I am so happy to see this finally come to light! Digital Classicists are making enormous progress towards a better understanding of Pausanias, which was sorely needed for so long. Exciting work @charlespletcher.org!

May you “rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill“ — Círdan

Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025

Currently at the Swedish Institute in Athens for the soft launch of www.periegesis.org/en/, which provides raw data of Pausanias's places, objects, people and events; side-by-side enriched texts in ancient Greek and English; maps and network graphs; and links to global authorities, e.g. Wikidata

Oh hey, it's me! Very excited to finally launch this project in partnership with @wikimediauk.bsky.social, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. If you produce or work with cultural heritage 3D data in UK I'd love to speak with you! Links in thread 👇

By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me) 1. Best anthology "All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.

JOB!!!! 📣 Cultural Heritage experts / Antiquists, consider applying for the exec directorship at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley.

An impressive programme for Linked Pasts 11 this year, all remote. Sign up for these really exciting sessions!

We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...

💥 PhD applications are now open! 📚 Study across the whole spectrum of Classics: literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, digital humanities, classics education, reception, public policy... 👉 Learn more here: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6 🏛️ Departmental research strengths: tinyurl.com/32yavda6

It's OUT!! Our chapter in Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics, edited by Anna Foka and Clelia LaMonica. In very good company among the best scholars in the field. www.routledge.com/Evolving-Per...

I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.' We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!

💥 Submit your manuscript! 👩🏫 Dr Chiara Palladino is one of the editors of the new collection 'From bits of history to bytes of data: AI and the study of the ancient Near East – Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications' 👉 Learn more here: www.nature.com/collections/...

Also, if you are a scholar of the Ancient Near East, consider sending us your stuff! It will be published in our edited collection for Nature: www.nature.com/collections/...

Second week of travel of a busy September, I am at the great Bytes&Bygones conference as a complete intruder, but with good friends. Incredible organization and such an honour to be here. www.bab.ugent.be

We just released IMMARKUS 1.0 - our first full release! An open-source tool for semantic image annotation: multi-image workbench, AI-powered selection tools, ontology builder, knowledge graph, #IIIF support. Runs fully local–no login, no-signups, no data sent to the cloud! 👉 immarkus.xmarkus.org

I have officially arrived at the office 😆

W00t! Three fantastic people, who now make @durhamclassics.bsky.social one of the premier centres for digital classics in the world. #DigiClass

Almost forgot! There are some news...

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

Join us why don't you :-)

#TEIFriday I've been looking at recommendations for the most interchangeable way to encode interoperability data from person datasets in TEI XML (which in some contexts is more useful and feasible than using RDF). Starting with first couple lines of code in this thread.

Please share! We're trying to crowd-source a dataset of post-1929 novels with maps.

Over the weekend I drew these two subway maps for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and shared them. A lot of you asked about purchasing them, and now you can! You can buy one or both (as digital files or as prints) at my brand new Etsy shop: surprisedeelmaps.etsy.com

For all students and scholars facing a deadline, you are not alone. Tolkien wrote to his son, Michael, on 1 March 1939: "I am going off to Scotland on Monday night or Tuesday morning, & have not written the infernal lecture yet. Not much bed for me between then and now, I fear"

Locations for next ADHO conferences: 2026 : Daejeon, South Korea 2027: Galway, Ireland 2028: Capetown, South Africa ! dh2026.adho.org #dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

This is super important. In several instances at #DH2025, I've heard colleagues say that newer releases of ChatGPT have gained domain expertise in their subfield—probably because OpenAI scraped and absorbed open data refined and curated by specialists from GitHub and HuggingFace. No credits given.

Matt Gold on ethics & complicity of OA publishing: encouraging students to publish openly their work that may (or will) be monetized and capitalized by the AI industry. Citation: "Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons." doi.org/10.48550/arX... #DH2025

'Rethinking the Ethics of “Open” in the Shadow of AI' :: a eye-poppingly important and panel with @medievalben.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @filipa-calado.bsky.social Ben situates the panel by first proposing "shadow" rather than "age" of AI to defang it a bit #DH2025

Impressive how complementary conversations are going on at two different panels at the same time.... #DH2025

@tolonen.bsky.social at open language data panel at #DH2025: researchers have to prioritize the research questions. Scalability, expressed as interoperability, standards, data sharing are infrastructure tasks. Data publications, data releases should not be byproducts but actual outputs.

We're now on Mastodon! You can find the official account for DH2026 Daejeon at the link below. Please give us a follow for the latest news and updates. We look forward to connecting with you there! #DH2026 mastodon.social/@dh2026daejeon

Oh! Cool talk and important task, but in this case, it turned out that all general LLMs performed better than the fine-tuned, task-specific, language-specific LLMs for NER in Urdu, in this talk at #dh2025 on "Leveraging LLMs for NER Task on Historical Literary Data in Urdu as a Low-Resource […]

Perspectivism can be an interesting option to explore: pdai.info

CVS prints tiny posters… but we are here! #DH2025 @aboutgeo.bsky.social working in the background to make the chatbot available soon… More at machina.rainersimon.io

Great talk by Marcela Isuster presenting on the challenge of open data 🤩 #dh2025

The SentAnno corpus at #DH2025 github.com/lucijakrusic...

Coming up at the poster session later today...... #DH2025

Lots of computational research w/historical maps & views at #DH2025 from Rob Nelson, Bethany Warner & @thomassmits.bsky.social, @stesantschi.bsky.social & H. Panday, @s-alvanides.bsky.social & UrbanMetaMapping, Doruk Şen et al. (+ @danielwilson.bsky.social & me!). Great to see this field growing!

#DH2025 A modest proposal for all future DH conferences: badges must always be printed two-sided. (Because the chance your name is facing forward is about the same as inserting a USB stick the right way: somehow even <50%.). 😉

Gephi Lite is great, it allows for a direct import of character network data from #DraCor, included in our "Tools" tab. Try the German "Hamlet" translation (Schlegel/Tieck edition 1843/44): dracor.org/id/gersh0000... (Especially love the "Guess settings" option for ForceAtlas2 layouting!) #DH2025

Image annotation with LLMs is a big trend at #DH2025. Work being done across several projects, including our humble poster tomorrow, featuring work on emblem classification and RAG with Michela Vignoli at AIT and @aboutgeo.bsky.social.

Looking forward to hearing "Exploring the “Great Unseen” in Medieval Manuscripts: Instance-Level Labeling of Legacy Image Collections with Zero-Shot Models" next from Christofer Meinecke, Estelle Guéville, and David Wrisley #DH2025

Pelagios is proud to count Performant & Rainer as Partners. Together, we are trying to build methods/tools for annotating & structuring data "in the round", where different Partners contribute knowledge, resource and/or funding, towards distributive resilience. Join our community of practice #dh2025

How do Lake District Narratives represent space? Most distances are narrated in a more or less realistic way but some seem to be closer or more distant from the text – a wonderful way to digitally analyse how narrative space can differ from actual space #DH2025 (preseted by Ignazius Ezeani)

And now our @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and Dhara Lechner presenting on editorial shifts in the Grimm brothers‘ tales! Focusing especially on the relation between speech acts and gender 🤩🤩 Such an exciting project!!! #dh2025 @dhssfau.bsky.social

6 flights, 72hrs of travel, a technical issue, a cancelled trip, a lost bag, and about 5hrs of sleep later, I have arrived in Lisbon! #DH2025

Macro-visualisation of the alignment between Melville's "Moby Dick" and the first German translation from 1927. Omissions in translations are one of the things that can be made visible through the work of the COMUTE project. We're experimenting with all kinds of language pairs. #DH2025

Check out my student’s poster at #DH2025! It will flaunt this amazing logo designed by @aboutgeo.bsky.social

As I'm tinkering on a small chatbot project on the side, I'm wondering: there must be real potential for chat-based inquiry on annotation corpora, eg. #IIIF collections. (Maybe more for AV than still images?) Are there any projects doing this already? Would love to try it on a real-world dataset...