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Job Announcement: Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication Specialist at Boston College

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 […]

News, Projects, Resources

Project: Enslaved Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles, 1760s-1860s

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 […]

News, Resources, Tools

Tool: TALL (Text Analysis for ALL)

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, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: The AI-BRIDGES Symposium: Bridging Institutions, Open Knowledge, and AI

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 […]

News, Reports

Report: Frankencitations Ravage the Academic Countryside

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.

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies

The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Digital Studies program. The fellowship is open to scholars from all […]

News, Reports

Report: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record

In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history. The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at risk—in digital form—of […]

News, Tools

Tool: Manu – Manuscript Annotation & Visualisation

Medieval manuscript research has always required proximity to the object, to the institution, and to the colleagues who share your specialisation. Digital tools can replicate the proximity to the object. The harder problem is replicating the collaborative infrastructure that surrounds archival work: annotation conventions, access management, the handover of notes between researchers, and the long-term […]

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News, Tools

Tool: Sourcery App: Reimagining Remote Research

Need to see archival materials for your research but can’t make the trip? Request scans directly through Sourcery’s web app! Local archive users in more than 40 U.S. cities can return reference-quality scans directly to you. In one dashboard you can request materials at multiple repositories to explore new resources or collect critical materials. No […]