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Resource: Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots, inspired by AI agent Velvet Vale’s email to the AoIR mailing list

Our take: In “Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots,” Jill Walker Rettberg responds to an AI agent called Velvet Vale that introduced itself on Air-L, the mailing list of the Association of Internet Researchers, and sparked a lively debate about consent and research ethics. She connects the episode to a recent offer of […]

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Resource: StarTarot English RWS Historical Meanings and Golden Dawn Correspondences

StarTarot English RWS Historical Meanings and Golden Dawn Correspondences gives one structured record for each of the 78 cards of the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck. Each record combines A. E. Waite’s upright and reversed divinatory meanings from Part III of The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911; text of the 1922 reprint), with his “additional meanings” […]

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Resource: Digital Roofs: an iDAI.field Configuration and Guideline

This dataset was created within the framework of the Digital Roofs project (2020–2025), a research initiative of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The project focuses on the development and evaluation of methods and technologies for the high-quality digital documentation and publication of large quantities of archaeological roof tile finds. Ancient roof tiles, particularly from Greek […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Resource: DIY Web Archiving

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 […]

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Resource: Planning XR projects for cultural heritage

Editors’ Summary: “Planning XR projects for cultural heritage” is an introductory course that provides a foundation for understanding XR and its applications in cultural heritage, developed as part of the EUreka3D-XR project. Aimed at Cultural Heritage professionals, XR-focused project managers and coordinators, educators, researchers and enthusiasts of XR, the course explores the core concepts of […]

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Resource: Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine

Editors’ Summary: In “Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine,” a French-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Pascal Martinolli provides a tutorial on using OpenRefine to enrich a set of research data with other linked data from external sources such as Wikidata. OpenRefine can be used for a process called “reconciliation” or “alignment” […]