The use of data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data science techniques are becoming increasingly pervasive in daily life and research activities, attracting many scholars to adopt them in historically oriented research with promising results. However, neither data nor computational techniques are neutral tools. Historical archives and datasets are themselves the products of selective curation reflecting […]
It’s been a minute for the SO! podcast but we are glad to be back–however intermittently–with a podcast episode that shares a discussion between women sound studies artists and scholars. The panel “Living Sounds: Rhythms of Belonging,” was held on September 19 at 6-7pm EDT at The Soil Factory arts space in Ithaca, New York. […]
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, […]
I’m very excited to be the new Creative Technologist-in-Residence at the SLV LAB. For the next few months I get to play around with metadata and images, think about online access, experiment with different technologies, and build things to help people to explore the State Library’s collections. In other words, I get to be in […]
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) […]
Even for those who aren’t movie buffs, the vibrant covers of Cine-Mundial never fail to snag one’s attention, and who could deny the pleasure of watching the evolution of the celebrity magazine unfold over 25 years of Modern Screen. The covers of Radio Age helped listeners transcend the purely auditory experience of early radio and […]
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 […]
We are seeking an AI Specialist to lead and shape how faculty, students, and research teams engage with artificial intelligence (AI) in research and scholarly communication. This position is designed to help researchers not only use AI, but use it responsibly, ethically, and effectively. Reporting to the Manager of Digital Scholarship and Data Services, the […]
After the launch of ChatGPT sparked the generative AI boom in Silicon Valley in late 2022, it was mere months before OpenAI turned to selling the software as an automation product for businesses. (It was first called Team, then Enterprise.) And it wasn’t long after that before it became clear that the jobs managers were […]
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 […]
