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/

Ryan posted this over a month ago so I'm a bit late to the party... but hardly a day has gone by since that I haven't listened to one or all three songs: I love them so much! I second the recommendation of "Babbage" for DH folks. Best DH song since that TEI video of Subterranean Homesick Blues.

It's always a pleasure and honor to co-author with Yuerong @yrhu.bsky.social (and of course with @profdownie.bsky.social and @tedunderwood.me as well), and her latest is not to be missed: "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads".

Hi Friends! My coauthors @tedunderwood.me @gworthey.bsky.social @profdownie.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new article in DSH @adho-org.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads". Link in comment:)

Forgot to cc: the excellent @owenmonroe.bsky.social on this repost last week. Congrats again, Owen, and thanks sharing your thoughts on this internship with the community!

cc: @neh-odh.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and @profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Does anyone have examples of a survey for collecting evidence about re-use of research software? Or advice about how to design such a survey? @softwaresaved.bsky.social #DH2025

Here for this moment. What a moment. #DH2025

Next up: Sara Arribas Colmenar on recovering María Lejárraga's forgotten legacy & the choreographic evolution of the Art Theatre trough social network analysis. Maria Lejárraga (1874-1974) was a feminist writer & dramatist associated with the Martínez Sierra Dance Company. #DH2025

I'm honored to be chairing this final paper session of #DH2025, which means that I won't be posting much (can't walk and chew gum at the same time) -- but it's great to have such a robust audience!

"Embracing absence in the digital humanities" presented by Ellen Charlesworth (co-authored with Claire Warwick) on incomplete collections data from UK museums, keeping in mind the geographic, rural/urban, economic differences. How does the digital reinforce and reify digital inequality? #DH2025

What a great, engaging, insightful talk by @artjomshl.bsky.social. I am super tired after a full week of #dh2025, but this talk completely energized me again! #cls

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.

'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

The tech has always been most successful as a means to an end, that should ideally become background. But DH also challenges the STEM/non-STEM dichotomy. I always go to the analogy of astronomy -- squeezing as much as possible from weak, distorted signals from the distant past.

Loving this work from old friends (and new) at @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social: distant-reading highly formulaic college course descriptions to explore how, when, and where “AI” (and “LLM," etc.) concepts appear. What's the semantic field like? Is AI a tool, object of critique, societal phenom? #DH2025

Sayan Bhattacharyya asks: Can we teach DH as *humanities* — and not as some sort of "shadow STEM”? Proposes a new humanities-first meaning for HAC (in the old yack vs. hack supposed dichotomy): Historicization, Analogization, Contextualization. I love this as a new DH pedagogy! #DH2025

Josir Cardoso (Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia) on the ethics of discourse around public science (e.g. Covid vaccines). How to deal with, e.g. far-right discourse a là “The social sciences and humanities produce potheads and communists”? #DH2025

Reflecting on various talks at #DH2025 I'm struck by the number of projects here and elsewhere at the intersection of oral histories and community archives that don't realise they could draw on those fields and digital public history for ethics, workflows and other practices

Renana Keydar and Yael Netzer take deeply admirable care with a (the?) most difficult topic of our times: an "archives of the present" of Oct.7 events. Start with a trigger warning, and acknowledge (and never minimize) the current atrocities in Gaza. 💔 #DH2025

Friendly and fun presentation by @fortefairy.bsky.social of the U.Chicago "Library and Emerging Technologies Summer Camp" ("Let's camp!" 😉) as a gentle introduction to DH and digital scholarship. Realizing a great metaphor for collaboration, they made actual friendship bracelets! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 #DH2025

TaTa Méndez and Emily Abrams Ansari on their work preserving folk songs from their Salvadoran Civil War Digital Music Archive - "Memoria Histórica Sobreviviente en El Salvador de la Posguerra" www.elsalvadormemory.org/music #DH2025

Christina Boyles's and Andy Peterson's new title: “Multilingual Archiving Project: community archiving across languages” -- beginning with a Puerto Rican community repository of disaster response (post-hurricane), both historical and contemporary. Working across languages & geographies. #DH2025

"Stereoscopic journal": a truly beautiful multimodal archive of photos, diaries, and other cultural artifacts presented by Silvia Casavola. Embracing principles of: -Serendipity -Generosity -Criticality and challenging Manovich's warring "database" and "narrative" modes. #DH2025

"A Proposal for the Evaluation and Editing of Digital Academic Objects" by @jonathangp.bsky.social based on Bhaskar's theory of publishing: frames, models, filtering, amplification. The whole proposal (and link to slides) is at itacate.hcommons.org/2025/07/14/a... #DH2025

A big, beautiful, complex conceptual model of how a "story" is manifested in various versions, languages, (parts of) witnesses, etc. by @katkel.bsky.social & @jbcamps.bsky.social. A delicious, nutritious alphabet soup of CRM-CIDOC, FRBR, LRMOO (look 'em all up!) #DH2025

Excited to be a part of this! Join us #dh2025 in 2026! And thank you to @javiercha.bsky.social for the invitation!

The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce a new release of our open-access Extracted Features dataset, a statistical snapshot of: 18,725,868 volumes 6,867,699,164 pages 3,255,304,293,468 tokens 450+ languages go.illinois.edu/EF25 for details & download cc:@hathitrust.bsky.social #DH2025

So much amazing information in this session on TEI and digital editions, I can barely keep up with listening, much less summarizing here! Read these abstracts, you won't be sorry! www.conftool.pro/dh2025/index... #DH2025

Ayano Kokaze on using rich & deep TEI markup to represent editorial intentions, implicit historical perspectives, uncertainty, and other subtle features of "Dai Nihon Shiryō," the essential Japanese collection of historical documents. Another great example of DH markup+interpretation #DH2025

Great #DH2025 talk by @luanamcosta.bsky.social on using CLIP to analyse images of the 'New Woman'. Loved the idea of networks of queries and querying the intersection of 'women working' and 'women in a public space'. Thus far CLIP was good for insights and exploration rather than definitive analysis

Massimiliano Carloni, Timo Frühwirth, Sandra Mayer presenting "Auden in Austria Digital: Formalizing <interp>retation in TEI/XML through RDFa": the perfect DH combo of thoughtful critical / archival / biographical work and profoundly technical questions of interpretation and markup. #DH2025

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

now @paulbarrett1.bsky.social is reporting writing the Routledge Guide to Digital Humanities and Canadian Literature - fascinating work that also talks about emerging and vanishing DH archives #DH2025

Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya, et al. on the "Tolstoy Digital Metaverse" (which would be enough to get me here) -- but wait, there's more! -The unfinished nature of all digital projects -The "biographical illusion" (per Bourdieu) -"What happens after TEI?" from UX to cultural navigation. #DH2025

I really love seeing and hearing how well multilingual sessions are being presented and accepted at #DH2025! Current session: 2 of 3 long talks presented in Portuguese (both w/slides in English); the good-sized audience is fully engaged. Q&A in Spanish & English as needed. Well done, everyone!

Bárbara Romero presenting "Empowering Peripheral Voices: Data Sovereignty and Low-Tech Solutions for Art Galleries Data Preservation" (on behalf of co-authors Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega & Martín Salvachúa) - data curation for contemporary art history in the spirit of minimal computing ❤️ #DH2025

Brave and courteous #DH2025 trooper @mdalmau.bsky.social recorded her outstanding presentation on @peripheralmss.bsky.social while quite ill in her hotel room so as not to infect the rest of us. ❤️ Get well soon, friend.

"Fabulation and Care: What AI, Wikidata, and an XML Schema Can Recognize in Women's Biographies" -- @alisonbooth.bsky.social promises to be as cheekily adversarial to contemporary AI as possible. Interrogating (caringly) metaphors of text "mining," "distant" reading, &c. #DH2025

A lively and refreshingly theatrical Katarzyna Kapitan presents on Old Norse data: "We're basically interested in how lazy we can be..." and using "tiny-tiny-tiny case studies" to evaluate HCR accuracy and possibilities for mss. "How much information are we prepared to lose?" #DH2025

"European Literary Bibliography: Tool for Research on Bibliographical Data on Literature and Literary Science" presented by Vojtěch Malínek & colleagues. Totally geeking out on MARC21, MARC-JSON-LD, VIAF, &c. 📚❤️‼️ #DH2025

Blessed are they who nod at presenters during presentations, for they shall be nodded at in turn. (This is to say, thank you to everyone who came to my and @ferranet2.bsky.social's presentation at #DH2025 this morning, and were nodding along and making me feel validated in my work!!)

So many great #DH2025 posters, so little (lunch)time! Really remarkable collection of excellent work.

Janos Borst: "Scalable Viewing of Visual Media in 19C German Children’s Books" based on "Buchkindheiten digital" project leuris.uni-leipzig.de/portal/detai.... Auto-identification and classification of specific children's activities (playing, reading, writing, learning) in illustrations. ❤️ #DH2025