This report is a call to action. Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate […]
An open-source photographic showcase and browser lab for regularized RGB decorrelation stretch. It includes a searchable database of 675 photographs, including 177 textiles, a 91-target painted-surface guide, and an open community photo collection. The public source repository contains the portable app and processing tools. See full post.
Human-AI interaction for digital humanities and cultural heritage. A full-day workshop bringing HCI and AI researchers together with the people who keep the world’s memory: the digital humanities and the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums). See full post.
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay arguing for the importance of crowdsourcing and participatory projects for GLAM work and an article assessing how effective automated quality assurance is for web archives. We have also included announcements, reports, resources, and tools, including a zine […]
Nightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society (DVS). It features high-quality articles covering many of the applications of data visualization—including history, sports, how-to, best practices, and any other aspect or implementation of visual information design we find compelling. The journal covers everything from personal stories to exploratory research to interviews with community thought […]
The Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA) is a searchable digital platform hosting approximately 1,000 hours of testimonials from the first generation of Palestinian refugees who fled Palestine during Nakba (“the catastrophe”). The primary focus of the archive is centred on the personal narratives surrounding the Nakba, and life accounts in the pre-1948 Palestinian era. The […]
Neruda Archives is an independent cultural archive dedicated to historical letters, documents and traces of correspondence, mainly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The physical originals are privately held, while selected records and research materials are made publicly accessible. See full post.
A 23-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti. DIY Web Archiving shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!). Based on the 11/25/2024 virtual workshop co-sponsored […]
Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes. See full post.
epub-blocks is a dependency-free Python library for reproducibly extracting ordered, structured text blocks from EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 files. A declarative recipe selects an edition’s XHTML, assigns block types, and generates stable identifiers without edition-specific Python code or a pre-existing output table. See full post.
