Analysis in Cultural Heritage
Source: CDH |
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Convenor: Orla Delaney (CDH Methods Fellow) Bookings will open soon! 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.
Stellenangebot: Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie & Institut für Digital Humanities, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Source: Tagungen |
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Am Seminar für Deutsche Philologie und Institut für Digital Humanities der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Stelle als
wissenschaftliche*…
2022-12-20
Digital Humanities Showcase: Call for Proposals
Source: Digital Humanities Initiative |
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Submit by: February 1, 2023 DH Showcase to be held on March 23, 2023, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET The interdisciplinary field of digital humanities (DH) aims to bring together humanistic inquiry and digital technologies, organizing new modes of archival research, developing computer-aided methodologies for answering humanistic questions, curating digitized archives of all kinds, bringing digital platforms into the classroom in creative ways, and engaging critically with the culture of new media. We are particularly interested in hearing from practitioners and scholars who are thinking about digital humanities pedagogy and teaching with DH projects in the classroom. In order to encourage collaboration and community
CLaSSES Corpus in LiLa
Source: LiLa: Linking Latin |
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The Corpus for Latin Sociolinguistic Studies on Epigraphic textS (CLaSSES) is now connected to LiLa! CLaSSES (Corpus for Latin Sociolinguistic Studies on Epigraphic textS) is a digital resource which gathers non-literary Latin texts (inscriptions, writing tablets, letters) of different periods and provinces of the Roman Empire. Each text is tagged with linguistic and extra-linguistic information that …
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CLaSSES Corpus in LiLa
Source: News – LiLa: Linking Latin |
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The Corpus for Latin Sociolinguistic Studies on Epigraphic textS (CLaSSES) is now connected to LiLa! CLaSSES (Corpus for Latin Sociolinguistic Studies on Epigraphic textS) is a digital resource which gathers non-literary Latin texts (inscriptions, writing tablets, letters) of different periods and provinces of the Roman Empire. Each text is tagged with linguistic and extra-linguistic information that …
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Dante’s Latin Loanwords Online Now!
Source: LiLa: Linking Latin |
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We just linked a glossary of Dante’s Latin loanwords to our Knowledge Base! The Glossary of Latin loanwords from the Italian works of Dante Alighieri was developed by Giulia Pedonese during her PhD course in Italian linguistics and collects 765 Italian words which are Latin loanwords attested in the four Italian works by XIIIth Century …
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Dante’s Latin Loanwords Online Now!
Source: News – LiLa: Linking Latin |
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We just linked a glossary of Dante’s Latin loanwords to our Knowledge Base! The Glossary of Latin loanwords from the Italian works of Dante Alighieri was developed by Giulia Pedonese during her PhD course in Italian linguistics and collects 765 Italian words which are Latin loanwords attested in the four Italian works by XIIIth Century …
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Poste de doctorant-e à 80% en journalisme et communication
Source: dhCenter |
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L’Académie du journalisme et des médias (AJM) de l’Université de Neuchâtel offre un poste de doctorant-e en journalisme et communication, financé par le Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (FNS), sur la thématique Journalisme et données en temps de pandémie. A partir du 1er mars 2023, ou à négocier. La personne engagée travaillera sur […]
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Convincing DH: Jing Hu, “Mining networks in MARKUS: A study of Chosŏn interpreters’ trade networks in Qing China”
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
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With the proliferation of digital tools and databases meant to engage a wide range of users from the serious scholar …
Internship Introduction: Hackathons and Promoting Cultural Heritage Materials
Source: The Scholarly Tales |
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My name is Alisa Grishin and I am currently serving as one of the 2022-2023 Artes Research Interns. Currently a Master’s student of Cultural Studies at KU Leuven, my main role will be to support the organization of the BiblioTech Hackathon.…
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Einladung DHd-Community-Forum
Source: Tagungen |
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Liebe Mitglieder des DHd-Verbandes,
für unsere interdisziplinäre Community ist ein offener Austausch von großer Bedeutung. Während die jährliche Mitgliederversammlung bereits eine…
RaDiHum20 spricht mit Jacqueline Klusik-Eckert über Studiengangsmanagement
Source: RaDiHum 20 |
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Studiengänge und deren inhaltliche und organisatorische Ausgestaltung fallen nicht vom Himmel. Vielmehr bewegen sie sich in einem komplizierten Spannungsfeld zwischen Fachkulturen, Hochschultraditionen, den Interessen der Dozierenden, den Interessen der Studierenden etc. Dies ist insbesondere für Studiengänge in den Digital Humanities der Fall, die immer interdisziplinär und daher besonders herausfordernd sind. In unserer Folge haben wir […]
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RaDiHum20 spricht mit Jaqueline Klusik-Eckert über Studiengangsmanagement
Source: RaDiHum 20 |
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Studiengänge und deren inhaltliche und organisatorische Ausgestaltung fallen nicht vom Himmel. Vielmehr bewegen sie sich in einem komplizierten Spannungsfeld zwischen Fachkulturen, Hochschultraditionen, den Interessen der Dozierenden, den Interessen der Studierenden etc. Dies ist insbesondere für Studiengänge in den Digital Humanities der Fall, die immer interdisziplinär und daher besonders herausfordernd sind. In unserer Folge haben wir […]
Der Beitrag RaDiHum20 spricht mit Jaqueline Klusik-Eckert über Studiengangsmanagement erschien zuerst auf RaDiHum 20.
ACH 2023 CFP
Source: The Association for Computers and the Humanities |
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The Association for Computers and the Humanities seeks proposals for ACH 2023, our virtual conference, to be held June 29-July 1, 2023. We welcome a broad range of topics, with a particular emphasis on social justice in multiple contexts: anti-racist work, Indigenous studies, cultural and critical ethnic studies, intersectional feminism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, disability…Continue reading.
2022-12-15
POST: DSC #18: The Data-Sitters’ HathiTrust Mistake
Source: dh+lib |
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In the latest issue of the Data Sitters Club, “The Data-Sitters’ HathiTrust Mistake,” Cadence Cordell, Quinn Dombrowski, and Glen Layne-Worthey, reflect on their history and experiences with using the HathiTrust Digital Library and offer instructions on using the HathiTrust Research Center’s tools for creating and analyzing text corpora. This is an equally entertaining and instructive ...read more
RESOURCE: pyktok and traktok for TikTok scraping
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Deen Freelon (UNC Chapel Hill) has developed pyktok, a python module that enables collection of video, text, and metadata from TikTok. R users may be interested in traktok, which is ported from pyktok. Both programs note: “This program may stop working suddenly if TikTok changes how it stores its data.” These open-source packages may be ...read more
CFP: Keystone DH
Source: dh+lib |
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The 2023 Keystone DH Conference will be held June 16-17th at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Digital Humanities in Baltimore, Maryland. The organizers are currently seeking paper proposals and project talks that address issues of Scale. From the call: Digital techniques have enabled scholars and practitioners both in and out of the academy to explore problems ...read more
CFP: DARIAH 2023
Source: dh+lib |
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The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), will be hosting its 2023 annual event 6-9 June in Budapest, Hungary, at Eötvös Loránd University. Presentation proposals are now being accepted addressing the theme, ‘Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data?’; specific topics encouraged by the organizers include: Sustainable workflows for data management and ...read more
CFP: Digital Heritage: Museum Data, Digitization and Digital Infrastructure
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Digital Humanities scholar and digital heritage practitioner, Dr. Anne Luther (Digital Benin), is proposing a book project with Routledge and seeks proposals for book chapters that address the following: History of Digitization in Museum: history of cataloging, history of digitization and computers in museums, today’s practices. Digital Infrastructure: foundational texts that build an overview on ...read more
EVENT: Digital Humanities Quarterly Workshops for Potential Authors
Source: dh+lib |
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From the Digital Humanities Quarterly editorial team: The Digital Humanities Quarterly journal is happy to announce a new initiative to provide greater support for authors throughout the publication lifecycle. As part of this work, starting in January 2023, DHQ‘s peer review team will be holding a series of online workshops to provide information for potential authors about ...read more
FUNDING: Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program (USLDH)
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The University of Houston’s U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Center is offering Mellon Foundation Grants-in-Aid to provide stipends to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of a digital publication and/or a digital project. Proposals must draw from recovered primary and derivative sources produced by Latinas/os in what is now the United ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Black Book Interactive Project
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The Black Book Interactive Project, a Mellon- and NEH-funded collaborative research project that is working to increase black-authored texts in the digital humanities, has issued a call for application for two programs: The Digital Publishing Scholars Program invites applications from “higher education professionals, graduate students, and scholars who have been actively working with Black literature ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Liaison Positions
Source: dh+lib |
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The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section (DSS) is currently seeking applications for two liaison positions: Liaison to ACH One liaison will serve a two-year term (May 2023-June 2025) as the ACRL liaison to the Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH) as part of the ACRL Liaisons Program. This is a new liaison position to ACH. ...read more
JOB: Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities (Purdue)
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From the announcement: The Purdue Libraries seek an Assistant Professor who will join a vibrant group of faculty in the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies to teach and apply innovative digital methods to humanistic research questions. The faculty member will teach courses that contribute to the Libraries’ co-sponsored graduate and undergraduate certificates ...read more
JOB: Clinical Assistant Professor and Digital Scholarship Librarian (U Illinois Chicago)
Source: dh+lib |
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From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Librarian plays a critical role in the development and delivery of digital scholarship programs and services to the UIC community. This position will provide instruction, consults, and training to UIC faculty and students in support of digital scholarship and digital humanities research methods. This position reports to Head of ...read more
Les idéologies cachées dans les jeux vidéo de construction
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Dans le dernier numéro de l’uniscope, le magazine du campus de l’UNIL, un article présente les recherches de Guillaume Guenat, collaborateur du GameLab UNIL-EPFL, doctorant en sciences sociales et membre du dhCenter. SimCity, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Planet Zoo… Nombreux sont celles et ceux qui ont un jour aligné routes, bâtiments et autres infrastructures sur ordinateur ou […]
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Workshop 5: Introduction to Day 1
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Glen Layne-Worthey, J. Stephen Downie (HathiTrust, University of Illinois) and members of the AEOLIAN team introduce Day 1 of the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday […]
Workshop 5: Jill Naiman, ‘Document Layout Analysis for Scientific Article Figure & Caption Extraction’
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Jill Naiman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) “Document Layout Analysis for Scientific Article Figure & Caption Extraction” at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30 November 2022. Hosted by […]
Workshop 5: Heme Natarajan, ‘Making Math Accessible, One Image at a Time’
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Hema Natarajan (Benetech Corporation) “Making Math Accessible, One Image at a Time” at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30 November 2022. Hosted by the HathiTrust Research Centre, […]
Workshop 5: Undergraduate Research Showcase – Morgan Cosillo
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Undergraduate Research Showcase (lightning talks): Morgan Cosillo on OCR post-correction with NLP machine learning model, at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30 November 2022. Hosted by the […]
Workshop 5: Undergraduate Research Showcase – Rushdan Jimoh
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Undergraduate Research Showcase (lightning talks): Rushdan Jimoh on natural and artificial “page aging” processes for machine learning, at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30 November 2022. Hosted […]
Workshop 5: Nikolaus Parulian and Glen Layne-Worthey, ‘Machine Learning to Identify Creative Content and Paratext at the Page Level’
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Nikolaus Parulian and Glen Layne-Worthey (University of Illinois) “Machine Learning to Identify Creative Content and Paratext at the Page Level” at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30 November 2022. […]
Workshop 5: Peter Organisciak, ‘Neural Nets to Identify Work Relationships in HathiTrust’
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Peter Organisciak (University of Denver) “Neural Nets to Identify Work Relationships in HathiTrust” at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30 November 2022. Hosted by the HathiTrust Research […]
Workshop 5: Introduction to Day 2
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Glen Layne-Worthey, J. Stephen Downie and members of the AEOLIAN team give a Summary of Day 1, and Introduction to Day 2 topics at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th […]
Workshop 5: Janet Swatscheno, ‘Tutorial: HathiTrust Extracted Features for Machine Learning’
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Janet Swatscheno (HathiTrust Research Center, University of Michigan) Tutorial: “HathiTrust Extracted Features for Machine Learning” at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30 November 2022. Hosted by the […]
Workshop 5: Julian Schröter, ‘Modeling prototypicality of genre concepts with machine learning and the c@1-score’
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Julian Schröter (Universität Würzburg and University of Illinois) “Modeling prototypicality of genre concepts with machine learning and the c@1-score” at the AEOLIAN Workshop 5: Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, which took place on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30 November […]
Forming the Corpus Criticorum (1450–1640): Bibliography, Title Pages, Dataset
Source: Journal of Open Humanities Data Latest Articles |
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The Corpus Criticorum (1450–1650) (CC) is a pioneering comprehensive bibliography of early modern publications that feature the notion of critique on their title pages. It was constituted by collecting, validating, and curating information from pan-European, language-based, and national union catalogues. A complementary and interconnected “data package” was deposited on Zenodo, comprising: (1) a classical text-based bibliography, supplemented by (2) a CSV dataset of information contained therein, (3) the images of title pages not readily available online, and (4) a comprehensive BibTeX dataset. The CC can be reused in further internal research on the history of critique and as a model for research on the history of other concepts and ideas.
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2022-12-14
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CLARIN Newsflash December 2022 is out!
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CLARIN Newsflash December 2022 is out!
Every month, CLARIN publishes a newsflash with an overview of what has been happening at CLARIN, the national consortia, etc.
Read the most recent CLARIN Newsflash: December 2022 here
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Elisa Gorgaini
14 December 2022
RLUK REPORT: EDI in the research library. An analysis of RLUK institutions’ job descriptions
Source: Research Libraries UK |
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Download the report RLUK has published a report on Equality, diversity, and inclusion in the research library. An analysis of RLUK institutions’ job descriptions. Research libraries across the world are striving to become more inclusive and diverse places where scholarship and learning can thrive. Over the past few years, efforts have focused [...]
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RLUK and The National Archives Professional Fellows for 2023-24 announced
Source: Research Libraries UK |
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RLUK and The National Archives (TNA) are pleased to announce the Fellows for the Professional Fellowship Scheme 2023-24. After a very competitive application round, the successful candidates will commence the work on their proposed projects in February 2023. Professional Fellowships last for a year and are structured around short-term visits to TNA, for RLUK Fellows, [...]
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DRI Director Natalie Harrower to Take Up New Role
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Dr Natalie Harrower, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), is moving to an exciting new role as Executive Director of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN). Dr Harrower has led the DRI since it went live to the public in 2015.
New Impact Story: Voices from Ravensbrück: Multilingual Oral History
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New Impact Story: Voices from Ravensbrück: Multilingual Oral History
This impact story showcases the Voices from Ravensbrück project, which has produced a curated set of multilingual oral history interviews with survivors from the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women. The new ‘Ravensbrück Oral History Resource Family’ comprises 38 audio interviews from different countries and presents a unique opportunity to study and compare these historical sources. The compelling topic and the way in which these interviews are presented makes them attractive and easy to work with, opening up many avenues for cross-disciplinary and multilingual research in a broad variety of fields. In addition, it represents a valuable resource for schools, higher education, the media, and society more widely.
Read the full impact story here.
Karina Berger
14 December 2022
Holiday Greetings
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Holiday Greetings
2022 was another big year for CLARIN!
Not only did we celebrate CLARIN’s 10th anniversary as a research infrastructure, and among other things published a book about the achievements after a decade of work, but the community has been able to come together once again in person as well as virtually at the hybrid edition of CLARIN’s Annual Conference in Prague. Over the course of the year, many CLARIN Cafés were held, research was showcased in the Impact Stories, CLARIN training materials made their way to new user groups, and CLARIN launched its first promotional video.
On this year’s holiday card, we proudly present some of these highlights with six hidden links, including a final message from Franciska de Jong, looking back at her time as Executive Director.
Thank you for a wonderful year – happy holidays and best wishes for 2023!
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Elisa Gorgaini
14 December 2022
A Message from Franciska de Jong
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
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A Message from Franciska de Jong
The end of 2022 is also the moment that I will step down as Executive Director of CLARIN
European Research Infrastructure Consortium
See: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/european-research-infrastructures/eric_en
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. I started to work for CLARIN in the summer of 2015, the beginning of a journey that brought many moments of discovery, the unravelling of complexity, achievements, innovation and growth. Language matters, and therefore language resources matter. So leading the mission of making them findable and accessible, and pointing out the potential for impact along many dimensions of the richness that has been collected, annotated and deposited, in growing volumes and for a wide diversity of languages, has been a deeply rewarding role. The journey also brought many moments of personal inspiration and satisfaction, not least because of the many moments of warm collegial collaboration and exchange.
And the future? The landscape of research infrastructures in which CLARIN is positioned is very dynamic and there always seem to be new horizons. But even though some of the envisaged scenarios for the future may never materialise, I trust that there will be a multitude of ways in which another generation of experts can show the way for CLARIN to be able to adapt to new conditions and policy frameworks. Being a crucial building block for any new stage that will result from the evolutionary path taken, that is what I wish for CLARIN. And of course that it can continue its role in enhancing the options for exploring the cultural and societal diversity that is reflected in language. Good vibes for 2023 and beyond!
Elisa Gorgaini
14 December 2022
2022-12-01
RECOMMENDED: Data Primer: Making Digital Humanities Research Data Public
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Published earlier in 2022, the collaboratively authored and edited Data Primer: Making Digital Humanities Research Data Public (Felicity Tayler; Marjorie Mitchell; Chantal Ripp; and Pascale Dangoisse) provides an overview of current practices around data management and curation for digital humanities practitioners. Book Description Data management and curation are important processes for digital humanists: without proper ...read more
RESOURCE: Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture has announced the launch of the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal – a comprehensive search platform allowing users to search over 1.7 million pages of Freedmen’s Bureau records. From the announcement: The portal allows users to search records from the United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and ...read more
CFP: Collections as Data: State of the Field and Future Directions
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Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the 3-year Collections as Data: Part to Whole project culminates in an international summit: Collections as Data: State of the Field and Future Directions. The Collections as Data: Part to Whole team has shared a Call for Participation for this collaborative international working event, which will be held ...read more
CFP: Inclusive Pedagogies and Services
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From guest editors of a forthcoming Reference Services Review issue, Dr. Kawanna Bright and Dr. Mónica Colón-Aguirre, comes a Call for Papers regarding Inclusive Pedagogies and Services. From the Call: How do we create cultures of inclusivity in libraries where librarians not only value inclusive principles, but enact them in meaningful ways? Reference Services Review (RSR) ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age
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“The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age” is a two-week seminar that will take place at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI) from June 26 to July 7, 2023. The seminar will be led by Emily Pugh, Principal Research Specialist for Digital Art History, Getty Research Institute, and David Ogawa, Associate Professor ...read more
EVENT: DEFCon Speaker Series: Tatiana Bryant
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The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium is running a virtual speaker series alongside its other AY 2022-2023 events. On December 15, 2022, the DEFCon Speaker Series features Tatiana Bryant (Barnard College). Register to participate in the Zoom session. About the session: Please join us on Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific for the DEFCon ...read more
EVENT: Policies for a Better Internet: Securing Digital Rights for Libraries
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The Internet Archive will host an upcoming virtual discussion, “Policies for a Better Internet: Securing Digital Rights for Libraries,” on December 8 at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern. Facilitated by Chris Lewis, President of Public Knowledge, the discussion will focus on the Internet Archive’s upcoming report “Securing Digital Rights for Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for ...read more
EVENT: Texts All the Way Down: The Intertextual Networks Project
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Newcastle University’s Animating Text hosts a virtual speaker series showcasing the work of digital humanists and textual scholars. On December 12 at 4pm GMT they will feature “Texts All the Way Down: The Intertextual Networks Project” with Ash Clark and Sarah Connell (Northeastern University): Abstract: This paper will share the Women Writers Project‘s newest publication, Women Writers: ...read more
EVENT: Web Archiving Coffee Chat with Ian Milligan
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The Society of American Archivists Web Archiving Section is hosting a Coffee Chat on December 6, 2022. This session features a talk by Ian Milligan who will discuss the research use of web archives. Event description from the hosts: Dr. Ian Milligan will explore some research use cases for web archival data, and explain what ...read more
JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship & Initiatives (Iowa State University)
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From the announcement: Required Minimum Qualifications: Master’s degree and 5 years of related experience Preferred Qualifications: Previous experience supervising and empowering staff. Experience with program management. Understanding of digital scholarship methodologies, tools and technologies such as those related to text analysis, data visualization, multimodal publishing, etc. Knowledge of best practices, current issues and trends in ...read more
JOB: Digital Collections Librarian (Dartmouth College)
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From the announcement: The Digital Collections Librarian works as part of the Digital by Dartmouth Library (DxDL) program, in collaboration with Dartmouth students, faculty, staff, and community partners, to develop digital collections and exhibits in alignment with the Dartmouth Library’s priorities and values. The Digital Collections Librarian will contribute to the design, creation and reuse ...read more
CLARIN Compatible NER and Geoparsing Web Services for Italian and Serbian Parallel Text (It-Sr-Ner)
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CLARIN Compatible NER and Geoparsing Web Services for Italian and Serbian Parallel Text (It-Sr-Ner)
Blog post written by Prof. Olja Perisic outlining the outcomes of the project 'Compatible NER and Geoparsing Web Services for Italian and Serbian Parallel Text (It-Sr-Ner)' that won the CLARIN Bridging Gap Call.
The Project
Winning the ‘Bridging gaps’ Call allowed us to connect CLARIN to external language technology tools by building web services that would enable monolingual and bilingual NER (Named Entity Recognition) annotation of aligned text, specifically Italian-Serbian and geoparsing. The possibility of integrating the It-Sr-NER-ws into the CLARIN ERIC Switchboard and the JERTEH (Society for Language Resources and Tools) infrastructure following FAIR Data Principle…
CFP: Le numérique comme méthodes et terrains. Perspectives féministes (NuMFem 2023)
Source: dhCenter |
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Le colloque “Le numérique comme méthodes et terrains : perspectives féministes” (NuMFem2023) se tiendra les 29-30 juin 2023 en ligne et au Centre Internet et Sociétré (CIS) sur le site Pouchet du CNRS (Paris). L’ambition de ce colloque international est d’interroger la façon dont le numérique, à la fois instrument, méthode, terrain et objet de […]
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Text Recognition for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script
Source: Journal of Open Humanities Data Latest Articles |
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This dataset is a model for handwritten text recognition (HTR) of Sanskrit and Newar Nepalese manuscripts in Pracalit script. This paper introduces the state of the field in Newar literature, Newar manuscripts, and HTR engines. It explains our methodology for developing the requisite ground truth consisting of manuscript images and corresponding transcriptions, training our model with a PyLAia engine, and this model’s limitations. This dataset shared on Zenodo can be used by anyone working with manuscripts in Pracalit script, which will benefit the fields of Indology and Newar studies, as well as historical and linguistic analysis.
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2022-11-21
Der DHd-Verband und seine Abstracts Betrachtungen des Einreichungsprozesses zu den DHd Jahrestagungen
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Autor*innen aus der Taskforce „DHd Abstracts“
Patrick Helling (ORCID: 0000-0003-4043-165X), Rebekka Borges (ORCID: 0000-0002-4651-5638), Ingo Börner (ORCID: 0000-0001-8294-2541),…
Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS)
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Website: https://fadis.library.utoronto.ca/about.html Description: The Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS) is a consortial learning management and courseware system developed for image based teaching of art, architecture and visual culture. The goal of […]
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Minister Harris Welcomes Launch of National Action Plan for Open Research
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The National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030 was launched today.
Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1656- Memorial [manuscript] (Video Orientation)
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1656, advice about reform in Portugal, including concerns about the Inquisition, addressed to Prince Joseph, who took an active role in ruling Portugal after his father, King John V, suffered a stroke in 1742. You canContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1656- Memorial [manuscript] (Video Orientation)"
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New Impact Story: Ukrainian History Course in Response to the War in Ukraine
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New Impact Story: Ukrainian History Course in Response to the War in Ukraine
This impact story shines the spotlight on one of the initiatives in response to the invasion of Ukraine that CLARIN has supported. The distance learning course ‘Ukrainian History’ was developed by two friends and colleagues, based in Ukraine and Lithuania, as an example of collaboration between EU universities and Ukrainian researchers. The short distant learning course covers the history of Ukraine and its statehood, beginning with the Kyivan Rus’ state and its Ukrainian principalities (9th-13th c.) and then traces Ukraine’s historical development and its struggle for independence until the present day.
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Karina Berger
21 November 2022
Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python — Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python
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Introduction: Folgert Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont and Allen Riddell ‘s interactive book, Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python had been written with the aim in mind to equip humanities students and scholars working with textual and tabular resources with practical, hands-on knowledge to better understand the potentials of data-rich, computer-assisted approaches that the Python framework offers to them and eventually to apply and integrate them to their own research projects.
The first part introduces a “Data carpentry”, a collection of essential techniques for gathering, cleaning, representing, and transforming textual and tabular data. This sets the stage for the second part that consists of 5 case studies (Statistics Essentials: WhoReads Novels? ; Introduction to Probability ; Narrating with Maps ; Stylometry and the Voice of Hildegard ; A Topic Model of United States Supreme Court Opinions, 1900–2000 ) showcasing how to draw meaningful insights from data using quantitative methods. Each chapter contains executable Python codes and ends with exercises ranging from easier drills to more creative and complex possibilities to adapt the apply and adopt the newly acquired knowledge to their own research problems.
The book exhibits best practices in how to make digital scholarship available in an open, sustainable ad digital-native manner, coming in different layers that are firmly interlinked with each other. Published with Princeton University Press in 2021, hardcopies are also available, but more importantly, the digital version is an Open Access Jupyter notebook that can be read in multiple environments and formats (.md and .pdf). The documentation, coda and data materials are available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/record/3560761#.Y3tCcn3MJD9). The authors also made sure to select and use packages which are mature and actively maintained.
The Australian history industry and the impact of digitisation (open access preprint chapter)
Source: Tim Sherratt |
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The Australian History Industry was published recently. Edited by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, the book ‘explores the complex, multi-roomed house of Australian history’, exploring academic, school, and public history, the impact of digital technologies, and the relationship of history to memory, social justice, politics, and cultural practice.
My chapter ‘Digital revolutions: The limits and affordances of online collections’ looks at how digitisation of GLAM collections has (and hasn’t) changed historical practice:
As the COVID lockdowns in 2020 emphasised, the online availability of primary source materials makes historical research possible even when access to the originals is limited. But the undoubted convenience of being able to browse 200 years worth of newspapers at home masks other issues that historians have been slow to acknowledge and address. How do we discover relevant resources? What gets digitised and why? How can researchers use these collections to ask new types of questions? After more than 25 years, the web has its own history. What problems and possibilities has it brought to the way we understand the past?
It’s available as a green open access preprint on Zenodo.
Recent updates to trove-newspaper-harvester and trove-newspaper-images
Source: Tim Sherratt |
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Catching up on some software package updates over the last few months.
The trove-newspaper-harvester package is now at v0.6.5. Recent changes include:
Fix to handle articles with missing metadata
Don’t try to re-download existing text and PDF files on restart
Better error messages for CLI
Better handling of exceptions
The trove-newspaper-images package is now at v0.2.1. Recent changes include:
Minor changes to make it easier to use this package within the trove-newspaper-harvester
Use argparse directly for the CLI, putting the initialisation within a function to avoid conflicts
Remove the messages printed to stdout
Updated the repository and documentation to use nbdev v2
Don’t try to re-download existing images
2022-11-16
The Russia-Ukraine War and Media: Event Summary
Source: Digital Democracies Institute |
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This post was written by Amy Harris, DDI Lab Manager and PhD Candidate at the School of Communication. This event was described as bringing together a “panel of international experts …
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Ireland’s National Open Research Forum Awards €1.16 Million to Six Collaborative Projects to Advance Open Research
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Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF) has awarded funding to six new collaborative projects to implement priority actions in Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030.
Computational Methods in Studying Late Medieval Charters
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Georg Vogeler, Anguelos Nicolaou, Daniel Luger, Tamás Kovács, Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, Sandy Aoun and Franziska Decker
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Title: Detecting Linguistic Variation in the Genesis of a Literary Work
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Transformation and Globalization of Astronomy in the Early Modern Period. A Multi-Layer Network Analysis
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Maryam Zamani and Matteo Valleriani
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Title: Transformation and Globalization of Astronomy in the Early Modern Period. A Multi-Layer Network Analysis
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Exploring the loaded contexts that characterise people groups across Dutch Pilarised Newspapers
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Ryan Brate and Marieke van Erp
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Title: Exploring the loaded contexts that characterise people groups across Dutch Pilarised Newspapers
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Semantic enrichment of type-based word embeddings for small text corpora
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Thora Hagen
Affiliation: University of Würzburg
Title: Semantic enrichment of type-based word embeddings for small text corpora
Abstract: One of the most important steps to language modeling is preparing a decently sized text corpus. As language modeling has become more popular in the field of digital humanities as well, it has become apparent that this hurdle exactly can be very high for researchers to be able to make use of traditional language modeling methods. This contribution demonstrates how to improve the semantic quality of pre-trained word embeddings that have been built using a smaller English text corpus by incorporating structured knowledge (synonyms, antonyms, and hypernyms). Using the state-of-the-art method GLEN (Generalized Lexical ENtailment model, Glavaš and Vulić 2019), the experiment shows mixed results: While semantic similarity and lexical entailment show improvements, the performance for semantic relatedness falls behind in this setting. However, limiting the training data to only synonyms improves semantic relatedness as well, which implies that using more but diverse training data is not always advisable when wanting to improve the semantic quality of a smaller word embedding model, as this goal merges a variety of semantic aspects.
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Semantic enrichment of type-based word embeddings for small domains
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Understanding LDA: Alpha doesn’t Always Matter
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Information theory unravels the subtext in Chekhov
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Speaker: Matthias Irmer, Olav Müller-Reichau, J. Nathanael Philipp, Michael Richter and Tariq Yousef
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Title: Information theory unravels the subtext in Chekhov
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Predicting sentiments and space in Swiss literature using BERT and Prodigy
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Speaker: Giulia Grisot, Federico Pennino and Berenike Herrmann
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Title: Predicting sentiments and space in Swiss literature using BERT and Prodigy
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Explorative analysis of large-scale education data using Machine Learning: Contextual factors related to Professional Learning Communities
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Speaker: Anders Astrup Christensen, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo and Sedat Gumus
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Title: Explorative analysis of large-scale education data using Machine Learning: Contextual factors related to Professional Learning Communities
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(Not) Understanding Latin Poetic Style with Deep Learning
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Analyzing the usage-based semantic variation of ‘baroque’ in eighteenth-century French using a historically-adapted Transformer-based Language Model
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Title: Analyzing the usage-based semantic variation of ‘baroque’ in eighteenth-century French using a historically-adapted Transformer-based Language Model
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Detecting Linguistic Variation in the Genesis of a Literary Work
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Speaker: Elli Bleeker, Kody Moodley and Ronald Haentjens Dekker
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The Beldeko corpus: A new resource for investigating L2 German texts written by L1 Dutch students
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Speaker: Helena Wedig, Carola Strobl, Jim J.J. Ureel and Tanja Mortelmans
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Title: The Beldeko corpus: A new resource for investigating L2 German texts written by L1 Dutch students
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Migration is not a one way trip. Studying and telling the story of Crimean Tatars' deportation and return
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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The deportation of Crimean Tatars was a state-organized and forcible eviction of Crimean Tatars people that was ordered by Joseph Stalin as a form of collective punishment in 1944. It was supposed to completely remove the Crimean Tatar nationality from the demographic map of the world. It ruined the traditional way of life, social structure, and cultural institutes of Crimean Tatars. Indeed, Crimean Tatars were supposed to assimilate in exile. As a result of state-sponsored violence, Crimean Tatars became a nation in exile. After Stalin's death they did not receive the right to return to Crimea and renew their autonomy, like most "punished peoples." However, Crimean Tatars escaped the fate and managed to reshape their identity. Moreover, despite the ban, Crimean Tatars tried to return to their homeland during the Soviet era.
In the presentation the question "How did Crimean Tatars returnees dealt with 'homecoming'?" will be answered. Studying the Crimean Tatars' return contribute significantly not only to the history of Crimean Tatars, moreover, it is important for the understanding of reverse migration process in migration studies. The research, foremost, is based on oral history interviews. So the special attention will be paid to doing Oral History in Crimea.
A historian of Crimean Tatars, Martin-Oleksandr Kisly (History Department of National university of Kyiv-Mohyla academy) holds a Candidate of Science degree, having defended a dissertation entitled "Crimean Tatars’ Return to the Homeland in 1956–1989". His research focuses on memory, trauma, identity and migration. Fulbright Research and Development program fellow (2017, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). IWM fellow (2022).
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The Oupoco Database of French Sonnets from the 19th Century
Source: Journal of Open Humanities Data Latest Articles |
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The Oupoco Database is a collection of 4,872 French sonnets developed in the framework of the Oupoco Project. It is mainly composed of poems from the 19th and early 20th century. The sonnets come from different sources from the Internet and from a collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Every sonnet has a specific license (depending on the source it comes from), but the whole collection can be reused for free (under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license). Published on 2022-11-15 12:05:20
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CAA ESC Election Results
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The 2022 Executive Steering Committee (ESC) elections results are: Jeffrey Glover has been elected to a second term as Secretary. Emma Slayton has been elected to a second term as Membership Secretary. Timo Geitlinger has been elected to a first term as Bursary and Student/Low-Income Officer. These terms will begin at the conclusion of the […]
CDH Awards Recipients, Lent 2021
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2020-2021 Below are the recipients of the CDH Awards in 2020-2021. Please visit CDH Awards for more information and how to apply for the current academic year. Bid Development Awards Barbara McGillivray 'Computational Methods for Tracing the Evolution of Meaning in Ancient Languages' Máire Ní Mhaonaigh 'Interpretation of a Digital Corpus of Landscape Literature
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
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State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position …
CHR2022 - Schedule
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Day 1 - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Session 0: Opening
2022-12-12T14:30:00Z UTC → 2020-11-18T15:15:00Z UTC Walk-in, registration
2022-12-12T15:15:00Z UTC → 2020-11-18T15:30:00Z UTC Welcome
Session 1A: Keynote 1
2020-11-18T15:30:00Z UTC → 2020-11-18T17:00:00Z UTC ; TBD
Peter Turchin
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Opening reception (followed by self-paid dinner)
2022-12-12T17:00:00Z UTC
Day 2 - Tue 13 Dec 2022
Session 2A: Language
2022-12-13T08:00:00Z UTC → 2022-12-13T09:30:00Z UTC; TBD)
Margherita Parigini and Mike Kestemont
The Roots of Doubt. Fine-tuning a BERT Model to Explore a Stylistic Phenomenon [long]
Alessandra De Mulder, Lauren Fonteyn and Mike Kestemont
Linguistic value construction in 18th-century London auction advertisements: a quantitative approach [long]
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The Sandbach Tinne Programme
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By Malik Al Nasir Malik Al Nasir is a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge’s faculty of history. His research entitled Kinship Networks and Mercantile Hegemony in the Latter Days of British Slavery – The Case of Sandbach Tinne, c. 1790-1840 is derived from his longstanding desire to trace his own mixed ancestry […]
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Citizen Science as Public History?
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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How does public history intersect with citizen science on crowdsourcing platforms like Zooniverse? This talk will use examples drawn from the Living with Machines project, a collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute and British Library with partner universities, to consider this question. Living with Machines is developing digital history and data science methods to explore vast digitised corpora of historical collections from the long 19th century. Crowdsourcing was built into the project from the very beginning, both as a form of public engagement and a method for data collection. Participants comments and survey results provide insights into their experiences reading and annotating historical newspaper articles.
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The Sandbach Tinne Programme
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By Malik Al Nasir Malik Al Nasir is a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge’s faculty of history. His research entitled Kinship Networks and Mercantile Hegemony in the Latter Days of British Slavery – The Case of Sandbach Tinne, c. 1790-1840 is derived from his longstanding desire to trace his own mixed ancestry
Determining Author or Reader: A Statistical Analysis of Textual Features in Children's and Adult Literature
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Speaker: Lindsey Geybels
Affiliation: University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Title: Determining Author or Reader: A Statistical Analysis of Textual Features in Children’s and Adult Literature
Abstract: Due to the nature of literary texts as being composed of words rather than numbers, they are not an obvious choice to serve as data for statistical analyses. However, with the help of computational techniques, words can be converted to numerical data and certain parts of a text can be examined on a large scale. Textual elements such as sentence length, word length and lexical diversity, which are associated by scholars on the one hand with the writing style of an individual author and on the other with the complexity of a text and the intended age of its readers, can thus be subjected to statistical evaluation. In this paper, data from little under 700 English and Dutch books written for different ages is analysed using a statistical linear mixed model. The results show that the textual elements studied are better qualified to detect the age of the intended reader of a text than the identity or age of the author.
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Good Omens: A Collaborative Authorship Study
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Speaker: Leonardo Grotti, Mona Allaert and Patrick Quick
Affiliation: Universiteit Antwerpen, Faculty of Arts, Prinsstraat 13, B-2000, Antwerp
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Abstract: Good Omens is a collaborative novel written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Rising interest in the book, amplified by the success of the recent screen adaptation, has aroused curiosity regarding its realization. We use Rolling Delta and Rolling Classify to detect stylistic signals from each author as these methods reveal authorial takeovers. The same techniques are applied to compare the screenplay of the show to the novel. The results indicate that Good Omens resembles Pratchett’s work more closely. The screenplay is correctly attributed to Gaiman, its sole author, and the comparison reveals that Gaiman may have relied less on the source material over the course of the narrative arc.
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Topic?
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Speaker: Joris J. van Zundert (1, 2), Marijn Koolen (1, 2), Julia Neugarten (3), Peter Boot (1), Willem van Hage (4) and Ole Mussmann (4)
Affiliation: (1) KNAW Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; (2) DHLab, KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; (3) Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; (4) eScience Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Abstract: We apply Top2Vec to a corpus of 10,921 novels in the Dutch language. For the purposes of our research we want to understand if our topic model may serve as a proxy for genre. We find that topics are extremely narrowly related to an existing genre classification historically created by publishers. Interestingly we also find that, notwithstanding careful vocabulary filtering as suggested by prior research, various other signals, such as author signal, stubbornly remain.
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Boosting Word Frequencies in Authorship Attribution
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Speaker: Maciej Eder
Affiliation: Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Title: Boosting Word Frequencies in Authorship Attribution
Abstract: In this paper, I introduce a simple method of computing relative word frequencies for authorship attribution and similar stylometric tasks. Rather than computing relative frequencies as the number of occurrences of a given word divided by the total number of tokens in a text, I argue that a more efficient normalization factor is the total number of relevant tokens only. The notion of relevant words includes synonyms and, usually, a few dozen other words in some ways semantically similar to a word in question. To determine such a semantic background, one of word embedding models can be used. The proposed method outperforms classical most-frequent-word approaches substantially, usually by a few percentage points depending on the input settings.
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Peeking Inside the DH Toolbox – Detection and Classification of Software Tools in DH Publications
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Speaker: Nicolas Ruth, Andreas Niekler and Manuel Burghardt
Affiliation: Computational Humanities Group, Institute for Computer Science, Leipzig University – Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig
Title: Peeking Inside the DH Toolbox – Detection and Classification of Software Tools in DH Publications
Abstract: Digital tools have played an important role in Digital Humanities (DH) since its beginnings. Accordingly, a lot of research has been dedicated to the documentation of tools as well as to the analysis of their impact from an epistemological perspective. In this paper we propose a binary and a multi-class classification approach to detect and classify tools. The approach builds on state-of-the-art neural language models. We test our model on two different corpora and report the results for different parameter configurations in two consecutive experiments. In the end, we demonstrate how the models can be used for actual tool detection and tool classification tasks in a large corpus of DH journals.
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Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs
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Speaker: Leonard Konle and Fotis Jannidis
Affiliation: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Title: Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs
Abstract: The paper outlines a formal model of plot (and syuzhet) for narrative texts. The basic unit are scenes and the motif repertoire instantiated in the scene. The motif repertoire consists of three sets of (closely related) elements: character stereotypes, types of verbal actions and action types. It is assumed that the motif repertoire is highly dependent on the corpus which is analyzed, in our case a corpus of romance and horror novels published as pulp fiction. The resulting information is represented in a temporal graph which in turn is used to compute relevant information on the scenes and characters. Scenes are also characterized by their valence and their arousal value. A second representation which offers with a topic model of the direct speech and the narrative text a simple proxy for the types of verbal actions and the action types is also created. To assess the ability of these information structures to indicate changes in the temporal structures three evaluation methods are used based on artificial data. We can confirm that a very abstract representation of the plot is able to do so, but contrary to our expectations the more information-rich model which makes use of the topic model is not better in doing so. The main contribution of this paper is its attempt to integrate different research proposals into one integral model. We offer a descriptive framework and a proposal for the formal model of plot, which makes it possible to identify research problems and align existing approaches.
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A Quantitative Study of Fictional Things
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Speaker: Andrew Piper and Sunyam Bagga
Affiliation: McGill University, 680 Sherbrooke St., Montreal, QC H3A 2M7, Canada
Title: A Quantitative Study of Fictional Things
Abstract: In this paper, we apply machine learning based predictive models on two large data sets of historical and contemporary fiction to better understand the role that things play in fictional writing. A large body of scholarship known as ``thing theory’’ has attempted to understand the function of fictional things within literature mostly by focusing on small case studies. We provide the first-ever estimates of the distribution of different types of things in English-language fiction over the past two centuries along with experiments to model their semantic identity. Our findings suggest that the most common fictional things are structural in nature, functioning akin to narrative props. We conclude by showing how these findings pose problems for inherited theories of fictional things and propose an alternative theoretical framework, embodied cognition, as a way of understanding the predominance of structural things.
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Reviewer Preferences and Gender Disparities in Aesthetic Judgments
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Speaker: Ida Marie S. Lassen (1), Yuri Bizzoni (1), Telma Peura (1), Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (2) and Kristoffer Nielbo (1)
Affiliation: (1) Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483,DK-8000 Aarhus C; (2) School of Communication and Culture - Comparative Literature, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 139, Building 1580, DK-8000 Aarhus C
Title: Reviewer Preferences and Gender Disparities in Aesthetic Judgments
Abstract: Aesthetic preferences are considered highly subjective resulting in inherently noisy judgments of aesthetic objects, yet certain aspects of aesthetic judgment display convergent trends over time. This paper presents a study that uses literary reviews as a proxy for aesthetic judgment in order to identify systematic components that can be attributed to bias. Specifically, we find that judgments of literary quality differ across media types and display a gender bias. In newspapers, male reviewers have a same-gender preference while female reviewers show an opposite–gender preference. On the other hand, in the blogosphere female reviewers prefer female authors. While alternative accounts exist of this apparent gender disparity, we argue that it reflects a cultural gender antagonism that is necessary to take into account when doing computational assessment of aesthetics.
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Gender and Power in Japanese Light Novels
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Speaker: Xiaoyun Gong, Yuxi Lin, Ye Ding and Lauren Klein
Affiliation: Emory University, 201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Title: Gender and Power in Japanese Light Novels
Abstract: In Japanese culture, the light novel – a combination of text and anime-style illustrations–is a relatively new literary form. It derives from the broader otaku culture, which is also associated with video games, manga, cosplay, anime, and other forms of Japanese popular culture. Though the light novel lacks the global reach of some of these other genres, such as manga and anime, it nonetheless attracts millions of readers across a range of gender and age groups. While distinct subgenres of the light novel have emerged, such as romance, adventure, horror, and harem, issues of gender stereotyping, power imbalances and other forms of inequality remain strongly entrenched. These issues can be attributed to how otaku culture is rooted in heterosexual male desire. This paper offers a quantitative assessment of these issues of gender inequality. We analyze 290 light novels, scraped from the Baka-Tsuki Translation Community Wiki, in terms of the power relationships between female and male characters as they evolve over the course of each novel. We find patterns consistent with issues of gender stereotyping and power differentials. More specifically, we find that female characters consistently wield less power than male characters, especially toward the end of each novel. We find some variation in specific subgenres. We conclude with close readings of two light novels, demonstrating how a power frames approach to analyzing gender stereotypes in otaku culture augments existing work on the subject.
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Detecting Sequential Genre Change in Eighteenth-Century Texts
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Speaker: Jinbin Zhang (1), Yann Ciarán Ryan (3), Iiro Rastas (4), Filip Ginter (4), Mikko Tolonen (3) and Rohit Babbar (1)
Affiliation: (1) Aalto University, Finland; (3) University of Helsinki, Finland; (4) TurkuNLP, University of Turku, Finland
Title: Detecting Sequential Genre Change in Eighteenth-Century Texts
Abstract: Machine classification of historical books into genres is a common task for NLP-based classifiers and has a number of applications, from literary analysis to information retrieval. However it is not a straightforward task, as genre labels can be ambiguous and subject to temporal change, and moreoever many books consist of mixed or miscellaneous genres. In this paper we describe a work-in-progress method by which genre predictions can be used to determine longer sequences of genre change within books, which we test out with visualisations of some hand-picked texts. We apply state-of-the-art methods to the task, including a BERT-based transformer and character-level Perceiver model, both pre-trained on a large collection of eighteenth century works (ECCO), using a new set of hand-annotated documents created to reflect historical divisions. Results show that both models perform significantly better than a linear baseline, particularly when ECCO-BERT is combined with tfidf features, though for this task the character-level model provides no obvious advantage. Initial evaluation of the genre sequence method shows it may in the future be useful in determining and dividing the multiple genres of miscellaneous and hybrid historical texts.
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Measuring Rhythm Regularity in Verse: Entropy of Inter-Stress Intervals
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Speaker: Artjoms Šeļa (1, 2) and Mikhail Gronas (3)
Affiliation: (1) Institute of Polish Language (Polish Academy of Sciences), al. Mickiewicza 31, 31-120 Kraków; (2) University of Tartu, Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia; (3) Dartmouth college, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Title: Measuring Rhythm Regularity in Verse: Entropy of Inter-Stress Intervals
Abstract: Recognition of poetic meters is not a trivial task, since metrical labels are not a closed set of classes. Outside of classical meters, describing the metrical structure of a poem in a large corpus requires expertise and a shared scientific theory. In a situation when both components are lacking, alternative and continuous measures of regularity can be envisioned. This paper focuses on poetic rhythm to propose a simple entropy-based measure for poem regularity using counts of non-stressed intervals. The measure is validated using subsets of a well-annotated Russian poetic corpus, prose, and quasi-poems (prose chopped into lines). The regularity measure is able to detect a clear difference between various organizational principles of texts: average entropy rises when moving from accentual-syllabic meters to accentual variations to free verse and prose. Interval probabilities, when taken as a vector of features, also allow for classification at the level of individual poems. This paper argues that distinguishing between meter as a cultural idea and rhythm as an empirical sequence of sounds can lead to better understanding of form recognition and prosodic annotation problems.
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Chronicling Crises: Event Detection in Early Modern Chronicles from the Low Countries
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Speaker: Alie Lassche (1), Jan Kostkan (2) and Kristoffer Nielbo (2)
Affiliation: (1) Leiden University, Institute of History, Doelensteeg 16, 2311 VL Leiden, The Netherlands; (2) Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Title: Chronicling Crises: Event Detection in Early Modern Chronicles from the Low Countries
Abstract: Between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century, many middle-class Europeans kept a handwritten chronicle, in which they reported on events they considered relevant. Discussed topics varied from records of price fluctuations to local politics, and from weather reports to remarkable gossip. What we do not know yet, is to what extent times of conflict and crises influenced the way in which people dealt with information. We have applied methods from information theory – dynamics in word usage and measures of relative entropy such as novelty and resonance – to a corpus of early modern chronicles from the Low Countries (1500–1820) to provide more insight in the way early modern people were coping with information during impactful events. We detect three peaks in the novelty signal, which coincide with times of political uncertainty in the Northern and Southern Netherlands. Topic distributions provided by Top2Vec show that during these times, chroniclers tend to write more and more extensively about an increased variation of topics.
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What Shall We Do With the Unseen Sailor? Estimating the Size of the Dutch East India Company Using an Unseen Species Model
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Speaker: Melvin Wevers (1), Folgert Karsdorp (2) and Jelle van Lottum (3)
Affiliation: (1) University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; (2) KNAW Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; (3) KNAW Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Title: What Shall We Do With the Unseen Sailor? Estimating the Size of the Dutch East India Company Using an Unseen Species Model
Abstract: Historians base their inquiries on the sources that are available to them. However, not all sources that are relevant to the historian’s inquiry may have survived the test of time. Consequently, the resulting data can be biased in unknown ways, possibly skewing analyses. This paper deals with the Dutch East India Company its digitized ledgers of contracts. We apply an unseen species model, a method from ecology, to estimate the actual number of unique seafarers contracted. We find that the lower bound of actual seafarers is much higher than what the remaining contracts indicate: at least, thirty-six percent of the seafarers is unknown. Moreover, we find that even in periods when few records survived, we can still credibly estimate a lower bound on the unique number of seafarers.
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Online expo: 360° Ligeti
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Bezoek de webtentoonstelling 360° Ligeti hier! Opvallend in de muziek van de Hongaars-Oostenrijkse componist György Ligeti (1923-2006) is haar originaliteit en veelzijdigheid. Grenzeloos zoals de gedachten van de componist. Als kind verzon Ligeti het utopische land ‘Kylwiria’, waarvoor hij landkaarten,…
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Lost Manuscripts and Extinct Texts: A Dynamic Model of Cultural Transmission
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Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Camps (1, 2) and Julien Randon-Furling (3, 4)
Affiliation: (1) Venice Center for Digital and Public Humanities, Univ. Ca’ Foscari, Fondamenta Malcanton 5449, Venezia, 30123, Italy; (2) Centre Jean-Mabillon, École nationale des chartes, Paris Sciences , &, Lettres, 65 rue de Richelieu, Paris, 75002, France; (3) Centre Borelli, Univ. Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, SSA, INSERM, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; (4) SAMM, FP2M (FR2036), Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS, Paris, 75013, France
Title: Lost Manuscripts and Extinct Texts: A Dynamic Model of Cultural Transmission
Abstract: How did written works evolve, disappear or survive down through the ages? In this paper, we propose a unified, formal framework for two fundamental questions in the study of the transmission of texts: how much was lost or preserved from all works of the past, and why do their genealogies (their "phylogenetic trees’‘) present the very peculiar shapes that we observe or, more precisely, reconstruct? We argue here that these questions share similarities to those encountered in evolutionary biology, and can be described in terms of "genetic’’ drift and "natural’’ selection. Through agent-based models, we show that such properties as have been observed by philologists since the 1800s can be simulated, and confronted to data gathered for ancient and medieval texts across Europe, in order to obtain plausible estimations of the number of works and manuscripts that existed and were lost.
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Right-wing Mnemonics
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Speaker: Phillip Stenmann Baun (1) and Kristoffer Nielbo (2, 3)
Affiliation: (1) Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; (2) Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; (3) Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Title: Right-wing Mnemonics
Abstract: This paper presents a natural language processing technique for studying memory on the far-right political discussion forum /pol/ on 4chan.org. Memory and the use of history play a pivotal role on the far-right for temporally structuring beliefs about social life and order. However, due in part to methodological limitations, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the specific historical entities that make up the far-right memory culture and w…
Differentiating Social Media Texts via Clustering
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Speaker: Hannah Seemann and Tatjana Scheffler
Affiliation: Germanistisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Title: Differentiating Social Media Texts via Clustering
Abstract: We propose to use clustering of documents based on their fine-grained linguistic properties in order to capture and validate text type distinctions such as medium and register. Correlating the bottom-up, linguistic feature driven clustering with text type distinctions (medium and register) enables us to quantify the influence of individual author choice and medium/register conventions on variable linguistic phenomena. Our pilot study applies the method to German particles and intensifiers in a multimedia corpus, annotated for register. We show that German particles and intensifiers differ across both register and medium. The clustering based on the linguistic features most closely corresponds to the medium distinction, while the stratification into registers is reflected to a lesser extent.
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Emodynamics: Detecting and Characterizing Pandemic Sentiment Change Points on Danish Twitter
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Speaker: Rebekah Baglini (1), Sara Møller Østergaard (2), Stine Nyhus Larsen (2) and Kristoffer Nielbo (2)
Affiliation: (1) School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2, Building 1485, DK-8000 Aarhus C, (2) Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483,DK-8000 Aarhus C
Title: Emodynamics: Detecting and Characterizing Pandemic Sentiment Change Points on Danish Twitter
Abstract: In this paper, we present the results of an initial experiment using emotion classifications as the basis for studying information dynamics in social media (`emodynamics’). To do this, we used Bert Emotion to assign probability scores for eight different emotions to each text in a time series of 43 million Danish tweets from 2019-2022. We find that variance in the information signals novelty and resonance reliably identify seasonal shifts in posting behavior, particularly around the Christmas holiday season, whereas variance in the distribution of emotion scores corresponds to more local events such as major inflection points in the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark. This work in progress suggests that emotion scores are a useful tool for diagnosing shifts in the baseline information state of social media platforms such as Twitter, and for understanding how social media systems respond to both predictable and unexpected external events.
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Detecting Formulaic Language Use in Historical Administrative Corpora
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Speaker: Marijn Koolen (1, 2) and Rik Hoekstra (1,2)
Affiliation: (1) KNAW Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; (2) DHLab, KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Title: Detecting Formulaic Language Use in Historical Administrative Corpora
Abstract: Historical administrative corpora are filled with jargon and formulaic expressions that were used consistently across many documents. Governmental decisions, notarial deeds and official charters often contain fixed expressions to ensure that the same legal aspects in different documents had the same interpretation. Such formulaic expressions can be used to identify specific elements of a document. For instance, a deed has different formulas to indicate whether it concerns the sale of property or the transferal of rights. In this paper we explore formulas as a methodological devise to structure the text of an administrative corpus and make the information contained in it better accessible. We use a data-driven method to detect potential formulaic expressions in historical corpora, that can deal with spelling variation and change and recognition errors introduced in the digitisation process. We apply this exploratory technique on a corpus of almost 300,000 eighteenth-century resolutions of the States General of the Dutch Republic and find many formulaic expressions that capture relationships between the political actors involved and the decisions that were made. A first analysis suggests that many formulas can be used to add metadata to individual resolutions on various elements of the proposals and decisions that are part of each resolution.
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Introducing Functional Diversity: A Novel Approach to Lexical Diversity in (Historical) Corpora
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Folgert Karsdorp (1), Enrique Manjavacas (2) and Lauren Fonteyn (2)
Affiliation: (1) KNAW Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; (2) Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
Title: Introducing Functional Diversity: A Novel Approach to Lexical Diversity in (Historical) Corpora
Abstract: The question how we can reliably estimate the lexical diversity of a particular text (collection) has often been asked by linguists and literary scholars alike. This short paper introduces a way of operationalizing functional diversity measurements by means of token-based embeddings, and argues that functional diversity is not only a practically advantageous, but also a theoretically relevant addition to the Computational Humanities Research toolkit. By means of an experiment on the historical ARCHER corpus, we show that lexical diversity at the level of functional groups is less sensitive to orthographic variation, and provides insight into an important and often disregarded dimension of vocabulary diversity in textual data.
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55th CIDOC-CRM and 48th FRBR joint meeting
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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CIDOC CRM is an international standard for Cultural Heritage domain description. FRBRoo/LRMoo is an international standard for bibliographic information. Twice a year, members of both groups meet to update and improve their models. The next meeting will be held at the C²DH, between 6 and 9 December 2022. See the agenda of the meeting.
Besides the meeting itself, two awareness events are open to a wider public:
Hands-on workshop about Spatiotemporal modeling using CIDOC CRM models
Tuesday 6 December, 9.30 - 13.30 at the DH Lab
The workshop, mostly dedicated to cultural heritage professionals, will consist in two parts: first a guided tour of the university campus at Belval that is situated on a reclaimed industrial site, followed by a practical collaborative session on using spatiotempora…
2022-11-14
DHd-Verband initiiert mit Fedihum.org neue Mastodon-Instanz für alle Digital Humanities-Aficionados
Source: Tagungen |
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Seit Montag, dem 14.11.2022, bietet Fedihum.org allen an den Digital Humanities Interessierten eine neue Plattform für digitale Wissenschaftskommunikation im sogenannten Fediverse…
‘International Infrastructures for the Digital Humanities’
Source: Living with Machines |
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Our Principal Investigator Ruth Ahnert and Co-Investigator Mia Ridge were asked to speak on a panel on ‘International Infrastructures for the Digital Humanities‘ at the Building Digital Humanities Symposium in early November: ‘The key theme of this session is to look outward to the most ambitious global connections that can be made via digital humanities […]
Manuscript Monday: LJS 380- Pros mathēmatikous … [etc.] (Video Orientation)
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 380, a 15th century copy of the ancient Greek critique of learning by Empiricus Sextus, divided into the disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, music, logic, physics, and ethics. A short work titled Dialexeis or DissoiContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 380- Pros mathēmatikous … [etc.] (Video Orientation)"
Linguistic Value Construction in 18th-Century London Auction Advertisements: a Quantitative Approach
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Alessandra De Mulder (1), Lauren Fonteyn (2) and Mike Kestemont (1)
Affiliation: (1) University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; (2) Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
Title: Linguistic Value Construction in 18th-Century London Auction Advertisements: a Quantitative Approach
Abstract: Georgian England was characterised by a buzzing consumer society in which advertising played a progressively important role when it came to the (linguistic) value construction surrounding material goods. Increasingly, the perceived value of goods was not only determined by the intrinsic quality of the goods, but also by the socio-commercial discourse used to characterise them. Linguistic modifiers, such as adjectives, must have played an important role in this process – reflecting these socio-economical trends in text while also reinforcing them. Here, we focus on a diachronic corpus of over 5,000 pages of London auction advertisement pages, digitised via automated transcription and divided across four sample periods between 1742-1829. Prime methodological challenges include: (1) the noisiness of the available data because of imperfect transcription; (2) the coarseness of the available time stamps, and (3) the lack of suitable NLP software, such as lemmatizers or (shallow) syntactic parsers. Through the use of word embeddings, we try to alleviate the issue of spelling variation with reasonable success. We find that, over time, subjective or ‘evaluative’ modifiers have become more prominent in these advertisements than their objective or ‘descriptive’ counterparts – but there are different temporal patterns for different types of advertised objects
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The Roots of Doubt. Fine-tuning a BERT Model to Explore a Stylistic Phenomenon
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Margherita Parigini (1) and Mike Kestemont (2)
Affiliation: (1) Université de Genève; (2) University of Antwerp
Title: The Roots of Doubt. Fine-tuning a BERT Model to Explore a Stylistic Phenomenon
Abstract: The narrative work of well-known Italian author Italo Calvino (1923-1985) features a phenomenon that literary critics refer to as ``dubitative text’': this stylistic device consciously hinders the narrative progression of a story, by questioning its own content. We report on an attempt to model the presence of dubitative text in Calvino’s fictional oeuvre and examine whether this model can also be used to retrieve dubitative instances in his essayistic oeuvre. We hypothesize that precisely the category of the dubitative text yields interesting points of intersection between both writing modes. We fine-tuned a BERT model based on a manually annotated dataset and report inter-annotator scores. We situate our findings and model criticism in the current landscape of Calvino scholarship. While detecting dubitative text is challenging, our model provides fresh insights into the device’s surface features.
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The Process of Imitatio Through Stylometric Analysis: the Case of Terence’s Eunuchus
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Andrea Peverelli (1,2), Marieke van Erp (2) and Jan Bloemendal (1)
Affiliation: (1) Huygens Institute, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, the Netherlands; (2) KNAW Humanities Cluster, DHLab, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Title: The Process of Imitatio Through Stylometric Analysis: the Case of Terence’s Eunuchus
Abstract: The Early Modern Era is at the forefront of a widespread enthusiasm for Latin works: texts from classical antiquity are given new life, widely re-printed, studied and even repeatedly staged, in the case of dramas, throughout Europe. Also, new Latin comedies are again written in quantities never seen before (at least 10,000 works published 1500 to 1800 are known). The authors themselves, within the game of literary imitation (the process of imitatio), start to mimic the style of ancient authors, and Terence’s dramas in particular were considered the prime sources of reuse for many decades. Via a case study “the reception of Terence’s Eunuchus in Early Modern literature”, we take a deep dive into the mechanisms of literary imitation. Our analysis is based on four comedy corpora in Latin, Italian, French and English, spanning roughly 3 centuries (1400-1700). To assess the problem of language shift and multi-language inter-corpora analysis, we base our experiments on translations of the Eunuchus , one for each sub-corpus. Through the use of tools drawn from the field of Stylometry, we address the topic of text reuse and textual similarities between Terence’s text and Early-Modern corpora to get a better grasp on the internal fluctuations of the imitation game between Early Modern and Classical authors.
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One Graph to Rule them All: Using NLP and Graph Neural Networks to analyse Tolkien's Legendarium
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Vincenzo Perri, Lisi Qarkaxhija, Albin Zehe, Andreas Hotho and Ingo Scholtes
Affiliation: (1) Data Analytics Group, Department of Informatics(IfI), Universität Zürich, CH-8050 Zürich, Switzerland; (2) Chair of Informatics XV - Machine Learning for Complex Networks, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany; (3) Chair of Informatics X - Data Science, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
Title: One Graph to Rule them All: Using NLP and Graph Neural Networks to analyse Tolkien’s Legendarium
Abstract: Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning have considerably advanced Computational Literary Studies. Similarly, the construction of co-occurrence networks of literary characters, and their analysis using methods from social network analysis and network science, have provided insights into the micro- and macro-level structure of literary texts. Combining these perspectives, in this work we study character networks extracted from a text corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium. We show that this perspective helps us to analyse and visualise the narrative style that characterises Tolkien’s works. Addressing character classification, embedding and co-occurrence prediction, we further investigate the advantages of state-of-the-art Graph Neural Networks over a popular word embedding method. Our results highlight the large potential of graph learning in Computational Literary Studies.
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Correlations between GoodReads Appreciation and the Sentiment Arc Fractality of the Grimm brothers' Fairy Tales
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Yuri Bizzoni, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Ida Marie S. Lassen and Kristoffer Nielbo
Affiliation: 1, Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483,DK-8000 Aarhus C; 2, School of Communication and Culture - Comparative Literature, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 139, Building 1580, DK-8000 Aarhus C, \; 3, Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus , &, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483, 3rd floor, DK-8000 Aarhus C
Title: Correlations between GoodReads Appreciation and the Sentiment Arc Fractality of the Grimm brothers’ Fairy Tales
Abstract: Despite their widespread popularity, fairy tales are often overlooked when studying literary quality with quantitative approaches. We present a study on the relation between sentiment fractality and literary appreciation by testing the hypothesis that fairy tales with a good balance between unpredictability and excessive self-similarity in their sentiment narrative arcs tend to be more popular and more appreciated by audiences of readers. In short, we perform a correlation study of the degree of fractality of the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers and their current appreciation as measured by their Goodreads scores. Moreover, we look at the popularity of these fairy tales through time, determining which ones have come to form a strong “internal canon” in the corpus of the authors and which one have fallen into relative obscurity.
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`Entrez!' she called: Evaluating Language Identification Tools in English Literary Texts
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Erik Ketzan and Nicolas Werner
Affiliation: Centre for Digital Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland & University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Title: `Entrez!’ she called: Evaluating Language Identification Tools in English Literary Texts
Abstract: This short paper presents work in progress on the evaluation of current language identification (LI) tools for identifying foreign language n-grams in English-language literary texts, for instance, “‘Entrez!’ she called”. We first manually annotated French and Spanish words appearing in 12,000-word text samples by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway using a TEI tag. We then split the tagged sample texts into four groups of n-grams, from unigram to tetragram, and compared the accuracy of five LI packages on correctly identifying the language of the tagged foreign-language snippets. We report that, of the packages tested, Fasttext proved most accurate for this task overall, but that methodological questions and future work remain.
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Automatic Identification and Classification of Portraits in a Corpus of Historical Photographs
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton and Justin Wigard
Affiliation: Linguistics Program, Carole Weinstein International Center, 211 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA 23173, U.S.A; Rhetoric & Communication Studies, 231 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA 23173, U.S.A
Title: Automatic Identification and Classification of Portraits in a Corpus of Historical Photographs
Abstract: There have been recent calls for an increased focus on the application of computer vision to the study and curation of digitised cultural heritage materials. In this short paper, we present an approach to bridge the gap between existing algorithms and humanistically driven annotations through a case study in which we create an algorithm to detect and and classify portrait photography. We apply this method to a collection of about 40,000 photographs and present a preliminary analysis of the constructed data. The work is part of the larger ongoing study that applies computer vision to the computational analysis of over a million U.S. documentary photographs from the early twentieth century.
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Page Layout Analysis of Text-heavy Historical Documents: a Comparison of Textual and Visual Approaches
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Sven Najem-Meyer and Matteo Romanello
Affiliation: EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland & UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Title: Page Layout Analysis of Text-heavy Historical Documents: a Comparison of Textual and Visual Approaches
Abstract: Page layout analysis is a fundamental step in document processing which enables to segment a page into regions of interest. With highly complex layouts and mixed scripts, scholarly commentaries are text-heavy documents which remain challenging for state-of-the-art models. Their layout considerably varies across editions and their most important regions are mainly defined by semantic rather than graphical characteristics such as position or appearance. This setting calls for a comparison between textual, visual and hybrid approaches. We therefore assess the performances of two transformers (LayoutLMv3 and RoBERTa) and an objection-detection network (YOLOv5). If results show a clear advantage in favor of the latter, we also list several caveats to this finding. In addition to our experiments, we release a dataset of ca. 300 annotated pages sampled from 19th century commentaries.
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The Computational Memorability of Iconic Images
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Lisa Saleh and Nanne van Noord
Affiliation: Multimedia Analytics Lab, University of Amsterdam
Title: The Computational Memorability of Iconic Images
Abstract: The perception of historic events is frequently shaped by specific images that have been ascribed an iconic status. These images are widely reproduced and recognised and can therefore be considered memorable. A question that arises given such images is whether the memorability of iconic images is intrinsic or whether it is shaped. In this work we analyse the memorability of iconic images by means of computational techniques that are specifically designed to measure the intrinsic memorability of images. To judge whether iconic images are inherently more memorable we establish two baselines based on datasets of diverse imagery and of newspaper imagery. Our findings show that iconic images are not more memorable than modern day newspaper imagery or when compared to a diverse set of everyday images. In fact, by and large many of the iconic images analysed score on the low end of the memorability spectrum. Additionally, we explore the variation in memorability of reproductions of iconic images and find that certain images have been edited resulting in higher memorability scores, but that the images by and large are reproduced with memorability close to the original.
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Ground-truth Free Evaluation of HTR on Old French and Latin Medieval Literary Manuscripts
Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics |
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Speaker: Thibault Clérice
Affiliation: Centre Jean Mabillon, École nationale des Chartes & INRIA
Title: Ground-truth Free Evaluation of HTR on Old French and Latin Medieval Literary Manuscripts
Abstract: As more and more projects openly release ground truth for handwritten text recognition (HTR), we expect the quality of automatic transcription to improve on unseen data. Getting models robust to scribal and material changes is a necessary step for specific data mining tasks. However, evaluation of HTR results requires ground truth to compare prediction statistically. In the context of modern languages, successful attempts to evaluate quality have been done using lexical features or n-grams. This, however, proves difficult in the context of spelling variation that both Old French and Latin have, even more so in the context of sometime heavily abbreviated manuscripts. We propose a new method based on deep learning where we attempt to categorize each line error rate into four error rate ranges ( 0 < 10 % < 25 % < 50 % < 100 % ) using three different encoder (GRU with Attention, BiLSTM, TextCNN). To train these models, we propose a new dataset engineering approach using early stopped model, as an alternative to rule-based fake predictions. Our model largely outperforms the n-gram approach. We also provide an example application to qualitatively analyse our classifier, using classification on new prediction on a sample of 1,800 manuscripts ranging from the 9th century to the 15th.
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About the chr22-paper category
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Category to indicate papers presented during the CHR22 conference.
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Training: Sharing and publishing research data (KU Leuven)
Source: The Scholarly Tales |
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This event is only open to KU Leuven researchers and staff. Do you want to know more about depositing, publishing, sharing, and reusing data? Learn all about data sharing best practices, what research data repositories are, and get hands-on experience…
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2022-11-11
Call for Hosts DHd2025
Source: Tagungen |
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DHd20xx ist die jährliche, internationale Fachtagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd, http://dig-hum.de) und die führende wissenschaftliche Konferenz für die…
RESOURCE: Data Literacy Cookbook
Source: dh+lib |
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The Data Literacy Cookbook is now available. Edited by Kelly Getz (Associate Professor and S.T.E.M. Librarian at Eastern Michigan University) and Meryl Brodsky (Liaison Librarian for the School of Information and the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas – Austin), the cookbook helps librarians prepare to teach a broad range of data ...read more
EVENT: Making More Sense With Machines
Source: dh+lib |
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AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations) will offer an upcoming online workshop, Making More Sense With Machines: AI/ML Methods for Interrogating and Understanding Our Textual Heritage in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. Hosted by University of Illinois and the HathiTrust Research Center, this workshop will be held November 29-30 from 10am – 2pm ...read more
EVENT: Reframing Failure: Setting the Failure Agenda
Source: dh+lib |
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Organized by the University of London’s School of Advance Study, Reframing Failure: Setting the Failure Agenda is a free virtual seminar being held on November 15 (5:00pm GMT). From the event page: In 2012 Lisa Spiro wrote, ‘Not all experiments succeed as originally imagined, but the digital humanities community recognizes the value of failure in ...read more
EVENT: Building Digital Humanities Symposium
Source: dh+lib |
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The Building Digital Humanities Symposium is a free, online event organized by Western Sydney University in conjunction with Gale, part of Cengage Group and the Pondicherry University and running November 7-25. The symposium “will explore the conditions in which Digital Humanities (DH) can flourish at institutional, inter-institutional, national and supra-national level, considering issues such as ...read more
CFP: CNI Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
Source: dh+lib |
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The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) announced its call for its February 2023 pre-recorded project briefings. From the call: Videos should focus on a timely topic or on a specific project related to digital information. We especially invite briefings on recently published reports, and updates on new or ongoing projects, programs, or organizations that may have reported ...read more
CFP: Latinx Digital Humanities: Method, Theory, and Praxis
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Guest editors Lorena Gauthereau, Marissa K. López, and Maira E. Álvarez, welcome submissions for a special issue of Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, on the topic of “Latinx Digital Humanities: Method, Theory, and Praxis.” From the announcement: This special issue will bring together critical essays, snapshots from the field (e.g. reports, descriptions of ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Editorial Collective
Source: dh+lib |
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The The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) is seeking new members to join their Editorial Collective as the JITP team prepares to migrate the journal’s production and publication process to Manifold. The announcement welcomes applications from a variety of DH and library practitioners interested in gaining experience with academic editorship: We invite applications from graduate ...read more
JOB: Web and Data Services Developer (Simon Fraser University)
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From the announcement: The Web and Data Services Developer designs, develops, and maintains custom web-based and other applications in support of Digital Humanities research and pedagogy at SFU. The position adapts and extends existing open-source software across a variety of platforms, frameworks, and languages. The position works with faculty and others to determine the most ...read more
JOB: Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Specialist in Public Scholarship (Bucknell University)
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From the announcement: Bucknell University’s Library and Information Technology division is seeking a Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Specialist with an emphasis on public scholarship to support our vision of transformative and inclusive digital scholarship. The primary goal of this position is to provide support to campus stakeholders who are working on digital scholarship and pedagogy ...read more
JOB: Data Visualization Librarian (Boston College)
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From the announcement: Job Description Boston College Libraries seek a Data Visualization Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). This position is primarily responsible for digital scholarship collaborations and services related to data visualization. Such activities include consulting on faculty and student data-visualization projects; providing data visualization skills training to faculty and staff; and providing ...read more
JOB: Head, Digital Scholarship Services Librarian (Michigan State University)
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From the announcement: The Michigan State University Libraries seeks a creative, knowledgeable, and user-oriented librarian for the position of Head of Digital Scholarship Services (Librarian I/II). The successful candidate will lead and build a team of innovative and collaborative professionals in the Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Lab and work closely with campus partners across disciplines in ...read more
Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
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This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian …
2022-11-07
Submit On-site, Hybrid, or Online Workshops for DHNB2023
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SUBMIT WORKSHOPS UNTIL 15 NOVEMBER! Workshops can be submitted for DHNB2023 until Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 23:59 CET. Submit abstracts via ConfTool, or send your proposal to dhnb2023@dhnb.eu. Read the call for submissions for requirements and specifications. Workshops for you who want to have a local, in-person event adjacent to the virtual conference for you […]
Understanding Faust: Mortal Bodies, Immortal Desires
Source: CDH |
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By Linseigh Green First published on www.faust-shop.org on 10th October 2022 When I was first cast as Faust in Faust Shop, the 2022 adaptation of the Faust legend to the digital age co-directed by Annja Neumann and Alex Mentzel, I struggled more than I had ever done before to understand my character (and I’ve played
Understanding Faust: Mortal Bodies, Immortal Desires
Source: Blog - CDH |
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By Linseigh Green First published on www.faust-shop.org on 10th October 2022 When I was first cast as Faust in Faust Shop, the 2022 adaptation of the Faust legend to the digital age co-directed by Annja Neumann and Alex Mentzel, I struggled more than I had ever done before to understand my character (and I’ve played […]
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Radical Archives: Community Digital Archives Consultation Forum
Source: News |
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Date:
18 Nov 2022
Location:
Members’ Room, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Duration: 10:30-14:00
RDA's 10th Anniversary Year Kicks off with Community Workshops
Source: News |
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As part of the Research Data Alliance's (RDA) strategic plan to celebrate and commemorate its 10th Anniversary in 2023, there will be a series of monthly workshops connecting the outputs of various Interest Groups, Working Groups, and Communities of Practice with a similar thematic focus in Research Data Management to discuss the future of their work.
Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1655- Adversariorum pars prima. (Video Orientation)
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1655, a collection of excerpts and notes in Portugese, largely medical and scientific, drawn both from professional publications and from works of more general interest including works of natural history and expedition accounts. The books andContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1655- Adversariorum pars prima. (Video Orientation)"
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Conversations in Contemporary Publishing
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Cosette Bruhns Alonso
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 2:00pm
Williams Hall 623
Multimodal digital scholarly publications offer unique affordances over traditional print publishing formats by enabling authors to integrate innovative digital tools and/or data, as well as media-rich enhancements in their scholarly publications. Recent publications taking advantage of such digital affordances have included monographs, enhanced journals, hybrid digital & print projects, as well as podcasts. How are these projects designed and developed to be sustainable, discoverable, and accessible in the long term? Who is publishing them? And how can graduate students and early career scholars acquire the skills and/or find support to develop digital publications?
This presentation will address how academic publishers are approaching multimodal born-digital and hybrid publications, as well as how libraries are supporting contemporary digital publishing methods. In particular it will introduce the range of recent scholarly digital publications and the University Presses actively seeking proposals. It will also touch on considerations for developing a digital publication, including the DH skill set learning curve, pitching a project to an editor, writing for a public audience, platforms, preservation, and accessibility, and resources for getting started.
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Multimodal Digital Scholarship
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Cosette Bruhns Alonso
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Contemporary publishing fellow, Penn Libraries & Penn Press
Digital cultural heritage series
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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According to the Unesco, “digital heritage consists of unique resources of human knowledge and expression. It embraces cultural, educational, scientific and administrative resources, as well as technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information created digitally, or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources. Where resources are “born digital”, there is no other format but the digital object. Digital materials include texts, databases, still and moving images, audio, graphics, software and web pages, among a wide and growing range of formats. They are frequently ephemeral, and require purposeful production, maintenance, and management to be retained ”.
In recent years, digital heritage has become more topical than ever: the …
CLARIN Book Out Now!
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CLARIN Book Out Now!
The publication of this open-access volume marks CLARIN’s 10-year-anniversary as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, and is edited by Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana) and Andreas Witt (Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim).
The book, launched at CLARIN2022, is the first volume in a new series on Digital Linguistics, published by De Gruyter and provides a comprehensive overview of CLARIN, its members, its goals and functioning, as well as of the tools and resources hosted by the infrastructure. The many contributors representing various fields, from computer science to law and psychology, analyse a wide range of topics, such as the technology behind the CLARIN infrastructure, the use of CLARIN resources in diverse research projects, the achievements of selected national CLARIN consortia, and the challenges that CLARIN has faced and will face in the future.
Get your digital or hard copy here
Listen to episode of the De Gruyter podcast about the CLARIN book here
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7 November 2022
2022-11-02
Vivien Wolter neue DHd-Communication Fellow
Source: Tagungen |
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Vivien Wolter, Studentin der Digital Humanities an der Universität Trier, ist seit November 2022 die neue DHd-Communication Fellow.
Vivien Wolter studierte Germanistik und…
Failing Better
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Colleen Macklin
John Sharp
Monday, November 7, 2022 - 5:00pm
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Failure—the real F word if ever there was one—is a topic seldom discussed. If you’ve ever made something, it is likely that you’ve experienced failure. Lots of it. Or, paraphrasing Samuel Beckett, hopefully you have failed better. Over the last decade, game designers John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have interviewed creative practitioners—from chefs to skateboarders, filmmakers to winemakers, and toy designers to comedians to see how they manage the inevitable failures encountered in their practices. Join Sharp and Macklin as they share some of the lessons they’ve learned from game design and other creative disciplines. Because while everyone fails, some do it better. Because without f…
John Sharp
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Associate Professor of Games and Learning in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design
John Sharp
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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The Price Lab is the University of Pennsylvania's center for innovative uses of technology in the study and teaching of history, art, and culture.
Colleen Macklin
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Associate Professor in the school of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design
Imprisoned Egyptian software engineer and activist invited to join University of Cambridge DataLab and public event as COP27 talks begin
Source: CDH |
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Imprisoned Egyptian software engineer and activist invited to join University of Cambridge DataLab and public event as COP27 talks begin The annual round of UN climate negotiations take place in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh this year against a backdrop of increasing signs of climate crisis: rising temperatures, catastrophic floods and droughts, wildfires and extreme
Events & Program Coordinator, CDHI
Source: Digital Humanities Network |
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Date Posted: 10/24/2022Req ID: 28114Faculty/Division: UofT MississaugaDepartment: UTM: Historical StudiesCampus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)Position Number: 00050887 Description: About us: The university’s second largest division, U of T Mississauga has 17 academic departments and offers 156 […]
This Hard Minett Land – Eine besondere Entdeckungsreise durch Luxemburgs Süden
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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„Son take a good look around/This is your home region!“ Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass das Buch „This Hard Minett Land“ in wenigen Tagen erscheint, nachdem die Texte, begleitet von Illustrationen des Künstlers Dan Altmann, uns von Februar bis November im Tageblatt begleitet und begeistert haben.
Dieses Buch versteht sich als Einladung zu einer ganz besonderen Entdeckungsreise durch Luxemburgs Süden: Rund vierzig SchriftstellerInnen und HistorikerInnen haben sich von Bruce Springsteens Songs inspirieren lassen und Texte über das luxemburgisch-lothringische Eisenerzbecken, „de Minett“, verfasst, sowie über diejenigen, die dort leben und gelebt haben, die dort geboren oder dorthin eingewandert sind, dort gearbeitet, geliebt, geträumt, gehofft, gekämpft, Erfolg gehabt haben – oder auch gescheitert sind. Indem die Autoren und Autorinnen fiktive, „auf wahren Begebenheiten beruhende“ oder reale Geschichten erzählen, die Geschichten der Helden von „This Hard Minett Land“, „struggling to do everything right“ („Brilliant Disguise“). Begleitet werden die Texte in deutscher, englischer, französischer und luxemburgischer Sprache von Illustrationen des Luxemburger Künstlers Dan Altmann.
Die offizielle Buchpräsentation findet statt am
Dienstag, 15. November 2022 ab 19.00 Uhr
im „Pompelhaus“ in Schifflingen (ehemaliges Gelände der Metzeschmelz), Eingang an der Kreuzung Rue de Lallange/Rue du Moulin
mit musikalischer Einlage von Claudine Muno, die einige Springsteen-Songs singen wird, sowie vom Jazz-Musiker Luciano Pagliarini, die beide auch zu den AutorInnen gehören. Anschließend lädt die Gemeinde Schifflingen zu einem Umtrunk ein.
Um Antwort (im Fall der Teilnahme, ob allein oder in Begleitung) wird gebeten per E-Mail an denis.scuto@uni.lu oder jaspers@capybarabooks.com bis zum 9. November 2022.
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Event: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Research Library Space
Source: Research Libraries UK |
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Event details When: Thursday 1 December, 14:00 - 15:30 (GMT); 15:00 - 16:30 (CET); 09:00 - 10:30 (EST), 22:00 - 23:30 (AWST) Where: This will be a virtual event, held via Zoom Who should attend: This event is open to all, you do not need to work for an RLUK institution [...]
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Call for Applications: 2022 ADHO Communications Fellowships
Source: Tagungen |
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The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its two 2022 Communications Fellowships, each of which comes with a stipend of €500 (Euros).
Each year…
2022-10-31
CAA Executive Steering Committee Elections
Source: CAA International |
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All current 2022 CAA members should have received their electronic ballots today. The positions being elected are Secretary, Membership Secretary, and Bursary and Student/Low-Income Officer. To learn more about the candidates, please see the ESC Candidate Statements page. If you did not receive your ballot, please check your spam folder, and then send an email […]
Manuscript Monday: LJS 355- Selections from Avicenna’s medical encyclopedia (Video Orientation)
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 355, a 15th-century copy of Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, andContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 355- Selections from Avicenna’s medical encyclopedia (Video Orientation)"
Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1650- [Classical and Catholic miscellany] (Video Orientation)
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1650, a collection of scholarly and devotional materials, some copied from 17th-century publications. The Latin works in the front of the volume include indexes of Virgilian topoi and letters of Cicero; a devotional poem on theContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1650- [Classical and Catholic miscellany] (Video Orientation)"
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CFP : Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries
Source: dhCenter |
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The Local Time Machine project UrbanHistory4D organises a workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries and is calling for contributions. The workshop will take place on 27 – 28 March 2021 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Submission deadline: 30 November 2022. Call for Papers The organisers […]
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Orla Delaney
Source: CDH |
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My research is concerned with the agentic, live qualities of digital infrastructures in the museum, and how these infrastructures operate as a meaning-making force in relation to the collection. My PhD work consists of the development and implementation of an ethnographic methodology for the critical study of museum databases, which aims to give a richly
Forum MuseumXTD : ressources disponibles
Source: dhCenter |
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Les résultats du projet MuseumXTD ont été présentés les 12 et 13 octobre 2022 à l’aula de la HEIG-VD, Yverdon-les-Bains. Ce symposium a réuni musées et expert.e.s du domaine de la numérisation des petits et moyens musées, suisses et étrangers. Mercredi 12 octobre (9h-17h): présentations, retours d’expérience et tables rondes avec la présence de professionnel·le·s des […]
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Review: I'm Still Surviving
Source: Reviews in Digital Humanities |
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A review of I'm Still Surviving, an interactive digital exhibition featuring oral histories of women living with HIV/AIDS, directed by Jennifer Brier and Matt Wizinsky
Editors' Note: October 2022
Source: Reviews in Digital Humanities |
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Editors' note on the October 2022 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities, guest edited by Kim Gallon and Kirsten Ostherr
Review: Black Health and the Humanities
Source: Reviews in Digital Humanities |
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A review of Black Health and the Humanities, interdisciplinary training workshops exploring Black health, directed by Josie Gill and Amber Lascelles
Review: Visualizing the Virus
Source: Reviews in Digital Humanities |
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A review of Visualizing the Virus, a digital project exploring COVID-19, directed by Sria Chatterjee and Ellen Ambrosone
Review: Medicine | Race | Democracy Lab
Source: Reviews in Digital Humanities |
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A review of Medicine | Race | Democracy Lab, a digital humanities project exploring access and care beyond hospital systems, led by Lan Li, Ricardo Nuila, Fady Joudah, Pierce Salguero, and their team
2022-10-28
RECOMMENDED: 3D Data Creation to Curation: Building Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation
Source: dh+lib |
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3D Data Creation to Curation: Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation, edited by Jennifer Moore (Washington University), Adam Rountrey (University of Michigan), and Hannah Scates Kettler (Iowa State University), provides valuable information on various aspects of handling 3D data. Topic addressed include: best practices for preservation, management and storage, metadata requirements, copyright and legal issues, and ...read more
PROJECT: The American Soldier in WWII
Source: dh+lib |
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An interdisciplinary, multi-year, and collaborative digital humanities project, American Soldier in World War II explores previously uncirculated soldier commentaries, primarily from aggrieved Black soldiers serving in the segregated military during the Second World War. In addition to historical essays that contextualize these commentaries, the website offers several resources, including lesson plans and datasets for teaching, ...read more
RESOURCE: Fostering Data Literacies (Ithaka S+R)
Source: dh+lib |
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Ithaka S+R has published, “Fostering Data Literacy: Teaching with Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences,” a qualitative study in which librarians from 20 campuses in the United States conducted 219 interviews with social science faculty, to explore “why and how instructors teach with data, identifies the most important challenges they face,” and to address “how ...read more
EVENT: Cultivating Partnerships in Digital Humanities: Strategies, Tips, and Lessons Learned
Source: dh+lib |
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ACRL University Libraries Section Professional Development Committee is hosting a webinar on “Cultivating Partnerships in Digital Humanities: Strategies, Tips, and Lessons Learned,” that will take place on November 12, 2022, at 1:00pm (CST). The webinar will address such questions as: “How can librarians collaborate effectively to promote cross-disciplinary scholarship and teaching in digital humanities” and ...read more
CFP: code4lib2023
Source: dh+lib |
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Next year’s Code4lib2023 conference will take place March 14-17, 2023, in-person, at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Conference talks proposals are being accepted now through November 14, 2022. Remote presentations will be supported, and a call for poster submissions is forthcoming. Previous conference programs offer a preview of the variety of topics related to ...read more
CFP: Canadian Digital Scholarship Librarians Community of Practice Fall Meeting
Source: dh+lib |
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The Canadian Digital Scholarship Librarians Community of Practice are currently looking for lightening talk presenters for the second annual Fall 2022 meetup, which will take place on November 25, from 10am-1pm (PST). From the call: We are looking for presenters for Lightning Talks. Please consider sharing some stories about what you’ve been working on, or ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: New Dangers and Opportunities of Technology, NEH Grant Program
Source: dh+lib |
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) has announced a new grant program, “Dangers & Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities.” This is “a direct call for research that explores the relationship between technology and culture and its dramatic impacts—both positive and negative.” Single researchers may be awarded up ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (Tufts University)
Source: dh+lib |
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From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Department supports research, teaching, and learning at Tufts and the Research & Learning division at Tufts University’s Tisch Library seeks an innovative and collaborative colleague to join us as Digital Scholarship Librarian and continue our growth within the context of our strategic framework. We provide access to scholarship in ...read more
JOB: Data Impact Librarian at ICPSR (University of Michigan)
Source: dh+lib |
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From the announcement: The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a unit of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan is seeking a Data Impact Librarian to join ICPSR’s Metadata and Preservation unit at the rank of Senior Associate Librarian. ICPSR maintains a large archive ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (Boston College)
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From the announcement: Boston College Libraries seek two Digital Scholarship Librarians to be part of our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). These positions are primarily responsible for facilitating and supporting the creation of faculty and student digital research projects; digital scholarship skills training for faculty, students, and staff; supporting the incorporation of digital scholarship (and digital humanities) into ...read more
JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (Johns Hopkins)
Source: dh+lib |
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From the announcement: We are seeking a Librarian III. The Digital Humanities Librarian works with faculty and students in the humanities, as well as librarians and software engineers in the Sheridan Libraries and Museums, to foster, shape and support digital approaches to humanistic research, teaching, and learning. This work includes the successful design and implementation ...read more
Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 1
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
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This is the first part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian …
Echoing Through Time: New Tunes for Old Words
Source: Living with Machines |
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When I began research for ‘Living with Machines: human stories from the industrial age’, a free exhibition at Leeds City Museum, I hadn’t imagined that the process would end with a captivating live performance of ballads from the British Library’s collections at the exhibition’s opening. The ballads were first suggested by Lucy Evans, Curator of […]
TIMETRAVEL #101: an introduction to the affordances of mixed reality for teaching history on-site
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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Mixed Reality, in its many forms, is generally characterised by its audiovisual, spatial and immersive nature, blending virtual content with elements of physical reality into an arrangement that allows users to physically walk through and interact with the resulting three-dimensional hybrid space. Due to these qualities cultural institutions worldwide are experimenting with new ways of communicating, reviving and preserving cultural heritage. The session will show how adapting a body-based design approach that goes beyond the audiovisual can bring about new forms of learning and understanding history.
Katharina Tillmanns is a researcher, designer and lecturer for interactive immersive media at TH Köln (https://colognegamelab.de). A former co-president of the Games for Change Europe network and director of the Notgames Fest, she has been exploring and promoting the expressive qualities of games and other playful media as a means of art and activism for the past 12+ years. Currently Katharina is focusing on her dissertation research, which examines multi-sensory learning in the context of mixed reality environments.
Monday, 12 December 2022
17.00 – 18:30
Maison du Savoir. Auditoire 3.330, Belval Campus
and online
The lecture will be followed by a reception.
Please confirm your on-site or online participation before 5 December 2022 at vanessa.napolitano@uni.lu
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2022-10-17
A CONVERSATION WITH LISA NAKAMURA
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Lisa Nakamura
Monday, October 17, 2022 - 6:00pm
Kely Wtiters House Arts Café
Author of Racist Zoombombing, Technopercarious, and Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, Dr. Lisa Nakamura is a preeminent scholar of digital humanities and race and gender studies. As a researcher and scholar of Asian American Studies and digital media theory, Dr. Nakamura will speak about her work on race and gender in online spaces in conversation with Dr. Whitney Trettien and Dr. Amanda Licastro. The conversation will focus on Dr. Nakamura’s work on digital literary studies and representation in Extended Reality.
Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is the author of several books on race, gender, and the Internet. She has studied identity tourism in video games and chatrooms, toxic embodiment in virtual reality, and the neglected contributions of women of color to the Internet and digital culture. She is the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and the P.I. for the DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network, a Mellon-Foundation funded research group focusing on race, digital technology, and disability. The DISCO Network's new book manuscript, Digital Optimism, will be out sometime next year. Most of her writing is available on her website at lisanakamura.net.
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Co-sponsored by Creative Ventures, Kelly Writers House, and Penn Libraries | Hosted by Whitney Trettien and Amanda Licastro
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Lisa Nakamura
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan
CIMS Colloquium: Michael Szalay
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Michael Szalay
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - 12:00pm
330 Fisher-Bennett Hall
This talk will read Ben Stiller’s Severance (2021-), and Apple TV+ programming generally in light of Apple’s unique position in the streaming ecosystem. A service provider as well as a device maker, Apple brands its media productions as exactingly as it does its phones, tablets, computers, and watches. As a result, its content is branded in ways that Netflix and HBO Max’s, for example, is not; indeed, Apple’s still relatively small stable of film and TV content expresses the firm’s manufacturing interests in ways that even Sony’s content, say, does not. This talk establishes the coherence of Apple’s TV branding and asks how it should matter to a materialist critical practice. Specifically, it asks if the very coherence of Apple’s trans-corporate branding makes it possible to glimpse in Apple content the otherwise hidden, outsourced, upstream production processes upon which the company still depends.
Michael Szalay is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He teaches 20th- and 21st-century fiction, television, and film, as well as courses on World-Systems Theory and the origins of capitalism. His first two books (Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party and New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State) examine the relationship between literature, liberal governance, and economic crisis. His forthcoming book, Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television (Chicago, 2023), defines a new television genre—the black-market melodrama—that has driven the ascent of TV as a cultural force over the last two decades, and that continues to mediate the ongoing effects of deindustrialization on a changing U.S. middle class.
Subtitle:
Overcoming Severance, from Lumon to Foxconn
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Michael Szalay
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine
Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1648 – Del esta[tu]to Toledano, i çierta apologia (Video Orientation)
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1648, a statement before a representative of the Inquisition recanting preaching and belief that the Toledo Statute, which concerned purity of bloodlines and prohibited the descendants of Jews and Muslims who converted to Catholicism from receivingContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1648 – Del esta[tu]to Toledano, i çierta apologia (Video Orientation)"
New Deputy Executive Director at RLUK
Source: Research Libraries UK |
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RLUK is pleased to announce that William Nixon, currently Assistant Director (Academic Engagement and Digital Library) at the University of Glasgow Library, will be joining RLUK as its new Deputy Executive Director. William brings to the role a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing research libraries, as well as a long-standing commitment to [...]
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RLUK signs statement on Wiley’s withdrawal of access to ebook titles
Source: Research Libraries UK |
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RLUK and other library and HE organisations have called on Wiley to reinstate permanently over 1350 ebooks it has recently cut from the Academic Complete platform. We encourage Wiley and other publishers to speak to consortia and to offer affordable and flexible models as outlined that will secure access to key content and ensure [...]
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Alex Gushurst-Moore
Source: CDH |
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Alexandra Gushurst-Moore is the Research & Impact Coordinator of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Coordinator of Cambridge Visual Culture. Her doctoral thesis, entitled “The Making of Modern Fantasy in the Visual Arts of England, ca. 1850–1920”, was supervised by Elizabeth Prettejohn at the University of York. She holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh
Tom Kissock
Source: CDH |
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Tom Kissock has fifteen years’ experience as a Director, Executive Producer, and Livestream expert for the BBC, YouTube, NBC, and Cisco; coupled with seven years’ experience researching video witnessing and human rights abuses. In 2020 he received his MSc in Globalization and Latin American Development from UCL where his research used Video Data Analysis as
Introducing… Léllé Demertzi
Source: Living with Machines |
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We’ve asked each member of the Living with Machines team to introduce themselves in their initial blog post.
Leah Brainerd
Source: CDH |
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Leah Brainerd is a PhD student in the Department of Archaeology with the ERC Encounter Project and is supervised by Enrico Crema, University of Cambridge, and Akihiro Yoshida, University of Kagoshima. She holds an MSc in Computational Archaeology from University College London and a BA from McGill University. Leah has experience in GIS, statistics, and
New Resource: Literary Dublin in the Digital Archive booklet
Source: News |
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce a new resource ‘Literary Dublin in the Digital Archive’. The booklet features literary collections held in DRI and other digital archives.
2022-10-13
CFP: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section’s Professional Development Program
Source: dh+lib |
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The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section’s Professional Development Committee (PDC), in collaboration with both the Outreach Committee and the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, is seeking proposals for its 2022 DSS free, virtual professional development series. From the call: This series aims to convene professionals from a variety of institution types and at different stages of ...read more
CFP: Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis
Source: dh+lib |
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The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing invites submissions for a special issue, “Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis,” edited by Drs. Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College) and Sara Dias-Trindade (Universidade do Porto and CEIS20). From the call: From the COVID-19 pandemic, to the Russian war against Ukraine, to accelerating climate change, to the rise ...read more
CFP: Minimal Computing and Ed Tech: Special Issue of Learning, Media and Technology
Source: dh+lib |
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The Journal Learning, Media and Technology invites submissions for a special issue on “Minimal Computing and Ed Tech,” edited by Lee Skallerup Bessette (Georgetown University) and Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College). As minimal computing continues to gain traction as more sustainable and equitable approaches, digital humanities library practitioners offer unique and important perspectives to critical digital ...read more
CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2023
Source: dh+lib |
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The eighth annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium hosted by Michigan State University will be held in March 2023, with both in-person and virtual events; proposals are currently being accepted. From the call: Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to ...read more
CFP: The Nineteenth-Century Data Collective: Call for Datasets and Data Essays
Source: dh+lib |
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The Nineteenth-Century Data Collective, which peer-reviews and houses literary or cultural data ca. 1800-1900 at Princeton University Library, invites submissions of datasets and data essays. From the call: Not simply a static repository, the Nineteenth-Century Data Collective hopes to increase discoverability for nineteenth-century datasets, share teaching resources, and most importantly, take data creation seriously as ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Wikimedia Research Fund
Source: dh+lib |
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The Wikimedia Research Fund invites proposals for up to $50,000 to support individuals, groups, and organizations with research interests on or about Wikimedia projects. From the call: We encourage submissions from across research disciplines including but not limited to humanities, social sciences, computer science, education, and law. We aim to support applicants who have limited ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Reviews Co-Editor, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC)
Source: dh+lib |
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The open-access Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC) invites applications to serve as a Reviews Co-Editor, to support a program of reviewing scholarship, platforms and tools, and programs and courses whose subject matter is directly connected to the journal’s publication scope. From the call: Working together, the Reviews Co-Editors are responsible for identifying publications and other ...read more
EVENT: Black Beyond Data Reading Group
Source: dh+lib |
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Black Beyond Data seeks to “create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities,” and meets during the last Friday of each month at 12:00noon Eastern Time (4:00pm UTC), via zoom. Register for the zoom link and to join the conversations. From the website: The Black Beyond Data Reading Group is focused on exploring ...read more
JOB: Black Studies Librarian, Black Bibliography Project (Rutgers University Libraries)
Source: dh+lib |
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From the announcement: The Rutgers University Libraries seek an innovative, collaborative and service-oriented librarian to serve as Black Studies Librarian. This new grant-funded position will support the work of the Black Bibliography Project (https://blackbibliog.org), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported project based at Yale University and Rutgers (https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-researcher-developing-digital-bibliography-black-authors-and-print-work). Working with a team of faculty, librarians, technicians, ...read more
JOB: Head of Digital Learning and Scholarship (Trinity College)
Source: dh+lib |
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From the announcement: Trinity College seeks a staff that reflects the changing demographics of our student body. Our student body is diverse, representing 41 states and 70 countries, with 21 percent U.S. students of color and 50 percent who identify as women. More than 90 percent of students live on campus. Trinity is a highly ...read more
Andrea Kocsis
Source: CDH |
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Andrea comes from an interdisciplinary and international background. Before finding her path in digital humanities, she graduated in Communications, Archaeology, History and Geography and collected these degrees in Budapest, Prague, and Paris. She received her Mphil and PhD in Heritage Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research focused on the impact the national
Meng Liu
Source: CDH |
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Meng Liu is a CSC-funded PhD student in Second Language Education at the Faculty of Education. Her substantive research interest lies at the intersection of Applied Linguistics and Educational Psychology. Specifically, her PhD project aims to understand Chinese students’ motivation to learn multiple foreign languages concurrently. She is the Chief Editor of Cambridge Educational Research
Spencer Johnston
Source: CDH |
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Spencer Johnston received a BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Tyndale University College (Toronto, Canada), an MSc in Logic from Universiteit van Amsterdam, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews. He was an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York and then held a British
Isabelle Higgins
Source: CDH |
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Isabelle is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge. She holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, as well as an MPhil in the Sociology of Marginality and Exclusion from the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Her current research, which she began
Research
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Itamar Shatz
Source: CDH |
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Itamar Shatz is a researcher at Cambridge who examines various aspects of the digital humanities, social sciences, and data science. He is particularly interested in intersections between these fields, including how data-science techniques can revolutionise the digital humanities and social sciences, and how social-science concepts can inform data-science practices. Itamar published work on many topics
Announcing: Methods Fellows 2022/23
Source: CDH |
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of our Methods Fellows for the academic year 2022/23. Each Fellow will share their expertise in methods or practices relevant to DH research, will design and deliver a series of workshop sessions, work on DH projects and be active in the growing CDH community. Methods Fellows Estara Arrant
Deadline Extended for DH2023
Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations |
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Via DH2023: The deadline for submissions to the ADHO DH2023 conference has been extended to November 4, 2022. There has also been a correction regarding the CfP wording for pre-conference workshop submissions (“2 hours or 4 hours” was replaced with “half or full day”). Please find the corrected and extended Call for Papers online in… Read More »Deadline Extended for DH2023
Handbook of Digital Public History: Book Launch
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg is proud to organize the book launch of the Handbook of Digital Public History (De Gruyter, 2022). In presence of the three editors Serge Noiret (Italian Association of Public History), Mark Tebeau (Arizona State University), and Gerben Zaagsma (University of Luxembourg), we will discuss this fantastic new resource that helps better understand and practice digital public history.
The editors:
Serge Noiret
Serge Noiret is a Ph.D. in Contemporary History from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Between 2010 and 2012 he co-founded the International Federation for Public History (IFPH-FIHP) of which he was the first president (2012-2017). In 2016-2017, he co-founded the Associa…
Chapbook dating workshop
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The workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities that using digital tools can bring to the study of large collections of images and their associated metadata. The team of a project funded by the CHRG will show participants VISE, the tool they have used to help them establish the chronology of undated street literature. The
2022-10-12
Become a CAA Peer Reviewer
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Members of CAA’s Review College perform a vital role in supporting the double-blind peer review of submissions to CAA’s annual conference. Review of abstracts for the CAA2023 conference will begin in early November. To learn more about the role, the requirements for joining the peer review college, and how to submit an online application, please […]
Apply to Join the Ethics Commitee
Source: CAA International |
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CAA is looking for four new ethics officers to join the Ethics Committee, an important body that advises on the implementation of CAA’s ethics policy. Ethics Officers also coordinate the orgnisation’s ethics reporting process and investigations into potential breaches of the ethics policy. Applicants do not need to have a research background in ethics to […]
#JobOpening: Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead - Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
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30 Oct 2022 - 00:00
#JobOpening: Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead - Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
Full-time, permanent role based in Central London, WC1
Salary: £34-36k depending on experience
Start date: December 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter
Responsible to: Director and Head of Collections
Deadline for Applications: 30 October 2022 (23:59)
Interviews: 4 November 2022
The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and the home of Britain’s largest collection of published and unpublished works, documents and photographs relating to the Nazi era. In the past three years the library has undergone a process of transformation through closely integrating digital technology, digitised archive materials, web and social media marketing into its activities.
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#JobOpening Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead - Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
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30 Oct 2022 - 00:00
#JobOpening Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead - Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
Full-time, permanent role based in Central London, WC1
Salary: £34-36k depending on experience
Start date: December 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter
Responsible to: Director and Head of Collections
Deadline for Applications: 30 October 2022 (23:59)
Interviews: 4 November 2022
The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and the home of Britain’s largest collection of published and unpublished works, documents and photographs relating to the Nazi era. In the past three years the library has undergone a process of transformation through closely integrating digital technology, digitised archive materials, web and social media marketing into its activities.
P…
#JobOpening Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead - Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
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30 Oct 2022 - 00:00
#JobOpening Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead - Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
Full-time, permanent role based in Central London, WC1
Salary: £34-36k depending on experience
Start date: December 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter
Responsible to: Director and Head of Collections
Deadline for Applications: 30 October 2022 (23:59)
Interviews: 4 November 2022
The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and the home of Britain’s largest collection of published and unpublished works, documents and photographs relating to the Nazi era. In the past three years the library has undergone a process of transformation through closely integrating digital technology, digitised archive materials, web and social media marketing into its activities.
P…
Improving Digital Fabrication with Topology Optimization and Machine Learning
Source: Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio |
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By Mohaiminul Islam Introducing Topology Optimization for Additive Manufacturing Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is a technique to create structures directly from computer files, much like common printers, but instead of imprinting an...
Improving Digital Fabrication with Topology Optimization and Machine Learning
Source: Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio |
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Introducing Topology Optimization for Additive Manufacturing Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is a technique to create structures directly from computer files, much like common printers, but instead of imprinting an image and text...
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Accès aux archives du CNA : Démarches, questions, contacts
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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Le Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), créé en 1989 et situé à Dudelange, a pour vocation de conserver et valoriser le patrimoine audiovisuel du Luxembourg et de rendre accessible à tous et toutes la culture du son, de l’image fixe et de l’image animée à travers des expositions, des publications, des projections, des conférences ou d’autres manifestations. Les archives du CNA constituent par ailleurs une source historique et sociologique inestimable, susceptible d’intéresser les chercheuses et chercheurs du C²DH. Dans le présent séminaire, les responsables de l’accès aux archives du CNA mettront l’accent sur les démarches à suivre pour avoir accès à ces collections, et répondront aux questions des étudiant.e.s et membres du C²DH.
Intervenants (par ordre chronologique): Paul Lesch, Yves Steichen, Manon Pinatel, Tessy Oppermann, Viviane Thill
Mercredi, 26 octobre 2002
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Dr Mary Chester-Kadwell
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Mary is a Senior Software Engineer at Cambridge University Library. Originally from a humanities background, she has a PhD in the landscape archaeology and material culture of early medieval England using computational methods. For CDH Labs, Mary advises researchers on developing the technical aspects of their projects and works on a wide variety of software.
Borders In Flux and Border Temporalities In and Beyond Europe
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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Border studies is an interdisciplinary field of research in which existing scholarship has primarily been spatially oriented. The conference Borders In Flux and Border Temporalities In and Beyond Europe sheds light on research that focuses on the temporality of borders. The conference connects leading researchers as well as established and early-stage researchers to present, share and discuss their research on borders, borderlands, and border regions in and beyond 19th and 20th century Europe.
The conference invites scholars whose research sheds light on the temporal dimension of borders by exploring border practices, border discourses, and analyses of border regimes and life at the border in Europe. We include papers that focus on topics that are related to identity, historical memory, mi…
The CONLIT Dataset of Contemporary Literature
Source: Journal of Open Humanities Data Latest Articles |
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This dataset includes derived data on a collection of ca. 2,700 books in English published between 2001–2021 and spanning 12 different genres. The data was manually collected to capture popular writing aimed at a range of different readerships across fiction (1,934) and non-fiction (820). Genres include forms of cultural capital (bestsellers, prizewinners, elite book reviews), stylistic affinity (mysteries, science fiction, biography, etc.), and age-level (middle-grade and young adult). The dataset allows researchers to explore the effects of audience, genre, and instrumentality (i.e., fictionality) on the stylistic behavior of authors within the recent past across different classes of professionally published writing.
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Internationale Konferenz "Doing Digital Film History", 17.-19. November, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Source: Tagungen |
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Vom 17.-19. November 2022 findet die internationale Konferenz "Doing Digital Film History" des DFG-Netzwerks "Filmhistoriographie im Wandel. Zur Bedeutung digitaler Tools und…
Publication of Cather’s correspondence nearly complete
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Publication of Cather’s correspondence nearly complete
The digitization, transcription and annotation of all of Willa Cather’s known letters is nearly finished. More than 2,600 of the 3,200 pieces of correspondence have been published online through the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Willa Cather Archive.
The feat has spanned nearly a decade, with the first letters published in book form, “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather,” in 2013, after the moratorium on their publication was lifted in 2011. The digital humanities project “The Complete Letters of Willa Cather” followed close behind.
Andrew Jewell, project director and co-editor for “The Complete Letters of Willa Cather,” said the remaining letters are in the pipeline for publication and he expects the work t…
2022-10-11
Moya Bailey – Misogynoir Transformed
Source: Digital Democracies Institute |
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This post was written by Adjua Akinwumi, a PhD Mellon fellow on the Data Fluencies project at the Digital Democracies Institute. For centuries, the science of alchemy sought to transmute …
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Research Seminar: Matteo Pasquinelli
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Maya Dharampal-Hornby
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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
Shuxian Liu
Source: CDH |
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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
Research Seminar: Shauna Concannon
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3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
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In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution started its experiment of turning museum collections into 3D models (Terdiman 2022). Ten years later, …
Florian Jaton: De la centralité des bases de données “ground truth” dans la construction des systèmes algorithmiques
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Florian Jaton, membre du dhCenter, a publié un article dans “SILO – Agora des pensées critiques”. Les méthodes informatiques de calcul – souvent appelées « algorithmes » – alimentent le fonctionnement de dispositifs ordinaires. Moteurs de recherche, réseaux sociaux, systèmes de surveillance, plateforme d’achats en ligne : qu’on le veuille ou non, nous ne cessons d’interagir avec ces […]
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Q&A Session: Cultural Heritage Data School
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The Cultural Heritage Data School, led by Cambridge Digital Humanities, is an online intensive application-only teaching programme which aims to bring together participants from the wider Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector and academia to explore the methods used to create, visualise and analyse digital archives and collections. The curriculum will be structured around
Research Seminar: Louise Amoore
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On Digital Intelligence (Mercedes Bunz)
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This talk will introduce my current research: I am interested in what way the haunted concept of writing – its production of meaning, the form of subjectivity it created, its model of political power and our resistance to that power - is being outpaced and transformed, shifted on its side through artificial intelligence as a
Curation, Crowdsourcing, & Community: Exploring Community-Based Curation of The Journal of a Plague Year Rapid-Response Archive
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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Rapid-response digital archives have emerged as a standard way digital humanities teams document community in time of crisis. Their strength lies in building connections to communities and collecting materials that will be critical to future generations of scholars. In documenting the pandemic (2020-22) A Journal of a Plague Year: An Archive of Covid-19 challenged the traditional approach to curating rapid-response archives seeking by assigning robust metadata to objects as they entered the archive. This archival metadata included curatorial tags, contributor tags, and in some cases community-assigned tags. This talk discusses that effort, including the strengths and limitations of crowd-based curation; it will include a meditation on how such efforts at crowd curation might enhance the accessibility of rapid response archives, especially archives of the pandemic
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
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Beyza Cicik
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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
DHNB2023 Extended Deadline: Abstracts due October 21st!
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ATTENTION! ATTENTION! By popular demand from our community, we have extended the deadline for submitting abstracts for your long papers, panels, show-and-tell presentations and workshops for the DHNB2023 online conference until Friday, October 21, 2022, 23:59 CEST. Submit abstracts via ConfTool, and see the call for submissions. Not sure about the format? Long Papers for you […]
2022-10-10
Cultural Heritage Data School: December 2022 (online)
Source: CDH |
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The Cultural Heritage Data School, led by Cambridge Digital Humanities, is an online intensive application-only teaching programme which aims to bring together participants from the wider Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector and academia to explore the methods used to create, visualise and analyse digital archives and collections. The curriculum will be structured around
Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1646 – Estado astrologico
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1646, the first part of a four-part poem in octaves on the monarchy of Portugal, with allusions to astrology, alchemy, and cabala. The manuscript contains a copy of the edition printed in Lisbon in 1624 inContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1646 – Estado astrologico"
New Collection- Fingal and the Fight for Irish Freedom
Source: News |
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that Fingal County Libraries has published its collection ‘Fingal and the Fight for Irish Freedom’.
Social Data School: June 2023 (Cambridge)
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The Social Data School is an application only intensive teaching programme structured around the life-cycle of a digital research project, covering principles of research design, data collection, cleaning and preparation, methods of analysis and visualisation, and data management and preservation practices. The school welcomes applications from all backgrounds, including journalists, NGOs, activists, trade unionists and
Cultural Heritage Data School: March 2023 (Cambridge)
Source: CDH |
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The Cultural Heritage Data School, led by Cambridge Digital Humanities, is an online intensive application-only teaching programme which aims to bring together participants from the wider Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector and academia to explore the methods used to create, visualise and analyse digital archives and collections. The curriculum will be structured around
Social Data School: Jan 2023 (online)
Source: CDH |
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The Social Data School is an application only online intensive teaching programme structured around the life-cycle of a digital research project, covering principles of research design, data collection, cleaning and preparation, methods of analysis and visualisation, and data management and preservation practices. The school welcomes applications from all backgrounds, including journalists, NGOs, activists, trade unionists
DHNB 2022 PROCEEDINGS PUBLISHED
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DHNB 2022 PROCEEDINGS PUBLISHED We are happy to inform you that the DHNB 2022 proceedings are now published on CEUR. You can find volume ‘3232’ here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3232/. We think it is an excellent collection of research that represents both the fruitful conference we had in March and the richness of the status of Digital Humanities […]
Christian Fernandez Perotti
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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
Alpo Honkapohja
Source: CDH |
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Alpo Honkapohja is an EU-funded Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow working on The Index of Middle English Prose (IMEP). IMEP is a reference tool for locating and identifying all surviving English prose texts composed between circa 1200 and 1500. The project is a collaboration between the CDH and the University of Oslo, where Alpo is normally based. Alpo is originally
Welcome to new starters
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Jonathan Blaney Research Software Engineer at CDH What was your first job? At Oxford University Press, writing and editing dictionaries. I worked on the full range of English dictionaries, from the Oxford English Mini Dictionary to the full OED. For the OED I read books and periodicals looking for new words. I particularly remember some
Yixun Zhou
Source: CDH |
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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. His research interest mainly lies in NLP and machine learning for
John Schaefer
Source: CDH |
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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
Yerin Kim
Source: CDH |
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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
Dr Kanta Dihal
Source: CDH |
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Dr Kanta Dihal is a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on science narratives, particularly those that emerge from conflict. She currently manages the project ‘Desirable Digitalisation’, an international research collaboration that investigates intercultural perspectives on AI and fundamental rights and values. She
2022-09-30
RECOMMENDED: Ian Linkletter on Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene
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Earlier this month, a podcast episode was released by Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene, featuring Ian Linkletter. Linkletter is a educational technology librarian, currently being sued by Proctorio, a surveillance technology company. The episode addresses his transition to librarianship from educational technology, and he emphasizes the need for librarians to critically engage with the tools ...read more
PROJECT: Día de los muertos: Altar digital
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Día de los muertos: Altar digital is an ArcGIS StoryMap journey through Hispanic literary heritage. It walks users through different authors, elements, and works that are placed on an ofrenda, created in 2020 by Roselia Bañuelos, Chris Flakus, Julio Antonio Molinete, Elías David Navarro, María Sánchez Carbajo, Alonzo Silavong, and Katerin Zapata at the University ...read more
RESOURCE: Refreshed Sites for Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities
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The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has published a new site for the Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities. This new site for A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) is aimed towards long term preservation and a full text search has been added. According to the project’s GitHub repository, The content ...read more
EVENT: 2022 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: African Archives and Digital Recovery
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African DH@KU is hosting the 2022 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: African Archives and Digital Recovery on October 6, 2022. Hosted on Zoom, the symposium includes two panels, a keynote by Dr. Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College) and a closing dialogue with Jennifer Hart (Wayne State University) and Kuukuwa Manful (SOAS, University of London). This year’s ...read more
EVENT: Sharing your Digital Collections
Source: dh+lib |
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Deep South DH is hosting a free online workshop on “accessible ways to upload and share your own projects online,” “Sharing Your Digital Collections.” We will be joined by University of Idaho librarians from the CollectionBuilder team, who will lead participants through getting started and setting up CollectionBuilder to host an interactive, digital project for free. ...read more
EVENT: ACRL DSS PDC: What do we do differently? Perspectives on Digital Project Management in Libraries and Archives
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The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Professional Development Committee is hosting a webinar, “What do we do differently? Perspectives on Digital Project Management in Libraries and Archives” on Friday, October 21st starting at 1pm (Central). Orchestrating a complete digital project management lifecycle to preserve and make archival collections accessible online can often be a challenge. The ...read more
CFP: HASTAC 2023: Critical Making & Social Justice
Source: dh+lib |
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The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), in partnership with Pratt Institute, has issued a CFP for it’s 2023 conference: Critical Making and Social Justice. From the announcement: HASTAC 2023 welcomes submissions from practitioners at all stages of their careers; from all disciplines, occupations, and fields; and from groups as well as ...read more
CFP: International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference
Source: dh+lib |
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The 2023 IIPC Web Archiving Conference: Resilience and Renewal issued a call for proposals, open until November 1st, 2022. The conference itself will have in-person and online days. Presentation categories for the in-person days include 20-minute presentations, 60-minute panels, posters and demos (with accompanying 5-minute lightning talks), workshops, and tutorials. Online presentation categories include 20-minute ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Managing Editor for Reviews in Digital Humanities
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Reviews in Digital Humanities is looking for a Managing Editor, and offering a $5,000 honorarium for each year of commitment (with the possibility of renewal). Applicants will be considered starting October 15th, and would begin November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023. From the description of the role: The role of the Managing Editor includes: ...read more
OPPORTUNITY: Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining Institute
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UC Berkeley Library has been awarded nearly $50,000 by the NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant Program to fund the study of legal and ethical issues in cross-border text data mining, which builds on a 2019 project, Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining, Cross-Border (LLTDM-X). The goals of LLTDM-X are: …to design instructional materials and institutes ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (University of Idaho)
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From the announcement: The University of Idaho Library and CollectionBuilder team seeks an innovative, flexible, and highly collaborative individual who will help promote, document, and teach the open source static web digital collections platform, CollectionBuilder. This position will closely collaborate with CollectionBuilder team members to build community around the tool through the execution and administration of their ...read more
DRI Sponsors Best Poster Prize at iPres 2022
Source: News |
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) sponsored the Best Poster award at the recent iPres conference, which was won by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network.
Navigating the Dunhuang Manuscripts Databases
Source: The Digital Orientalist |
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The Mogao Caves nearby Dunhuang were one of the most exceptional discoveries of the 20th century. Their textual, artistic and …
“Lausanne 1830” nominated for the Swiss Game Awards 2022!
Source: dhCenter |
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The video game Lausanne 1830, developed by the GameLab UNIL-EPFL in collaboration with the Lausanne Time Machine initiative and Digital Kingdom, is nominated for the SGDA Swiss Game Awards 2022 in the category “Serious Games”. The SGDA Swiss Game Award is the game developers award of Switzerland and celebrates projects that have put the Swiss […]
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Médialab : Post-doc researcher – Horizon Europe PROJECT AUTHLIB
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The project “Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response” (AUTHLIB), jointly led by the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and the médialab is hiring a Post-doc researcher for 24 months. The AUTHLIB project’s basic premise is that liberal democracy faces not one challenge but many challenges and that therefore we must […]
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Cracking the code of videogame history: perspectives on videogame preservation and researching the medium's history
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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Scholars from across disciplinary boundaries have attempted to crack the code of videogame history and preservation for the last decade. Yet, much of what is published on these topics is still dominated by journalistic accounts. As such, game scholars and historians should build bridges and collaborate. This presentation will give an overview of videogame history and preservation, the field game studies, and an oral history methodology tailored specifically to videogames.
The following day, our guest speaker will conduct a workshop to provide a hands-on demonstration of the research methodology illustrated by his talk.
LECTURE:
Thursday, 17 November 2022
17.00 – 18.15
Maison du Savoir, Auditoire 3.040
Belval Campus
The lecture will be followed by a reception.
WORKSHOP:
Friday, 18 November 2022
14.00-17.00
Maison des Sciences Humaines, Floor 1, Room 2.0 GIS - GIS – 060
Belval Campus
Limited places: max 16 people, first come, first served.
Please confirm your participation before 10 November 2022 at vanessa.napolitano@uni.lu
17 November 2022 to 18 November 2022
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2022-09-26
Manuscript Monday: LJS 361 – [Astronomical and astrological tables]
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 361, Opening and closing sections of astronomical and astrological tables on either side of a remnant of commentaries on gospel and epistle readings. The opening section (f. 2r-9r) includes tables for calculating the day of the weekContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 361 – [Astronomical and astrological tables]"
Refreshed Sites for Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities
Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations |
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We are pleased to share the launch of a new site for the Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities, digital anthologies that ADHO hosts with permission of Blackwell Publishing. The new sites for A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) are built for long term sustainability: the ADHO Infrastructure… Read More »Refreshed Sites for Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities
ADHO: Building DH
Source: Tagungen |
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The Alliance of Digita Humnities Organziations (ADHO) is pleased to be an in-name sponsor for Building DH, a virtual symposium organized by the Digital Humanities Research…
DRI welcomes the Wicklow County Archives & Genealogy Service as its latest member
Source: News |
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that Wicklow County Archives & Genealogy Service has joined DRI as our forty-second member. They are the tenth local authority division to join our membership.
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Three Winners Receive the 2022 Teaching with CLARIN Award
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Three Winners Receive the 2022 Teaching with CLARIN Award
First awarded in 2021, the Teaching with CLARIN Award recognises lecturers and educational professionals who have successfully integrated CLARIN into the courses they teach and/or training materials they have developed.
This year, three winners were selected, who presented their teaching initiatives during the Annual Conference 2022 in Prague: Ajda Pretnar Žagar, Kristina Pahor de Maiti and Darja Fišer from the University of Ljubljana (SI), Jurgita Vaičenonienė from Vytautas Magnus University (LT), and Rachele Sprugnoli from the University of Parma (IT).
All winners received a certificate and a monetary prize of 350 Euros.
All materials and more information can be found below and in the Teaching with CLARIN section on the website.
Winners
Winners' Contributions
What's on the Agenda? Topic Modelling Parliamentary Debates before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ajda Pretnar Žagar, Kristina Pahor de Maiti & Darja Fišer
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Lithuanian Collocations: Usage, Teaching, Learning, and Translation
Jurgita Vaičenonienė
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Natural Language Processing Methods
Rachele Sprugnoli
Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali – Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Julia Misersky
26 September 2022
2022 Steven Krauwer Award for Achievements Awarded to the u4u Team of the Charles Translator for Ukraine
Source: CLARIN ERIC |
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2022 Steven Krauwer Award for Achievements Awarded to the u4u Team of the Charles Translator for Ukraine
About the Winners
This year’s second Achievement Award went to a team effort of students, researchers and developers at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL) of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts (Prague), including Martin Popel (researcher, head of the team), Jindřich Helcl (researcher), Zdeněk Kasner (PhD student), Ondřej Košarko (developer), Tomáš Krabač (developer), Jindřich Libovický (researcher), David Nápravník (undergraduate student), Michal Novák (researcher) and Rudolf Rosa (researcher).
The u4u team at Charles University has developed a translation tool for Czech an…
2022 Steven Krauwer Award for Achievements Awarded to Jörg Tiedemann & the Helsinki MT Group
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2022 Steven Krauwer Award for Achievements Awarded to Jörg Tiedemann & the Helsinki MT Group
About the Winners
Jörg Tiedemann, Professor of Language Technology in the department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki
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group.
In order to support Ukrainians in Finland, Tiedemann and the Helsinki MT team established various initiatives, including the machine translation (MT) system for Ukrainian to Finnish.
Their swift response to the war in Ukraine includes the collection of links and information about our MT models and tools (and other resources for Ukrainian language technology), integrating new parallel data sets, training and re…
2022 Steven Krauwer Award for Early Career CLARIN Researcher Awarded to Roberts Darģis
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2022 Steven Krauwer Award for Early Career CLARIN Researcher Awarded to Roberts Darģis
About the Winner
Roberts Darģis is a PhD candidate at the University of Latvia (UL) and researcher at Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia (IMCS UL), the leading CLARIN-LV partner.
Darģis’ efforts with regards to CLARIN have been manifold: Not only is Darģis a member of Standing Committee for CLARIN Technical Centres (
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Polish immigration to Luxembourg – life, work and integration. Online discourse analysis of social media
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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The presentation shows the results of Anna Bączkowska's research conducted at the University in Luxembourg over the last three months. It focuses on the analysis of immigration discourse retrieved from social media created by Polish immigrants to Luxembourg. The analysis is based on the polska.lu forum which spans the last 15 years. The data were extracted both manually and automatically; thus, three subcorpora were created. The language used by forum interactants was investigated with the aid of corpus linguistics tools in order to notice some trends and tendencies in lexical choices of the forum users as well as the prevailing topics.
Wednesday, 28 September 2022
14.00 - 15.00
C²DH Open Space
28 September 2022
Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Migration history
Hands-on History
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Editors' Note: September 2022
Source: Reviews in Digital Humanities |
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Editors' note on the September 2022 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities, guest edited by Kim Gallon and Kirsten Ostherr
Review: COVID and Black California
Source: Reviews in Digital Humanities |
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A review of COVID and Black California, a dashboard exploing how the COVID-19 pandemic affected Black populations in California, led by Paulette Brown-Hinds, Stephanie Williams, Candice Mays, and Alex Reed
Review: Healing Histories
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A review of Healing Histories, a timeline exploring the COVID-19 pandemic, directed by Cara Page, Susan Raffo, and Anjali Taneja
Review: Stop AAPI Hate
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A review of Stop AAPI Hate, a website collecting accounts of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, directed by Russell Jeung and Aggie Yellow Horse
2022-09-15
RECOMMENDED: Good Systems Humanist-in-the-Loop: Responsible Data Operations and Workforce Development in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
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Tanya Clement (U Texas), Andi Gustavson (U Texas), Allyssa Guzman (U Texas), Nathan Alexander Moore (CU Boulder), and Lauren Walker (U Texas) have published a white paper entitled “Good Systems Humanist-in-the-Loop: Responsible Data Operations and Workforce Development in Libraries, Archives, and Museums” on the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Scholar Works repository. This paper ...read more
RESOURCE: Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
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Toolkits for Equity has released their latest toolkit, Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Hosted on PubPub in collaboration with Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and the Knowledge Futures Group, this toolkit is aimed towards BIPOC as a resource to navigate the scholarly ...read more
EVENT: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference
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Registration for Bucknell University’s Digital Scholarship Conference (#BUDSC22) is now open. This year’s conference, held virtually on October 18-20, is titled “Converging Paths: Digital Scholarship, Social Justice, and Intersecting Communities,” and will focus on the question, “What are the paths through which digital scholarship intersects with communities and social justice?” General registration is $50, and ...read more
EVENT: Humanities and the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis
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The Internet Archive is hosting a full-day workshop, Humanities and the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis, on November 14, 2022 at the Los Angeles Central Library. Everyday, significant cultural production occurs globally across the web (e.g., e-poetry, electronic literature, news, social media, and more). As a publication medium that is both a primary source ...read more
EVENT: Text as Data 2022 (TADA 2022)
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Registration for the Text as Data 2022 conference is now live. This conference is hybrid, with in-person and online registration options, and will be held at Cornell Tech on October 6-7. The deadline for early registration is September 20, 2022. From the registration site: The New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting is a leading ...read more
CFP: Digital Humanities 2023
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The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations has posted a call for papers for Digital Humanities 2023: “Collaboration as Opportunity.” The annual conference will be held in person on July 10-14, 2023, at the University of Graz, Austria. The call asks for papers that explor[e] state of the art in DH and related disciplines, reconnecting with ...read more
CFP: WOC+Lib
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WOC+Lib has released an open call for content on their Twitter account. WOC+Lib “works to provide a digital platform for women of color (WOC) within librarianship,” and their submission guidelines can be found here. The open call for content lists possible topics, including: WOC/POC in librarianship Diversity residencies Archives + diversity Current events + librarianship ...read more
CFP: Pocket Burgundies
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The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has released a call for proposals for its “Pocket Burgundy” series of books. Proposals that are selected come with a $2500 stipend. Traditionally, CLIR’s reports have been in the areas of preservation, digital libraries, emerging technologies, economics of information, international developments, trends in information use, and the ...read more
CFP: Virtual Professional Development Program (ACRL DSS)
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The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section’s (DSS) Professional Development Committee (PDC), in collaboration with the DSS Outreach Committee and the DSS Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, seeks proposals for its fall 2022 DSS virtual professional development series. Proposals are accepted with rolling deadlines: September 19, October 17, and November 14. From the submission form: This series ...read more
JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (Western Carolina University)
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From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Librarian will be responsible for sustaining and growing digitized and born-digital collections and for supporting the library’s shifting focus on digital scholarship, technology-focused learning tools, and spaces. A major focus of this position will be supporting the Southern Appalachian Digital Collections Partnership. Founded by Western Carolina University and the University of ...read more
JOB: Digital Humanities Cohort Hire (Brown University, 2 positions)
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From the announcements for Digital Humanities Librarian and Digital Humanities Specialist: The Brown University Library seeks to hire a collaborative, innovative, and creative individual to work as our Digital Humanities Librarian and Digital Humanities Specialist. Working as part of a talented, collaborative team, the person in this position serves a central role in critically thinking ...read more
CfP: Revue Humanités numériques, vol. 8 (2023)
Source: dhCenter |
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Humanités numériques est une revue francophone publiée en libre accès et consacrée aux usages savants du numérique en sciences humaines et sociales. Éditée par l’association francophone Humanistica et diffusée sur la plateforme OpenEdition Journals, elle offre un lieu de réflexion, de débat scientifique et d’expression aux chercheurs et enseignants dont les travaux s’inscrivent dans ce […]
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From 48 PDFs to one searchable database – opening up the Tasmanian Post Office Directories with the GLAM Workbench
Source: Tim Sherratt |
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A few weeks ago I created a new search interface to the NSW Post Office Directories from 1886 to 1908. Since then, I’ve used the same process on the Sydney Telephone Directories from 1926 to 1954. Both of these publications had been digitised by the State Library of NSW and made available through Trove. To build the new interfaces I downloaded the text from Trove, indexed it by line, and linked it back to the online page images.
But there are similar directories from other states that are not available through Trove. The Tasmanian Post Office Directory, for example, has been digitised between 1890 and 1948 and made available as 48 individual PDF files from Libraries Tasmania. While it’s great that they’ve been digitised, it’s not really possible to search them without downloading all the P…
DHNB2023 ConfTool Open for Submissions
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DHNB2023 ConfTool Opened You can now submit your long papers, panels, show-and-tell presentations as well as workshops to the DHNB2023 conference! Create an account on ConfTool and submit your contribution! The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2022. If you have ideas for other kinds of presentations or contributions to the conference, please contact dhnb2023@dhnb.eu.
Call for Proposals to Host DHA2023
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Expressions of Interest are now open to host the 2023 Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA) Conference in Australia or New Zealand. The Executive Committee of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) invites proposals to host the Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA) Conference in Australia or New Zealand in 2023. DHA is the major conference of the … Continue reading "Call for Proposals to Host DHA2023"
2022-09-12
Postdoctoral Associate – Research Project on Photomechanical Reproductions of Art in Periodicals
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Postdoctoral Associate – Research Project on Photomechanical Reproductions of Art in Periodicals
Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History
Application deadline: 30 September 2022
In accordance with law no. 283/1992 on the Czech Academy of Sciences, as amended by law no. 420/2005, and the Statutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, is pleased to announce a selection procedure for a new research postdoctoral position in the project The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art.
The position begins on 1 January 2023. It is to be filled for two years full-time, with the possibility of renewal for up to three additional years.
The project investigates the history …
Manuscript Monday: LJS 342 – [Copies of documents relating to water rights in Milan]
Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies |
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 342, copies of 9 documents relating to the illicit use of water and diversion of waterways in the territory of Milan, presumably to compile evidence of the legal status of these assets. The first 8, copies ofContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 342 – [Copies of documents relating to water rights in Milan]"
Mortgaging Out
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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FHA Credit, Redlining, and Rental Housing in Metropolitan America
Project Start Date:
September, 2022
“Mortgaging Out” is a digital history project that illuminates the impact of Federal Housing Administration credit policies on the availability of affordable rental housing during and immediately following World War II. Scholars have illuminated the impact of redlining on mortgage lending, demonstrating how African American homebuyers, in particular, were often locked out of the midcentury housing boom. This project shifts the focus to FHA-insured apartment complexes. Drawing upon a comprehensive data set FHA mortgage insurance data that catalogues more than 50,000 FHA-insured apartment buildings, the project maps the location, size (by unit count), and construction dates of roughly 7,000 projects constructed under the FHA wartime housing program (Section 608, 1942-1950). Future versions of the map may include FHA-backed market-rate multifamily housing (Section 207) as well as multifamily rental projects on urban renewal sites (Section 220) and for those displaced from urban renewal sites (Section 221).
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Laura Eckstein and J.D. Porter
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Michael Glass
Reconstructing the streets of Esch - socio-economic evolution of 'worker streets' (1900-19302)
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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More information coming soon.
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
14.00 - 15.00
C²DH Open Space
18 January 2023
Public history Contemporary history of Luxembourg
Digitisation Regional history Social history
Research seminars
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Multiple perspectives and narratives in museums: participatory methods in history production
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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More information coming soon.
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
14.00 - 15.00
C²DH Open Space
16 November 2022
Public history
Museology Public History
Research seminars
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The Microcosm of Clandestine Borders: Transgression and Subversion in the Interwar Years
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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More information coming soon.
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
14.00 - 15.00
C²DH Open Space
19 October 2022
Border studies Interwar period
Research seminars
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What is slow memory? A discussion around an emergent concept
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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In this presentation, Frédéric Calvert will talk about the COST action SlowMemo. At the core of this project lays the emergent concept of 'slow memory', that is intended to help us think from new angles about how societies and individuals remember the pasts that meaningfully affect their present and future. It begins from the premise that we are quite skilled (and have much practice) commemorating sudden or extreme events such as wars, atrocities or catastrophes. But we are less certain about how to reckon with slow-moving transformations that may be just as impactful, such as climate change, deindustrialization, or the gradual expansion of social and political rights.
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
14.00 - 15.00
C²DH Open Space
21 September 2022
Digital history & historiography
Digital methods Methodology
Research seminars
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Dr Hugo Leal
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Dr Hugo Leal is a Teaching Associate at CDH for the MPhil in Digital Humanities. He is also the Research Associate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy (MCTD) based in CRASSH. He previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the internet branch of the project “Conspiracy and Democracy” and as a methods fellow
Dr Orietta Da Rold
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Dr Orietta Da Rold, University Professor and Fellow at St John’s College, researches Middle English texts in their material context and intersections with the digital humanities. Orietta's work has a specific focus on technological innovations in book production. Orietta has published in diverse media such as digital editions (A Digital Edition of Cambridge University Library,
Training: Open Science Discovery for PhD researchers 2022 (KU Leuven)
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This event is only open to KU Leuven researchers and staff. When? 24 October 2022, 1 pm – 4 pm Where? Promotiezaal (Universiteitshal, Naamsestraat 22) and online via MS Teams (link will be shared prior to the event) For whom? Training targeted at PhD researchers, but other researchers and support staff are welcome No fees, but registration is mandatory This training is an opportunity to learn from other researchers at KU Leuven how they implement Open Science principles. The focus will be on...
Literary Dublin in the Digital Archive- one day symposium
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to be running a one-day symposium ‘Literary Dublin in the Digital Archive’ sponsored by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and Dublin City Council on Thursday 13 October, in person, at the Royal Irish Academy.
Stellenangebot: WMA Stelle am CCeH (Bewerbungsfrist verlängert auf 18.09.22)
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Die Bewerbungsfrist für eine 50% WMA-Stelle am CCeH wurde bis zum 18.09.2022 verlängert.
Die Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in im Bereich Digital Humanities wird…
LiLa at KONVENS, Potsdam (12-15 September)
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Our intern Ginevra Martinelli will be at KONVENS (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache/Conference on Natural Language Processing – https://konvens2022.uni-potsdam.de/) to present a poster titled “Linking the Bilingual Latin-English Dictionary Lewis & Short to the LiLa Knowledge Base” illustrating what she worked on during her time at LiLa. The poster is authored by herself, Ginevra Martinelli …
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LiLa at KONVENS, Potsdam (12-15 September)
Source: News – LiLa: Linking Latin |
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Our intern Ginevra Martinelli will be at KONVENS (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache/Conference on Natural Language Processing – https://konvens2022.uni-potsdam.de/) to present a poster titled “Linking the Bilingual Latin-English Dictionary Lewis & Short to the LiLa Knowledge Base” illustrating what she worked on during her time at LiLa. The poster is authored by herself, Ginevra Martinelli …
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Présentation et lancement officiel du Mémorial digital de la Shoah au Luxembourg
Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
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La Fondation luxembourgeoise pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (FLMS) et le Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) de l’Université du Luxembourg se sont donné la mission de construire un Mémorial digital à la mémoire des personnes ayant vécu au Luxembourg qui ont été persécutées pour des motifs raciaux avant et pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
L’objectif principal du mémorial est de retracer dans la mesure du possible le vécu de ces personnes, le milieu dans lequel ils ont évolué au Luxembourg avant la Shoah et de décrire leur parcours pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Ce projet à caractère scientifique et public sera ouvert à tou-te-s les intéressé-e-s, chercheur-e-s, survivant-e-s, descendant-e-s des victimes, associations et milieu scolaire. Chaque personne intére…
2022-09-05
Manuscript Monday LJS 322 – [Fragments from Books III-V of Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]
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Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 322, fragmented sections from Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣu ʻuḍwan bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries)Continue reading "Manuscript Monday LJS 322 – [Fragments from Books III-V of Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]"
Towards a European Network of FAIR-enabling TDRs
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is pleased to share that the working paper 'Towards a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs)' has been published on Zenodo. This paper is the initiative of a broad author team consisting of stakeholders from the European repository community, including DRI's Dr Natalie Harrower.
Designing a digital research project
Source: CDH |
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This CDH Basics session explores the lifecycle of a digital research project across the stages of design, data capture, transformation, analysis, presentation and preservation. It introduces tactics for embedding ethical research principles and practices at each stage of the research process. Introduction to the digital project life cycle Ethics by design and EDI-informed data processing
Sustaining your data
Source: CDH |
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Ensuring long-term access to digital data is often a difficult task: both hardware and code decay much more rapidly than many other means of information storage. Digital data created in the 1980s is frequently unreadable, whereas books and manuscripts written in the 980s are still legible. This session explores good practice in data preservation and
Analysing and presenting your data
Source: CDH |
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The impact of well-crafted data visualisations has been well-documented historically. Florence Nightingale famously used charts to make her case for hospital hygiene in the Crimean War, while Dr John Snow’s bar charts of cholera deaths in London helped convince the authorities of the water-borne nature of the disease. However, as information designer Alberto Cairo notes,
Transforming your data
Source: CDH |
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Data which you have captured rather than created yourself is likely to need cleaning up before you can use it effectively. This short session will introduce you to the basic principles of creating structured datasets and walk you through some case studies in data cleaning with OpenRefine, a powerful open source tool for working with
Acquiring data for your project
Source: CDH |
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This session provides a brief introduction to different methods for capturing bulk data from online sources or via agreement with data collection holders, including Application Programme Interfaces (APIs). We will address issues of data provenance, exceptions to copyright for text and data-mining, and discuss good practice in managing and working with data that others have
CDH Awards
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Fighting for gender equality in the digital world
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The aim of the three-year project ‘Égalité de genre et transformation numérique’ (‘genre/numérique’), which will hold its first conference in Fribourg on 8-9 September, is twofold: to ensure that movements toward gender equality are supported in the digital domain, and to address gender bias in the development and deployment of digital technologies. ‘Genre/numérique’ is jointly […]
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Fresh harvest of OCRd text from Trove's digitised periodicals – 9gb of text to explore and analyse!
Source: Tim Sherratt |
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I’ve updated the GLAM Workbench’s harvest of OCRd text from Trove’s digitised periodicals. This is a completely fresh harvest, so should include any corrections made in recent months. It includes:
1,430 periodicals
OCRd text from 41,645 issues
About 9gb of text
The easiest way to explore the harvest is probably this human-readable list. The list of periodicals with OCRd text is also available as a CSV. You can find more details in the Trove journals section of the GLAM Workbench, and download the complete corpus from CloudStor.
Finding which periodical issues in Trove have OCRd text you can download is not as easy as it should be. The fullTextInd index doesn’t seem to distinguish between digitised works (with OCR) and born-digital publications (like PDFs) without downloadable text. You ca…
Explore Trove's digitised newspapers by place
Source: Tim Sherratt |
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I’ve updated my map displaying places where Trove digitised newspapers were published or distributed. You can view all the places on single map – zoom in for more markers, and click on a marker for title details and a link back to Trove.
If you want to find newspapers from a particular area, just click on a location using this map to view the 10 closest titles.
You can view or download the dataset used to construct the map. Place names were extracted from the newspaper titles using the Geoscience Gazetteer.
2022-08-16
From our Digital Bookshelf: “Rethinking research data” by Kristin Briney
Source: The Scholarly Tales |
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Research data management (RDM) is as old as research itself. Scholars across the centuries have developed ways to organize and preserve the materials they work with. In today’s age of seemingly boundless technological possibilities, tool options, and ideas, more and more funders and institutions are outlining formal requirements around RDM to help overwhelmed researchers find their way to the latest best practices in handling data. These requirements aren’t always experienced as helpful, of course. The lingo of RDM can sound...
From our Digital Bookshelf: “Rethinking research data” by Kristin Briney
Source: The Scholarly Tales |
Reading time: 6 minutes
Research data management (RDM) is as old as research itself. Scholars across the centuries have developed ways to organize and preserve the materials they work with. In today’s age of seemingly boundless technological possibilities, tool options, and ideas, more and more funders and institutions are outlining formal requirements around RDM to help overwhelmed researchers find their way to the latest best practices in handling data. These requirements aren’t always experienced as helpful, of course. The lingo of RDM can sound...
Minor Lables
Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities |
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Detecting Genre in Pitchfork Reviews
Project Start Date:
August, 2021
We analyze 23,000 reviews from Pitchfork.com to establish a network of over 7,000 artists based on their co-presence in reviews. We use Gephi's (Louvain community detection) modularity class feature to sort the network into closely connected groups. However, because this process is non-deterministic, we improve on its results by running it 10,000 times. Using this novel "metamodularity" method we can show how often any two artists were sorted into the same group. For instance, the jazz musician Alice Coltrane was grouped with John Coltrane 10,000 times, with Sly and the Family Stone 4,939 times, and with Guns n’ Roses one time. With these data, we can visualize how the largely undifferentiated mass of artists fragments into more and more connected groups could be described as genres.
While some of the genres suggested by this method are incredibly specific, one notable exception is the group of African American musicians, which is remarkably large and stable. The artists within it range from Flying Lotus to Motown legend Marvin Gaye to trap rapper Young Thug to R&B singer-songwriter Sade to gangster rapper Tupac Shakur to funk innovators Funkadelic to cross-over hip hop star Cardi B. This is a far more capacious group than most rock clusters along aesthetic, market, and even historic grounds. This may reflect real world connections, yet it is also possible that this metamodularity difference reflects a bias at Pitchfork, where a (historically) rock-oriented hipster aesthetic and a (historically) largely white male audience may correspond to a relative lack of nuance when covering Black artists (historically). In any case, it is fair to say based on these data that Pitchfork has written about Black artists in a structurally unique way over the years relative to their coverage of white artists.
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J.D. Porter
Stewart Varner
EPFL CDH Artist-in-Residence program opens call for second edition
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The College of Humanities Artist-in-Residence program (CDH AiR) ‘Enter the Hyper-Scientific’ has launched its 2023 call, which will support up to four artists for three months of research and experimentation connecting art, humanities, science, and technology. This year’s edition will see a new partnership with the City of Lausanne. Initiated by the EPFL College of […]
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Simone Abbiati
Source: CDH |
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Simone Abbiati is a second-year PhD student in Transcultural studies in the humanities at the University of Bergamo, with a “department of Excellence” researcher grant for Digital Humanities. He graduated in Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Milan, worked on the narratological category of spatiality in “The Experience of Pain” by C.E. Gadda (BA)
Université Paris-Nanterre : Chargé.e d’études – Humanités numériques / Critical heritage studies
Source: dhCenter |
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Le poste s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet ANR COLLABORA, qui vise à développer une réflexion théorique, empirique et politique à propos de plateformes numériques contributives de création, documentation et valorisation des patrimoines. Cette étude se concentre sur la problématique des controverses patrimoniales. Le poste est rattaché au laboratoire Dicen-Idf (Dispositifs d’Information et de Communication […]
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EOSC Future Announces RDA Call for Domain Ambassadors
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EOSC Future Announces RDA Call for Domain Ambassadors
As part of the EOSC Future project to which CLARIN participates, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) is launching a series of calls for proposals to improve the technical data frameworks for the European Open Science Cloud (
European Open Science Cloud
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). Launched on 11 July, a new call will support a network of experts in integrating their disciplinary know-how and community achievements within EOSC. Applicants can submit their proposal until 15 September 2022, 16.00 CET via the EOSC Future Grants Platform.
EOSC Future wants to develop a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) whose technical specificities are receptive and responsive to the needs and realities of various do…
Many thanks to the British Library – sponsors of the GLAM Workbench’s web archives section!
Source: Tim Sherratt |
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You might have noticed some changes to the web archives section of the GLAM Workbench.
I’m very excited to announce that the British Library is now sponsoring the web archives section! Many thanks to the British Library and the UK Web Archive for their support – it really makes a difference.
The web archives section was developed in 2020 with the support of the International Internet Preservation Consortium’s Discretionary Funding Programme, in collaboration with the British Library, the National Library of Australia, and the National Library of New Zealand. It’s intended to help historians, and other researchers, understand what sort of data is available through web archives, how to get it, and what you can do with it. It provides a series of tools and examples that document existing AP…
