This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a two-part post using text analysis to better understand the emotional language of Fatimid Geniza petitions and a post that considers the scholarly utility of ‘vintage LLMs’ such as Talkie-1930. We have also included conferences, job announcements, reports, projects […]
SHARP News is a free, open-access online publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). SHARP is a global scholarly society focused on the histories of material texts. While this sometimes means “book history,” the purview of SHARP is much broader, including the digital transformation of current publishing, the roles […]
The Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Specialist (the Specialist) supports the creation, curation, and long-term preservation of digital projects and collections. The incumbent builds digital collections, collects and promotes the Law School’s intellectual output, develops websites and applications for the Library and the Law School, and works with the Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Librarian […]
The information in the dataset is extracted from newspapers across the region of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles, for the purpose of this dataset, begin with the Virgin Islands, extend south to Barbados, Grenada, and Tobago, and circle west towards Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (see fig. 1). Researchers knowledgeable about Caribbean history will recognize […]
TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for Natural Language Processing, enabling researchers without extensive programming skills to perform sophisticated text analyses through an intuitive graphical interface. TALL integrates state-of-the-art NLP techniques — tokenization, lemmatization, Part-of-Speech tagging, […]
Institutional data is rich, carefully curated and of immense public value, yet it remains difficult to share, connect and reuse at scale. Open knowledge platforms like Wikidata have shown what’s possible when data is structured and collaboratively maintained, but contributing to them remains hard. At the same time, AI-based platforms are rapidly reshaping how knowledge […]
An interview with an academic who has seen their impact up close and personal. Ben Williamson of the University of Edinburgh has been tracking the phenomenon because of a very personal experience with Frankencitations. I asked him some questions about what’s going on and what he thinks we should do about it. See full post.
The Fourth IJCAI Workshop on Computational Fair Division will be co-located with IJCAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany, 15.08.26 – 17.08.26. It will be a full-day workshop. See full post.
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Organized within the CollEx-Persée Digitization program, this conference invites critical, collective and interdisciplinary reflection on the transformations induced by digitization in research practices and scholarly uses. How do choices of corpora, tools or formats shape research practices? What kind of memory of science is thus produced, made visible, or, on the contrary, devalued? What mechanisms […]
