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Author: Douglas A. Boyd

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Editors’ Choice: A New Tool to Measure Machine-Generated Transcript Accuracy: The Transcript Accuracy Auditor

Editors’ Summary: In this post, Douglas A. Boyd introduces an open-source tool for comparing the accuracy of machine-generated transcriptions to determine which is best suited for your project. His tool, the Transcript Accuracy Auditor, compares a machine‑generated transcript to a human‑corrected reference of the same interview and provides a score for WIP (Word Information Preserved) […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2026 | ARDC

The Summer School aims to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS), and Indigenous fields of study. Participants will collaborate in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts. Over 2 days, participants will be involved […]

By: ARDC
News, Reports

Report: Q&A: In the AI age, why are the humanities still relevant?

A growing number of college students across the country are shunning the liberal arts in favor of majors in business, engineering, health and science. Some might be chasing higher salaries, while others see the nation’s rapid shift to AI technology as a forecast of the job market they’ll enter. At the University of Virginia over […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Newspaper Digitization Project Manager at Stanford University

Stanford Libraries is seeking a full-time Newspaper Digitization Project Manager to join the Directors Office for a fixed term position, potentially to September 2031. Working closely with Collection Development managers, International and Area Studies Curators, East Asia Library Bibliographers and staff, Technical Services managers, Facilities staff, Digital Production Group managers, Hoover Institution Archives and Library […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: EADH Conference 2026 – “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders” | EADH – The European Association for Digital Humanities

The EADH 2026 conference will take place from 15 to 19 September 2026 at Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), and is co-organized by the Digital Humanities Lab of the Jagiellonian University and the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Under the theme “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”, the event invites […]

By: EADH
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Editors’ Choice: Linguistic Tools in Musical Stylometry

In this paper, we investigate the applicability of linguistic stylometry methods to authorship attribution in music. We compare the use of delta methods involving the the analysis of token frequencies with static embeddings generated by distributional semantic models (Word2Vec and Doc2Vec) for the stylometry analysis of music using a symbolic representation. For this purpose, a […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Black Information Futures Symposium (February 21-23, 2026) – CALMA – Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives

The Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) at the University of Washington Information School invites proposals for participation in the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, to be held on February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. The Black Information Futures Symposium seeks to create an expansive, interdisciplinary space for archivists, librarians, cultural heritage […]