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Editors’ Choice: A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again – Dot Porter Digital

Between 2019 and 2022, I also worked on a project called Books of Hours as Transformative Works. If you’re not familiar with the term “transformative work,” it comes out of fandom studies—think of fan fiction or fan art—where people respond emotionally and creatively to something they love. I wanted to apply this framework to Books […]

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Editors’ Choice: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On – Found History

Yesterday I gave a talk on AI and archives at the Colby/Bates/Bowdoin Special Collections and Archives Staff Retreat. Thanks to the staff of the George J. Mitchell Department of Archives and Special Collections and the Bowdoin Library, the amazing Schiller Center for Coastal Studies, where the event was held, and Bowdoin’s Hastings Initiative for AI […]

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Editors’ Choice: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data: A dh+lib Special Issue

Last spring dh+lib published the special issue “Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities,” which featured seven case studies on ways critical making could be integrated into a digital humanities (DH) research practice. This follow-up special issue features concrete ways we can integrate critical making into our (library) instruction. Given the […]

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Editors’ Choice: Datafying Mixed Social Identities: Nonbinarity as the Complementary of Intersectionality

Capturing mixed social identities through categorical data presents significant challenges. Nonbinarity provides a conceptual, computational, and visual framework for reimagining social identities beyond binary oppositions. When applied beyond gender to domains such as language, culture, or ethnicity, nonbinarity reveals the complex and sometimes contradictory ways individuals experience social belonging. In this way, it complements intersectionality […]

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Editors’ Choice: Prompt Anxiety

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: Volunteers Leverage OCR to Transcribe Library of Congress Digital Collections

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: DHQ Special Issue–Digital Sankofa: Understanding the Past and Futures of Black Digital Humanities

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. […]