Editors’ Summary: The tools we use are not neutral. This LibGuide intends to offer librarians, instructors, and others within the higher education community a gateway for learning more about how AI development and use are impacting the environment. By providing a set of resources that can be inserted within broader AI literacy training, the LibGuide […]
Editors’ Summary: This post considers the relationship between AI and book history. According to Cordell, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs and the language model systems’ outputs. This post proposes the skeuomorph as a key heuristic for book historical scholarship and […]
Editors’ Summary: This post considers the extent to which the field of DH has embraced the principles of Data Feminism once the initial buzz died down. The author notes how DH is increasingly being shaped by machine learning tools and data-driven methods, making the need for a robust ethical framework for the field more urgent […]
Editors’ Summary: In “Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata,” Till Grallert, Sophie Eckenstaler, Claus-Michael Schlesinger, Nicole Dresselhaus, Isabell Trilling, and Sophie Stark address a familiar challenge in digital humanities: how to document and sustain knowledge about the field’s many digital tools without creating yet another static directory that quickly becomes outdated. The […]
Editors’ Summary: This article uses two case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of newly developed algorithms designed to detect rhyme within the ELTE Poetry Corpus, which includes the complete works of 53 canonical Hungarian poets. The author used this rhyme pattern detecting algorithm to generate a rhyming dictionary of Hungarian poetry, as well as an […]
Editors’ Summary: This article explores how LLMs can assist Critical Code Studies by making code more accessible as a cultural and interpretive object. Using Apollo 11 source code as a case study, Marino and Douglass highlight AI’s potential as a conversational partner for code interpretation while cautioning that hallucinations and misleading readings remain serious risks. […]
Editors’ Summary: This paper presents an insightful approach of using creative writing/literature (fictional depictions) in collaboration with real life. The topic studied here is public housing; the researchers compiled novels focusing on public housing (usually in cities) with social science analysis of current public housing residents. Some important references for readers are how the authors […]
Editors’ Summary: This post provides a helpful guide for using GitHub Pages to quickly deploy a static website. Because its service is free, GitHub Pages is a wonderful tool for researchers to build their personal and professional websites. GitHub Pages uses Jekyll, a static web generator, but this post shows users how to use 11ty, […]
Editors’ Summary: This post addresses the potential value of examining co-occurrences between different types of named entities, in particular locations and people. Limiting analysis to spatial entities misses an opportunity to reflect how historical figures interacted with them. By integrating NER with co-occurrence analysis, this post shows how we can reach more meaningful NER results […]
Editors’ Summary: Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser present Version 2.0 of the Shakespeare and Company Project data sets, a major update to the structured datasets documenting Sylvia Beach’s legendary Paris bookshop and lending library (1919–1962). The update significantly expands demographic data on lending library members—from roughly 600 to nearly 1,800 identified individuals—and introduces two […]
