Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Literary Forensics as Method: Chemical Analysis, Food Stains, and Readerly Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks

Much of the study of cookbooks relies on guesswork and reading between the lines that are written down—the type of guesswork that requires cookbooks be read alongside other types of texts rather than standing on their own. This article presents a novel method for analyzing and reading food stains in historical manuscripts using infrared spectroscopy, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Decoding Hidden Heritages

Navigate the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. Using advanced AI text recognition techniques, much of this material has been transcribed and made searchable for the first time. Many of the tales are categorised by Aarne–Thompson (AT) […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Freelance Researchers: Safe Adoption of AI — Careful Industries

Careful Industries has received funding from Lloyd’s Register Foundation to conduct a foresight review on the safe adoption of AI. We are seeking freelance researchers to conduct literature searches on the impact of AI on worker safety, infrastructural safety, and environmental safety. We welcome expressions of interest for either one of the individual topics or […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Open Data and Repository Services Librarian at University of Maryland

The University of Maryland Libraries seeks an Open Data and Repository Services Librarian to join the Open Scholarship Services (OSS) team, inaugurated in September 2022. The Open Data and Repository Services Librarian will work within the OSS team and across the Libraries and wider campus community to provide leadership on the changing landscape of open […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Report on the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) “Intensive ENCODE: Digital Competences in Ancient Writing Cultures”

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence is revealing itself as an essential tool for many tasks pertaining to any kind of field. When it comes to historical studies, AI might be trained for the purpose of automatic recognition of texts. Pursuing such a goal, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello applied Deep Learning-based methodologies to papyri. In the D-scribes project she worked […]