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Editors’ Choice: Validity and Verifiability: Toward a Hybrid Framework for Evaluating Digital Humanities in India

Editors’ Summary: This article examines how DH scholarship in India is often undervalued because traditional systems value print-based research over digital, collaborative or public-facing work. Digital Curation, Metadata Creation, Multilingual Platform building are serious forms of intellectual labour that get overlooked in University Grants Commission frameworks. Within global debates of DH and local realities, this […]

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Editors’ Choice: Digital Literacy Strategies to Prepare Incarcerated Students for Education and Work

Editors’ Summary: Here it is argued that digital literacy is not a luxury for incarcerated students but it is a basic requirement for meaningful education, employment, and social reintegration after release. In a world where applying for jobs, accessing services and learning is increasingly dependent on the digital, people in prisons are often left at […]

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Editors’ Choice: Futzing with Newspaper OCR

Editors’ Summary: Shawn Graham’s post describes an exploratory text analysis project using agentic coding and newspapers. He used Claude to help determine whether his local paper reported on the Jack the Ripper murders. The most difficult part of the entire process was the OCR of the newspapers, and he discusses the difficulties he encountered with […]

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Editors’ Choice: Marimo Notebooks

Editors’ Summary: In this post, Zach Butler highlights features of Marimo Notebooks, and demonstrates how Marimo is an improvement over Jupyter Notebooks. He points out how difficult Jupyter notebooks are to track by git, making version control and collaboration difficult. Unlike Jupyter notebooks, Marimo notebooks are actual Python files. The interface of the notebook opens […]

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Editors’ Choice: Common Threads

 Editors’ Summary: This post uses data visualizations to analyze the way that musical motifs are used by musicals to further the storytelling. For the purpose of the study, the author defines motifs as melodic motifs that are sung. She demonstrates how musicals rely on motifs to create structure and meaning , especially when there is […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature

Editors’ Summary: This paper uses geocoding to study 19th century Russian literature. The authors extracted location data using NER to quantitatively measure the literary “transition from romanticism to realism.” This paper is a helpful reference for readers who want to combine quantitative methods with historical periodization.  See full post.

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Editors’ Choice: Designing Mars: Transforming Scientific Data Into Human Understanding

Editors’ Summary: Rhea Shukla’s work combines graphic design seamlessly into data processing and visualization. This project reminds us about visual accessibility: information needs to be made easy for members of the public (and not just for academics) to grasp and understand. This is where skills in graphic design, UI/UX development, and user research come into […]

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Editors’ Choice: CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: A New Tool to Measure Machine-Generated Transcript Accuracy: The Transcript Accuracy Auditor

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) […]

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Editors’ Choice: From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives

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 […]