This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an interview about the state of digital and public humanities in Japan and a post that uses computational text analysis to explore the essential vocabulary lists (General Service List). We have also included […]
Our take: The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) aims to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. It hosts annual conferences, awards annual prizes for works of and criticism of electronic literature, hosts online events and has published a series of collections of electronic literature. See source.
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Our take: Programmable Mutter, written by Henry Farrell, Johns Hopkins Professor, is a personal blog that considers AI and technology from a social science perspective, as well as pieces about politics. For readers of DHNow, this blog is a useful resource for current discussions of large language models and computational social science. See source.
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Yuchun Zhang, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and […]
Our take: The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of academic and public libraries, museums, and related institutions. Their in-person meetings and year-round working groups provide opportunities for DLF members to collaborate and get stuff done. Meanwhile, DLF staff and […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article announcing a large-scale decoder model for historical Greek and a discussion of a new open infrastructure toolkit focused on wildfire data. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, reports, and resources, […]
Our take: AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University. This source primarily highlights open access materials and articles related to the ancient world. See source.
Our take: This source is an online magazine, published from Tsukuba, Japan, that highlights digital scholarship on African, Asian, and Middle Eastern spaces and histories. The magazine is run by a team of scholars, librarians, and students, and features many contributors. They describe their use of the term ‘Orientalist’ as follows: “we are making a […]
