Editors’ Summary: This piece provides a detailed report on using AI to transcribe manuscripts and the development of standards for transcription of medieval manuscripts. The research team began by creating a uniform database of over 300 medieval manuscripts across many languages. The standardization of this database allowed the corpus to be used to train an […]
Editors’ Summary: In this paper, the authors challenge the field of Digital Humanities’ current reliance on environmentally damaging digital infrastructures. They call for a fundamental transformation of the field through the adoption of an ethics of ecological care. This paper critiques DH’s complicity in extractive practices and digital techno-solutionism, and proposes a potential solution. Their […]
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Douglas A. Boyd introduces an open-source tool for comparing the accuracy of machine-generated transcriptions to determine which is best suited for your project. His tool, the Transcript Accuracy Auditor, compares a machine‑generated transcript to a human‑corrected reference of the same interview and provides a score for WIP (Word Information Preserved) […]
Editors’ Summary: Tiziana Pascuito’s “From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships” uses a case study of Arabic manuscripts to highlight the utility of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, a cultural heritage ontology that allows for dynamic networks. The author demonstrates how traditional approaches classify documents into separate compartments, such as “Astronomy.” Using an ontology based […]
In this paper, we investigate the applicability of linguistic stylometry methods to authorship attribution in music. We compare the use of delta methods involving the the analysis of token frequencies with static embeddings generated by distributional semantic models (Word2Vec and Doc2Vec) for the stylometry analysis of music using a symbolic representation. For this purpose, a […]
Disha suggests using formatting as a screening tool only serves as a barrier to wider participation in academic publishing. Formatting rules for academic journals have been a pain point for academics for decades [Note. a discussion and potential solution for these issues raised on this blog in 2017]. A 2019 study also found that researchers […]
Audrey Witters remembers the creativity of the early web. When she was launching her career in the mid-1990s, being online was more about exploring and having fun than figuring out how to make a return on investment. Witters said if you were curious about someone’s web page, you could simply click to see their code […]
Digital Humanities Now will be taking a break from December 24 until January 7, but before we go, we’d like to take the time to review 2025. DHNow was relaunched this year, after a four-year hiatus, from its new home in Northeastern University Library! The relaunched DHNow is generously supported by Digital Scholar. This relaunch […]
We introduce WOKIE, an open-source, modular, and ready-to-use pipeline for the automated translation of SKOS thesauri. This work addresses a critical need in the Digital Humanities (DH), where language diversity can limit access, reuse, and semantic interoperability of knowledge resources. WOKIE combines external translation services with targeted refinement using Large Language Models (LLMs), balancing translation […]
This fall I facilitated a reading group for the book Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT by Dan Levy and Angela Pérez Albertos. I like that the book is so incredibly practical, with dozens of examples how instructors and students use generative AI to support teaching and learning. The authors are keenly aware that AI use can […]
