Editors’ Summary: This article highlights the process of turning the Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, c.800–c.1800 into a TEI dataset. The authors demonstrate how the process of encoding the print manuscript, and of converting any print volume to a TEI dataset, involves close reading of the material. The Repertory, originally published in 2022, is […]
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author provides a detailed overview of the functions of the new tool, LLMbench. Berry points to Google PAIR’s LLM Comparator as a useful tool for side-by-side evaluation of models from the perspective of model developers, but the tool lacked the ability to do comparative close reading. LLMbench is a […]
Editors’ Summary: This post responds to a Scholars’ Lab post (“Breadth and Depth, a Self-Centered Dialectic”) that discussed breadth and depth as two approaches to digital humanities professional development. This framing places DH careers on two axes, one where the expectation is to know little about a lot of things and the other where the […]
Editors’ Summary: This post from the Data-Sitters Club provides a helpful orientation to corpus building for newcomers to DH. This is a part of their spinoff series: Data-Sitters Little TL;DR, where they offer key ideas and takeaways for people interested in digital humanities. The post details the legality of using text as data under Fair […]
Editors’ Summary: This paper introduces a new mobile app named “Booksnake” that takes a unique approach toward using immersive technology in the humanities. It allows users to display archival materials virtually through projecting a piece of archival document to the user’s surrounding environment via a phone camera. The authors both present theoretical engagement on how […]
Editors’ Summary: This working paper from the Open Maps Meeting in 2024 showcases the various methodologies and research frameworks adopted by projects involving GIS, spatial mapping, and other technologies. The paper points out that “the digital turn has fostered a spatial one,” which is an important reminder for the DH community to critically engage with […]
Editors’ Summary: This post by the Digital Library Federation addresses misconceptions or inaccurate statements regarding ADA Title II, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disabilities in government programs. Ensuring accessibility is an important topic in Digital Humanities, but many people might not be familiar with the exact steps to implement more inclusive and accessible […]
Editors’ Summary: This article articulates an AI-assisted workflow in developing a Python script to collect information at scale from the Internet Archive (IA) via IA’s API. IA is a large online container of websites, print materials, audios, newspapers, and others. The author correctly identifies a need to share more information about how users could interact […]
Editors’ Summary: This paper uses scientometrics to analyze how AI has been incorporated into university libraries and services to provide information literacy. The authors examine over 1,600 papers or research published between 2020 and 2025. This paper is a helpful overview for academics, especially librarians, to track the different directions and methods that other scholars […]
Editors’ Summary: This article engages with the transition between a dynamic (or dynamic-esque) software, like Tableau, to a more static presentation format, like PowerPoint. However, some of the philosophies mentioned here are transferrable to various types of presentations beyond Tableau and PowerPoint that we are familiar with in DH, including poster design and static website […]
