Rebecca Foote recently invited me to be a part of an ACH panel on publishing in digital humanities along with Jojo Karlin and Nat McGartland. My reflections on the conversation have led to a range of posts that you can find here. I recently wrote about the importance of public writing as a muscle. Exercising […]
The phantasmagorias of space to which the flaneur devotes himself find a counterpart in the phantasmagorias of time to which the gambler is addicted. Gambling converts time into a narcotic (Benjamin 1999: 12). The disruption that Benjamin identified in the gambling halls finds unexpected resonance in today’s computational interfaces. The rise of “prompt engineering” as […]
Scholarship on Machine Learning/AI and Close Reading culled by Scott Newstok from his Close Reading Archive. Scott Newstok shared this list with Alan Liu on May 18, 2025, with permission to share publicly. See full post.
What follows is an introduction to that greater mass of information, and an invitation to others to take a look and use it. With lots of help, and trial and error, I’ve learned a bit about how to use ArcGIS software, and have crafted a story map that, I hope, introduces the data that I […]
This spring, the Digital Medieval Studies Institute, a full day of programming on digital scholarly methods for medievalists and pre-modernists, was hosted by Harvard and BC’s McMullen Museum. Several of the workshops were hosted on BC’s campus, including the session on photogrammetry led by Antonio LoPiano. This session took place within the Ricci Institute for […]
On 9th May 2025, Wikimedia UK proudly collaborated with WMLGBT+ and the National Library of Wales on a Trans + History Week Edit-a-thon hosted by Cardiff Central Library. The aim was to celebrate the contributions of Trans people here in Wales by improving the coverage of notable Trans people and events on different Wikipedia projects. […]
The Digital Humanities 2026 (DH2026) Conference will take place in Daejeon, South Korea, from Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31, 2026, under the theme “Engagement”. The event will be hosted by the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) in collaboration with Daejeon Metropolitan City. We look forward to sharing more details soon, including the […]
The Library of Congress launched the By the People crowdsourced transcription program in 2018. Since then, we have invited anyone to volunteer by transcribing Library of Congress digital collections through our online platform, Concordia. Completed transcriptions go back into Library of Congress digital collections on loc.gov to make them keyword searchable and improve accessibility. We […]
The journey to conceptualizing this special issue started in a summer seminar organized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Since 2004, through its postdoctoral fellowship program, CLIR has recruited, trained, and established cohorts of talented researchers steeped in the materials and methods of their disciplines for work in libraries and cultural organizations. […]
Reporting to the Director of Product, Scholarly eBooks, the Product Manager will support the NYPL’s institutional goal to increase the availability of digital content. The Scholarly eBooks initiative seeks to develop more equitable service to those researchers who may not be able to come in person to our reading rooms in New York City. We […]
