the Codex Felis logo A person sitting down and reading a newspaper

Flumen

A newsfeed and aggregator for the digital humanities by Codex Felis

2024-11-29

Appel à contributions : le champ numérique numéro spécial de la conférence 2024

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 5 minutes

Digital Studies / Le champ numérique Numéro spécial de la conférence – 2024 La Société canadienne des humanités numériques (http://csdh-schn.org/) invite les participant.e.s à l’assemblée annuelle 2024 de Montréal (16‐19 juin) à soumettre leurs documents pour publication dans la revue de l’association, Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (https://www.digitalstudies.org/). Tous les participant.e.s à la conférence […]

Call for Papers: Digital Studies 2024 Conference Issue

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 5 minutes

Digital Studies / Le champ numérique The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites conference participants from the 2024 annual meeting in Montreal (16-19 June) to submit their conference papers for publication in the association’s journal, Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (https://www.digitalstudies.org/). All conference participants are welcome to submit their essays for consideration. The […]

DRI Director Dr. Lisa Griffith appears on TransformGov Podcast

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 5 minutes

In September 2024, the Digital Repository of Ireland’s (DRI) Community Archive Scheme was awarded an Ireland eGovernment Award 2024 in the Open Data Category, which recognises initiatives that demonstrate comprehensive data accessibility, usability, and societal impact. As part of this award, our director Dr. Lisa Griffith was asked to participate in a podcast conversation for TransformGov – […] The post DRI Director Dr. Lisa Griffith appears on TransformGov Podcast appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

2024-11-28

A Reflection on Creating Inclusive Digital Collections

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 7 minutes

On Tuesday 26 Nov, the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) hosted an online training session called ‘Creating Inclusive Digital Collections’ about inclusive approaches to creating metadata and describing cultural heritage collections. This event was aimed at digital archivists, cultural heritage professionals, community archivists, curators, librarians, and all those interested in learning more about enriching archives […] The post A Reflection on Creating Inclusive Digital Collections appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

Public History and Arts: How to Approach “Difficult” Histories

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

Political violence is defined as the deliberate use of power and force to achieve political goals. It is characterized by both physical and psychological acts aimed at injuring or intimidating populations. In that sense, the word "difficult" in the title of this seminar refers to events in time that can be identified as acts of political violence. In such circumstances, any attempt to do public history can certainly have its challenges. From ensuring participation, to working with silence, considering the mental health of both the participants and the project leaders, or anticipating the social impact before making this research public.  During this seminar, Myriam Dalal will expand on the definition of the relatively new field of artistic research methodologies, which involves the creation of arts to help the practitioner/researcher improve, change or make their processes more effective, specific and articulated. Myriam Dalal will then discuss how artistic research methodologies can work with and help address some of the challenges of documenting “difficult” histories, based on examples from her research projects (1) tackling war, its photographic representation in the case of Lebanon and (2) migration/exile and the displacement/belonging experience in Luxembourg.   Wednesday, 15 January 2015 14.00 - 15.00 C²DH Open Space (4th floor Maison des Sciences humaines) 15 January 2025 Public history Methodology Public History Research seminars Published Hide image in content detail

2024-11-27

Focus on Young Irish Lives and Experiences in the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 6 minutes

This blog post features a new collection from the recent Legacy Data Preservation Pilot. The 2024 pilot was designed to capture and preserve at-risk data from completed research projects. There were 8 successful applicants to the scheme who worked with DRI staff and professional data stewards to ensure their research materials will remain accessible for the […] The post Focus on Young Irish Lives and Experiences in the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

DH2025 New Submission Deadline: 8 December 2024

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

DH2025 organisers announced that the submission deadline for Digital Humanities 2025 proposals has been extended to December 8, 2024. Next year’s conference (July 14-18, 2025), hosted by the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) in Lisbon, Portugal, will focus on the theme “Building Access and Accessibility, Open Science to All Citizens”. Submissions are welcome in… Read More »DH2025 New Submission Deadline: 8 December 2024

CLARIN Newsflash November 2024 Is Out

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 1 minutes

CLARIN Newsflash November 2024 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: November 2024 Subscribing to it is the ideal way of staying informed. Subscribe here Past issues of the CLARIN Newsflash   You are welcome to submit a news item with CLARIN-related news (or call for papers, event announcement). You can do so by following the submission guidelines as described on the Newsflash page. Julia Misersky 27 November 2024

2024-11-26

Exploring Sentiment in Historical Texts With Gale Digital Scholar Lab’s New “Sentiment by Timeframe” Visualisation

Source: Digital Humanities – The Gale Review | Reading time: 9 minutes

│By Sarah L. Ketchley, Sr. Digital Humanities Specialist│ Gale Digital Scholar Lab has introduced a new visualisation feature in the Sentiment Analysis tool: Sentiment by Timeframe. This enables researchers to bring additional depth to sentiment analysis for historical texts. This tool is part of an ongoing effort to expand the capabilities of the Lab’s six digital ... Read more The post Exploring Sentiment in Historical Texts With Gale Digital Scholar Lab’s New “Sentiment by Timeframe” Visualisation appeared first on The Gale Review.

2024-11-25

DHd 2025 Early Career Reisestipendien

Source: Tagungen | Reading time: 8 minutes

Der Verband »Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.« (http://www.dig-hum.de) schreibt acht Reisestipendien zu je 500 € aus. Zudem vergeben das Konsortium »NFDI4Culture…

2024-11-22

2024-11-21

OSCARS 1st Open Call: Funded Projects

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 3 minutes

OSCARS 1st Open Call: Funded Projects The successful applicants of the first OSCARS Cascading Grant Call for Open Science have been announced and can be viewed on the OSCARS website. Each selected proposal will be funded with a lump sum between 100,000 and 250,000 EUR and has to be implemented in a period between 12 and 24 months. A second call is expected to be opened in January 2025. Overall, OSCARS Open Calls have a total worth of around 16 million EUR.  The Open Calls are integral to the ambitious four-year project, which aims to foster the uptake of Open Science in Europe by developing long-term interdisciplinary FAIR data services and working practices. CLARIN is proud to be participating in OSCARS as part of the SSHOC cluster, together with DAR…

Tour de CLARIN: Interview with Andrea Fried and Arne Jönsson

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 6 minutes

Tour de CLARIN: Interview with Andrea Fried and Arne Jönsson The conversation was led by Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič.   Please start by briefly introducing yourself and your research background. Andrea Fried   Andrea: I am a Biträdande (Senior Associate) Professor in Business Administration, and am affiliated with Linköping University, Sweden. My areas of expertise include organisation studies, innovation research, and management control.   Arne Jönsson   Arne: I am a Professor Emeritus in computer science at Linköping University, and actively involved in the activities of the CLARIN-SMS K-centre. My research focuses on language technology, with a current emphasis on text analysis and text adaptation.     You used CLARIN resources in a stu…

Tour de CLARIN: CLARIN-SMS

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 5 minutes

Tour de CLARIN: CLARIN-SMS Written by Arne Jönsson   The CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Swedish in a Multilingual Setting (CLARIN-SMS) is primarily directed at researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and beyond with a need for analysis, annotation or data mining of Swedish or multilingual texts, and of Swedish Sign Language. CLARIN-SMS makes resources in the form of tools for linguistic processing, as well as corpora available for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The resources include monolingual (mainly Swedish) and multilingual corpora across several domains, and tools for the basic processing of text, including tokenisation, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, and named entity recognition. Main Areas o…

Six more volumes added to the searchable database of Tasmanian Post Office Directories!

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

A couple of months ago I realised my big, searchable database of Tasmanian Post Office Directories was missing the volume from 1920. It took a bit of work to add it in, as described in this post. Unfortunately, I’d barely finished when I realised that a number of other years were also missing! Argh! The good news is that I’ve been steadily working through these missing volumes, adding one a week, and now I’m finally, finally finished! The new volumes are: 1920 1933-34 1941-42 1942-43 1943-44 1945-46 In total there are now 54 volumes from 1890 to 1948. Every line of every volume has been OCRd and indexed, so you can run fulltext searches across all 54 volumes to find matching entries. The fulltext search also supports advanced operators like wildcards and booleans. As I mentioned in relation to 1920, while these volumes can be downloaded as PDFs from Libraries Tasmania, they don’t contain any OCRd text – they’re not searchable (despite what Libraries Tasmania says here). The quality of the scans is also quite variable – tight bindings cut off text, pages are skewed, and lighting is inconsistent. This means that the OCR processing is far from perfect. There will be names missing from the search index as a result of this. However, because you can search across all volumes at once, the database makes it easier to find people, as you can pick them up in one year and follow them through subsequent volumes, filling in any gaps. It would be great if Libraries Tasmania would add a link to the database from their Directories and almanacs page. I’ve sent a couple of emails but haven’t received a reply. It seems odd that they’d link to commercial offerings like FindMyPast, but not to the free, community-developed version!

2024-11-20

CSDH/SCHN Congress 2025: Reframing Togetherness

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 6 minutes

May 30st – June 1st, 2025 | George Brown College, Toronto CFP Deadline: 13 January 2025 ConfTool URL: https://conftool.net/csdh-schn-2025/ (Appel en français ici) The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at George Brown College, as part of the 2025 […]

CSDH/SCHN Congrès 2025

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 6 minutes

30 mai au 1ᵉʳ juin 2025 | George Brown College, Toronto Appel aux propositions : date limite le 13 janvier 2025 Lien vers ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2025/ La Société canadienne des humanités numériques (http://csdh-schn.org/) invite chercheur·se·s, praticien·ne·s et étudiant·e·s des cycles supérieurs à proposer des communications, des tables rondes et des démonstrations pour sa rencontre annuelle, qui […]

CAA ESC Election Results

Source: CAA International | Reading time: 2 minutes

Congratulations to the newly-elected CAA Officers: The elected officers will begin their three-year terms at the conclusion of the 2025 Annual General Meeting, to be held at the CAA2025 conference in Athens, Greece. Thank you to all of the members who voted, and to Josh, Karl, and Maria Elena for volunteering to serve in support […]

RaDiHum20 spricht mit Nicola Mößner

Source: RaDiHum 20 | Reading time: 10 minutes

In der dritten Folge unserer siebten Staffel dürfen wir Nicola Mößner, Vertretungsprofessorin für theoretische Philosophie an der Leibniz Universität Hannover, bei uns begrüßen. Wir sprechen über die Veränderungen und Herausforderungen des digitalen Publizierens. Nicola bringt spannende Perspektiven aus der sozialen Erkenntnistheorie und Wissenschaftsphilosophie mit und beleuchtet, wie digitale Publikationsprozesse traditionelle wissenschaftliche Praktiken verändern. Dabei diskutieren […] Der Beitrag RaDiHum20 spricht mit Nicola Mößner erschien zuerst auf RaDiHum 20.

2024-11-19

Mobility Grant: Preparing Kielipankki Corpus for EuReCo

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 4 minutes

Mobility Grant: Preparing Kielipankki Corpus for EuReCo   Written by Harald Lüngen With my CLARIN mobility grant, I visited CSC, the Finnish IT Centre for Science in Espoo, Finland, which hosts the Finnish corpus archive Kielipankki that is part of FIN-CLARIN. My official stay according to the grant was from 29 August until 6 September 2024, but I got the opportunity by my employer to stay a bit longer at CSC, and I had planned the scope of my project for the extended stay. In my project, I wanted to prepare a subcorpus from the Kielipankki archives for the European Reference Corpus initiative EuReCo, and also to try and set up a KorAP instance for EuReCo at CSC. EuReCo is an initiative that aims to create (pairs of) comparable corpora by making existing corpora maintained …

Launch of the 'WW2.lu. Luxemb(o)urg in the Second World War' online exhibition

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

WW2.lu. Luxemb(o)urg in the Second World War is an online exhibition developed by the C²DH of the University of Luxembourg based on a 2021 convention with the Ministry of State. The aim of the exhibition is to present the history of Luxembourg during the Second World War, taking account of recent historical research. To this end, it relies on the advantages of the digital format. The exhibition makes it possible to approach the experiences of Luxembourgers from different perspectives by drawing on rich and often unknown documentation. Between ‘Luxembourg’ and ‘Luxemburg’, the population faced the Germanisation efforts of the Nazi regime. The period of annexation shows a torn society whose first concern was to cope with everyday life in an exceptional situation. The online exhibition is int…

2024-11-18

2024-11-15

2024-11-14

Facing the History Machine: Towards Histories of Digital History

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

In this talk, Gerben Zaagsma will discuss the history and genealogies of digital history within the broader context of how new technologies have shaped historical research practices and knowledge production since the late nineteenth century. To do so, he will first explore the current historiography and origin myths of digital history while advocating for greater consideration of disciplinary differences in histories of the digital humanities. In the second part, he discusses how we might frame a history of digital history. If an imagined “collective” memory exists, the history of digital history started in the 1960s in the United States and Western Europe, involved mostly digital electronic computing employed to support quantitative approaches, and occurred within national silos. As he wi…

2024-11-12

HeritageX: Where Material Culture Meets Technology and Artistic Practice

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

The lecture seeks to foster interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of digital technology, contemporary artistic practices, and heritage imagery, exploring how these realms inspire new perspectives, creative expression, and critical inquiry, resonating with an audience curious about the evolving relationship between tradition and innovation. Drawing on two projects I have developed—CerCAST (Ceramics Route of Castelli) and LICA Routes (Locating Indonesian Cultural Archives)—the lecture demonstrates how crossing disciplinary boundaries can challenge and broaden current understandings of identity, heritage, and cultural narratives in an era shaped by digital hybridity.  Through cultural route visualization and artistic reinterpretation, these projects reveal how technology can uncov…

CLARIN2025 in Vienna

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 1 minutes

CLARIN2025 in Vienna We are pleased to announce that the CLARIN Annual Conference 2025 will be held in Vienna, Austria! The conference will be held from 30 September to 2 October, and will be organised in collaboration with CLARIAH-AT. The CLARIN Annual Conference is the annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe. It is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there is a need, its actual use by researchers and teachers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. The conference brings together of accepted papers, members of national consortia and representatives of CLARIN centres, representatives from partner organisations, and many others who are interested in becoming part of the CLARIN community. Christine Dijkstra 12 November 2024

Four new Collections in DRI from Clare Memories / Cuimhneamh an Chláir

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 8 minutes

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that Clare Memories / Cuimhneamh an Chláir have ingested four new collections into the Repository – including expanding on their Women’s Stories collection and digitally preserving oral histories ranging from traditional farming accounts to Clare Traveller life. Revitalizing the practice of ‘going on cuaird’, Cuimhneamh […] The post Four new Collections in DRI from Clare Memories / Cuimhneamh an Chláir appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

2024-11-11

Cartographies of Communication: Tracing the Genealogy of Communication Studies

Source: Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio | Reading time: 14 minutes

This Blog Post engages with the Cartographies of Communication project that I am embarking on at the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio as a 2024-25 Graduate Fellow. Through this project I explore the genealogy of communication. The Featured image is a representation of one component of the project that traces the geographical locations where various scholarly traditions engage with and theorize human communication.

2024-11-08

2024-11-07

Finding Women in the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base

Source: UCLDH Blog | Reading time: 5 minutes

A Guide to Finding Women in the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base, available to download here The Sloane Lab is pleased to announce the release of three new resources — an online exhibition, dataset, and research guide — developed by Dr Rosalind White, Sloane Lab Community Research Fellow at University College London, as part of her project In […]

The Luxembourg Steel Industry Since the 70s

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

Join us for a presentation by doctoral candidates Nicolas Arendt and Zoé Konsbruck, who will share their newest research on deindustrialization and the Luxembourg steel industry. Zoé will discuss the impact of the steel crisis on Luxembourg’s industrial towns and their adaptation to deindustrialization challenges. Nicolas will explore the significant transformation of the ARBED steel company and the acquisition and modernization of the former VEB Maxhütte Unterwellenborn in Thuringia in 1992.   Thursday, 28 November 2024 18.30 - 20.00 Centre nature et forêt Ellergronn - Hall C   Programme (6:30 pm – 8:00 pm): Welcome Zoé Konsbruck – D’Stolkris an den Industriestied: Krisemanagement a nei Zukunftsperspektiven 1970-1990 Nicolas Arendt – D’ARBED am Spannungsfeld vun der ostdäitscher Transformatioun: D’Acquisitioun vun der Maxhütte Unterwellenborn 1992 Discussion and a Drink   Your input (photos and documents) provides valuable insights into the history of deindustrialisation. The event will be held in Luxembourgish, but everyone is welcome!   Organised in collaboration with  CNCI (Centre National de la Culture Industrielle) & Cockerill Mine Katzeberg     https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/indu-1-c-191_wm.jpg?itok=WsPHqotx Presentation of Current Research Projects by Zoé Konsbruck and Nicolas Arendt. 28 November 2024 Public history Contemporary history of Luxembourg Industrial history Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-11-06

Cultural heritage and community involvement

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 3 minutes

Join us for an engaging discussion on the intersection of cultural heritage and community engagement, where we will explore the experiences of heritage conservation and the adaptive reuse through two case studies: Morecambe Winter Gardens in the UK and FerroForum in Luxembourg. Discover how these cultural landmarks tackled conservation challenges and fostered community engagement, providing valuable insights into how cultural heritage can remain relevant for future generations. Heritage sites contribute significantly to a community’s sense of identity and belonging. Recognising the importance of local knowledge, civic participation plays a vital role in the conservation and interpretation of the heritage. This conversation will explore how historians, artists and community members can coll…

A Longitudinal Approach and Shared Authority in War Documentation

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

The full-scale Russian war shattered (and continues to have a tremendous impact) the everyday lives and professional practices of people in Ukraine. In the early spring of 2022, many social scientists and historians started to reassemble their skills and apply them to the documentation of the present moment. As the war unfolds, their rapid responses adjust to new durations. During her presentation, Natalia will discuss transitioning from an emergency to a longitudinal approach in war documentation. Based on the example of the “24/02/22, 5 am: Testimonies of the War” international initiative, she will describe how scholars can implement a shared authority principle at different interview-based research stages. She will address multiple inherent challenges for the projects dealing with open-…

2024-11-05

AI to Review Government Records: New Work to Unlock Historically Significant Digital Records

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

This talk presents ground-breaking new work on AI applied to the government records of the Cabinet Office, in order to automatically identify historically significant records to preserve and other records that can be deleted. The Cabinet Office is the UK central government department that supports the Prime Minister in the effective running of government. Its records are among the most important that are deposited in The National Archives, covering those of the Prime Minister, Cabinet proceedings, government efficiency and reform, and the formulation of legislation, among other areas. This talk, which is based on a co-authored article with David Canning (Cabinet Office), does not only describe a radically new methodology to appraise digital records, it also makes a significant theoretical …

Horror – Game – Politics: A History of Ideas in the Horrific

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

The SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) project ‘Horror – Game – Politics’ analysed a sample of 22 digital horror games in terms of their history of ideas. Project manager Eugen Pfister’s aim was to prove that digital games in general, and digital horror games in particular, frequently communicate discursive political statements. This happens both consciously, when developers intend to communicate a specific statement, and unconsciously in the form of myths as described by Roland Barthes. There has long been a consensus in research that a history of ideas and political history cannot be reconstructed solely on the basis of individual political texts. In democratic societies in particular, political communication takes place not only in parliaments and political essays, but also to a large extent in popular culture. Dott. Ric. Dr. phil. Eugen Pfister is historian and political scientist. In particular, he researches the history of ideas and political history in digital games. He is currently leading the SNF-Sinergia project, ‘Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design 1968-2000,’ with a team of 20 colleagues at four Swiss universities. Previously, he led the SNSF project ‘Horror-Game-Politics’ at the Bern University of the Arts. He studied at the Universität Wien and the Université Paris IV – Sorbonne. He wrote his PhD in the history of political communication in co-tutelle at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and the Università degli Studi di Trento. In 2015, he and 15 colleagues founded the Working Group for History and Digital Games (AKGWDS), which has since grown to over 300 members.   Tuesday, 19 November 2024 17.00 - 18.30 DH Lab, 1st floor Maison des Sciences humaines 11, Porte des Sciences, L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette and online   19 November 2024 Public history Media history Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-11-04

RLUK libraries X research

Source: Research Libraries UK | Reading time: 10 minutes

RLUK #librariesXresearch champions the pivotal contribution libraries make to the research process, as enablers, partners and pioneers of research excellence. We wish to bring greater recognition to the wealth of expertise, skills, leadership, and insight that libraries offer. Through our work and partnerships we are facilitating and supporting the professional development of colleagues looking [...] The post RLUK libraries X research appeared first on Research Libraries UK.

2024-11-03

2024-11-01

2024-10-31

Surfacing Legacy Data from the Dún Ailinne Excavation Archive

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 6 minutes

This blog post features a new collection from the recent Legacy Data Preservation Pilot. The 2024 pilot was designed to capture and preserve at-risk data from completed research projects. There were 8 successful applicants to the scheme who worked with DRI staff and professional data stewards to ensure their research materials will remain accessible for the […] The post Surfacing Legacy Data from the Dún Ailinne Excavation Archive appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

2024-10-30

CLARIN Newsflash October 2024 Is Out

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 1 minutes

CLARIN Newsflash October 2024 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: October 2024 Subscribing to it is the ideal way of staying informed. Subscribe here Past issues of the CLARIN Newsflash   You are welcome to submit a news item with CLARIN-related news (or call for papers, event announcement). You can do so by following the submission guidelines as described on the Newsflash page. Julia Misersky 30 October 2024

2024-10-29

Exploring the confluence of public history and webcomic-making

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

Aliénor Gandanger of the University of Luxembourg and Rachel Beck of the University of Limerick (Ireland) are proud to organise a webinar exploring the confluence of history and webcomic-making. The participants are all creators of historical comics and webcomics. The purpose of the webinar is for us to share our experiences, but not only that - we are also endeavouring to develop ‘history and webcomics’ as a field of study in its own right. By bringing the participants together, we hope to encourage collaboration between creator-historians and (academic) public historians. This event is unique in that it is the first time history-based webcomics have come under theoretical scrutiny.   Friday, 15 November 2024 11.00 - 13.00 Online   https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/illustration_rachel_beck_full_width.jpg?itok=XAF4IREz Aliénor Gandanger (University of Luxembourg) and Rachel Beck (University of Limerick) will explore the confluence of history and webcomic-making. 15 November 2024 Public history History of popular culture Media history Conferences Published © Rachel Beck

CAA 2024

Source: CAA UK | Reading time: 2 minutes

Tickets and Schedule The CAAUK conference is centred on quantitative methods and computer applications in heritage. Friday, November 24thThe conference will kick off with registration from 12:30 to 13:00, followed by a welcome and housekeeping session with sessions from 13:15 … Continue reading →

2024-10-28

Day of DH 2024

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Day of DH 2024 will take place on Monday, December 2, 2024! The Day of DH is just around the corner, and we invite everyone in the Digital Humanities community to join us for this special event. Organized by centerNet, Day of DH is your opportunity to showcase what Digital Humanities means to you… Read More »Day of DH 2024

2024-10-25

2024-10-24

2024 International Public History Seminar

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 3 minutes

Join us on 14 November (on site or online) for our first annual International Public History seminar. Arranged by the Public History group of the C²DH, the seminar (10h-16h30) will offer presentations and discussions with researchers and practitioners from Kenya, China and Singapore, the United Arab Emirate. We are proud and fortunate to welcome three visiting fellows for keynote lectures: 10.00-11.00: Salwa Mikdadi (New York University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)  More information coming soon.   13.00-14.00: Na Li ( National University of Singapore, Singapore):  Opportunities for Emergent Public History in Asia  When public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-field within history, and has deve…

2024-10-23

Grad Student Working Group: DH and the Job Market

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 5:00pm Williams 623 While digital methods are increasingly common in the humanities, the status of "Digital Humanities" has evolved over the years. Once a cutting-edge buzzword, DH has grown into a vast umbrella covering a myriad of scholarly activities that can nevertheless be a polarizing concept.   The purpose of this meeting of the Graduate Student Working Group in Digital Humanities is to have a candid discussion about strategies for talking about and representing digital work in professional contexts including but not limited to job interviews. It should be useful for students who have solid DH experience as well as those who are trying to decide how much time and energy to invest in digital work   Subtitle:  With Whitney Trettien (English, Penn) and Brent Cebul (History, Penn) Image for Left Column:

Producing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

In 2021, the American Historical Association published a study on how the American public perceives and understands the past. Almost half of the respondents argued that they turn to Wikipedia to learn about history and acquire a historical understanding of the past. Wikipedia was ranked higher than other historical activities, such as “Historic site visit,” “Museum visit,” “Genealogy work,” “Social media,” “Podcast/radio program,” “History lecture,” and “History-related video game.” These findings combined with the appropriation of Wikipedia’s corpus by ChatGPT and Wikipedia’s partnership with the most central search engine in the digital world, Google, and other digital assistants, such as Siri and Alexa, make clear how crucial the role of Wikipedia in how the public learns about history …

From Bremen to Esch: The International History of SUDenergie

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

This presentation will display the preliminary results of the research into the history of SUDenergie and, more generally, the gas industry in Luxembourg and neighbouring Lorraine, from 1899 onwards. It discusses the origins of gas street lightening in Luxembourg in the 1890s, the involvement of German gas companies in the Luxembourgish gas sector until 1944, the take-over of Société générale pour le gaz et l’électricité Ltd. by Luxembourgish communes in 1953, as well as the more recent evolution of the company.   Wednesday, 20 November 2024 14.00 - 15.00 C²DH Open Space (4th floor Maison des Sciences humaines) 20 November 2024 Contemporary history of Luxembourg Industrial history Research seminars Published Hide image in content detail

Journal of JADH: CFP for vol.8

Source: Japanese Association for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 2 minutes

The Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (in The JJADH is a peer-review and open-access journal, hosted with https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jjadh/6/0/_contents/-char/en The JJADH is not limited to Japanese studies. The editorial board To submit your paper, please access the online submission system https://journals24.jadh.org/index.php/jadh/submission First please register with the journal by clicking the “register” Papers should be between 10 and 18 pages in length (4,000 to Please submit your paper (written in English) in MS-Word .doc, .docx) or LibreOffice (*.odt) format. Because this journal is an online publication, you may include For your references/bibliography, please follow the Chicago Please also follow CMS guidelines for other aspects of prose If you are not a native speaker of English, please have your Except in cases where a scholar is invited to submit, papers will Submissions will be accepted until February 1st, 2025. JJADH Editorial Board Christian Wittern (Kyoto University, Japan) Editor in Chief Gaétan Rappo (Doshisha University) Managing Editor Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Hilofumi Yamamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Advisory Ikki Ohmukai (University of Tokyo) Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University) A. Charles Muller (University of Tokyo) Paul Arthur (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Susan Brown (University of Guelph) Bor Hodošček (Osaka University) Asanobu Kitamoto (National Institute of Informatics) Maki Miyake (Osaka University) Hajime Murai (Future University Hakodate) Yusuke Nakamura (University of Tokyo) Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada)

2024-10-22

Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 1: Images

Source: The Digital Orientalist | Reading time: 19 minutes

This is part one of a three-part series on the biases about the Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. The first and most glaring use of generative AI involving Hellenistic Central Asia is AI-generated imagery. The history of Hellenistic Central Asia, much like most genres of history, is illustrated through this medium with very little regulation.

CLARIN2024 Annual Conference Summary

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 3 minutes

CLARIN2024 Annual Conference Summary The CLARIN2024 Annual Conference brought together academics and professionals from the wider humanities and social science communities to exchange ideas and experiences with the CLARIN infrastructure. This year, the CLARIN Annual Conference was a hybrid event in Barcelona, Spain. With more than 200 in-person participants and close to 150 online participants, this was an engaging and successful event. In addition to engaging keynote speeches, more than 20 abstract presentations, and interactive poster sessions, the conference also included the very first Building Bridges with Industry session. And as it is now becoming a tradition, during the conference dinner, the CLARINets (i.e., the CLARIN band) d…

New CLARIN Resource Family: Corpora of Disordered Speech

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 2 minutes

New CLARIN Resource Family: Corpora of Disordered Speech The CLARIN Resource Families (CRF) provide user-friendly overviews of available language resources in the CLARIN infrastructure for researchers from the digital humanities, social sciences and human language technologies. Many CRF are datasets of various types, including corpora, lexicons and software applications and tools. Until now, a missing resource family was the Corpora for Speech with Disorders (CSD), or the corpora with speech from individuals with language and speech disorders. CSD are invaluable resources for education and research. However, they are costly, hard to build, and can be difficult to share given various issues, such as the preservation of privacy and confidentiality of the participants, as …

2024-10-20

RaDiHum20 spricht mit Caroline und Martin von der Zeitschrift für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften (ZfdG)

Source: RaDiHum 20 | Reading time: 10 minutes

In dieser neuen Folge von RaDiHum20 greifen wir das Thema Reputation ohne Paywall auf. Wer sich erinnert, weiß, dass Anfang Oktober in Darmstadt eine spannende Tagung stattfand, die sich genau mit diesem Thema beschäftigte. Ausgerichtet von der AG Digitales Publizieren des DHD-Verbandes, wurde dabei nicht nur intensiv über Open Access und wissenschaftliche Reputation diskutiert, sondern […] Der Beitrag RaDiHum20 spricht mit Caroline und Martin von der Zeitschrift für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften (ZfdG) erschien zuerst auf RaDiHum 20.

2024-10-18

2024-10-17

Irish Language Featured in the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 7 minutes

This blog post features two new collections from the recent Legacy Data Preservation Pilot. The 2024 pilot was designed to capture and preserve at-risk data from completed research projects. There were 8 successful applicants to the scheme who worked with DRI staff and professional data stewards to ensure their research materials will remain accessible for […] The post Irish Language Featured in the Legacy Data Preservation Pilot appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

2024-10-16

Web Archiving for DRI Members

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 7 minutes

In this blog post DRI’s Training and Engagement Manager Lorraine Marrey talks to Senior Software Engineer Kathryn Cassidy and Archivist Kevin Long about the web archiving service currently being offered to DRI members. LM: Hello both, thank you for taking the time to explain in a bit more detail about the website archiving option open […] The post Web Archiving for DRI Members appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

2024-10-15

Event: Open Access Belgium 2024

Source: The Scholarly Tales | Reading time: 6 minutes

Open Access Belgium would like to invite you to join the Open Access Network Event on the 12th of December to share best practices, foster community, and encourage knowledge-sharing on Open Access. By focusing on practical cases regarding predatory practices… Continue reading “Event: Open Access Belgium 2024”…

Steven Krauwer Awards 2024

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 3 minutes

Steven Krauwer Awards 2024   2024 Steven Krauwer Award for CLARIN Achievements: Mikko Tolonen, Eetu Mäkelä, Jukka Suomela and Juoni Tuominen Organisers of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon Mikko Tolonen is professor in computational history at the University of Helsinki, Eetu Mäkelä is associate professor in human sciences and computing interaction at the University of Helsinki, Jukka Suomela is professor in computer science at Aalto University, and Juoni Tuominen is a researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Helsinki.   Reasons for Nomination The  Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon (DHH24) was nominated for its ability to bridge the gap between computer science, data science, social scienc…

2024-10-14

RLUK Members Meeting 2024

Source: Research Libraries UK | Reading time: 10 minutes

RLUK Members Meeting 7-8 November 2024 University of Edinburgh Please click the purple icons on the map on the right for the different venues at the Members Meeting. Meeting venue: South Hall Complex (South Hall and Kirkland rooms) Dinner venue: Playfair Library Tour: University of Edinburgh Main [...] The post RLUK Members Meeting 2024 appeared first on Research Libraries UK.

Event Series: DH@rts Drop-in Sessions (Fall 2024)

Source: The Scholarly Tales | Reading time: 6 minutes

Have you been meaning to set up an appointment with Artes Research to ask about research data management for your project, an aspect of your research workflow, or a specific DH tool or method? You can now come to one… Continue reading “Event Series: DH@rts Drop-in Sessions (Fall 2024)”…

2024-10-13

Gagner sa vie sur Internet en tant que petit créateur de contenus

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

En 2018, Laurent Ridel, historien de formation, crée le blog Décoder les églises et les châteaux. Son but est d’aider le grand public dans leurs visites des monuments du Moyen Âge. L’enjeu est aussi de générer des revenus pour son auteur. Comment peut-on monétiser un site à vocation culturelle ? Le blogueur doit se transformer en infopreneur, un entrepreneur du web qui vend des produits d’informations. Quels sont les avantages et les difficultés de ce statut?   Mardi, 22 Octobre 2024 11.00 - 12.00 "Aquarium", 4e étage, Maison des Sciences humaines et en ligne 22 October 2024 Public history Digital methods Media history Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-10-11

DPASSH Conference Blog: The Hunt Museum Perspective

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 6 minutes

In this post, the second of our DPASSH blog series, we invited Sian McInerney, Collections & Research Manager from The Hunt Museum to talk to us about the DPASSH 2024 Conference and the experience of co-hosting. In January 2024, the DRI asked the Hunt Museum and the University of Limerick to cohost their biennial Digital […] The post DPASSH Conference Blog: The Hunt Museum Perspective appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

2024-10-10

A Bird in the House, God Bless Her: A Dublin Festival of History Event

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 6 minutes

On Wednesday 9th of October the Digital Repository of Ireland welcomed the winner of our 2024 Community Archive Scheme Michael Fortune of Folklore.ie to the Royal Irish Academy to talk to an audience about his collection of stories from the Irish Traveller community, A Bird in the House, God Bless Her.  Launched in 2019, the […] The post A Bird in the House, God Bless Her: A Dublin Festival of History Event appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

2024-10-09

Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as Medicine | 2-day conference Oct 10 & 11th, 2-8pm at RCAH in 2nd floor of Sny-Phi Hall

Source: Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition Lab | Reading time: 5 minutes

The Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab—housed in the English Department—warmly invites you to our upcoming exhibit and conference showcasing pandemic art, Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as Medicine. Our exhibit and conference are products of a $3M Mellon grant headed by Dr. Natalie Phillips, Dr. Julian Chambliss, and a dynamic team of undergraduate and […]

The DHLC is partnering with Scholarly Editing

Source: Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition Lab | Reading time: 5 minutes

The DHLC is embarking on a new partnership with Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing, which is designed to bolster the journal’s Voices and Perspective section. Scholarly Editing is a peer-reviewed, open-access annual whose editors seek to recover texts and artifacts that honor the lives of and contributions from and about […]

Introduction to Omeka

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 5:00pm Williams 623 Omeka is a content management system (CMS) designed by digital humanists at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It allows you to create online collections and digital exhibits without knowing any code. Thinking about a tool like Omeka also gives us the opportunity to get into some of the most common questions in DH around maintenance, sustainability, collaboration, labor, digital representation, and the politics of metadata … and probably a few other things too. The goal of the workshop isn’t necessarily to promote Omeka (evene though it is an excellent tool for many applications) but rather to give you the information you need to decide if Omeka is right for you (and if it isn’t, what alternatives there might be). Subtitle:  with Stewart Varner Image for Left Column:

3 or 4 Simple DH Tools

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 5:00pm In this workshop, I will introduce and demo a few very easy to use tools including: Voyant (easy Text Analysis) TimelineJS (easy Time Line builder) StoryMapper (easy interactive maping)   I’ll also talk a little about free options for building quick websites. If you’ve already seen me do something like this before, it is unlikely that I will go over anything new so don’t feel compelled to come. On the other hand, if you haven’t seen it, it sounds like people often find it to be useful.    Subtitle:  With Stewart Varner Image for Left Column:

Training: Open Science Discovery for PhD Researchers

Source: The Scholarly Tales | Reading time: 7 minutes

The aim of Open Science is to share all kinds of research output, knowledge and tools, as early and widely as possible in the research process. It is based on collaboration and enhanced transparency, and brings thus opportunities for high-quality… Continue reading “Training: Open Science Discovery for PhD Researchers”…

2024-10-08

Recovering, Recreating, Reimaging, and Taking Action: WEB Du Bois and The Philadelphia Negro

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Monday, October 21, 2024 - 12:00pm Williams 623 Stephanie Boddie, MSW, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Church and community Ministries at Baylor University, with appointments in their Garland School of Social Work and Truett Seminary. Amy Hillier, MSW, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. The two were graduate school classmates at Penn and co-direct a public history project called The Ward: Race and Class in Du Bois’ Seventh Ward. The project aims to teach people about the great civil rights leader and scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois, and his 1899 book, The Philadelphia Negro through research, neighborhood walking tours, a documentary, interactive mapping, a board game, and oral histories. During this presentation, they will describe recent efforts to catalog and extend their project scope. They will demonstrate some of the current content and invite participants to help workshop ideas for their new website and the next phase of this 20-year-old project. Subtitle:  Mellon Seminar: Stephanie Boddie & Amy Hillier Image for Left Column:

Vernacular Archival Practices: In Praise of Silence, Inaccessibility, and Incompleteness

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

This lecture first examines historical and contemporary patterns of human and non-human mobilizations that emerge when certain archival collections gain attention—earning archival value—from official institutions, professional archivists, critical scholars, and researchers. In this context, it is essential to consider the distinct intentions of both mainstream and alternative agents involved in these collections. Additionally, the varying motivations, methods, and means of visibly activating and utilizing these archives must be noted. As these dynamics unfold, questions arise concerning the limitations of accessibility, competition over full ownership and representation, and the ongoing debate between quantity and quality in archival practices. Building on my experience with Shubra’s Archive—Egypt’s first neighborhood-based community archive—the second part of the lecture expands on these questions and debates by integrating vernacular archival practices informed and performed by local residents and researchers. The main argument is that the presence of a place that ethnographically archives and engages with its space in the here and now opens up innovative situated ethical, logistical, and social endeavors. These endeavors not only interrogate the value-making processes of archival collections but also highlight the ruses and risks of aspiring toward exhaustive and accessible archives. Mina Ibrahim is a guest at the C²DH.   Tuesday, 22 October 2024 14.00 - 15.00 "Aquarium", 4th floor, Maison des Sciences humaines and online 22 October 2024 Public history Archives Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-10-05

2024-10-04

Legacy Data Preservation Pilot Collections Published

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 8 minutes

In early February, the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) announced a new pilot programme designed to support the sustainability of ‘legacy’ research collections, i.e. research materials from closed projects, not previously published in a data repository for long-term preservation and access. Researchers or research groups were eligible to apply for a single deposit allocation (one […] The post Legacy Data Preservation Pilot Collections Published appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

2024-10-03

2024-10-01

2024 Update on DRI’s EDI Policy Progress

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 9 minutes

It has been one year since the DRI launched its inaugural Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Policy. There are five strands to our EDI policy: 1. Openness and inclusion; 2. Ensuring an intersectional and equitable approach to staffing and governance; 3. Removing barriers to engagement with the DRI; 4. Making events and training, communications, and […] The post 2024 Update on DRI’s EDI Policy Progress appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

Removal, Reclamation, & Sustainability: Commemorating Wyandot History

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

In July 1843, after years of negotiation and resistance, the State of Ohio cast the last Native American tribe from its borders. Though the Wyandot reserved their legal right to remain until 1844, theft and land speculation by white settlers made staying in their homes untenable. Nearly 700 tribal citizens walked 240 kilometers from the Grand Reserve in Upper Sandusky to Cincinnati, Ohio. There, they boarded steamboats bound for unknown, unfamiliar lands in Kansas, over 1,150 kilometers away. Ohio has forgotten about the Wyandot, as well as the larger story of their Removal and resistance. Wingo began a partnership with the the Cultural Division of the Wyandotte Nation in 2021 to reconstitute the Wyandot(te)’s legacy and repair Ohio’s historical amnesia. Their work consists of two (in-progress) community-based public history projects: the Wyandot Removal Trail and the Wyandot Heritage Digital Archive. These projects are about reclamation as much as it is about Removal. Ohio, and the Midwest more broadly, mythologizes its past by laying claim to various freedoms: free from tyranny, free from slavery, and since 1843, also free from Indians. In coproducing this project, the Wyandotte are reclaiming control of their history, but how do they ensure the long term sustainability of these important resources?   Wednesday, 9 October 2024 14.00 - 15.00 "Aquarium", 3rd floor MSH and online 9 October 2024 Public history Public History Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-09-30

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 462 – Algorismus … [etc.]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 462, a didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero) and their operations. Followed by an anonymous treatise in verse on the calendar, focusing on establishing feast andContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 462 – Algorismus … [etc.]. (Video Orientation)"

The Animal is Out: The Cultural Evolution of the Werewolf

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

The most iconic monsters in modern pop culture, including the vampire, the zombie, Frankenstein’s monster and even the mummy, have been the subject of numerous critical studies that have explored their cultural dimensions – or, in other words, the social, historical and political significance of the narratives in which they appear. The werewolf, on the other hand, has often been reduced to “the beast within,” or a psychoanalytic analogue for the bestial side of man. Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film (2020) redresses the balance by providing wolf men and she-wolves with the same level of cultural analysis as has been afforded to their fellow monsters. This talk, drawn from Phases of the Moon, will explore the evolution of the werewolf from antiquity to modern cinem…

2024-09-27

Cassandra Hradil

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Academic Title:  Assistant Director for Teaching and Pedagogy Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the African-American Digital + Experimental Humanities Initiative (AADHUM)   Cassandra Hradil is the assistant director for teaching and pedagogy at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the African-American Digital + Experimental Humanities Initiative (AADHUM). Cassandra previously worked as a digital humanities specialist at Penn Libraries and the Price Lab. She loves finding practical and creative ways to make data and computation more approachable, while also digging into the histories, materialities, and subjectivities that shape our computational experiences.   Cassandra holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.   Fellowship Date:  September, 2024—August, 2025

2024-09-26

DRI Citation Policy 2024

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 8 minutes

In this blog post Lorraine Marrey, Training and Engagement Manager, interviews DRI’s Research Associate Joan Murphy about the new citation style for digital cultural heritage objects, which was developed following the Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Recommendations produced by the WorldFAIR Project’s Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Working Group. Learn more about DRI’s role in the WorldFAIR […] The post DRI Citation Policy 2024 appeared first on Digital Repository of Ireland.

History@Play - What If? Reimagining the Past Through Alternate Histories

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

What if the Nazis had won World War II? What if J.F. Kennedy had survived the assassination? What if the Cold War had ended in nuclear devastation? Games often engage with counterfactual history, exploring events that didn’t happen but might have, inviting players to consider not only how different outcomes could have shaped the world we live in today, but also why certain events unfolded the way they did. For this new appointment with History@Play, the C²DH is proud to once again team up with Rotondes, Game On, and the BTS school of Game Programming and Game Design to explore how video games reimagine the past. The GRAND SALLE will showcase a selection of video games that reimagine key historical moments and immerse players in alternate histories. In the STUDIOS, we will present a historical board game workshop in collaboration with the BTS school of Game Programming and Game Design. Working in teams, the participants will learn the ropes of game design by creating games that explore how different choices could have altered key moments in Luxembourg’s history.   Programme GRANDE SALLE Sat 26.10 >14:00 — 19:00 Sun 27.10 >11:00 — 18:00 Historical video game expo and demo   CONTAINER CITY - STUDIO 3&4 Sat 26.10 >15.30 - 18.00 Historical Board Game Workshop in collaboration with the BTS school of Game Programming and Game Design. maximum 30 participants. The workshop is free of cost, and places will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Suitable for ages 14 and up. Language: English Registration will soon open for the board game workshop.   26 October 2024 to 27 October 2024 Public history Media history Outreach Published Hide image in content detail

Where's 1920? Missing volume added to Tasmanian Post Office Directories!

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 2 minutes

Visualisation is a great way to find problems in your data. As part of the Everyday Heritage project, I’m working with a team to document the lives of Tasmania’s Chinese residents in the 19th and early 20th centuries. We’re using a variety of sources such as Trove’s newspapers, the Tasmanian Names Index, and the Tasmanian Post Office Directories. To help with the research, I converted all the PDF volumes of the Post Office Directories into a public, online, searchable database. Or at least, I thought I had. The Tasmanian Post Office Directories database embeds metadata about each line of text in its results, so it’s easy to save items of interest using Zotero. A member of our team has already saved hundreds of entries this way. The other day I started pulling these entries out of Zotero us…

2024-09-25

CLARIN Newsflash September 2024 Is Out

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 1 minutes

CLARIN Newsflash September 2024 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: September 2024 Subscribing to it is the ideal way of staying informed. Subscribe here Past issues of the CLARIN Newsflash   You are welcome to submit a news item with CLARIN-related news (or call for papers, event announcement). You can do so by following the submission guidelines as described on the Newsflash page. Julia Misersky 25 September 2024

Revolutionizing Historical Research: Generative AI and the Digitized Archives of the European Parliament

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

Discover how our generative AI solution is transforming access to the public archives of the European Parliament. By integrating character recognition, named entity extraction, and natural language prompt search, this generative AI innovation allows exploration of thousands of legislative documents from 1952 to 1994. Accessible online for all citizens, our solution contributes to the preservation of institutional memory and document accessibility, ensuring precise and multilingual search capabilities, while promoting a better understanding of the European Parliament's legislative heritage. Dr. Ludovic Delépine has 30 years of experience in IT, in particular IT governance in public administration, enterprise architecture and digital transformation. He is currently Head of the Archives Unit in the Directorate-General of the Presidency. He has also been leading the thematic pole of IT governance of the Inter-Parliamentary Union for 7 years. He has previously been a teacher in IT at several French universities, as well as a researcher in CNRS-labeled laboratories in Artificial Intelligence. Read more on discriminative AI Read more on generative AI   Wednesday, 30 October 2024 14.00 - 15.00 C²DH Open Space (4th floor Maison des Sciences humaines) and online 30 October 2024 Digital history & historiography Archives Artificial intelligence Digital methods Digital tools Published Hide image in content detail

2024-09-24

DH2027: Call for Hosts

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

Digital Humanities Conference 2027 The Conference Coordinating Committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites proposals to host the Digital Humanities Conference in 2027 (DH2027). Digital Humanities (DH) is ADHO’s annual international conference. ADHO’s constituent organizations are the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the… Read More »DH2027: Call for Hosts

Ostarbeiters. Diplaced Persons and Repatriants. Transnational view on the Soviet forced laborers in Luxembourg during WWII

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

Dr. Inna Ganschow’s presentation is a nuanced reconstruction of the historical events concerning Soviet forced laborers in Luxembourg during World War II. The talk will present research findings that will be published in a monograph in 2024 answering the research question: ‘What were the living and working conditions of Soviet forced laborers in Luxembourg during World War II, as seen from German, American, and Soviet documentation, and what impact did these experiences have on their lives after their return?’ The internal seminar for C²DH is especially informative since several camps for young civilians from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, as well as for Soviet prisoners of war, were located on the Belval University campus, which is situated on the site of the former ARBED steelworks using the forced labor during WWII.   Wednesday, 23 October 2024 14.00-15.00 C²DH Open Space (4th floor Maison des Sciences humaines) 23 October 2024 Contemporary history of Luxembourg Soviet “Ostarbeiters” and POW in Luxembourg during WWII Labour history Migration history WW2 Research seminars Published Hide image in content detail

Where does Internet Advertising come from? A Political Economic Perspective

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

To understand the internet, one must understand advertising. But what is advertising, exactly? Is it simply a way to inform consumers about products and services? Is it large companies gathering consumer data? Hidden technologies for tracking and profiling? Public policies regulating data markets or leaving them unfettered? Advertising is all these things and more. In this talk, Matthew Crain will outline a political economic approach to advertising, foregrounding the concepts of social relations and structural power.   About the lecturer Matthew Crain is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Miami University. His research focuses on the political economy of media, advertising, and consumer surveillance. He is the author of Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet (2021). The Lecture Series “Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance” is a joint Lecture Series from the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) (DIGMEDIA INTER project, INTER/DFG/23/17960744/DIGMEDIA, supported by FNR and DFG).   8 October 2024 14.15-15.45 Online. Please register to join online.   The event is part of the 'Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance’ lecture series. 8 October 2024 Contemporary history of Europe Media history Conferences Published Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons .

A Classroom Compendium: Digital Humanities Resources for a New School Year

Source: Digital Humanities – The Gale Review | Reading time: 9 minutes

│By Sarah L. Ketchley, Sr. Digital Humanities Specialist│ For the start of a new academic year, this month’s Notes from our DH Correspondent blog post is a useful resource indexing all the Notes posts to date. They are categorised below to support instructors to plan, build and deliver classroom DH curricula.  This is a great ... Read more The post A Classroom Compendium: Digital Humanities Resources for a New School Year appeared first on The Gale Review.

2024-09-23

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 37 and LJS 460 -[Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis](Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 37, an incomplete abridgment in Arabic of Euclid’s Elements (also described in this video orientation), and LJS 460, an individual quire which used to be part of LJS 37. It was written in Fatimid Egypt, Iraq, orContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 37 and LJS 460 -[Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis](Video Orientation)"

DH2025 Media

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Local Organizers for DH2025 are happy to launch the website of the next Digital Humanities conference (https://dh2025.adho.org/) and call for proposals (https://dh2025.adho.org/call-for-proposals/). Welcome to the BlueSky (@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social) and Mastodon (@dh2025) accounts. The X will be announced soon. The email account for all questions about the conference is dh2025@fcsh.unl.pt.

Major update for the Trove Newspapers section of the GLAM Workbench

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

The Trove newspapers section of the GLAM Workbench was updated last week. Over the last year I’ve been gradually updating notebooks to use version 3 of the Trove API, but when version 2 suddenly disappeared a couple of weeks ago I had to hurriedly pull everything together. The Trove newspapers section includes 23 notebooks and 6 datasets, so it’s not a small job. The changes include: updated all notebooks to use version 3 of the Trove API removed remaining datasets from the code repository and created dedicated data repositories for them, integrating them with Zenodo where appropriate added metadata to all the notebooks – this is used to build an RO-Crate metadata file for the code repository updated all the Python packages added a voila.json file to configure Voilá None of the functionality of the notebooks should have changed. There’s a slight difference in the Finding non-English newspapers in Trove notebook because the language detection library I was using is no longer maintained. I’ve swapped in py3langid and it seems to work well, though the results are a little different. Interestingly, where the previous library thought that bad OCR was ‘Maltese’, the new one detects it as ‘Latin’! There’s no change to the list of newspapers with non-English language content detected by the notebook. The documentation pages have also been updated. The notebook pages are now built using data from the code repository’s RO-Crate file. They also include embedded HTML previews of the notebooks. If a notebook generates visualisations, the visualisations are usually included in the HTML, so you can explore the outputs without running the notebook – see, for example, the charts in Visualise the total number of newspaper articles in Trove by year and state. Most of the dataset pages now include links to explore the contents using Datasette-Lite. I still have to generate RO-Crate files for all the data repositories, but I wanted to get the code stuff finished first.

2024-09-20

RaDiHum20 spricht mit Timo, Walter und Thomas von der AG „Digitales Publizieren“

Source: RaDiHum 20 | Reading time: 10 minutes

Wir sind aus der Sommerpause zurück und starten voller Energie in unsere siebte Staffel! Die Staffel widmet sich dem Thema digitales Publizieren. Und gleich in der ersten Folge begrüßen wir drei Experten, die das Thema seit Jahren prägen: Timo Steyer, Walter Scholger und Thomas Stäcker.  Die Drei waren oder sind die Convenor der 10 Jahre […] Der Beitrag RaDiHum20 spricht mit Timo, Walter und Thomas von der AG „Digitales Publizieren“ erschien zuerst auf RaDiHum 20.

Preserving the history of online collections (my love letter to future historians)

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 9 minutes

It’s pretty obvious that access to digitised resources, like Trove’s newspapers, has changed the practice of history in Australia. But how? I’m certain that the historiographical implications of the growth and development of online collections will become a topic of increasing interest to historians, and that exploration of this topic will lead to important insights into the relationship between what we keep, what we value, and what we know. But for this to happen we need to have data documenting changes in online collections. What became available when? How was it delivered to users? How did the search indexing work? In general, GLAM collection interfaces exist in an eternal present – they’re not good at explaining changes, or communicating their own histories. Australian GLAM organisatio…

2024-09-19

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities in US Academic Libraries: Case Studies

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Kelda Habing and Lian Ruan (University of Illinois Fire Service Institute) have published a qualitative study on digital humanities practices from seven US academic libraries to provide insights into how varied academic libraries operate their DH programs, in Digital Transformation and Society. Using semi-structured interviews, they highlight practices around space, technology, staffing, instruction, and collaboration. ...read more

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities in US Academic Libraries: Case Studies

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Kelda Habing and Lian Ruan (University of Illinois Fire Service Institute) have published a qualitative study on digital humanities practices from seven US academic libraries to provide insights into how varied academic libraries operate their DH programs, in Digital Transformation and Society. Using semi-structured interviews, they highlight practices around space, technology, staffing, instruction, and collaboration. ...read more

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 11 minutes

Proposals are now being accepted for the 10th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium, being held virtually and in-person April 2-8, 2025 at Michigan State University. From the CFP: Digital Humanities (DH) at Michigan State University (MSU) is proud and thrilled to celebrate the 10th Global DH Symposium with a combination of virtual and in-person events ...read more

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Proposals are now being accepted for the 10th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium, being held virtually and in-person April 2-8, 2025 at Michigan State University. From the CFP: Digital Humanities (DH) at Michigan State University (MSU) is proud and thrilled to celebrate the 10th Global DH Symposium with a combination of virtual and in-person events ...read more

CFP: Fighting Colonial Erasures, Archiving Against Genocides for Palestinian Liberation and Global Decolonization

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 13 minutes

One of the imperatives of digital humanities as a field is to seize knowledge production and decolonize the cultural record. As digital humanities practitioners in libraries and archives, this is especially the case given the proliferation of disinformation, censorship, and hegemonic narratives that aim to erase the destruction of peoples and their heritage by their ...read more

CFP: Fighting Colonial Erasures, Archiving Against Genocides for Palestinian Liberation and Global Decolonization

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 13 minutes

One of the imperatives of digital humanities as a field is to seize knowledge production and decolonize the cultural record. As digital humanities practitioners in libraries and archives, this is especially the case given the proliferation of disinformation, censorship, and hegemonic narratives that aim to erase the destruction of peoples and their heritage by their ...read more

CFP: dh+lib Special Issue CFP: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Digital Humanities practitioners and librarians are increasingly engaging in data embodiment and visceralization. Towards this, “Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data” is a special issue of dh+lib that will explore ways of integrating critical making and data physicalization into library-based digital humanities pedagogy in a variety of forms and modalities, including workshops, course-related instruction, and more. ...read more

CFP: dh+lib Special Issue CFP: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Digital Humanities practitioners and librarians are increasingly engaging in data embodiment and visceralization. Towards this, “Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data” is a special issue of dh+lib that will explore ways of integrating critical making and data physicalization into library-based digital humanities pedagogy in a variety of forms and modalities, including workshops, course-related instruction, and more. ...read more

CFP: Code4Lib 2025

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 11 minutes

Code4Lib 2025 is soliciting proposals for prepared talks! From the call: Code4Lib 2025 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4Lib community, please visit the Code4Lib website. The conference will ...read more

CFP: Code4Lib 2025

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 11 minutes

Code4Lib 2025 is soliciting proposals for prepared talks! From the call: Code4Lib 2025 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4Lib community, please visit the Code4Lib website. The conference will ...read more

EVENT: #DHMakes Methodz Talks

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 11 minutes

The #DHMakes Methodz Talks are informal gatherings of folks interested in vaguely DH-adjacent crafting+making, zero expertise required. Three virtual talks are scheduled for Fall 2024: Sam Blickhan on speedweve for mending socks Date: 10/15/2024 Time: 3-3:30pm ET Registration required: register here before day of event Zoom event taught by Sam Blickhan on speedweve for mending ...read more

EVENT: #DHMakes Methodz Talks

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 11 minutes

The #DHMakes Methodz Talks are informal gatherings of folks interested in vaguely DH-adjacent crafting+making, zero expertise required. Three virtual talks are scheduled for Fall 2024: Sam Blickhan on speedweve for mending socks Date: 10/15/2024 Time: 3-3:30pm ET Registration required: register here before day of event Zoom event taught by Sam Blickhan on speedweve for mending ...read more

EVENT: ACH 2024 (virtual)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Registration is now open for #ACH2024, the annual virtual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. ACH 2024 will be held virtually November 6-8, 2024. As the CFP explains, Amid rapid societal and technological transformations and historic elections worldwide, ACH fosters dialogue, spaces, and solidarity on equity and justice across local, transborder, and ...read more

EVENT: ACH 2024 (virtual)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Registration is now open for #ACH2024, the annual virtual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. ACH 2024 will be held virtually November 6-8, 2024. As the CFP explains, Amid rapid societal and technological transformations and historic elections worldwide, ACH fosters dialogue, spaces, and solidarity on equity and justice across local, transborder, and ...read more

EVENT: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum (virtual)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Registration is open for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2024 Forum, happening online (virutally) October 22-23, 2024. The virtual forum features two days of sessions, including lightning talks, multiple concurrent sessions on a range of topics, and plenary talks. Registration includes live access to the virtual event and access to the virtual event recordings after ...read more

EVENT: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum (virtual)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Registration is open for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2024 Forum, happening online (virutally) October 22-23, 2024. The virtual forum features two days of sessions, including lightning talks, multiple concurrent sessions on a range of topics, and plenary talks. Registration includes live access to the virtual event and access to the virtual event recordings after ...read more

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announces its call for applications for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices competitive grant. As the call for applications explains, this grant program focuses on: digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada. Launched in 2021, the program ...read more

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announces its call for applications for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices competitive grant. As the call for applications explains, this grant program focuses on: digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada. Launched in 2021, the program ...read more

JOB: Digital Scholarship Developer (Providence College)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 4 minutes

From the announcement: Provide strategic leadership for the design, development, and implementation of digital scholarship at Providence College. Remote hybrid work is available at a maximum of two days per week based on approval. Essential Duties: Develop and maintain applications, platforms, and tools that support digital scholarship projects and initiatives through the use of extensive ...read more

JOB: Digital Scholarship Developer (Providence College)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 4 minutes

From the announcement: Provide strategic leadership for the design, development, and implementation of digital scholarship at Providence College. Remote hybrid work is available at a maximum of two days per week based on approval. Essential Duties: Develop and maintain applications, platforms, and tools that support digital scholarship projects and initiatives through the use of extensive ...read more

JOB: Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian (Michigan State University)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the announcement: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries seeks a creative, service-oriented professional to join the Digital Scholarship Lab as the Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian. As a member of a team of professionals in the Digital Scholarship Lab, the Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian will be a key contributor to the MSU Libraries’ services ...read more

JOB: Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian (Michigan State University)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 5 minutes

From the announcement: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries seeks a creative, service-oriented professional to join the Digital Scholarship Lab as the Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian. As a member of a team of professionals in the Digital Scholarship Lab, the Data and Immersive Visualization Librarian will be a key contributor to the MSU Libraries’ services ...read more

Mellon Seminar: Tajah Ebram

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 2 minutes

Monday, October 7, 2024 - 12:00pm 623 Williams Hall Dr. Tajah Ebram will talk about her current work with The Black Bibliography Project (BBP). The BBP is creating a digital database of Black book history with the aim of revealing the dynamic social networks and aesthetic practices specific to Black print cultures in the U.S.  During her talk, she will discuss her background in Black literary and cultural studies and how this informs her current work with the BBP. Her current research with the project is focused on developing and curating, in collaboration with graduate researchers, a corpus centering the print cultures of books authored by incarcerated Black writers and organizers of the late 20th century. The talk will explore the print cultures of Black prison movements while also attending to critical political, ethical and descriptive considerations involved in developing data about these works and writers. Dr. Tajah Ebram is a cultural historian, teacher and community memory worker. She is currently the Black Studies Librarian at Rutgers University New Brunswick and the Rutgers lead for the Black Bibliography Project. Prior to her work at Rutgers, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College where she developed seminars around Black feminisms, carceral studies and Black environmentalism.  In 2020, she completed her PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania where she focused on Philly Black freedom movements through the lenses of oral history, digital storytelling, and material culture.   Image for Left Column:

Saving Trove's digitised periodicals as PDFs

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

I was recently contacted by a researcher who wanted to be able to automatically download the issues of a digitised periodical in Trove as PDFs. There was already a notebook in the GLAM Workbench that downloads the issues of a digitised newspaper as PDFs, but newspapers work differently to other digitised periodicals in Trove. While there was no corresponding notebook for other types of periodicals, all the necessary steps were documented in the Trove Data Guide, so it was just a matter of pulling together a few blocks of code. There are three main steps: get the nla.obj identifiers for all the periodical’s issues get the number of pages in each issue construct a url to download each issue as a PDF using the nla.obj identifier and the number of pages Get issue identifiers Version 3 of the T…

2024-09-18

BEYOND WORK: sports, culture and arts within diverse societies in Europe across time

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the multifaceted roles of sports, culture, and arts in shaping diverse European societies throughout history. By going beyond traditional narratives of labour and economy, we seek to examine how these realms intersect with societal dynamics, identity formation, and community cohesion. Migration has long served as a conduit for the exchange and diffusion of sporting traditions, artistic expressions, and cultural identities across borders and continents. Similarly, sports, culture and arts serve as powerful mediums through which migrants navigate and negotiate their identities, fostering inclusion among migrant populations. This dynamic exchange between migration and what lies beyond work not only shapes the cultural landscapes of host nations but also enriches the global fabric of human experience. The annual event is co-organised by the Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines (CDMH), a long-time AEMI member; the Ville de Dudelange and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).   See the detailed programme.   25-28  September 2024 Town Hall, Salle Nic Birtz, Dudelange   https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/diddeleng_gemeng_web.jpg?itok=c1UWVcQk 34th AEMI (Association of European migration institutions) conference. 25 September 2024 to 28 September 2024 Contemporary history of Luxembourg Contemporary history of Europe Migration history Transnationalism Conferences Published Photo by Cornischong [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

2024-09-17

Centre news vol. 67 - September 2024

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 2 minutes

Centre news vol. 67 - September 2024 Federated Content Search Hackathon The FCS hackathon that will take place as a post-conference event on 18 October in Barcelona is targeting developers who want to establish an endpoint to be connected to the FCS aggregator. If you would be interested in attending such a hackathon in a virtual setting, please send a mail to fcs [at] clarin.eu (fcs[at]clarin[dot]eu), we are inventorising the interest for a virtual counterpart. This one will be in-person only.  Deadline Centre Assessment Round approaching The deadline for the upcoming B-centre assessment round is 31 October 2024. If you would like to participate in this 24th round, please make sure to use: The updated CoreTrustSeal 2023-2025 and AMT platform. The latest version of the B-cent…

Making history, crossing worlds

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

Many questions are currently being asked about the practice of history: archives are being transformed, tools have changed, as have the logics and players involved in disseminating historical research. How do we choose among the many paths open to us today? The “Taste of the archive in the digital age” project, carried out since 2017 with Frédéric Clavert, aimed in part to describe these new practices of history; it led to a reflection on the nature of the links that bind us to the archive. Certain parts of this documentation have become unstable, such as “family” archives, which have hitherto survived in attics or trunks, and are now flows that disappear at the same time as our smartphones and their photo albums. Around these questions gravitate “worlds”: archivists, the “public”, students, publishers... what specific contributions can historians make in this galaxy?   Monday, 23 September 2024 16.30 - 17.30 "Aquarium", Maison des Sciences humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Luxembourg and online   https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/carile_muller_full_width.jpg?itok=Jz0SRPJW Talk by Caroline Muller, Université de Rennes. 23 September 2024 Public history Archives Digital hermeneutics Digital methods Digitisation Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-09-16

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 458 – Abscondita naturae (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 458, Collection of over 400 recipes for medical, cosmetic, and culinary purposes, copied from both manuscript and printed sources. The medical recipes include treatments for the plague, syphilis, epilepsy, toothache, headache, scabies, eye ailments, fever, sciatica, andContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 458 – Abscondita naturae (Video Orientation)"

Kurs zu Forschungsdatenmanagement für Doktorand*innen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften

Source: Aktuelles | Home | RISE | Research & Infrastructure Support | Universität Basel | Reading time: 1 minutes

News, Weiterbildung, Events Das Netzwerk für Forschungsdatenmanagement und die Graduiertenschule für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften organisieren in Zusammenarbeit mit RISE einen umfassenden neuen Kurs zum Thema Forschungsdatenmanagement, der speziell auf die Forschungsbedürfnisse von Doktorand*innen zugeschnitten ist.

2024-09-13

Extended Call for Papers – CAAUK 2024

Source: CAA UK | Reading time: 2 minutes

The Call for Papers has just been extended, and we invite you to share your research at the CAAUK 2024 Conference, held at Canterbury Christ Church University on 22nd-23rd November 2024! We invite the submission of papers and posters related … Continue reading →

2024-09-11

Mellon Seminar: Christine Roughan

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 2 minutes

Monday, November 4, 2024 - 12:00pm Williams 623 Christine Roughan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Center for Digital Humanities and with Manuscript, Rare Book and Archive Studies. Christine earned her Ph.D. in the Ancient World from New York University in January 2023, where her doctoral work explored a premodern astronomical curriculum and its continued use in Greek and Arabic between the second and thirteenth centuries CE. Christine's research applies computational approaches to the study of manuscript transmissions in the Mediterranean world, particularly of mathematical and scientific works. During her postdoctoral term at Princeton, Christine is leveraging deep learning tools to classify and analyze visual data from digitized manuscripts, with a particular focus on paratextual material. The written outputs of manuscript cultures are often characterized by a degree of multiformity, and certain texts see particularly high amounts of variation. Works used for didactic purposes, for instance, often saw multiple interventions in the hands of contemporary scholars and teachers. While digital imaging initiatives have made great strides in making manuscript materials more accessible, the fact that this data is in image format has until recently presented a speedbump for research that would grapple with such highly variable traditions. But this is changing with the machine learning technologies available today. This talk will explore how these tools can facilitate access at scale into the texts of digitized manuscript collections, as well as support research into material beyond the main text column, whether that material is textual (e.g., marginal annotations) or visual (e.g., scientific diagrams). Image for Left Column:

Call for Awards Committee members

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

ADHO invites nominations and self-nominations for people interested in participating in the newly designed ADHO Awards Committee. Through its Award Committee, ADHO honors members of the DH community by acknowledging outstanding scholarly, pedagogical, and other contributions in the digital humanities, and through the awards program promoting the inclusivity and visibility of the digital humanities community… Read More »Call for Awards Committee members

Call for Executive Board Chair (Incoming as Chair-Elect)

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

ADHO invites nominations and self-nominations for people interested in participating in the newly designed ADHO Awards Committee. Purpose: The role of EB Chair is to facilitate the executive and administrative functions of ADHO; the Chair has ultimate responsibility for all ADHO organization operations. They may also take on specific responsibilities for activities or initiatives which… Read More »Call for Executive Board Chair (Incoming as Chair-Elect)

2024-09-10

2024-09-09

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 456 – [Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 456, a popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great on statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine. Copy completed in A.H. 797 (1394; colophon, f. 22r); perhaps produced in Andalusia. Digital copies andContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 456 – [Kitāb al-Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah]. (Video Orientation)"

LOVÓ: the voices of the Portuguese-speaking grandmothers of Esch-sur-Alzette

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

The LOVÓ project is part of the programme of the Biennale 2024 Esch capitale culturelle.   What is LOVÓ? The term LOVÓ combines the words "love" (in English) and "avó" (grandmother in Portuguese) to refer to the memory of the grandmothers of the Portuguese and Cape Verdean community in Esch. Led by Myriam Dalal and Thomas Cauvin, researchers from the University of Luxembourg, this project uses oral history and art to give a voice to several Portuguese-speaking grandmothers residing in Esch-sur-Alzette, who have made this city their home. LOVÓ explores the personal stories of these remarkable women, weaving a link between the private and public spheres, and between the individual and the collective. These grandmothers play an essential role as bearers of intangible cultural heritage, tran…

Médias et discours haineux

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

L’influence des médias et la désinformation sont parmi les questions vives de nos sociétés contemporaines. Les reconfigurations des espaces médiatiques, notamment en ligne, conduisent à de nouvelles offres et de nouveaux usages de l’information. Le « cycle de rencontres sur l’influence des médias et la désinformation » organisé dans la Grande Région est une action culturelle qui souhaite stimuler le regard critique des citoyens sur l’actualité. Entre 2024 et 2026, l’Université de Lorraine (CREM - Céline Ségur et Laurence Corroy) et l’Université du Luxembourg (C²DH - Valérie Schafer) proposeront  6 conférences dans la Grande Région avec un.e chercheur.e en SHS et un.e journaliste. Chaque conférence traitera sous un angle différent de l’influence des médias. Le cycle « L’influence des médias…

2024-09-06

Mellon Seminar: Steve McLaughlin

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Monday, September 23, 2024 - 12:00pm Williams 623 Steve will discuss how his background in poetry, programming, and teaching led him to start Iffy Books, a bookshop/workshop space focused on building community among activists and technology enthusiasts. He'll recount some successful projects from the past three years, such as a workshop on hacking e-waste routers and an ongoing effort to build a mesh chat network across Philly. And he'll address the challenges of running an idealistic community space without institutional support.   Steve McLaughlin is a bookseller at Iffy Books, located at 404 S. 20th St., PHL. He runs workshops on DIY skills for privacy, activism, and expanding the commons. You can find a series of how-to zines he's written to at iffybooks.net/zines.   ***** Mellon Seminars are required for Price Lab Seminar Fellows. If you are not a fellow but interested in attending a specific seminar, please contact Stewart Varner: svarner@upenn.edu   Image for Left Column:

A Look at DRI’s Expert Advisory Group

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 7 minutes

In this blog post DRI’s Training and Engagement Manager Lorraine Marrey discusses the Expert Advisory Group (EAG) and explains why it’s an integral part of DRI’s operations and yearly calendar. What is the EAG? The Expert Advisory Group (EAG) is a forum for Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) staff to draw in a formal way […] The post A Look at DRI’s Expert Advisory Group appeared first on Digital Repository Ireland.

2024-09-04

Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist Position

Source: Digital Humanities Initiative | Reading time: 8 minutes

As part of its Graduate Specialist program, the Rutgers New Brunswick Libraries seek a Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist to investigate issues of diversity relating to data science and statistical data and present on their findings to the Rutgers Community. It is expected that the Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist will develop and deliver presentations and workshops and be available for consultation on their areas of expertise. For Fall 2024, this work will be primarily online.  It is anticipated that the specialist will work approximately five hours per week on their topics with the aim of presenting open presentations and workshops on their findings and make available

2024-09-03

Janneken Smucker

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Academic Title:  Professor of History, West Chester University   Janneken Smucker is Professor of History at West Chester University, specializing in digital and public history and material culture. In the classroom, she integrates technology and the humanities, working with students to create digital projects, including the award-winning Goin’ North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia and Philadelphia Immigration. Janneken also consults on digital and interpretive projects for non-profits and museums and leads workshops on digital tools and strategies. Author of Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon (Johns Hopkins, 2013), Janneken lectures and writes about quilts for popular and academic audiences. Her recent book, A New Deal for Quilts, explores the ways the federal programs combating the Great Depression drew on quilts and quiltmaking as part of their relief and public relation efforts. The former co-editor of the Oral History Association’s journal, Oral History Review, she hosts and co-produces Running Stitch: A QSOS Podcast, drawing on oral histories with contemporary quiltmakers. Fellowship Date:  September, 2024—June, 2025

Leveraging Large Language Models for Post-OCR Correction of Nineteenth-Century British Newspapers

Source: Digital Humanities – The Gale Review | Reading time: 8 minutes

│By Alan Thomas, AI Research Engineer at the Centre for Machine Intelligence, University of Sheffield│ Poor optical character recognition (OCR) quality is a major obstacle for humanities scholars seeking to make use of digitised primary sources such as historical newspapers. To improve the quality of noisily OCR’d historical documents, we introduce BLN600 – an open-access ... Read more

2024-09-02

Call for Conference Coordinating Committee (CCC) Incoming Chair-Elect

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

One of ADHO’s most visible activities is its annual international conference, usually held in July or August in venues around the world. The Conference Coordinating Committee (CCC) is responsible for developing, improving and maintaining the ADHO Conference Protocol and accompanying guidelines, and coordinating the annual conference. The CCC is overseen by a Chair, a Chair-Elect and an… Read More »Call for Conference Coordinating Committee (CCC) Incoming Chair-Elect

Call for ADHO Deputy Treasurer (Incoming)

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

Purpose: The Treasurer is the financial manager for both ADHO and the ADHO Foundation (ADHO’s legal entity, based in the Netherlands), and is a member of the Executive Board. The Treasurer keeps track of and reports on the budget and advises the Executive and Constituent Organization Boards about financial decisions. The Deputy Treasurer advises and… Read More »Call for ADHO Deputy Treasurer (Incoming)

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 455 – Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 455, two treatises on alchemy. Probably written in Egypt, ca. 1400, based on the paper. Digital copies and a full record are available through Find.Record on Internet Archive, with a link to a PDF.

Call for Hosts DHd 2027

Source: Tagungen | Reading time: 5 minutes

DHd20xx ist die jährliche, internationale Fachtagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd, http://dig-hum.de) und die führende wissenschaftliche Konferenz für die…

2024-08-30

2024-08-29

The future (and past) of Historic Hansard

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 4 minutes

Don’t panic! Historic Hansard is not closing down – on the contrary, I’m planning a major update in the next few months. But as I look to the future, I thought it was a good time to pull together a few threads documenting my adventures with Commonwealth Hansard. The past Commonwealth Hansard is made available online through ParlInfo (there’s an alternative search interface here). The Parliamentary Library has invested a lot of time and effort in converting the printed volumes into nicely-structured XML files which break up the sitting day into debates and speeches, and identify individual speakers. For the most part, there’s one XML file for each sitting day in each house. However, there’s currently a gap between 1981 and 1997 where no XML files are available. I started pulling data out o…

2024-08-28

VCEditor 2.0 has received an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 19 minutes

SIMS is thrilled to announce that the VisColl team has received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program to fund the VCEditor 2.0 Project. The grant will support work undertaken by staff in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Penn Libraries Digital Library Development team.Continue reading "VCEditor 2.0 has received an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant"

MAN: Movimiento Audiovisual en Nuevitas

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 2 minutes

Project Start Date:  August, 2024 El Movimiento Audiovisual en Nuevitas (MAN) hace referencia a la gestión comunitaria (producción, alfabetización audiovisual, exhibición y distribución) que un grupo de jóvenes viene desarrollando en esta localidad desde el año 2007. Esta iniciativa en principio se encuentra deslindada de la institución política-cultural oficial cubana. Responde al concurso de los esfuerzos de sus integrantes y de los pobladores del municipio. En materia de formación profesional artística el núcleo central proviene de las Escuelas de Instructores de Arte en las especialidades de Teatro, Plástica, Música y Danza. La curva de aprendizaje en materia de realización audiovisual se sustenta en la práctica y participación en talleres, conferencias, cursos, festivales y otras experiencias educativa-formativas. Hasta la fecha se han producido alrededor de 100 materiales entre ficciones, documentales, videos musicales, video arte y carteles. Desde el año 2012 organizan la muestra de audiovisuales Hieroscopia con carácter anual. En ella se exhiben tanto las obras producidas por el MAN como de otros espacios de producción comunitaria en Cuba. El encuentro sirve también para el intercambio teórico sobre la práctica audiovisual aprovechando la presencia de realizadores, críticos, periodistas y en general, personal disímil que se dedica a lo cinematográfico en la isla. Por la constancia en el trabajo, la gestión de espacios para la creación y el debate y la vocación por la superación técnica y estética, el MAN se ha convertido en un foco del audiovisual cubano contemporáneo. Insert an Image:  Project Principal Investigator:  Armando Navarro-Rojas

Children as Contributors and Collaborators in Public History

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

Over the past several decades, great strides have been made to democratize public history. As one of the main cultural sites where public history is engaged, museums play a critical role in not only educating the public, but, increasingly, learning from the public about the past, and its significance in the present and future. Ongoing calls for deeper and more diverse forms of participation, power sharing, and collaboration have brought a wider range of perspectives and participants into the processes of producing history for public engagement. But museum practitioners’ engagement with children often remains stuck in outmoded, hierarchical dynamics that fail to recognize children’s capacities as contributors and collaborators in public historical work. Very few museum institutions engage w…

2024-08-27

En Marge Du Journal d'Helene Berr

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

The annotated diary of Helene Berr Project Start Date:  August, 2024 Helene Berr (1921 – 1945) was a young Jewish woman living in Paris during the Nazi occupation. She recorded her experiences and particularly her community relationships in a diary. This project provides transcriptions and context for some of those diary entries. https://enmargedujournaldhb.com/ Website:  En Marge Du Journal d'Helene Berr Principal Investigator(s):  Mélanie Péron Insert an Image:  Co-Investigators:  Iris Péron, technical lead Project Principal Investigator:  Mélanie Péron Project Team Heading:  Project Team Members

Bridging the Gap: Gale Primary Sources and Gale Digital Scholar Lab

Source: Digital Humanities – The Gale Review | Reading time: 9 minutes

│By Sarah L. Ketchley, Senior Digital Humanities Specialist│ This month’s blog post will discuss how to start the work of sourcing research documents in Gale Primary Sources (GPS) archives, before transitioning seamlessly to Gale Digital Scholar Lab to create content sets, clean OCR text data and conduct analyses of this material to answer research questions. ... Read more The post Bridging the Gap: Gale Primary Sources and Gale Digital Scholar Lab appeared first on The Gale Review.

Join the Research Data Alliance's new Collections as Data Interest Group!

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

If you’re interested in opening up GLAM collections for use in research, you might like to join the new Collections as Data Interest Group, part of the Research Data Alliance. According to the group description: This group is aimed at collections professionals such as archivists, librarians, records managers and museum curators, as well as related professions such as IT professionals, knowledge scientists, and those involved in standards development, who serve in a range of critical roles: as experts in ensuring access, preservation, and reuse of digital records, objects, data, and collections; as provocateurs for good collections curation practices; and as advocates for the construction of responsible and sustainable infrastructures for information sharing. The group has been ru…

2024-08-26

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 454 – Seiyō senpaku zukai / 西洋舩舶圖解 (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 454, a scroll of diagrams and text concerning the construction and compartmentalization of European ships, referred to as battleships, all on the recto side. At the top of the scroll is a thin piece of wood andContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 454 – Seiyō senpaku zukai / 西洋舩舶圖解 (Video Orientation)"

More datasets added to GLAM Name Index Search – now almost 12 million rows of data!

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 4 minutes

The GLAM Name Index Search brings datasets from 10 Australian GLAM organisations together into a single search interface. All these datasets index collections by people’s names, so with one search you can find information about individuals across a broad range of records, locations, and periods. It was created as an experiment during Family History Week in 2021, so I thought I’d update it for Family History Week 2024. The update added 18 new datasets, so the GLAM Name Index Search now includes 279 datasets from 10 organisations – almost 12 million rows of data! Start exploring now! Most of the datasets come from government open data portals, so the GLAM Name Index Search is also a demonstration the value of data sharing. By making these datasets openly available, GLAM organisations supp…

2024-08-22

Call for Officers open through 27 August

Source: CAA International | Reading time: 2 minutes

Only a few days left to run for an Executive Steering Committee post!  Members of CAA’s Executive Steering Committee play a vital role in leading the organisation, supporting the annual conference, and encouraging the continued growth of a diverse and inspiring community. All current members are eligible to run for one of three open positions: […]

RLUK Space Event – Library spaces as research and cultural infrastructure

Source: Research Libraries UK | Reading time: 20 minutes

Library spaces as research and cultural infrastructure - Part II When: Monday 30 September, 14:00 - 15:30 BST, 15:00 - 16:30 CEST/SAST, 16:00 - 17:30 EEST, 21:00 - 22:30 CST/AWST, 09:00 - 10:30 EDT Where: This will be a virtual event held via Zoom. Register: https://RLUKSPACE-RESEARCHII.eventbrite.co.uk Who should attend: This [...] The post RLUK Space Event – Library spaces as research and cultural infrastructure appeared first on Research Libraries UK.

RLUK Space Event – Library spaces as research and cultural infrastructure

Source: Research Libraries UK | Reading time: 11 minutes

Library spaces as research and cultural infrastructure - Part II When: Monday 30 September, 14:00 - 15:30 BST, 15:00 - 16:30 CEST/SAST, 16:00 - 17:30 EEST, 21:00 - 22:30 CST/AWST, 09:00 - 10:30 EDT Where: This will be a virtual event held via Zoom. Register: https://RLUKSPACE-RESEARCHII.eventbrite.co.uk Who should attend: This [...] The post RLUK Space Event – Library spaces as research and cultural infrastructure appeared first on Research Libraries UK.

Fall 2024 Events

Source: Digital Humanities Initiative | Reading time: 8 minutes

Welcome to our Fall 2024 digital humanities programming! Details and registration links are posted below. Alternatively, please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to explore a wider range of offerings, including data science and qualitative data streams. Reserve your spot to receive Zoom links and do-ahead software downloads and workshop materials. Events RESEARCH IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI: A Public Symposium for Design Justice Thinkers Thursday, September 12, 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library Register (virtual attendance only) Join us in person or virtually for a one-day hybrid symposium on design justice and critical AI literacies perspectives on the future of research,

RLUK joins the Green Libraries Campaign

Source: Research Libraries UK | Reading time: 11 minutes

RLUK is delighted to have joined the Green Libraries Campaign to support the campaign's growth and evolution for new green initiatives and activities in 2024 and beyond and ensuring increased collaboration both cross-sector, and across the UK, alongside CONUL (The Consortium of National and University Libraries) and the National Library of Scotland. The Green [...] The post RLUK joins the Green Libraries Campaign appeared first on Research Libraries UK.

CAAUK 2024 Conference: Call For Papers

Source: CAA UK | Reading time: 3 minutes

The organisers of CAA-UK 2024 would like to invite papers and posters for the 2024 meeting, to be held at Canterbury Christ Church University, on the 23rd-24th November, 2024. We would like to invite the submission of papers and posters … Continue reading →

New Zotero translators for PROV and Queensland State Archives

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 3 minutes

Good news for Australian archives users – you can now use Zotero to capture item details and digitised files from the collections of the Public Record Office Victoria and the Queensland State Archives! What is Zotero? According to the Zotero website: Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. While you can use it instead of commercial reference managers like EndNote, Zotero is much, much more. I use Zotero as my personal research database, capturing publications, websites, PDFs, as well as records from a growing number of GLAM collections. You can add tags and notes to items, organise them into collections, and annotate PDFs and website captures. You can also share your collections, create groups to collaborate with others, and acc…

2024-08-21

2024-08-20

Dr Samuel A. Moore

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Dr Samuel A. Moore is the Scholarly Communication Specialist at Cambridge University Library, where he is responsible for the university’s strategy on academic publishing and research communication. He has a PhD in Digital Humanities from King’s College London and is currently working on his first monograph for the University of Michigan Press entitled Publishing Beyond

Dr Siddharth Soni

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Siddharth Soni is Lecturer in Literature & Digital Culture at Southampton University and was the Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow at CDH until 2024. His work is largely within comparative literature and comparative cultural studies. He is currently writing a monograph on the anti-colonial Indian short story alongside working on the DH project World Short

Dr Giulia Grisot

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Giulia Grisot is Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Art History and Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester and was a Teaching Associate at CDH for the MPhil in Digital Humanities in 2023-2024. Her current research focuses on the investigation of culture and identity in literary texts, using NLP and machine learning to examine represented space

2024-08-19

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 453 – [Commentaries on Aristotle]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 19 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 453, 15th-century copies of 13th- and 14th-century Hebrew translations of 12th-century commentaries by Averroës on scientific works attributed to Aristotle (De caelo, De mundo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteorologica) and a Hebrew translation of Aristotle’s Book 9Continue reading "Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 453 – [Commentaries on Aristotle]. (Video Orientation)"

Best part of the Cambridge Data School?

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Since the first Cambridge Data School in 2019, our schools have expanded year upon year. In total, we have now conducted eight Data Schools in two formats — the Cultural Heritage Data School, aimed at people working in GLAM institutions, and the Social Data School, reaching journalists and organisations doing investigations in the public interest.

The Cambridge Theatre Hackathon

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

What happens when you bring together dozens of actors, writers, designers and developers to experiment with technical theatre? The Cambridge Theatre Hackathon set out to find out. The inaugural event, supported by funding from Cambridge Digital Humanities, took place 19-20 May, 2023. The hybrid teams, with participants from around the world, created, rehearsed and performed

A Sustainable Shared Authority. Ensuring the Future of Rondo’s Past

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

Rondo is a predominantly African American neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a familiar story. Across the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, an estimated 1,600 communities of color were destroyed by highway construction. Rondo was one of these neighborhoods, sacrificed to the asphalt as cities across the country weaponized their arteries by building “white roads through Black bedrooms.” Marvin Anderson remembers what the City of St. Paul did to his neighborhood, and he has made it his life’s mission to Remember Rondo. In 2015, Mr. Anderson and Rebecca Wingo joined forces to create RememberingRondo.org, a vibrant history hub with a community-based digital archive, a map of Rondo’s historic businesses, and much more. While Wingo’s academic institution initially hosted the project, …

Archiving in times of climate crisis. Selecting, digitizing, analyzing for tomorrow

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

Archiving has always been about selecting, preserving and making available. But while historians and archivists share a common interest in archived information, their vision of material relevance and record-keeping occasionally differ. Additionally to this ancient divide, digital archiving has brought new challenges for both communities. In this paper, I will first discuss conceptual continuity lines between analog and digital archiving of textual material at a general level. In a second step, I will examine both analog and digital archiving under the lens of their environmental footprint and the challenges it brings about in a context of resource shortage like the climate and biodiversity crisis. I will not concentrate solely on strategies pertaining to the archived material itself, but w…

2024-08-18

In memoriam, C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1954 – 2024)

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

Dr C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen passed away on August 16, 2024. Michael was fundamental to the birth and development of the Text Encoding Initiative and was co-editor of the TEI Guidelines, and editor in chief of the TEI from 1988 to 2000. Many of the concepts underlying and embedded in the TEI framework owe their existence… Read More »In memoriam, C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1954 – 2024)

C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1954 – 2024): In Memoriam

Source: TEI: Text Encoding Initiative | Reading time: 3 minutes

The Consortium of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is saddened to pass on the news of the death of Dr C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (18 May 1954 – 16 August 2024). Michael was fundamental to the birth and development of the Text Encoding Initiative and was co-editor of the TEI Guidelines, and editor in chief of […]

2024-08-16

Julie Nelson

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Academic Title:  Professor of History of Art Julie Nelson Davis specializes in the arts and material cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan, with a focus on prints, paintings, and illustrated books. One of the leaders in the field of ukiyo-e (“images of the floating world”), Davis takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding these works in context, exploring issues related to artistic practice, authorship, gender, and censorship, among others. Selected as a Guggenheim Fellow for 2021, Davis is working on a new project about imitation, homage, and fabrication in ukiyo-e painting as well as second project on artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and illustrated books. Fellowship Date:  August, 2024—August, 2025

FAQs

Source: CDH | Reading time: 7 minutes

No content preview

Explore Trove's digitised maps

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 2 minutes

Trove contains thousands of digitised maps from the collections of the National Library of Australia, but they’re not always easy to find because of the way they’re arranged and described. To help you explore these maps I’ve created a new database and published it using Datasette. Try it now! To get started, head to the map sheets table and search for some keywords. The results are displayed both as a cluster map using Leaflet, and as a table. To view the details of an individual map sheet, click on the id value. The individual record displays a zoomable version of the map image. If the record includes geospatial coordinates, these are also displayed on a modern basemap. There are also options to download the map image as a JPEG or a high-resolution TIFF (if available). Where possible …

2024-08-15

Dr Hugo Leal

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

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

Alessia Guidi

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Alessia Guidi is a second-year PhD student in in Anglo-American Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. She graduated in Euro-American Languages, Literature and Philology in 2022 at the University of Pisa, where she also received her BA degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 2019. She is particularly interested in the exploration of ontological

2024-08-14

2024-08-13

Announcing: 2023/24 MPhil Cohort

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

CDH is delighted to welcome its new cohort of MPhil students for 2023/24. The MPhil programme, now in its second year, brings together students from a diverse range of disciplines, backgrounds, and research specialisms, and challenges them to acquire a critical and well-informed understanding of the stakes of digital transformation in contemporary society. We look

Courses

Source: CDH | Reading time: 11 minutes

No content preview

Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History #dhiha9

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 4 minutes

This conference aims to address the often-overlooked genealogies of digital history and the recurring issue of »blind spots« within the field regarding its own past. Many of the epistemological and methodological questions we face today were already explored by previous generations. These explorations were often accompanied by rhetoric emphasizing the new, revolutionary, and disruptive nature of digital history. Researchers still find it difficult to assess their own achievements from a historical perspective. Our conference seeks to bring together digital historians from diverse contexts and regions to shed light on the history of digital history. While certainly not exhaustive, the conference will focus on the importance of historicizing developments, methods, and practices in digital hi…

2024-08-12

Junaid Abdul-Jabbar

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Junaid is a Geoinformatics Engineer with a Bachelor’s degree (2015) from the National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan and Master’s degree (2019) from the Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan. Since his graduation he has been a part of both Industry and Academia. Starting a professional career in 2015, Junaid has worked on spatial datasets

Lidea Shahidi

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Lidea Shahidi is a postdoctoral research associate based at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She studied for her PhD in the Applied Machine Learning Lab in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Duke University, where she developed speech enhancement strategies to mitigate the impact of reverberation on speech intelligibility outcomes for cochlear

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 452 – Ex quo vocabularii varii [et] aute[n]tici. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 452, an alphabetical dictionary of Latin words and names with parts of speech and definitions given by Latin synonym, Latin explanation, German equivalent, German explanation, or a combination of these methods. Introductory paragraph in Latin refers toContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 452 – Ex quo vocabularii varii [et] aute[n]tici. (Video Orientation)"

2024-08-09

Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities (DPASSH) Conference 2024.

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 6 minutes

This is the first in a series of blog posts about DPASSH conference 2024. Chair of the DPASSH organising committee and DRI’s Training and Engagement Manager Lorraine Marrey gives us an overview of this year’s conference. The Digital Repository of Ireland has been running DPASSH since 2015 and it has become a stalwart in the […] The post Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities (DPASSH) Conference 2024. appeared first on Digital Repository Ireland.

2024-08-08

Adrien Jeanrenaud

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Read Adrien's biography here Publications Jeanrenaud Adrien. L'affiche de film à l'épreuve de la vision par ordinateur. Humanistica 2023, Association francophone des humanités numériques, June 2023, Genève, Suisse. Joyeux-Prunel, B., Carboni, N., Jeanrenaud, A., Viaccoz, C., Belina, C., Gauffroy, T. & Barras, M. (2023). Un œil mondial : La mondialisation par l’image au prisme du

2024-08-07

Emily Steiner

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 2 minutes

Academic Title:  Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English Emily Steiner is the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BA from Brown University and her PhD from Yale. She is the author of three single-authored books, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Reading 'Piers Plowman'  (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c.1400 ( Oxford University Press, 2021).  She has co-edited several collection of essays, The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2002), with Candace Barrington, Thinking Historically About Historicism (Chaucer Review, 2014), with Lynn Ransom, Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts 2015), and with Jennifer Jahner and Elizabeth Tyler, The Cambridge History of History Writing: England and Britain, 500-1500 (2019).  Her articles have appeared in The Yearbook of Langland Studies, New Medieval Literatures, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Representations, New Literary History, and Exemplaria, among many other journals. She is presently writing a book on animals in premodern literature and culture (Reaktion Books), editing a volume on medieval English prose for Oxford University Press (with Sebastian Sobecki), and editing several volumes on medieval Jews and Judaism (with Samantha Seal). With Tekla Bude and Michael Calabrese she is working on a translation of Piers Plowman. Her research interests extend to natural history and the history of information, law and literature, drama and ritual performance, and Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages. Her teaching interests include Old English literature, Chaucer, Arthurian literature, alliterative poetry, and poetry of all periods. Fellowship Date:  August, 2024—August, 2025

Event: The RDM Open House

Source: The Scholarly Tales | Reading time: 6 minutes

“Data are the lifeblood of research and good research data management (RDM) leads to reliable results, increased visibility, and greater impact. In light of supporting researchers to implement high quality RDM practices, the symbolic doors to our RDM support at… Continue reading “Event: The RDM Open House”…

2024-08-06

2024-08-05

Welcome 2024 Communications Fellows, Lavanya Dahiya and Giulia Taurino

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

We are happy to introduce and welcome Lavanya Dahiya and Giulia Taurino as ADHO’s 2024 Communications Fellows! Lavanya and Giulia will be working from July, 2024-July 2025 to manage ADHO’s website content, social media accounts, podcasts, newsletter and will share their expertise in digital humanities with us. It is great to have you!

Encountering digital collections: Practical approaches in research and pedagogy

Source: CDH | Reading time: 7 minutes

Convenor: Andy Corrigan (Cambridge University Libraries) Speakers: TBC Summary: Over recent decades, the collections, operations, and audiences of galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) have moved from an analogue to a mixed analogue/digital environment. This digital shift (RLUK, 2020) is transforming our experiences, democratising access and enabling new modes of distant reading, creating a dynamic

Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 450 – [Compendium of legal texts]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 450, a collection of treatises on civil law, including both Roman law and canon law, compiled in Italy. Angelo degli Ubaldi, Baldo degli Ubaldi, Giovanni d’Andrea, Jacobus de Arena, and Martino da Fano are all represented byContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 450 – [Compendium of legal texts]. (Video Orientation)"

2024-07-31

Data Fluencies Speaker Series – Marisa Parham

Source: Digital Democracies Institute | Reading time: 13 minutes

On June 5, Dr. Marisa Parham delivered a presentation titled, “Black Life, Black Data, and Other Stories in AI and Desire” Dr. Parham is Professor of English and Digital Studies […] Data Fluencies Speaker Series – Marisa Parham first appeared on Digital Democracies Institute.

Manuscript Catalogues as Data for Research: From Provenance to Data Decolonisation

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

A new article in Digital Humanities Quarterly, co-authored by Yasmin Faghihi (CDH Associate and Head of the Near and Middle Eastern Department at Cambridge University Library) and Huw Jones (Head of Digital Library Unit and Digital Humanities Coordinator), discusses the outcomes of a project funded by the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants scheme, building on work

CDH Reactor: Watershed Investigations lead Data Lab analysing the impact of farming on water pollution

Source: CDH | Reading time: 7 minutes

During a two-day workshop in June, investigative journalists Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea and CDH researcher Anne Alexander led a multidisciplinary team of early career researchers in a collaborative effort to analyse satellite images and other publicly available data sets. The focus was on identifying the impact of intensive farming practices on water bodies across

CLARIN Newsflash July 2024 Is Out

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 1 minutes

CLARIN Newsflash July 2024 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: July 2024 Subscribing to it is the ideal way of staying informed. Subscribe here Past issues of the CLARIN Newsflash You are welcome to submit a news item with CLARIN-related news (or call for papers, event announcement). You can do so by following the submission guidelines as described on the Newsflash page. Julia Misersky 31 July 2024

2024-07-30

Call for CDH Methods Fellows applications 2024/25

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2024 Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) welcomes applications for Methods Fellowships commencing in the 2024/25 academic year. The Methods Fellowship programme offers teaching, research and professional staff, and postgraduate students at the University of Cambridge the opportunity to develop and deliver innovative teaching in digital methods. They contribute to an interdisciplinary

Reflections on the WorldFAIR Project

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 10 minutes

This blog is part of a series of posts related to the Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Recommendations produced by the WorldFAIR Project’s Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Working Group. Learn more about DRI’s role in the WorldFAIR Project. A wrap-up from the project team: Beth Knazook, DRI’s Research Data Project Manager and Joan Murphy, DRI Research […] The post Reflections on the WorldFAIR Project appeared first on Digital Repository Ireland.

Mapping the UK’s water crisis

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

A public event at the Cambridge Social Data School with Watershed Investigations About Wondering what’s in your water? Now you can find out. Investigative journalists Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea present the Watershed Pollution Map, an interactive platform showing 120 datasets, ranging from river health, bathing water health, to historic landfill sites, sewage dumping, intensive

2024-07-29

Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1640 – Manipulus florum peritorum. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s Ms. Codex 1640, a compendium of extracts, mostly from Biblical, patristic, and later Christian literature, categorized by subject with the subjects in alphabetical order, designed as a reference work for use in writing sermons. Most of the subjectsContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1640 – Manipulus florum peritorum. (Video Orientation)"

2024-07-26

Malik Al Nasir

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Malik Al Nasir is a PhD student at the faculty of history at the University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Malik is from a social sciences background and, having acquired a PgDip at the University of Liverpool in applied social research, developed a pilot think tank, “The Social Enterprise Research Initiative”, in conjunction with the “Globalisation and

Adding AI to the environmental journalist’s toolbox

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

A public event at the Cambridge Social Data School About Can AI help unlock insights from the vast array of publicly available earth observation data to support journalists investigating threats to some of the world’s most vulnerable and precious ecosystems? Cambridge Digital Humanities researchers teamed up with The Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network and non-profit

2024-07-23

Hyunjoon Park

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Academic Title:  Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Park is interested in family and social stratification in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on South Korea and other East Asian societies. In recent years, he has studied changes in marriage, divorce, and living arrangements as well as consequences of demographic and economic trends for education, well-being, and socioeconomic outcomes of children, adolescents, and young adults in Korea. In another line of research, he analyzes household register data for individuals and households in Korea during the 18th and 19th centuries. Fellowship Date:  July, 2024—July, 2025

Coding for Humanists: Python Notebooks in Gale Digital Scholar Lab

Source: Digital Humanities – The Gale Review | Reading time: 8 minutes

│By Sarah L. Ketchley, Senior Digital Humanities Specialist│ Recently, three Python Notebooks were added to Gale Digital Scholar Lab to offer additional flexibility in processing and analysing text data. Each of the Notebooks can be downloaded by a researcher, then used or adapted to suit individual needs. This blog post offers some considerations for those ... Read more The post Coding for Humanists: Python Notebooks in Gale Digital Scholar Lab appeared first on The Gale Review.

2024-07-22

Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1577 – Fiorecti del libro de Sancto Francesco [etc.]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s Ms. Codex 1577, chapters from Parts I-III of the Fioretti di San Francesco (stories and legends about Saint Francis and his disciples and followers) accompanied by an Italian translation of the 13th-century Latin account of the life ofContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1577 – Fiorecti del libro de Sancto Francesco [etc.]. (Video Orientation)"

Methods Fellowship 2024/25: information session for applicants

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

CDH Learning invites applications for new Methods Fellows for the academic year 2024/25. The Methods Fellowship programme offers teaching, research and professional staff and postgraduate students at the University of Cambridge the opportunity to develop and deliver innovative teaching in digital methods. They contribute to an interdisciplinary programme that attracts over 500 participants across the

2024-07-19

Share your spreadsheet as a searchable online database using Datasette-Lite

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 2 minutes

HASS researchers often compile data in spreadsheets. Sometimes they want to ‘publish’ this data online in a form that encourages others to use and explore – but how? I’ve just added a simple tool to the GLAM Workbench that helps you construct a url that will open a CSV file as a searchable database using Datasette-Lite. What’s Datasette? Datasette is a fantastic tool that helps you publish your data as an interactive website. There’s a few different varieties of Datasette, but Datasette-Lite is probably the easiest, as you don’t need to install any software. Datasette-Lite runs completely within your web browser, converting your data into into a searchable database on demand. I’m using Datasette-Lite throughout the GLAM Workbench. For example, try clicking the Explore in Datasette buttons …

2024-07-18

Learning

Source: CDH | Reading time: 9 minutes

No content preview

CHR2024 Information

Source: Computational Humanities Research - Latest topics | Reading time: 2 minutes

From December 4 to 6, 2024, the fifth edition of the CHR conference will take place at Aarhus University, Denmark Dates Deadline for new submissions: July 11, 2024, 23:59:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth) Deadline for updating submissions: July 15, 2024, 23:59:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth) Notifications of acceptance: September 16, 2024 Final papers ready: October, 2024 Conference: December 4 - December 6, 2024 From the call for papers In the arts and humanities, the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches has considerably increased in recent years. This research is characterized by the use of formal methods and the construction of explicit, computational models. This includes quantitative, statistical approaches, but also more generally computational methods for process…

2024-07-17

Home renovations at timsherratt.au

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

I had to update my sadly-neglected CV, so of course I ended up renovating the whole of my personal website at timsherratt.au. To start with, I migrated my CV from Pages to Markdown. This made it easy to integrate the CV’s content into the site’s about me page. As i was updating the CV, I tried to get as many as possible of my publications and presentations into Zenodo for easy access and safekeeping. This means that the about me page now has a long list of publications and presentations, dating back more than 20 years, that are (almost) all available online. While I was fiddling about with the content, I thought I should probably update the theme as well. The site now uses Minimal Mistakes and will display in either dark or light mode depending on your system and browser settings. Hopefully I can ignore it for a few more years now!

2024-07-16

History and Philosophy of Programming Sixth Edition (HaPoP-6): Fairness and Bias in the History and Philosophy of Programming

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

An event by the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) and Cambridge Digital Humanities Call for contributions Deadline: 15 August 2024 We are delighted to announce the 6th Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Programming (HaPoP-6). We invite contributions on the history and philosophy of programming broadly understood, including different conceptual and practical aspects

2024-07-15

Manuscript Monday: LJS 451 – [Commentary on the Doctrinale puerorum]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 451, an anonymous commentary on a 12th-century didactic poem composed by the French Franciscan Alexander de Villa Dei addressing parts of speech, syntax, and rhetorical figures. Opening of a letter by Albert II, Duke of Austria, Styria,Continue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 451 – [Commentary on the Doctrinale puerorum]. (Video Orientation)"

CLARIN Joins ECHOES Consortium

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 2 minutes

CLARIN Joins ECHOES Consortium CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium See: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/european-research-infrastructures/eric_en ECHOES aims to create the ECCCH (European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage) as a shared platform for heritage professionals and researchers to access data, innovative scientific and training resources and advanced digital tools co-developed by the heritage community according to their specific needs. As such, ECHOES promotes a holistic approach to digital transformation, encouraging the co-construction of knowledge in collaboration with museums, libraries, archives, as well as artificial intelligence (AI). The consortium is led by the CNRS, an…

2024-07-11

Silvia Garzarella

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Silvia Garzarella is a PhD Student in Visual, Performing, and Media Arts at the University of Bologna, currently working on the project: Improving the Fruition of Ballet’s Intangible Assets through Digital Archives and Advanced Digital Technology Products–a Case Study of Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993). At the same University, she achieved a master’s degree in Italian Language

2024-07-10

Virtual Postgraduate Open Day: Digital Humanities

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

The next Postgraduate Open Days will take place 4 - 15 November 2024 Sign up to our postgraduate newsletter to be notified when more information becomes available about the Digital Humanities subject session. In the meantime, explore the links below. Useful links Explore the MPhil in Digital Humanities Explore the PhD in Digital Humanities Visit

MPhil in Digital Humanities: information session for applicants

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Join us for an information webinar about the MPhil in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge. Subscribe to the postgraduate mailing list to be informed about open days, news and other postgraduate events. Visit our MPhil application page here.

PhD in Digital Humanities: information session for applicants

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Join us to find out more about the new PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge. Subscribe to the postgraduate mailing list to be informed about open days, news and other postgraduate events. Visit our PhD application page here.

MPhil

Source: CDH | Reading time: 11 minutes

Come study with us, for an MPhil in Digital Humanities. Apply now!

PhD

Source: CDH | Reading time: 11 minutes

No content preview

2024-07-09

Updated datasets describing Trove's digitised newspapers

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

The Trove newspapers section of the GLAM Workbench includes a number of notebooks and datasets that document the context and content of the newspaper corpus. I’ve just updated a few of these datasets: Total number of issues per year for each newspaper in Trove Complete list of issues for every newspaper in Trove Trove newspapers with non-English language content Trove newspapers with articles published after 1954 OCR corrections in Trove newspapers I’ve also used the issues data to update my visualisation of the number of digitised newspaper issues in Trove published every day from 1803 to 2021 (there’s a lot of data so it can take a little while to load!). The notebooks in the Trove newspapers section still need to be updated to work with version 3 of the Trove API. I’m part way through and should get it finished in the next few weeks. I’ll also be adding some more of this data into the Understanding the digitised newspapers section of the Trove Data Guide.

2024-07-08

Dr Katherine Powlesland

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Dr Katherine Powlesland is an Italianist working in the Digital Humanities, focusing primarily on the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. In her work, she complements traditional scholarly approaches in literary analysis with quantitative analysis methods (acquired during a twenty-year career in consumer behaviour analysis) and a new lens of embodied immersion from the fields of video

Manuscript Monday: LJS 447 – [Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 447, descriptions and illustrations of domestic and wild animals, birds, insects, marine animals, plants, stemless plants, and herbs. Sources include Dioscorides, Galen, and Ibn al-Bayṭār. The larger, encyclopedic work of which the text of this manuscript isContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 447 – [Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār]. (Video Orientation)"

2024-07-07

Digital History stream at the AHA conference

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

The recently finished Australian Historical Association conference in Adelaide included a digital history stream sponsored by the Australian Research Data Commons. I’ve listed the details of all the presentations below. I also thought it might be useful to try and bring together links to the various tools, platforms, and projects mentioned during the digital history sessions. I’m relying on my memory and what I could find by googling, so please let me know if I’ve missed something! Digital History stream Understanding Trove workshop Understanding Trove at the AHA annual conference Trove Data Guide Session 1: History with maps: exploring, testing, and showing the Time Layered Cultural map (TLC) project Catharine Coleborne, University of Newcastle: Mapping nineteenth-century vagrancy: cluste…

2024-07-05

A Two-Way Relationship – Collaborating with Scholars in the Gale Fellowship Program

Source: Digital Humanities – The Gale Review | Reading time: 8 minutes

│By Chris Houghton, Head of Academic Partnerships│ The Gale Fellowship program is now in its third year of providing financial support, training, archival access and professional opportunities for scholars around the world. In 2022, Gale developed its Fellowship program to provide opportunities for scholars in Asia and Australasia to apply for full funding for a ... Read more The post A Two-Way Relationship – Collaborating with Scholars in the Gale Fellowship Program appeared first on The Gale Review.

2024-07-03

Mapping the concerts of Beethoven and Haydn: the “Concert Life in Vienna” project

Source: READ-COOP | Reading time: 25 minutes

Some Transkribus projects finish with a complete digitised collection in Transkribus. Some take that digitised source and use it to contribute to a wider project. “Concert Life in Vienna” is a project of the latter variety. A research team at the University of Vienna is currently creating a database of concerts and cultural events in […] The post Mapping the concerts of Beethoven and Haydn: the “Concert Life in Vienna” project appeared first on READ-COOP.

2024-07-02

CDH invites proposals for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Call details: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of Cambridge invites proposals for the next round of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. CDH welcomes proposals in the following areas: Archival Justice as Practice and Theory Environmental Digital Humanities Cultural Analytics Digital Humanities-based participatory research in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) Global Digital Humanities

The Local Organizing Team of the DH2023 is the proud recipient of the City of Graz Congress Award 2024

Source: News – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Local Organizing Team of the ADHO Digital Humanities 2023 conference (DH2023) is the proud recipient of the City of Graz Congress Award 2024 in the category “Extraordinary Event”! The DH2023 conference in Graz “Cooperation as Opportunity”, from 10-14 July 2023, was the first on-site digital humanities conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations… Read More »The Local Organizing Team of the DH2023 is the proud recipient of the City of Graz Congress Award 2024

2024-07-01

Manuscript Monday: LJS 443 – [Collection of texts on the calendar]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 443, a collection of commentaries, treatises, tables and diagrams concerning the calendar, by authors from the 7th to the 15th centuries, the most recent being Hakob Ghrimetsʻi, who compiled his commentary in 1416, probably within a decadeContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 443 – [Collection of texts on the calendar]. (Video Orientation)"

RLUK and The National Archives sign collaboration agreement

Source: Research Libraries UK | Reading time: 10 minutes

RLUK is delighted to have signed a collaboration agreement with The National Archives for the period 2024-2027. The agreement continues our joint work under our previous Memorandum of Understanding, and underlines our shared commitment to cross-sector collaboration, driving innovation and workforce development in our sectors, and exploring new ways to engage audiences with our collections [...] The post RLUK and The National Archives sign collaboration agreement appeared first on Research Libraries UK.

Understanding Trove at the AHA annual conference

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

A fairly intensive period of work came to an end today as I delivered a workshop on ‘Understanding Trove’ at the Australian Historical Association’s annual conference in Adelaide. In effect, the workshop was also the launch of the Trove Data Guide, which I’ve been developing as part of the ARDC’s Community Data Lab. The ARDC sponsored today’s workshop and has provided bursaries to help five ECRs and HDRs participate in the conference’s digital history stream. Thanks to everyone who came to the workshop. It was great to have so much interest in developing a critical understanding of Trove and thinking about new research uses for Trove data. If you couldn’t make it, the slides are available below. Like the Trove Data Guide, the GLAM Workbench and pretty much everything else I do, the slides are openly licensed so feel free to share and reuse if any of it is useful to you. Now I think I need a day off before I start thinking about the topics I’d still like to add to the Trove Data Guide…

2024-06-29

Digital Humanities Interns 2023/24 part 4

Source: Digital Humanities at Exeter | Reading time: 5 minutes

Each year we ask our interns to write a blog post at the end of their time working with us looking back on their time in the DH Lab. Here is the fourth of this year’s blogs from Phoebe: Hi, I’m Phoebe and I’ve just completed my internship at the Digital Humanities Lab here in […]

2024-06-28

Digital Humanities Interns 2023/24 part 3

Source: Digital Humanities at Exeter | Reading time: 5 minutes

Each year we ask our interns to write a blog post at the end of their time working with us looking back on their time in the DH Lab. Here is the third of this year’s blogs from Sophie: I have found my time working in the Digital Humanities Lab to be an incredible learning […]

2024-06-27

Outreach and marketing for crowdsourcing tasks

Source: Living with Machines | Reading time: 6 minutes

Imagine you’ve set up a shiny new crowdsourcing project. How do you let people who might potentially want to volunteer online know about it? Here’s how we did it for one of our final crowdsourcing projects on Living with Machines. We called it the ‘language of mechanisation‘ internally, but you might have seen them as […]

3D Printing Display

Source: Digital Humanities at Exeter | Reading time: 6 minutes

The objects you can see here on display here have been made by our Digital Humanities staff members and interns. They illustrate the range of projects the lab has worked on since it opened in 2017 and demonstrates how we have harnessed the potential of 3D printing to bring objects from the past to life. […]

Digital Humanities Interns 2023/24 part 2

Source: Digital Humanities at Exeter | Reading time: 6 minutes

Each year we ask our interns to write a blog post at the end of their time working with us looking back on their time in the DH Lab. Here is the second of this year’s blogs from Daisy: Working as part of the Digital Humanities Team alongside my third-year studies has been an incredible […]

2024-06-26

Launch of New Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 6 minutes

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) was delighted to attend the launch of ‘A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey’, a new digital resource developed in partnership with DRI as part of the collaborative research project ‘OS200: Digitally Remapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage’, which was funded by the Irish Research Council (IRC) and the Arts […] The post Launch of New Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey appeared first on Digital Repository Ireland.

CLARIN Newsflash June 2024 Is Out

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 1 minutes

CLARIN Newsflash June 2024 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: June 2024 Subscribing to it is the ideal way of staying informed. Subscribe here Past issues of the CLARIN Newsflash You are welcome to submit a news item with CLARIN-related news (or call for papers, event announcement). You can do so by following the submission guidelines as described on the Newsflash page. Julia Misersky 26 June 2024

Digital Humanities Interns 2023/24 part 1

Source: Digital Humanities at Exeter | Reading time: 0 minutes

Each year we ask our interns to write a blog post at the end of their time working with us looking back on their time in the DH Lab. Here is the first of this year’s blogs from Emily: Hi – I’m Emily, a second year English and Communications student and 2023/24 intern here in […]

Vacancy: Member of the Board of Directors (Deadline Extended)

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 4 minutes

Vacancy: Member of the Board of Directors (Deadline Extended) From January 2025, the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium See: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/european-research-infrastructures/eric_en The mission of CLARIN ERIC is to develop and maintain Europe’s common language resources and technology infrastructure. At the same time, CLARIN serves as an ecosystem for the exchange of knowledge and experience that is crucial for the uptake of CLARIN within the domains in which digital scholarship is rapidly developing, in particular in the social sciences and humanities. Responsibilities and Tasks The tasks to be taken u…

Vacancy: Member of the Board of Directors

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 4 minutes

Vacancy: Member of the Board of Directors From January 2025, the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium See: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/european-research-infrastructures/eric_en The mission of CLARIN ERIC is to develop and maintain Europe’s common language resources and technology infrastructure. At the same time, CLARIN serves as an ecosystem for the exchange of knowledge and experience that is crucial for the uptake of CLARIN within the domains in which digital scholarship is rapidly developing, in particular in the social sciences and humanities. Responsibilities and Tasks The tasks to be taken up by the new member…

DH Graduates: Bridging Gaps Between Industry & Education

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 5 minutes

DH Graduates: Bridging Gaps Between Industry & Education Insights from the DARIAH Annual Event workshop Written by Amelia Sanz & Maria Goicoechea de Jorge (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Iulianna van der Lek (CLARIN ERIC), Tom Gheldof (CLARIAH-VL) On 18 June, 2024, at the DARIAH Annual Event in Lisbon, a workshop titled ‘Emerging Job Profiles for DH Graduates: Bridging Gaps Between Industry & Education’ was organised by Amelia Sanz, Maria Goicoechea de Jorge (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Iulianna van der Lek (CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium See: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/european-research-infrastructures/eric_en This workshop, a significant part of an ongoing study init…

EUROPAST Mid-Project Conference

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

The EUROPAST training programme, led by the C²DH, envisions the organisation of a Mid-Project Conference, focusing on Public History and Community-Based Research. Hosted by the C²DH at the University of Luxembourg, the conference offers participants an opportunity to engage in an international and multicultural environment in the heart of Western Europe. The two-day interdisciplinary programme will cover a variety of topics including the research, practice and impact in public participation, the legacy of colonialism, oral history, challenging historical narratives, the politics of memorialisation and tensions in public spaces. A keynote lecture by established public historian Tina De Gendt will conclude the conference sessions. All conference activities and presentations will be conducted in English and will take place on-site at the Black Box Maison des Sciences Humaines, Campus Belval.   5-6 July 2024 Black Box, Maison des Sciences humaines 11, Porte des Sciences Belval Campus L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette For more information, please download the full programme. Contact: rhianne.morgan@uni.lu.   5 July 2024 to 6 July 2024 Public history Facing the past. Public History for a stronger Europe (EUROPAST) Public History Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-06-25

Behind the Scenes at CLARIN

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 1 minutes

Behind the Scenes at CLARIN    In our 'Behind the Scenes' series, we introduce the people who work for and use our infrastructure. In the series, we feature pioneers, researchers, ambassadors, committee chairs, PhD students, and more. This month, we feature CLARIN Ambassador Eva Soroli.  Read the full article. Karina Berger 25 June 2024

Playing Games with Data: Building Interactive Narratives with Twine

Source: Digital Humanities – The Gale Review | Reading time: 9 minutes

│By Sarah L. Ketchley, Senior Digital Humanities Specialist│ The Digital Humanities Summer Institute, at the University of Victoria, BC, has taken place every June since 2001. The intensive week of workshops, lectures, papers and social gatherings has a long history of active engagement in learning, conversation and discussions of research and methodologies. I have had ... Read more The post Playing Games with Data: Building Interactive Narratives with Twine appeared first on The Gale Review.

2024-06-24

Manuscript Monday: LJS 442 – [Buch von den probierten Künsten]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 442, a manual concerning the manufacture and use of gunpowder, ammunition, mines, grenades, flares, smokescreens, and traps, as well as the loading and firing of cannons. Concludes with a copy of the privileges of the guild ofContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 442 – [Buch von den probierten Künsten]. (Video Orientation)"

Feasts and Famines: Video Games and Ancient Economics

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

While historical video games set in Antiquity tend to focus on military gameplay, economic aspects such as resource exploitation and management have always been a significant part of the ludic depiction of the ancient world, from 4X grand strategy games, to city builders, to action-adventures. The talk takes a closer look at how economy and trade are (mis)represented and utilised in “ancient” video games, from Hamurabi (1973) to Builders of Egypt (2020). Christian Rollinger is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Trier and currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Potsdam. His research interests include the economic and cultural history of the late Roman republic, the late Roman empire, ancient monarchies generally, and Classical Receptions in modern popular media. He has previously published on antiquity in video games and is editor of Classical Antiquity in Video Games. Playing with the Ancient World (2020).   Thursday, 11 July 2024 16:30 – 18:00 Black Box, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval Campus and online   11 July 2024 Public history Public History Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-06-21

Sermin Kalafat

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Sermin Kalafat is associate professor in the field of Turkish language. She received her bachelor's (2007) and master's (2009) degrees from Trakya University and her PhD degree from Uludag University in 2015. During her undergraduate studies, she was awarded the Turkish Education Foundation (TEV) Merit Scholarship and was honoured twice with the Outstanding Achievement Scholarship.

Who is the Trove Data Guide for?

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

The Trove Data Guide aims to help researchers understand, access, and use data from Trove. But just because it’s about ‘data’ doesn’t mean you need to be able to code. To understand Trove data and its possibilities for research, you first need to understand Trove itself – its history, its structure, its assumptions, and its limits. This knowledge is useful to any Trove user. For example, all Trove users would benefit from knowing more about works and versions, or how to use the ‘simple’ search box for complex queries. There’s also an introduction to what’s in (and not in) the digitised newspapers, and similar overviews for other digitised content such as books, parliamentary papers, and oral histories. Number of newspapers articles in Trove by publication year, showing the change from 2011 to 2022 Several sections document the way the web interface works (or doesn’t work). There’s a field guide to the various interfaces and identifiers you might come across, and details of options for downloading data. The Trove Data Guide fills many gaps in the official Trove documentation, so check here if you run into problems, or can’t figure out how to achieve a particular task. Perhaps you were wondering how to download digitised images at their highest available resolution? For people who are more comfortable with code there are plenty of useful snippets and complete working examples. For example there are sections that document how to get metadata, text, and images from newspapers, and other digitised resources. There are also a series of ‘HOW TO’ pages that describe more complex data access methods. But what can you do with Trove data? The Trove Data Guide’s Pathways provide detailed tutorials that lead you step by step through examples of packaging Trove data for use with other digital tools. Use these examples as a starting point in planning your own projects.

2024-06-20

DH Teaching Forum

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Please note this session is currently being rescheduled Our termly online DH Teaching Forum is open to anyone at the University of Cambridge interested in teaching Digital Humanities or teaching the Humanities (and Social Sciences) digitally. They provide an informal space for peer learning and networking, skill sharing and discussion, and short invited talks and

RaDiHum20 spricht mit Martin, Emily und Christian vom Podcast Doctor it!

Source: RaDiHum 20 | Reading time: 10 minutes

German version, English version below Vor unserer Sommerpause haben wir nochmal eine ganz besondere Folge für euch an den Start gebracht, mit der wir auch unsere 5. Staffel (vorerst) abschließen werden. Für die Folge haben wir mit drei Kolleg*innen vom Podcast Doctor it! zum Podcasten generell, zu Wissenschaftskommunikation und der Unterstützung von Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden […] Der Beitrag RaDiHum20 spricht mit Martin, Emily und Christian vom Podcast Doctor it! erschien zuerst auf RaDiHum 20.

2024-06-19

2024-06-18

Cynthia Heider

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Academic Title:  Public Digital Scholarship Librarian In her role as Penn Libraries' first Public Digital Scholarship Librarian, Cynthia works to initiate and support digital projects, scholarship, and programming that center community partnerships and public engagement. As part of the Research Data and Digital Scholarship team, she consults with audiences on and beyond campus to actively facilitate opportunities for equitable collaboration, resource sharing, and critical inquiry in the digital realm.   Cynthia Heider holds a Master's degree in history from Temple University’s Center for Public History as well as a BA in history from Goucher College. She has a particular interest in the structure, integrity, and ethics of data use in the humanities. She also supports the burgeoning scholarly discussion on feminism and the praxis of an ethic of care within data, tech, and DH work.   Fellowship Date:  June, 2024

Rahul Mukherjee

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Academic Title:  Associate Professor of TV and New Media in Department of Cinema & Media Studies Rahul Mukherjee is Associate Professor of TV and New Media in Department of Cinema & Media Studies at University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the logistical and environmental dimensions of digital infrastructures and platforms. Rahul is the author of Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (DUP, 2020). He is presently completing his second book Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (to be published with MIT Press, Fall 2025). His essays have been published in Critical Inquiry, Science, Technology & Human Values, and Journal of Visual Culture. He has co-edited journal special issues regarding platformization of everyday life in India (Asiascape) and superapps and megacorps (Media, Culture & Society).  Fellowship Date:  June, 2024

Che Gossett

Source: Price Lab for Digital Humanities | Reading time: 1 minutes

Academic Title:  Associate Director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies Che Gossett is associate director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Che has published numerous works of queer/trans studies, African American Studies and art historical scholarship, including most recently, in May 2024, an article on Black British diasporic artist John Akomfrah, titled “The Dark Sublime,” for Transition journal, a publication of Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Che is currently co-editing as special issue of Social Text journal with Yale University Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, American Studies & African-American Studies Tavia Nyong’o on Caribbean feminist philosopher Sylvia Wynter, culture and technics, forthcoming in 2025. Fellowship Date:  June, 2024—June, 2025

Le prix CSDH/SCHN pour contribution exceptionnelle 2024 : The Amplify Podcast Network (le réseau Amplify Podcast)

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 4 minutes

Le comité des prix de la Société canadienne des humanités numériques est ravi d’annoncer que The Amplify Podcast Network / le réseau Amplify Podcast a été sélectionné comme récipiendaire du Prix pour contribution exceptionnelle CSDH/SCHN 2024. The Amplify Podcast Network / le réseau Amplify Podcast, dirigé par la chercheuse Dre Hannah McGregor (Université Simon Fraser) […]

The 2024 CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award: The Amplify Podcast Network

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 3 minutes

The Awards Committee for the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities is delighted to share that the Amplify Podcast Network has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award. The Amplify Podcast Network, led by PI Dr. Hannah McGregor (Simon Fraser University) alongside co-directors Dr. Stacey Copeland ( and Wilfrid Laurier University […]

2D & 3D Photography Conference 2024

Source: Digital Humanities at Exeter | Reading time: 6 minutes

Between 29th – 31st May 2024 myself, Julia and Ellen had the privilege of attending the 2 & 3D Photography, Practice and Prophecies Conference held at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The conference bought together photographers, restorers, conservators, archivists, data analysts and cultural heritage professionals from all around the world to learn new techniques and share ideas. […]

Loading locations of Trove's digitised maps into the Gazetteer of Historical Australian Placenames

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

For this part of the ARDC’s Community Data Lab project, I’ve been focusing in particular on adding a series of researcher pathways to the Trove Data Guide. These pathways link data from Trove to a variety of tools and approaches and include five detailed tutorials. The first four were: Analysing keywords in Trove’s digitised newspapers Working with a Trove collection in Tropy Comparing manuscript collections in Mirador Sharing a Trove List as a CollectionBuilder exhibition I’ve now added the fifth and final (for now) tutorial: Create a layer in the Gazetteer of Historical Australian Placenames using metadata from Trove’s digitised maps As has been the way in a lot of TDG development, this tutorial builds on and extends resources available through the GLAM Workbench. The Trove maps section of the GLAM Workbench already included a dataset of digitised maps and their coordinates, but for this tutorial I added a notebook that lets you create a subset of maps relating to a particular region. It does this by putting all the available map locations on world map. You then draw a rectangle on the map to select a region and display details of all the maps whose centre points fall within that region. It also displays links to download your new dataset as either a CSV or GeoJSON file. The tutorial walks you through this process, then demonstrates how you can upload data from the CSV file to create a new layer in the Gazetteer of Historical Australian Placenames (GHAP). This part of the Trove Data Guide project is now finished, but I’ll be continuing to add and refine content. If you have any suggestions for additional tutorials, feel free to add them to the ideas board (no promises though!).

Undergrads expand stories behind historic slavery lawsuits

Source: Center for Digital Research in the Humanities | Reading time: 5 minutes

Image:  Link:  Undergrads expand stories behind historic slavery lawsuits The handwriting on the screen can be vexing, but the stories are fascinating. Zoe Williams, a rising sophomore at Howard University in Washington, D.C., carefully read the scrawled words of a 200-year-old document on her computer screen in the Digital Legal Research Lab, a lab in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. “That is easily the biggest challenge,” Williams said. “You do get used to the handwriting as you go, and some pages are easier than others, but there have been some that look like chicken scratch.” As the reading started to flow more easily, Williams began to untwine and understand the legal hurdles of an enslaved man named Paul Jones who was seeking…

2024-06-17

Manuscript Monday: LJS 441 – Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm… (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 441, two works on alchemy copied together in different hands. The first, a 14th-century treatise based on the work of the 8th-century alchemist and chemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, copied in A.H. 970 (1562); the second, a pseudo-PlatonicContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 441 – Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ wa-nuzʹhat al-arwāḥ fī ʻilm… (Video Orientation)"

RLUK25 Conference call for papers

Source: Research Libraries UK | Reading time: 11 minutes

#RLUK25 Conference |  Liverpool | 19-21 March 2025 Champions of knowledge: Libraries as beacons of trust and integrity The call for papers for the RLUK25 Conference is now open. Submissions must be received by Friday 25 October 2024. The conference will be an in-person event held in Liverpool in March 2025. 🔗 Full details [...] The post RLUK25 Conference call for papers appeared first on Research Libraries UK.

DPC Unconference 2024 Hosted by the DRI

Source: Blog Archives - Digital Repository of Ireland | Reading time: 6 minutes

Every year, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) invites member organisations from around the world to gather together for the DPC Unconference, where professionals working in the digital preservation sector get to set the agenda and lead sessions on topics related to their area of work. This event is for DPC Members only, and is designed […] The post DPC Unconference 2024 Hosted by the DRI appeared first on Digital Repository Ireland.

Probing the Limits of Visualization: From Holocaust Comics to Holocaust Memes and Beyond

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

Taking a new generation of Holocaust comics as a point of departure, the lecture seeks to historicize different strategies of Holocaust visualization within their respective media ecological contexts. I am particularly interested in exploring the interaction between the structural affordances of analogue, electronic, and digital media and their respective political-normative settings. More specifically, I would like to test the hypothesis that technological and social transformations have prompted key institutions and stake holders to redefine the limits of Holocaust representation inadvertently setting Holocaust memory on a path of reduced visibility. Wulf Kansteiner is a professor at Aarhus University. His research focuses on modern and contemporary German history, media history, historical theory and collective memory studies.   Wednesday, 26 June 2024 14.00 - 15.00 C²DH Open Space and online 26 June 2024 Public history Holocaust Media history Hands-on History Published Hide image in content detail

2024-06-14

Statement of Support for the Pro-Palestinian Student Encampment at McGill

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 4 minutes

We are writing in response to concerns raised about our lack of a statement regarding McGill University’s treatment of the pro-Palestinian student encampment. Members of our community have expressed disappointment over our silence on the student protests occurring at multiple institutions. Both the executive and the program committee have been working tirelessly to ensure our […]

2024-06-13

Applications now open for Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School (Online Edition), 25 November – 3 December 2024

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Application deadline: 1 September 2024 Cambridge Digital Humanities' Cultural Heritage Data School (CHDS), taking place online between 25 November - 3 December 2024, is now open for applications for participants across the cultural heritage sector and academia. Prospective participants are invited to join the applicant information session on Tuesday 2 July, 14:00 BST. Register here.

Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School (Online Edition)

Source: CDH | Reading time: 12 minutes

Application deadline: 1 September 2024 The online Cultural Heritage Data School (CHDS), taking place on 25 November–3 December 2024, is open for applications for participants across the cultural heritage sector and academia. The school provides new methods, technical foundations and tools to create, visualise and analyse digital archives and collections. This intensive online teaching programme

The evolution of Europe's financial response to challenges: what should come next?

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 2 minutes

The Bridge Forum Dialogue, in partnership with the University of Luxembourg, Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, the European Stability Mechanism and the European Parliament, and the Robert Triffin International Foundation have the pleasure of inviting you to the Robert Triffin Lecture 2024 on "The evolution of Europe’s financial response to challenges: what should come next?".   Keynote speaker Mr Pierre Gramegna Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) CEO of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) Former Minister of Finance (2013-2022) Vice-President of the Bridge Forum Dialogue Welcome and introductory remarks Mr Christoph Schroeder Head of the Liaison Office of the European Parliament in Luxembourg Prof. Dr Jens Kreisel Rector of the University of Luxembourg Member of the Board of Directors of the Bridge Forum Dialogue Dr Elena Danescu Research Scientist at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) Coordinator of the Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg Concluding remarks Prof. Dr Bernard Snoy Chairman of Robert Triffin International Honorary Chairman of the European League for Economic Cooperation (ELEC) Former Executive Director of the World Bank Q&A session moderated by Prof. Dr Fabio Masini Professor at Roma Tre University (Italy) Secretary General of Robert Triffin International A reception will take place afterwards   Wednesday, 10 July 2024 18.00 - 20.00 European Parliament 17, avenue John F. Kennedy L-1855 Luxembourg and online Please register before 5 July using this form. 11 July 2024 Contemporary history of Europe Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg European integration Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

Élections européennes 2024 - Enjeux, résultats, regards d’avenir

Source: C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Reading time: 1 minutes

Dans le cadre du "Mois de l'Europe", la Ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette, Europe Direct Université du Luxembourg et leurs partenaires invitent à une conférence-débat avec Jim Cloos, Sécretaire général de la TEPSA (Trans-European Policy Studies Association) pour discuter des réslutats des dernières élections européennes.   Mardi, 18 juin à 18h30 Hôtel de Ville d'Esch-sur-Alzette Inscription obligatoire à l'adresse International@villeesch.lu   Programme: Allocution d’ouverture par Martine Reicherts, Présidente du Mouvement Européen Luxembourg Conférence avec Jim Cloos, Sécretaire général de la TEPSA Dialogue avec Anne Calteux, Représentante de la Commission européenne au Luxembourg   https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/conference-debat_avec_jim_cloos_full_width.png?itok=b-MF4Pga Conférence-débat avec Jim Cloos, Sécretaire général de la TEPSA, organisée dans le cadre du "Mois de l’Europe à Esch-sur-Alzette". 18 June 2024 Contemporary history of Europe Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg European integration Political history Conferences Published Hide image in content detail

2024-06-12

What is Carolingian Minuscule?

Source: READ-COOP | Reading time: 25 minutes

When you think of Carolingian (or Caroline) minuscule, Charlemagne and his vast Carolingian empire likely come to mind. While the origins of the script trace back to the time before Charlemagne, it was during his reign that the script became popular, helping to promote literacy throughout the Holy Roman Empire and making it easier to […] The post What is Carolingian Minuscule? appeared first on READ-COOP.

2024-06-11

United Farm Workers and Chicano Literature: Primary Sources as a Tool for Language and Cultural Studies

Source: Digital Humanities – The Gale Review | Reading time: 8 minutes

│By Ray Linn, Gale Ambassador at Maynooth University│ I started studying Spanish nearly 8 years ago now, but it never interested me so much as last year, in the final year of my undergrad degree, when I enrolled in a Chicano/a Literature module. I hadn’t studied literature much previously, but in that class, I learned ... Read more The post United Farm Workers and Chicano Literature: Primary Sources as a Tool for Language and Cultural Studies appeared first on The Gale Review.

2024-06-10

Rap Lyrics Corpora: Comparing Tools, Merging Data and Presenting in Paris

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 3 minutes

Rap Lyrics Corpora: Comparing Tools, Merging Data and Presenting in Paris By Alena Němcová Polická Since February 2023, preparations have been underway to reshape the RapCor database of the DIGITALIA MUNI ARTS infrastructure - a local node of LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ - to enable long-term storage in order to open access to research data and to create a new repository system for francophone rap albums and lyrics. The specificity of the project lies in the fact that it is not only a database of linguistic data on French (focused mainly on the collection, morpho-semantic and lexicographic description of substandard expressions and on the lemmatisation of graphically unstable sociolectisms and dynamically evolving neologisms), but also a repository of dematerialised musical media for th…

Manuscript Monday: LJS 439 – [Book on the configuration of the orb]. (Video Orientation)

Source: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies | Reading time: 18 minutes

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 439, one of two known manuscripts of the Arabic original of the Book on the configuration of the orb, otherwise known through its use by Maimonides and through Latin translations, which are often attributed to the AbbasidContinue reading "Manuscript Monday: LJS 439 – [Book on the configuration of the orb]. (Video Orientation)"

Instant exhibitions with Trove and CollectionBuilder

Source: Tim Sherratt | Reading time: 1 minutes

You’ve been collecting and annotating items relating to your research project in a Trove List. You’d like to display the contents of your list as an online exhibition for others to explore. But how? One possible approach is now documented in the Trove Data Guide. I’ve added a tutorial which walks through the process of using a GLAM Workbench notebook to extract and process data from a Trove List, before uploading it to CollectionBuilder to create an instant exhibition. CollectionBuilder creates online exhibitions using static web technologies. It provides a GitHub Pages template repository, so all you need to do to create an exhibition is upload your metadata and images to GitHub. The GLAM Workbench notebook gets your list data from the Trove API, and enriches it a bit to take advantage of CollectionBuilder’s built-in visualisations. For example, if there’s any digitised maps in your list, the notebook will try and extract their coordinates from the digitised map viewer and add them to the metadata so that CollectionViewer can display the location on a map. The notebook also downloads images of newspaper articles and other digitsed resources, and links them to the metadata, ready for upload. Check out the tutorial: Sharing a Trove List as a CollectionBuilder exhibition

Centre news vol. 66 - June 2024

Source: CLARIN ERIC | Reading time: 1 minutes

Centre news vol. 66 - June 2024 Centre Meeting This week, on 12 and 13 June, the Centre Meeting will again be organized in Utrecht (NL) and online. Anyone interested in establishing a CLARIN centre is welcome to join, especially if you have an interest in technology and technical infrastructure. You can still sign up for virtual participation. CLARIN technical open hour, Monday 24 June at 11:00 CEST The next edition of the CLARIN technology open hour is planned for Monday 24 June at 11:00 CEST. You can join virtually and ask our developers and infrastructure specialists anything. Anyone is welcome to join! New on the CLARIN forum Anonymization of audio Good Practices in Training With CLARIN Corpora ESSLI 2025 Launched the call for courses and workshops Planned Maintenance ACDH-CH maintenance: 13 June 14:00-15:00 UTC More information at https://status.clarin.eu/  Dieter Van Uytvanck 10 June 2024 centre news

2024-06-07

Appel à candidatures – Bourse commémorative Stéfan Sinclair 2024-2025 (date limite août 30)

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 3 minutes

La bourse Stéfan Sinclair est conçue pour appuyer une personne qui étudie à un cycle supérieur, quioeuvre à la croisée des sciences humaines, des langues, de la littérature et de l’informatique et qui abesoin d’une aide financière. Chaque année, une personne se verra attribuer une bourse de 2000$ pourl’aider à payer les frais de scolarité […]

Call for Applications – Stéfan Sinclair Memorial Scholarship 2024-2025 (August 30th Deadline)

Source: CSDH / SCHN | Reading time: 3 minutes

The Stéfan Sinclair Scholarship is designed to support a graduate student working at the intersectionof the humanities, literature, language and computing who needs financial assistance. Each year ascholarship of approximately $2000 will be awarded to help pay the tuition of one student in memoryof Stéfan Sinclair. The award is supported by family and friends of […]

2024-05-29

dh+lib Special Issue CFP: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

What is it Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data is a special issue of dh+lib that will explore ways of integrating critical making and data physicalization into library-based digital humanities pedagogy in a variety of forms and modalities, including workshops, course-related instruction, and more. Methods and topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Crafting ...read more

dh+lib Special Issue CFP: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

What is it Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data is a special issue of dh+lib that will explore ways of integrating critical making and data physicalization into library-based digital humanities pedagogy in a variety of forms and modalities, including workshops, course-related instruction, and more. Methods and topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Crafting ...read more

Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies

Source: CDH | Reading time: 8 minutes

Please note registration for this event closed on 25 May 2024. To enquire about extra availability, please email CodeAsConversation@cdh.cam.ac.uk Description ‘Hello World!’ is how all computer programmers begin, and it’s how Mark C. Marino opens his manifesto for critical code studies. This elementary exercise in coding, accompanied by the instruction PRINT, demonstrates that “code exists

Setting the Frame: How Documentary Storytelling Meets Emerging Media

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Speaker Katy Morrison is a creative producer and doctoral researcher in immersive storytelling at Deakin University, and a member of the Deakin Motion Lab. Her work focuses on exploring the narrative capacity of new technologies. Katy was co-founder and producer of the pioneering Australian virtual reality studio, VRTOV. Her VR projects have screened around the

Archives of the Present: Possibilities of the Past And the Future

Source: CDH | Reading time: 8 minutes

This event is organised in collaboration with the Global Humanities Network, Centre for the Humanities (Universidad Diego Portales), and Digital Laboratory from the Faculty of Communication and Letters (Universidad Diego Portales). Archives of the Present: Possibilities of the Past And the Future The challenges of translating humanities to digital Among their multiple developments, Digital Humanities

2024-05-24

Rahtz Prize 2024: Call for Nominations

Source: TEI: Text Encoding Initiative | Reading time: 2 minutes

Rahtz Prize for Ingenuity 2024 — Call for nominations and self-submissions The TEI Consortium created the Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity in memory of Sebastian Rahtz, who contributed significantly to the TEI infrastructure. The award is intended to honour Sebastian’s noteworthy technical and philosophical contributions to the TEI, and to encourage innovation in the TEI […]

Announcing: new funding opportunity for Visiting Fellowships at Cambridge Digital Humanities

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Visiting Fellowships 2024/25 A small number of scholarships are available from Cambridge Digital Humanities to cover up to £2500 of travel and accommodation expenses for scholars accepted as CDH Visiting Fellows in the academic year 2024/25. Scholars without access to other funding are eligible to apply. Applicants who wish to be considered for this funding

2024-05-22

Critical Code Studies in Conversation

Source: CDH | Reading time: 10 minutes

Keen to explore ideas and methods from the emerging field of critical code studies (CCS) with a wider pool of researchers, PhD students Claire Carroll and Orla Delaney took it into their own hands to create a collaborative, hybrid space for just that. The Cultural Politics of Code reading group successfully launched in October 2023,

2024-05-15

Now Hiring: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities [5 years fixed term]

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities [5 years fixed term] Department: Cambridge Digital Humanities / Faculty of English Salary: £45,585-£57,696 Closing date: 2 June 2024 Apply now Cambridge Digital Humanities seeks to recruit a fixed term Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, to be appointed to the Faculty of English. The appointee will take up the post

2024-05-14

CDH Reactor: Watershed Investigations Data Lab | Call for participation

Source: CDH | Reading time: 9 minutes

Theme: Visualising UK farming’s environmental impact Applications open: https://forms.gle/xKxwqiAHz93iWW286 (this form will only be viewable if you are logged in to Google Drive with your Raven account). This year’s theme for the CDH Reactor programme is designed in collaboration with Watershed Investigations and explores remote sensing and AI methods for mapping the impact of farming

Preprints: Where are we now?

Source: The Scholarly Tales | Reading time: 10 minutes

The term “preprint” is actually used for two related, but still slightly different, things. The term can refer to an author’s original manuscript (of an article, a book chapter, or a complete book) as it is submitted for publication (hence… Continue reading “Preprints: Where are we now?”…

2024-05-13

CDH Reactor

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

You can now watch the recording of our November 2022 event "COP27 in Egypt: Between data colonialism and climate justice".

2024-05-09

Across Digital Art History and Dance Theory: Computational Approaches to Gestures

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Convenors Dr Leo Impett - Assistant Professor Digital Humanities, Convenor of MPhil, Cambridge Digital Humanities Silvia Garzarella, Visiting Scholar - Performing, and Media Arts at the University of Bologna Abstracts Gesture in Digital Art History - Leo Impett The basic tenet of this talk is that gesture is an unusually quantifiable parameter of visual studies,

2024-05-03

‘An incredibly enriching and enlightening experience’: Reflections on the Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School (April 2024)

Source: CDH | Reading time: 9 minutes

Twenty-four individuals from thirteen countries across the world gathered in Cambridge this April to take part in the seventh biannual Cultural Heritage Data School (CHDS). With over 23 hours of teaching built into a week-long data training programme, professionals and researchers involved in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) sector were equipped with the

2024-05-02

PROJECT: Digging into Early Colonial Mexico

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Digging into Early Colonial Mexico (DECM Project) is an effort to share and analyze datasets of the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España, 16th and 17th century documents that provide insight into indigenous and colonized groups of the Virreinatos, or regions of the early Americas that were being colonized by Spanish viceroys.  The project combines ...read more

PROJECT: Digging into Early Colonial Mexico

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Digging into Early Colonial Mexico (DECM Project) is an effort to share and analyze datasets of the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España, 16th and 17th century documents that provide insight into indigenous and colonized groups of the Virreinatos, or regions of the early Americas that were being colonized by Spanish viceroys.  The project combines ...read more

POST: CNI’s Spring 2024 Project Briefings

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) Spring 2024 Membership Meeting consisted of plenaries and project briefings which are posted and publicly available through their site. These meetings feature various members’ semi-formal presentations on initiatives, projects, and research – both theoretical and practical, such as: “Opening Collections of Marginalized Voices through Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing,” Michael Levine-Clark, ...read more

POST: CNI’s Spring 2024 Project Briefings

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) Spring 2024 Membership Meeting consisted of plenaries and project briefings which are posted and publicly available through their site. These meetings feature various members’ semi-formal presentations on initiatives, projects, and research – both theoretical and practical, such as: “Opening Collections of Marginalized Voices through Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing,” Michael Levine-Clark, ...read more

RESOURCE: ARL’s Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Research Libraries Guiding Principals for Artificial Intelligence,” a brief values-statement on the use of AI in their policy advocacy and engagement. From the background statement: Articulating a set of research library guiding principles for AI is useful to influence policy and advocate for the responsible development and ...read more

RESOURCE: ARL’s Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Research Libraries Guiding Principals for Artificial Intelligence,” a brief values-statement on the use of AI in their policy advocacy and engagement. From the background statement: Articulating a set of research library guiding principles for AI is useful to influence policy and advocate for the responsible development and ...read more

CFP: ACH Virtual Conference

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2024 virtual conference will take place November 6-8 of this year. ACH 2024 “underscores the importance of addressing societal challenges in the digital humanities and beyond,” inviting participants to join them in “navigating diverse political milieus and shaping a virtual conference that is just and inclusive.” From ...read more

CFP: ACH Virtual Conference

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2024 virtual conference will take place November 6-8 of this year. ACH 2024 “underscores the importance of addressing societal challenges in the digital humanities and beyond,” inviting participants to join them in “navigating diverse political milieus and shaping a virtual conference that is just and inclusive.” From ...read more

CFP: Handbook of Humanities Podcasting

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Humanities Podcasting Network (HPN) is compiling an edited collection to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. A 250-word abstract is due by May 5th, submitted through a Google Form. Topics for inclusion range from Historicizing the Humanities Podcast to Queer and Feminist Voices in podcasting, with over 20 topics represented. HPN seeks contributors from a ...read more

CFP: Handbook of Humanities Podcasting

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Humanities Podcasting Network (HPN) is compiling an edited collection to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. A 250-word abstract is due by May 5th, submitted through a Google Form. Topics for inclusion range from Historicizing the Humanities Podcast to Queer and Feminist Voices in podcasting, with over 20 topics represented. HPN seeks contributors from a ...read more

CFP: Florida Digital Humanities Consortium

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a conference, “Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation.” The conference will take place on Friday, September 20, 2024 at the University of Central Florida. Sponsors include FLDH, UCF’s Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR), UCF Libraries, and ...read more

CFP: Florida Digital Humanities Consortium

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a conference, “Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation.” The conference will take place on Friday, September 20, 2024 at the University of Central Florida. Sponsors include FLDH, UCF’s Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR), UCF Libraries, and ...read more

CFP: AVinDH workshop at DH 2024

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The AVinDH Special Interest Group is seeking proposals for Lightning Talks during pre-conference workshops at DH 2024. Lightning talks will be 4-5 minutes on topics or projects related to Audio/Visuals in digital humanities, and presentations may include discussion of works in progress. In order to submit a proposal, presenters must first register for the workshops ...read more

CFP: AVinDH workshop at DH 2024

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The AVinDH Special Interest Group is seeking proposals for Lightning Talks during pre-conference workshops at DH 2024. Lightning talks will be 4-5 minutes on topics or projects related to Audio/Visuals in digital humanities, and presentations may include discussion of works in progress. In order to submit a proposal, presenters must first register for the workshops ...read more

OPPORTUNITY: DHQ Editors

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is currently recruiting for an Accessibility Editor, Book and Tool Review Editor, and Languages Editor. These volunteer positions are enlisted for renewable, three-year terms. As DHQ usually has multiple editors in each area, selected applicants would be working in a collaborative capacity. DHQ is endeavoring to build a diverse team of ...read more

OPPORTUNITY: DHQ Editors

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is currently recruiting for an Accessibility Editor, Book and Tool Review Editor, and Languages Editor. These volunteer positions are enlisted for renewable, three-year terms. As DHQ usually has multiple editors in each area, selected applicants would be working in a collaborative capacity. DHQ is endeavoring to build a diverse team of ...read more

JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship Services, Binghamton University

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the post: The Head of Digital Scholarship Services is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing current and emerging research support services, including, digital scholarship, digital humanities, data management, scholarly communications and digital maker space technologies. This position collaborates with faculty and staff to build and nurture campus partnerships with Information Technology Services, the Division ...read more

JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship Services, Binghamton University

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the post: The Head of Digital Scholarship Services is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing current and emerging research support services, including, digital scholarship, digital humanities, data management, scholarly communications and digital maker space technologies. This position collaborates with faculty and staff to build and nurture campus partnerships with Information Technology Services, the Division ...read more

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Utah State

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the post: The Utah State University Libraries seeks a collaborative, innovative and user-centered candidate for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian to join a team supporting our communities in discovering, creating, and sharing knowledge. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will further digital scholarship and literacy across the institution and provide support for a broad range ...read more

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Utah State

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the post: The Utah State University Libraries seeks a collaborative, innovative and user-centered candidate for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian to join a team supporting our communities in discovering, creating, and sharing knowledge. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will further digital scholarship and literacy across the institution and provide support for a broad range ...read more

JOB: Digital Archivist, Multnomah County (Oregon)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the post: We are seeking a Digital Archivist with a dual focus on access and preservation to develop and implement policies and procedures for managing born-digital and digitized archival records. Do you want a career that combines history and research with technology? Do you possess skills in archival science, outreach, and digital preservation? Do ...read more

JOB: Digital Archivist, Multnomah County (Oregon)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the post: We are seeking a Digital Archivist with a dual focus on access and preservation to develop and implement policies and procedures for managing born-digital and digitized archival records. Do you want a career that combines history and research with technology? Do you possess skills in archival science, outreach, and digital preservation? Do ...read more

2024-05-01

2024-04-29

Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 14 minutes

This special issue of dh+lib introduces our readers to how digital humanities can integrate data physicalization into the research process and how data physicalization is a form of critical making. Seven case studies are presented here, ranging from how we can use data physicalization to teach digital methods to how data physicalization can aid in ...read more

Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 14 minutes

This special issue of dh+lib introduces our readers to how digital humanities can integrate data physicalization into the research process and how data physicalization is a form of critical making. Seven case studies are presented here, ranging from how we can use data physicalization to teach digital methods to how data physicalization can aid in ...read more

Emotional Bookmarks: Data Physicalization and the Language of Literature

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 20 minutes

Color has long had a deep connection to our emotions, which cuts through different cultures, time periods, and contexts, from textiles and architecture to design and art. Goethe was the first Western color theorist to suggest that colors have a direct effect on our physical and psychological wellbeing. Writing in his book, Theory of Colours, ...read more

Emotional Bookmarks: Data Physicalization and the Language of Literature

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 20 minutes

Color has long had a deep connection to our emotions, which cuts through different cultures, time periods, and contexts, from textiles and architecture to design and art. Goethe was the first Western color theorist to suggest that colors have a direct effect on our physical and psychological wellbeing. Writing in his book, Theory of Colours, ...read more

Black Ribbon for Mourning: Affective Solidarity and Feeling Very Difficult Data

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 22 minutes

The following recipe focuses on using data visceralization to engage very difficult data, with an emphasis on what feeling the data can do (as opposed to seeing it), and strategies for contextualizing the data and its effects. There is a particular subset of visualization-based data science known as Quantified Self. The Quantified Self (QS) movement ...read more

Black Ribbon for Mourning: Affective Solidarity and Feeling Very Difficult Data

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 22 minutes

The following recipe focuses on using data visceralization to engage very difficult data, with an emphasis on what feeling the data can do (as opposed to seeing it), and strategies for contextualizing the data and its effects. There is a particular subset of visualization-based data science known as Quantified Self. The Quantified Self (QS) movement ...read more

Book Adjacent: Database & Makerspace Prototypes Repairing Book-Centric Citation Bias in DH Working Libraries

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 26 minutes

My digital humanities center recently returned to a renovated library building with a dedicated public area. Our pre-renovation space included semi-public shelves full of DH-relevant books, but by 2019 thirteen years of book accrual meant our specialized reference collection needed significant curation. Some of the most appreciated books weren’t making it back to us, and ...read more

Book Adjacent: Database & Makerspace Prototypes Repairing Book-Centric Citation Bias in DH Working Libraries

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 26 minutes

My digital humanities center recently returned to a renovated library building with a dedicated public area. Our pre-renovation space included semi-public shelves full of DH-relevant books, but by 2019 thirteen years of book accrual meant our specialized reference collection needed significant curation. Some of the most appreciated books weren’t making it back to us, and ...read more

Weaving as Coding: Complexity and Nostalgia

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 22 minutes

For readers unfamiliar with the process of weaving, terms that first appear below in bold typeface are explained in the Weaving primer/glossary section between the Footnotes and Recipe. I first faced a loom in summer 2017 at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, during their Open Studio Residency, just before leaving.  I went to Haystack ...read more

Weaving as Coding: Complexity and Nostalgia

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 22 minutes

For readers unfamiliar with the process of weaving, terms that first appear below in bold typeface are explained in the Weaving primer/glossary section between the Footnotes and Recipe. I first faced a loom in summer 2017 at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, during their Open Studio Residency, just before leaving.  I went to Haystack ...read more

Knot Hard: Accessible Textile Data Visualization with a Circular Knitting Machine

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 20 minutes

“That is such a cool idea, but I’m not crafty at all.” I hear this a lot when I mention that I run a Textile Makerspace, and teach Data Visualization with Textiles. It’s easy to see where people are coming from: temperature blankets, covid scarves, quilted topographic maps, embroidered Greek epic poetry — the data ...read more

Knot Hard: Accessible Textile Data Visualization with a Circular Knitting Machine

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 20 minutes

“That is such a cool idea, but I’m not crafty at all.” I hear this a lot when I mention that I run a Textile Makerspace, and teach Data Visualization with Textiles. It’s easy to see where people are coming from: temperature blankets, covid scarves, quilted topographic maps, embroidered Greek epic poetry — the data ...read more

Off the Wheel and Off the Rails: When Making and Teaching Go Wrong

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 17 minutes

An aspect of making and crafting I considered when invited to contribute to this special issue on physical data visualization is the possibility of confronting failure, especially the failure in the make, and the outcome possibly going very wrong. To be able to learn and grow as a crafter and data viz creator is to ...read more

Off the Wheel and Off the Rails: When Making and Teaching Go Wrong

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

An aspect of making and crafting I considered when invited to contribute to this special issue on physical data visualization is the possibility of confronting failure, especially the failure in the make, and the outcome possibly going very wrong. To be able to learn and grow as a crafter and data viz creator is to ...read more

Developing a Creative Practice with Ceramic Data Physicalizations

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 22 minutes

Introduction Over the past year I have been researching and crafting a data physicalization piece titled Me & You, 2024 (porcelain and thread, Figure 1). The resulting piece maps the physical locations of three significant people in my life in relation to where I lived at the time. Thread was weaved in between the shapes ...read more

Developing a Creative Practice with Ceramic Data Physicalizations

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Introduction Over the past year I have been researching and crafting a data physicalization piece titled Me & You, 2024 (porcelain and thread, Figure 1). The resulting piece maps the physical locations of three significant people in my life in relation to where I lived at the time. Thread was weaved in between the shapes ...read more

2024-04-24

Dr Onur Engin

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Onur Engin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Faculty of Music, Cambridge, working on an ERC Starting Grant funded by UKRI entitled Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media, and Power, 1789-1914. His book project, Echoes over the Bosphorus: An Auditory History of Late Ottoman Istanbul (1826-1923), focusses on three sounding devices—church bells,

2024-04-23

Programmable Actors: Designing Audience Interaction for Digital Theatre Productions

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Organised by Claire Carroll Speaker Nathan Whitehouse is a writer, director, and video editor. After studying video game design and programming at Hampshire College and doing theatre in his free time, he was delighted to discover they could be combined. In 2016, he co-founded Dacha Theatre in Seattle, working with artists who shared a passion

First Steps in Coding with Python

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Convenor: Dr Estara Arrant (Cambridge University Library) This session is aimed at researchers who have never done any coding before. We will explore basic principles and approaches to navigating and working with code, using the popular programming language Python. Participants will use the Jupyter Notebooks platform to learn how to analyse texts. This will provide

2024-04-19

Critical Approaches to Data Visualisation

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Dr Anne Alexander, Senior Research Assistant, Learning Director, CDH Description It is often said we live in a society saturated with data. Visualisation methods can play a crucial role in helping to cut through the information overload. Badly designed charts, graphs and diagrams, on the other hand, can confuse or deceive. This session will introduce

2024-04-18

RESOURCE: DH RPG

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Mixing up table-top role playing games (RPG) with digital humanities project lifecycles, Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford) created The DH RPG for a course 2020. The resource remains a fun and relevant way to explore and teach project management and ethical collaboration, and explore infrastructures critically. The site includes a guide to play, character building templates, and ...read more

RESOURCE: DH RPG

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Mixing up table-top role playing games (RPG) with digital humanities project lifecycles, Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford) created The DH RPG for a course 2020. The resource remains a fun and relevant way to explore and teach project management and ethical collaboration, and explore infrastructures critically. The site includes a guide to play, character building templates, and ...read more

RESOURCE: Exploring LLM Weirdness

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

This week’s editors-at-large nominated “Exploring LLM Weirdness” by Cord, a quiz that requires players to convince Chat-GPT4 to select the right answer in a multiple choice quiz. It serves as an interactive lesson and teaching tool on the limitations of AI in certain scenarios.

RESOURCE: Exploring LLM Weirdness

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

This week’s editors-at-large nominated “Exploring LLM Weirdness” by Cord, a quiz that requires players to convince Chat-GPT4 to select the right answer in a multiple choice quiz. It serves as an interactive lesson and teaching tool on the limitations of AI in certain scenarios.

EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Registration is now open for the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops in Guelph, Ontario. The workshops will be in-person and will run over four days, 14-17 May 2024. Topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to Python Data AnalysisApproaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques Uncovering Hidden Trends ...read more

EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Registration is now open for the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops in Guelph, Ontario. The workshops will be in-person and will run over four days, 14-17 May 2024. Topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to Python Data AnalysisApproaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques Uncovering Hidden Trends ...read more

EVENT: Digital Initiatives Symposium

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The University of San Diego will host its annual Digital Initiatives Symposium and celebrate the event’s tenth anniversary, on Monday, 29 April 2024, in San Diego, California. The schedule of events includes a series of workshops and presentations on acquiring commercial data sets, auditing diversity in library collections, designing digital exhibits, exploring generative artificial intelligence, ...read more

EVENT: Digital Initiatives Symposium

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The University of San Diego will host its annual Digital Initiatives Symposium and celebrate the event’s tenth anniversary, on Monday, 29 April 2024, in San Diego, California. The schedule of events includes a series of workshops and presentations on acquiring commercial data sets, auditing diversity in library collections, designing digital exhibits, exploring generative artificial intelligence, ...read more

CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The third Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) has been announced and will take place on 21-22 February 2025 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. The conference will also mark a return to the in-person format after a virtual version in 2021. From the call: We seek participation from a broad range of ...read more

CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The third Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) has been announced and will take place on 21-22 February 2025 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. The conference will also mark a return to the in-person format after a virtual version in 2021. From the call: We seek participation from a broad range of ...read more

CFP: DLF 2024 Virtual Event

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

CLIR’s Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the Virtual 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held online, 22-23 October 2024. From the call: We invite proposals for live virtual presentations on all topics related to digital libraries, encompassing case studies, “show and fails,” practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, ...read more

CFP: DLF 2024 Virtual Event

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

CLIR’s Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the Virtual 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held online, 22-23 October 2024. From the call: We invite proposals for live virtual presentations on all topics related to digital libraries, encompassing case studies, “show and fails,” practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, ...read more

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Projects Review Editor, American Quarterly

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The American Studies Association (ASA) Digital Humanities Caucus seeks nominations for a new Digital Projects Review Editor for American Quarterly, the journal of the ASA. From the email call: Digital project reviews carry on the traditions and guidelines of book reviewing in the American Quarterly, including the careful selection of projects based on the importance ...read more

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Projects Review Editor, American Quarterly

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The American Studies Association (ASA) Digital Humanities Caucus seeks nominations for a new Digital Projects Review Editor for American Quarterly, the journal of the ASA. From the email call: Digital project reviews carry on the traditions and guidelines of book reviewing in the American Quarterly, including the careful selection of projects based on the importance ...read more

OPPORTUNITY: Paid Usability Testing for trans, queer, bipoc, and disabled people

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The “Trans Mediascapes” research project at Carleton University seeks individuals to help test the Transgender Media Portal. In particular, the project team seeks individuals in Canada and the U.S. who are over the age of 16 and identify as Trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, gender nonconforming, queer Black, Indigenous, racialized, a person of colour Deaf, ...read more

OPPORTUNITY: Paid Usability Testing for trans, queer, bipoc, and disabled people

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The “Trans Mediascapes” research project at Carleton University seeks individuals to help test the Transgender Media Portal. In particular, the project team seeks individuals in Canada and the U.S. who are over the age of 16 and identify as Trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, gender nonconforming, queer Black, Indigenous, racialized, a person of colour Deaf, ...read more

JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship (University of Pennsylvania)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS), the Head of Digital Scholarship is responsible for the administrative management of libraries’ digital scholarship initiatives including those related to digital projects, digital humanities, public digital scholarship, and affiliated areas. In collaboration with the Research Data and Digital Scholarship team and ...read more

JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship (University of Pennsylvania)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS), the Head of Digital Scholarship is responsible for the administrative management of libraries’ digital scholarship initiatives including those related to digital projects, digital humanities, public digital scholarship, and affiliated areas. In collaboration with the Research Data and Digital Scholarship team and ...read more

JOB: Digital Scholarship Developer (Providence College)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 4 minutes

From the announcement: Provide strategic leadership for the design, development, and implementation of digital scholarship at Providence College. Remote hybrid work is available at a maximum of two days per week based on approval. Develop and maintain applications, platforms, and tools that support digital scholarship projects and initiatives through the use of extensive technical skills ...read more

JOB: Digital Scholarship Developer (Providence College)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

From the announcement: Provide strategic leadership for the design, development, and implementation of digital scholarship at Providence College. Remote hybrid work is available at a maximum of two days per week based on approval. Develop and maintain applications, platforms, and tools that support digital scholarship projects and initiatives through the use of extensive technical skills ...read more

Apply to the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Applications are now open for the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024. Since 2021 a partnership of UK institutions has been involved in the creation and delivery of a summer school aimed at researchers in the digital humanities who intend to professionalise their software engineering skills. This year's DH & RSE Summer

Generative AI and The Automation of Creative Labour

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

A visual artist and a law professor walk into a seminar room to talk about generative AI. There’s a thought that machines doing busywork for humans are now being enabled to be creative, whereas humans are doing busywork for machines. In this session, Eryk Salvaggio and Andrea Wallace will discuss the realities, tradeoffs, and opportunities,

2024-04-17

Announcing: CDH Gates Cambridge Scholars 2024

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Two outstanding scholars from the inaugural cohort of Cambridge Digital Humanities' new PhD in Digital Humanities have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars. Emmanuel Iduma and Sonia Fereidooni, who begin their doctoral studies at CDH in October, join the Gates Cambridge Class of 2024, a cohort of 75 new scholars who represent 69 different nationalities

Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Since 2021 a partnership of UK institutions has been involved in the creation and delivery of a summer school aimed at researchers in the digital humanities who intend to professionalise their software engineering skills. The Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024, hosted at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, combines talks and practical activities

Dr Lise Jaillant

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Dr Lise Jaillant is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Digital Cultural Heritage at Loughborough University. Lise has a background in publishing history and digital humanities. She is an expert on born-digital archives and the issues of preservation and access to these archives. Since 2020, she has been UK PI for four AHRC-funded projects on Archives

2024-04-16

Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School: April 2024

Source: CDH | Reading time: 14 minutes

The Cultural Heritage Data School (CHDS), taking place in Cambridge between 8-12 April, is closed for applications. This intensive in-person teaching programme will be structured around the digital collections and archives pipeline, covering the general principles and applied practices involved in the generation, exploration, visualisation, analysis and preservation of digital collections and archives. Leading academic

2024-04-12

Dr Annja Neumann

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Annja Neumann is an Affiliated Lecturer Digital Humanities and in Modern German Studies. Until April 2024 she was an Isaac Newton Trust Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Digital Humanities. Her practice-based research explores the staging of spaces and politics of embodiment, with a particular interest in the theatricalisation of medical spaces.

2024-04-05

Dr Arild Stenberg

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Arild's background combines experience as a composer and conductor with a more recent focus on research in music psychology and music cognition. As a composer, he was always interested in the effect of notational choices on performance and had already started to explore how the design of a musical text affected practice and rehearsal. After

Nelya Koteyko

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Nelya Koteyko is Professor of Language and Communication at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the relationship between media discourse and everyday practices and identities. Nelya’s key interests lie in (1) construction of identity and social ‘co-presence’ through linguistic, visual, and technological resources in online networks; (2) the role of technological affordances

JOB: Digital Collections Librarian (University of Wyoming)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 2 minutes

UW Libraries seeks a collaborative and creative librarian to join our Digital Collections team.  The Digital Collections Librarian will oversee the digitization of materials in a variety of formats, both 2D and 3D, planning and execution of new digital collections and exhibits, and the maintenance of existing digital collections. The Digital Collections Librarian will coordinate ...read more

JOB: Research Informatics Specialist (University of Oklahoma)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Salary Range: Targeted salary $72,000 annually, based on experience Benefits Provided: Yes Required Attachments: Resume, Cover Letter, Other Document (See Job Requirements for details) Job Description — The University Libraries seeks to recruit a technical professional who has a passion for the higher education environment to support data-intensive research and digital scholarship projects. The Research Informatics Specialist is ...read more

JOB: Digital Community Partnerships Specialist (Smithsonian Institution)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 14 minutes

Come join the team at the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum! We’re working to expand the story of America through the often-untold accounts and accomplishments of women individually and collectively—to better understand our past and inspire our future. We’re looking for dedicated individuals to help us create space for women’s history on the National Mall ...read more

JOB: Digital Stewardship Librarian (Amherst College)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Amherst has taken a leadership role among highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities in successfully diversifying the racial, socio-economic, and geographic profile of its student body. The College is similarly committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration and staff.   Job Description:   Amherst College ...read more

JOB: Digital Collections Librarian (University of Wyoming)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 2 minutes

UW Libraries seeks a collaborative and creative librarian to join our Digital Collections team.  The Digital Collections Librarian will oversee the digitization of materials in a variety of formats, both 2D and 3D, planning and execution of new digital collections and exhibits, and the maintenance of existing digital collections. The Digital Collections Librarian will coordinate ...read more

JOB: Research Informatics Specialist (University of Oklahoma)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Salary Range: Targeted salary $72,000 annually, based on experience Benefits Provided: Yes Required Attachments: Resume, Cover Letter, Other Document (See Job Requirements for details) Job Description — The University Libraries seeks to recruit a technical professional who has a passion for the higher education environment to support data-intensive research and digital scholarship projects. The Research Informatics Specialist is ...read more

JOB: Digital Community Partnerships Specialist (Smithsonian Institution)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 14 minutes

Come join the team at the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum! We’re working to expand the story of America through the often-untold accounts and accomplishments of women individually and collectively—to better understand our past and inspire our future. We’re looking for dedicated individuals to help us create space for women’s history on the National Mall ...read more

JOB: Digital Stewardship Librarian (Amherst College)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Amherst has taken a leadership role among highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities in successfully diversifying the racial, socio-economic, and geographic profile of its student body. The College is similarly committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration and staff.   Job Description:   Amherst College ...read more

EVENT: UT Humanities Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The Humanities Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville will host “A Counterhistory of Data Visualization” on April 15 as part of their 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series. The talk will be given by visiting scholar Lauren Klein of Emory University and will focus the “return to the origins of modern data visualization in order excavate this ...read more

CFP: Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Proposals are now being accepted for Cultures of Scale: Discipline, Data, and Labor, part of the Debates in Digital Humanities book series from The University of Minnesota Press. From the call: This volume is designed for a wide array of perspectives. We have much to gain from the complex and critical debates on scale within ...read more

CFP: Digitorium 2024

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Digitorium, the annual Digital Humanities conference hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at University of Alabama Libraries, is now accepting proposals. They specifically “encourage submissions that ask big questions, present puzzles for problem-solving, and share outside of the box ideas.” Presentation formats include: Papers: 15 minute presentations (max 2000 words). Papers are an opportunity for ...read more

EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The DH@Guelph team, partnered with Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities (CC:DH), has announced their 2024 Summer Workshops which are set for May 14th- 17th. The workshops will focus on topics related to digital humanities research and teaching from a variety of disciplines. Workshop topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to ...read more

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (Florida International University)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Florida International University Libraries (FIU Libraries) serves as the intellectual heart of our students’ academic journeys, offering pathways to knowledge and discovery, ultimately paving the way for student success. Our libraries provide essential resources crucial for research and innovation, fostering collaborative research endeavors and supporting scholars throughout the entirety of their research lifecycle. FIU Libraries ...read more

EVENT: UT Humanities Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The Humanities Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville will host “A Counterhistory of Data Visualization” on April 15 as part of their 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series. The talk will be given by visiting scholar Lauren Klein of Emory University and will focus the “return to the origins of modern data visualization in order excavate this ...read more

CFP: Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Proposals are now being accepted for Cultures of Scale: Discipline, Data, and Labor, part of the Debates in Digital Humanities book series from The University of Minnesota Press. From the call: This volume is designed for a wide array of perspectives. We have much to gain from the complex and critical debates on scale within ...read more

CFP: Digitorium 2024

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

Digitorium, the annual Digital Humanities conference hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at University of Alabama Libraries, is now accepting proposals. They specifically “encourage submissions that ask big questions, present puzzles for problem-solving, and share outside of the box ideas.” Presentation formats include: Papers: 15 minute presentations (max 2000 words). Papers are an opportunity for ...read more

EVENT: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The DH@Guelph team, partnered with Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities (CC:DH), has announced their 2024 Summer Workshops which are set for May 14th- 17th. The workshops will focus on topics related to digital humanities research and teaching from a variety of disciplines. Workshop topics include: Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars Introduction to ...read more

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (Florida International University)

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

Florida International University Libraries (FIU Libraries) serves as the intellectual heart of our students’ academic journeys, offering pathways to knowledge and discovery, ultimately paving the way for student success. Our libraries provide essential resources crucial for research and innovation, fostering collaborative research endeavors and supporting scholars throughout the entirety of their research lifecycle. FIU Libraries ...read more

EVENT: Black Digital Humanities Symposium

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 0 minutes

The Black Digital Humanities Lab will host a Black Digital Humanities Symposium on April 12. The symposium “brings together graduate students, practitioners, community activists, and artists to discuss the future of this field, exploring what it means to come together to weave Black futures.” Sessions include panels on representation & resistance in digital media and ...read more

EVENT: Black Digital Humanities Symposium

Source: dh+lib | Reading time: 10 minutes

The Black Digital Humanities Lab will host a Black Digital Humanities Symposium on April 12. The symposium “brings together graduate students, practitioners, community activists, and artists to discuss the future of this field, exploring what it means to come together to weave Black futures.” Sessions include panels on representation & resistance in digital media and ...read more

2024-04-04

Homepage

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

No content preview

Registration now open for Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies | Saturday 1 June 2024, University of Cambridge

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Registration is now open for Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies, a one-day conference on the dynamic field of critical code studies, organised by CDH researchers Claire Carroll and Orla Delaney. Register here When and where? The conference will be held in person at the University of Cambridge on Saturday 1 June

2024-04-03

Now Hiring: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Postgraduate Administrator

Source: CDH | Reading time: 8 minutes

Postgraduate Administrator Department: Faculty of English, Cambridge Salary: £29,605-£33,966 Closing date: 5 May 2024 Apply now The Faculty of English is seeking to appoint a motivated, enthusiastic and adaptable individual to the post of Postgraduate Administrator. You will be responsible to and work alongside the Faculty's Postgraduate Coordinator to contribute to the effective administration

Apply for a Visiting Fellowship at Cambridge Digital Humanities

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Applications for the next round of CDH Visiting Fellowships, to be held between October 2024 and March 2025, are now open. Scholars and students interested in applying for a fellowship must submit their application no later than 21 April 2024 for the current round. Cambridge Digital Humanities offers several types of visiting fellowships, lasting between

Untitled

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Silvia Garzarella is a PhD Student in Visual, Performing, and Media Arts at the University of Bologna, currently working on the project: Improving the Fruition of Ballet’s Intangible Assets through Digital Archives and Advanced Digital Technology Products. A Case Study of Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993). At the same University, she achieved a Master’s Degree in Italian

2024-03-28

Research

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

No content preview

2024-03-27

2024-03-26

Virtual Workshop: AI and Labor

Source: The Association for Computers and the Humanities | Reading time: 2 minutes

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 3:30-4:30pm EDT Register here As scholars, practitioners, and activists have widely discussed, AI and other generative technologies require a rethinking of how workers can be protected. These technologies gather and use data generated by workers, generating issues such as wage discrimination and, in the long run, replacement of labor. In this…Continue reading.

2024-03-22

Dr Estara Arrant

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Dr Estara Arrant is a Postdoctoral Research Associate based at the Cambridge University Library in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. She works on the ERC-funded project TEXTEVOLVE: A New Approach to the Evolution of Texts Based on the Manuscripts of the Targums, where she analyses the history of Aramaic translations of the Bible using bioinformatic

2024-03-21

Utopian Cycles in Archiving Practices: Past, Present, and Future Histories

Source: CDH | Reading time: 7 minutes

An online public event convened by members of the (Anti) Colonial Archives Working Group at the Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School. The global majority have often faced the historical erasure of their cultural heritage. This public event will present initiatives that are currently combatting this erasure and showcase projects that are actively working to preserve

AI and the Digital

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

AI and the Digital is a seminar series that explores how AI and other digital technologies are influenced by concepts of the human and how they can be designed to be responsible, socially just, and ecologically sustainable. Together with international experts, participants are invited to discuss the entanglement of thought and technology. The series is

AI Café for Humanities and Social Science Research

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Are you using AI methods in your research, or considering doing so? Would you like to meet other researchers exploring the challenges and possibilities of deploying AI to answer humanities or social science research questions? Do you need practical advice and guidance on proposal writing, software, hardware, data collection methods, data security, privacy and compliance,

2024-03-20

textile – digital workshop

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Textiles are material objects, which are produced according to well-planned processes. Such a procedural nature favours multiple analogies between textiles and digitality – and raises, at the same time, resistance to these very associations. Weaving has become, in current discourse, a convenient ancestor of computing. By connecting computer history to a material craft, textiles offer

(Anti)Colonial Archives in the Digital Age

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

This online public event accompanies the application-only Cultural Heritage Data School at the University of Cambridge. It will provide a space for reflection and discussion on how collection-holding institutions and researchers deal with the challenges of presenting archival materials from collections formed by or about colonial institutions. This discussion of the colonial past and present

2024-03-19

textile – digital

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Textiles are material objects, which are produced according to well-planned processes. Such a procedural nature favours multiple analogies between textiles and digitality – and raises, at the same time, resistance to these very associations. Weaving has become, in current discourse, a convenient ancestor of computing. By connecting computer history to a material craft, textiles offer

2024-03-14

Cambridge Social Data School: September 2024

Source: CDH | Reading time: 14 minutes

The Social Data School (SDS), taking place in Cambridge between 9-13 September 2024, welcomes applications from individuals working in the media, academia, civil society organisations, trade unions, the public sector and industry. This programme equips participants with the skills and knowledge to conduct data-driven investigations in the public interest. This year, the SDS will focus

Applications now open for Cambridge Social Data School, 9-13 September 2024

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

CDH is thrilled to announce that applications for the in-person Social Data School (SDS), taking place in Cambridge between 9-13 September 2024, are now open. Individuals working in the media, academia, civil society organisations, trade unions, the public sector and industry - as well as those who work with social data in other capacities -

CDH shines at the Cambridge Festival

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Cambridge Digital Humanities returns to the Cambridge Festival, which runs from 13-28 March this year, to deliver a variety of events that engage with the four themes of the festival: Discovery, Environment, Health and Society. Peruse our fascinating programme below. Am I Normal? Friday 15 March, 11am-5pm, GR04 in the Faculty of English Dreamy Cops

AI and the Digital seminar series announced

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Cambridge Digital Humanities has joined forces with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) and Gloknos at Cambridge, and the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn and the Stiftung Mercator in Germany to co-sponsor a brand new seminar series exploring how AI and other digital technologies are influenced by concepts

Dr Irving Huerta

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Irving Huerta is a Research Associate and Data School Convenor of our Data Schools (four scheduled for 23-24). His background is in journalism, collaborating with organisations like Forensic Architecture, the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism and others. He is interested in the intersection between politics, media, and accountability. His research revolves around the politics of

Dr Anne Alexander

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Anne Alexander has been Director of Learning at CDH since its foundation. She was previously Co-ordinator of the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network. Her research interests include ethics of big data, activist media in the Middle East and the political economy of the Internet. She is a member of the Data Ethics Group and the Humanities and

Dr Eleanor Dare

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Dr Eleanor Dare is a CDH Methods Fellow and Associate Researcher for the Forensic AI project lead by Dr Leonardo Impett. The aim of the project is to identify, analyse, and mitigate cultural biases within AI-powered computer vision systems by employing methodologies from the digital humanities, digital art history, and digital visual studies. Eleanor was

2024-03-13

Monstrous Archives: Colonialism and the emergence of data

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Abstract Dr Siddharth Soni locates the birth of data in colonial attitudes to the archive in this talk co-hosted by the Cambridge Festival and the Intellectual Forum. For centuries, the archive has intrigued and fascinated us. Often imagined as a dusty room in a crumbling old library, it is where we go to locate our collective memory, to understand

The Network Social Abstraction: for a Genealogy of the Computational Social Sciences | Professor Tiziana Terranova

Source: CDH | Reading time: 6 minutes

Abstract The talk considers the rise of the computational social sciences as a correlate of the subsumption of the Internet under the Corporate Platform Complex since the 2010s – and the corresponding transformation of the definition of social computing from the production of software as social tool to “the ability to process the content generated

2024-03-08

DH Teaching Forum

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

Our termly online DH Teaching Forum is open to anyone at the University of Cambridge interested in teaching Digital Humanities or teaching the Humanities (and Social Sciences) digitally. They provide an informal space for peer learning and networking, skill sharing and discussion, and short invited talks and presentations on topics the group decides. This term's

2024-03-07

Digital Futures | Transhistorical Humanities: Methods in Conversation

Source: CDH | Reading time: 5 minutes

A new cross-faculty forum for multi-disciplinary conversation, with a focus on questions of method and the current direction of the humanities in Cambridge and the UK. Speakers Dr Annja Neumann and Dr Alexis Litvine moderated by Prof Caroline Bassett For all questions, please contact the convenors Carlos-Iglesias-Crespo and Tobias Barnett.

2023-11-24

Annual General Meeting 2023

Source: aaDH | Reading time: 1 minutes

The Annual General Meeting of aaDH will be held as an electronic meeting which will open on Monday December 4, 2023 and close on Monday December 11, 2023. The meeting will be conducted via a shared (google) document and the link to the document will be circulated on December 4 to open the meeting.  As … Continue reading "Annual General Meeting 2023"

2023-09-11