Today on the blog, librarian Erin Winter explains how recent updates to the London Stage Database could help you discover new connections between people, performances, and dramatic works! blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/... #digitalhumanities #dh #18thc #18c #theaterhistory #theatrehistory

I gave a keynote at the #glamlabs conference in Edinburgh today. I'll post the fulltext on my blog in a few days, but here's the slides: https://slides.com/wragge/glam-labs-2026 #glam #digitalhumanities

Erika Bailey and Lauryn Cole’s article, “Reimagining the Tacoma Community History Project with CollectionBuilder”, describes the work of a small team with limited resources to serve its community. #collectionbuilder #UWTacoma #DigitalHumanities #DHSI doi.org/10.7202/1124...

Start of the conference “AI through History, History through AI” with a thought-provoking keynote by Prof. Dr Anna Neovesky ℹ️ Programme and link to join online: www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... @ghiwashington.bsky.social #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities

This is a very good online introduction to prosopography for beginners by @jubalbarca.bsky.social. It identifies some central concerns, such as disambiguation and data collection issues around identity, and the importance of scoping projects. #dh #digitalhumanities campus.dariah.eu/resources/ho...

‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our book on Automated/Handwritten Text Recognition is out and it is open access :). bielefelduniversitypress.de/publikatione... #htr #atr #digitalhumanities

#tornado #londont #ntp The Northern Tornadoes Project and Environment Canada will likely conduct damage surveys over the next day or two to determine whether the damage came from: * a tornado, * a downburst / straight-line winds, * or another severe wind event

He approved
of the change proposed in the Dining of
attendants in the patients Dining rooms—
and having the present one turned into a
reading & recreation room for attendants use— Inspector left by 4.30 train for Toronto #1895Diary

This is a beautiful morning thermometer 56°. winds are strong from the East. Dr Bucke attending Court in the Dunn case. Mr Robert Reid, Collector of Customs, came up… about entertaining the Gen Assembly Presby Ch. which meets here in June. #OnThisDay #1895Diary #CanadianHistory #LondonOntario

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

1May1895. Fine bright morning wind high from the East. temperature 52 degrees. Dr Bucke at Court all day in the Dunn case... Spoke to Amos Duval about the vacancy of Smallmans… I will miss him greatly but if it will be a benefit to him I am willing to put up with it. He has a large family.

To improve literacy, Ontario should invest in students and educators theconversation.com/to-improve-l...

I did a thing! (with Collection builder, an open source tool for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that are driven by metadata and powered by modern static web technology.) bibliojo.github.io/Ty-Paterson/

Heartbreaking

In other words: 1. The purported revolution of AI and LLMs on learning is, at best, taken with a bucket of salt. Many studies show negative effects. 2. Neither policies nor curricula should be designed in favour of them. 3. Facebook effect: Research suffers from echo chamber of group self-cites.

For #LoveData26 week, #ICYMI for 2 free data advocacy zines: "DIY Web Archiving" to protect data (& other online things!) you care about 🔗⬇️, & a #datarescue zine documenting the recently removed Nat'l Park exhibit on the people Washington enslaved zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen...

And btw, the CFP for English-language @proghist.bsky.social is now open! 🌍 Want to translate and/or localize this or another lesson? 📩 You can send your proposal by 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities Learn more: tinyurl.com/open-call-20...

🚨 Tropy llega a @proghist.bsky.social en español de la mano de uno de sus creadores, @dvmcrae.bsky.social ✨ Aprende a utilizar Tropy para gestionar esas cientos de fotografías que tomas en los archivos y así sacar mayor provecho de ellas. Lee y comparte: doi.org/10.46430/phe... 1/2

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, COMPOSITION WITH RED, BLUE, AND YELLOW (1930) 🎨 🖼️ Piet Mondrian’s most iconic painting is Neoplasticism in refined form with primary colors, black lines, & asymmetrical balance distilled to essentials. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

Fake doi-like string providers? www.doi.org/more-info. I initially expected this to be about LLMs making up dois.

I love all the music making this time of year but whew, it can be a bit hectic. Awoke from a stress dream: wrong mouthpiece, wrong instrument, wrong music 😬 Guess that’s my cue that I’m glad the season is over for this year and I get a little breather. Happy holidays, everyone 💜🎶

Challenges in digital preservation an example

This is a good note to end the week. The plight of @britishlibrary.bsky.social has been picked up in @nature.com’s influential daily briefing. Thanks everyone (including @floragraham.bsky.social) who is getting the word out there about our national library us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...

@Westernu Call for proposals #Day of DH rsc.lib.uwo.ca/s/dayofDH/pa...

Manitoba Opera Opens Season with Puccini's Political Thriller 'Tosca' www.chrisd.ca/2025/11/21/m...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Unser #ToolTuesday geht am 25. November in die nächste Runde: Mit den Expert:innen vom #StabiLab könnt ihr etablierte Verfahren der #DigitalHumanities kennenlernen und ausprobieren. Vorkenntnisse nicht nötig! Dieses Mal zeigen wir euch die Automatische Texterkennung 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/tool-...

AI research interfaces, oral-history transcription, big text corpora, linguistic geodata — today’s DH Day at @unipotsdam.bsky.social showed just how wide the #DigitalHumanities spectrum in Potsdam really is. Full program (in 🇩🇪): www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-h...

@ariellesbindery.bsky.social #dhmakes students engaging with manuscripts before heading to the creation suite to make their own illuminated letter @westernulibs.bsky.social

Vaccine better than COVID for kids’ hearts A huge study of health data in England has found the risk of serious, but very rare, vascular and inflammatory conditions in children was lower after COVID-19 vaccination than after being infected with the disease itself.

@bsky.app Bemoaning the fate of LoudCrow interactive books on the iPad; a digital preservation challenge: jojoagogo.neocities.org/posts/2025-1...

Sad to be saying goodbye to Belfast after a brilliant two-day workshop exploring AI in visual and textual analysis, organised by the Digital Scholarship Hub at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social - huge thanks to the organisers for the invitation to present our #MapReader LCCM work #digitalhumanities

Our librarian Jo Paterson (@bibliojo.bsky.social, top right) on CBC Afternoon Drive! Blue Jays fan, former catcher, trumpet player—and her London Concert Band rehearses in Jays gear. Listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... Tonight's the night! Let's go Blue Jays! 🎺⚾ #westernu #bluejays

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... Go blue jays!!

Join me, Ray Siemens @gworthey.bsky.social for our #digitalhumanities leadership seminar @ 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. For a/o curious about or already in leadership around & about #DH! dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f... Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY... Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/

My blog post reporting on testing the use of agentic AI (the Fellou.ai browser) to start a research project on gathering definitions of the humanities: “Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI” (liu.english.ucsb.edu/humanities-d...).

Open-source portable solar power supply for plasma generators @digital-science.com 🦋 app.dimensions.ai/details/publ...

Jo’s Jots: bibliojo.neocities.org I'm learning to code websites with neocities. Relivining the glory day of Geocities! this is a dog's breakfast of crazy, but I'm having fun! drop me a note :0)

Identifying established human placental markers of schizophrenia in rodents after gestational ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure† url: academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

Fun trip #memory #whimsy

👥 Want to get out to more #GLAMA, #GIS, or #DigitalHumanities events in 2025? We keep a list of upcoming conferences here: humap.me/blog-community/eve... Have an event you'd like us to add? Comment, DM, or email us at [email protected] and we'll add it to the list.

JJ and I did a thing. "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs. Info/Download/PoD: freegovinfo.info/pgi #digitalpreservation #govinfo #FDLP