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Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Data Science in Data and Society

The University of Virginia School of Data Science is seeking exceptional candidates for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with particular emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs). This search prioritizes faculty making foundational and methodological contributions that improve the understanding or capabilities of language models. We seek a scholar […]

News, Resources

Resource: Creating and Hosting Basic IIIF Images and Manifests Using GitHub

This lesson demonstrates how to display and share image files on the web using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Github Pages. After explaining how to create and host IIIF manifests, this lesson walks through the creation of IIIF-compliant images using three different methods, ranging from beginner to advanced levels of difficulty. See full […]

News, Reports

Report: shared vector embeddings

Aaron Straup Cope recently attended this year’s Fantastic Futures conference, in Washington DC, and spoke about SFO Museum’s efforts to encourage and promote the practice of publicly shared vector embeddings, by and for the cultural heritage sector.  See full post.

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator at Library of Virginia

The Library of Virginia seeks a Born-Digital Collections Coordinator to lead agency-wide planning and technical management of its born-digital government and manuscript records. As part of the Digital Initiatives & Web Services division, the ideal candidate will bring a collaborative and intellectually curious spirit to the development of the proper policies, procedures, technologies, and documentation […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2027

The 12th Global Digital Humanities Symposium is delighted to return, with events across countries and modalities in mid-May 2027. Michigan State University continues as host and is partnering with the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, as a lead into their annual DH@Guelph Summer Workshops. We invite work at the intersections of critical DH that engages […]

News, Reports

Interview: Where Are the Hypertexts Now? Mark Bernstein on Storyspace, Eastgate, AI, and the Future of Electronic Literature

Mark Bernstein is a visionary in hypertext and electronic publishing. He founded Eastgate Systems, the first publisher of electronic literature, in 1982, to advance nonlinear, intertwingled storytelling and thought through creating tools, publishing non-linear works, authoring peer-reviewed scholarly articles, fostering discourse, and much more. In this interview, Mark Bernstein reflects on hypertext, electronic literature, Storyspace, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Management of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Metadata

Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) often have specialized workflows and metadata management requirements due to factors such as varied ingest methods and inconsistent source metadata. This blog post features descriptions of ETD metadata management from three institutions in the United States, outlining the systems, tools, and workflows used to process and provide access to ETDs […]

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Video: How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, but also consistently alter the intended meaning. First, we conduct a human user study to understand how people actually interact […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Assistant/Associate Professor, History of Artificial Intelligence at Rice University

The Department of History in the School of Humanities and Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas, seeks applicants for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in the history of artificial intelligence, broadly conceived. A PhD or equivalent degree in History or a closely related field is required by the time of appointment. The area […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Special Collections Metadata Librarian at University of Rochester

Under the direction of the Metadata Operations Librarian, the Special Collections Metadata Librarian leads the creation of bibliographic descriptions for materials in all formats, including books, maps, broadsides, audiovisual materials, continuing resources, and manuscripts with an emphasis on materials acquired or held by Rare Books & Special Collections and Preservation (RBSCP) at the River Campus […]