Mekelle University (MU), founded in 2000 and located in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, is a research-intensive institution dedicated to advancing knowledge, economic growth, and social welfare both nationally and internationally. As a founding member of the Ethiopian Research Universities Forum in 2025, MU is committed to elevating the visibility and impact of Ethiopian research on the […]
This story looks at every time the word ‘democracy’ was said or written into the Congressional Record since 1880. Each dot represents five speeches or remarks. Bright dots are one that argue American democracy is under threat. Americans have always argued about what it means to strive toward these democratic ideals. This pursuit of democracy […]
Wikimedia UK’s flagship Train the Trainer (TtT) course returned in summer 2025, bringing together volunteers from across the UK and around the world to develop the skills needed to deliver Wikipedia editing events in their own communities. Designed to build confidence and strengthen diversity, this year’s programme welcomed 23 participants from eight countries, including many […]
Reporting to the Department Head, the Metadata Operations Specialist provides operational support in cataloging and metadata management within the Collections Acquisition & Metadata Services department for the grant-funded Anticaste Archives Project. This role is responsible for creating, processing, and maintaining metadata for digital objects (e.g., documents, images, and videos) to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance […]
A 2-Day Research and Edit Event for the Visualizing Caribbean Literature Database. The database catalogs more than 4000 titles by 500 authors in over 50 languages since 1800. Join us to review and improve the database and to create Wikipedia pages for our unknown and unseen literary greats! On November 7 and 8, both in-person […]
This position supports the MNHS digital collections across the LRC Division by leading work to manage and maintain the materials for long-term access and use in alignment with the institution’s vision and strategic framework for sustainable digital preservation. Tasks include: Carry out activities as lead for the digital preservation program in collaboration with the department […]
I set out to write my own Wretched-style game. My first attempt was based on the Franklin Expedition, and how the demise of those men is captured in Inuit oral tradition. I wrote my card prompts, I thought about how the game might end, I imagined what their colonial mindset when confronted with survival and […]
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous posts on OCR/HTR, particularly our launch of the first public Syriac HTR model on Transkribus: From Vienna to the World…) into the realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Today’s post explores a powerful new possibility: […]
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has created both opportunities and challenges for assessment design and academic integrity. The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS), developed by Perkins, Furze, Roe, and MacVaugh, provides a practical framework to guide educators in making purposeful, evidence-based decisions about appropriate AI use in assessments. Rather than treating AI as a threat to be […]
This review of Claire Warwick’s Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001: A World Elsewhere (2024) praises the monograph’s unique value to the digital humanities as a comprehensive reconstruction of 1990s attitudes and practices regarding cyberspace. Warwick’s justification for her hybrid methodology, which combines history, analysis, thick description, and autoethnography, is discussed, as well as […]
