Harry Hootman created a db of Faxon's print index of British & Am literary annuals for his dissertation, published it on a personal website, and created a boon of info. He passed away unfortunately and his website disappeared but I've got the data. #periodicals #dataethics

Any thoughts? @rs4vp.org @patrickleary.bsky.social @lindseckert.bsky.social @pritijoshi.bsky.social #victorianperiodicals #periodicals

Building a spreadsheet of every pg in 83 vols of literary annuals w/ 300-400pp, 40 to 50 literary texts & 10 to 12 engravings. Stumbled on this engraving in 1833 Forget Me Not. Accompanying short story =ekphrastic rendering of engraving. Never seen a Black woman portrayed in this way in annuals 🤯

ACLS Digital Justice Seed & Development Grants. (Due to ofa.acls.org by 9:00 PM EST on 11/20/25) The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice in digital scholarly practice, contribute to understanding of racial & social justice issues.

Up next: invited to participate on a discussion panel on workforce readiness for #AI in local govt orgs A: Well, hire people not with degrees in "prompt engineering" but instead with liberal arts degrees or community engagement experience Not sure I'm gonna tell them what they want to hear😬

The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...

International conference "Data Ethics for Historical Research in a Digital Era. Critical Reflections and Best Practices" 📍Mainz (Germany)/hybrid event 📆10–12 Nov. 2025 Make sure to register now and be part of the conversation! ➡️ […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

I am so so so thrilled to share that I will be teaching a course on #Voyant and #Spyral at DHSI in Montreal in June 2026, with the lead programming developer of Voyant, Andrew MacDonald. Come, join us in exploring the messy world of textual analysis! dhsi.org/2025/10/01/i... #DigitalHumanities

Taking a year-long sabbatical is HUGE. My 1st step was to upskill my project management leadership methods w/ the @modernlanguage.bsky.social and the #DigitalHumanities Summer Institute. The plan is not the goal. The Goal is the Goal! triproftri.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/s... @rs4vp.org #dh

Taking a year-long sabbatical is HUGE. My first step was to upskill my project management leadership methods with the MLA and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute

@nytimes.com Pls investigate deeper into this charade! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... "AI Advisory Board" has 1 faculty member & 1 student w/rest from tech. Interview CA Faculty Association? or SJSU-CIRCLE initiative faculty? FFS sloppy reporting that shills for the chancellor's office

Recommendation needed: mobile app for photographing small 19c books Gathered airline pts to get myself to the BL to transcribe & photograph 5x 300 quarto pgs on sh*tty newsprint ppr Recs for mobile apps to photograph the vols? VFlat & Adobe Scan already recommended #periodicals @rs4vp.org #dh

began class today with this slide

An incredible talk by @rebekahcummings.bsky.social around the future of libraries: "In Our AI Era" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdf... #dh #digitalhumanities #AI

Surprise fees! Always fun 🙄 My University buried a link to another web page in the travel docs that WE HAVE TO PAY FOR TRAVEL INSURANCE but there's NO opt out. It comes out of grant funds/prof development $ that are already razor thin Hope $170 buys Risk Management an extra stapler 🤯😠

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/

Ok, I'm going to London. Tacking into Germany speaker circuit trip coming up in a couple months. Recommendations for places to stay near the British Library? (Low cost since this is outside my grant funding)

Panel calls for BARS 2026 are up on the blog! - Letitia Elizabeth Landon & the Poetics of Retrospection (convened by Emily Rohrbach) - Repetitions & Innovations in Late German Romanticism (Joanna Neilly) - Creative-Critical Writing & Romantic Studies (Adam Neikirk) www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199

Help: I need photos of *Bengal Annual* 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 & 1836 at @britishlibrary.bsky.social BL isn't doing digital scans for remote patrons, tho a/o in London who mt be able to get to the BL? @rs4vp.org @victstudies.bsky.social @jimmussell.bsky.social

CFP (due 10/15 initial interest) from Journal of Open Humanities Data with Jenny Kwok co-editing this special edition, Benchmarking in #DigitalHumanities openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...

Who's in Germany in Dec? Looks like I'll be giving an update on this project at U of Cologne at their DH Colloquium. Veering so hard into linked open data & data ethics along w/deep archival work on editors' ltrs & chasing down copies of 19c literary annuals. So grateful to v generous colleagues!

Holy shite! A wonderful cataloguer just introduced me to AN ENTIRE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS that I've never visit at the NYPL Schwarzman! In 5 yrs at the Grad Ctr & numerous return visits to NYPL....and they still use paper card catalog to find stuff 🤯🤯 Just blew up my timeline for the next 5 days!

Doing some deep research in the archives about colonial literary annuals in Bengal & found a review of my 2015 book by a librarian which starts out "Harris found her turf early on" which means that this will be a banger of a review in the BSA journal. Some observations (1/+)

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Today was spent wading thru a fab book by Rahul Sagar *To Raise a Fallen People* that resurrects 19c articles from India's periodicals. When my brain is bursting like today, I usually wander down the hallway to visit my wonderful Philosophy colleague, Anand Vaidya. He passed away suddenly Oct 2024 😥

In searching for a family contact for a deceased colleague's family to ensure we can re-purpose his dataset, I bumped into my 2012 post lamenting lack of $$ & time to do what I'm doing now in 2025 😪 triproftri.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/l... Thnx to our #DH center, the dream lives 13 yrs later 🤩

Japan #DH was incredible! Next up, discussing critical cataloging at CA Library Assoc for feedback on the line b/w agnostic vocab & scholarly apparatus = metadata So grateful for ongoing guidance from the community incl @gworthey.bsky.social 🙌 cla2025.eventscribe.net/fsPopup.asp... @rs4vp.org

Wrapped the Japan #Digitalhumanities conf & am so incredibly grateful for this community! Such interesting and engagement people with very poignant and important projects. Thanks for @rs4vp.org for the support from the @patrickleary.bsky.social Field Development Grant award to attend! #dh

As is the thing in Japan, heading to the local Family Mart (or 7-11) to pick up something delicious for dinner before jet lag makes me completely incapable of moving & sends me to be very hungry...

Between these 3 days of incredible presentation at Japan #digitalhumanities , BlueSky #DH & sketching workflows w/ChatGPT (using it for good), this feels more & more like getting my hands dirty into the depths of bigger #dh project than I've ever been able to perform 😍😍🤩🤩🤩 #grateful #dreamproject

Recommendations for automating OCR corrections of scans from 19th print volumes? Transkribus keeps coming up - anyone have experience with this? #dh #digitalhumanities

Intersting ppr on "autofiction": AI and the Self: Autofictional co creation of the “I” by Rimi Nandy, Christ University, India Reminds me of NYT article on AI writing based on Jane Austen www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #dh #digitalhumanities

Intersting ppr on "autofiction": AI and the Self: Autofictional co creation of the “I” by Rimi Nandy, Christ University, India Reminds me of NYT article on AI writing based on Jane Austen www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #dh #digitalhumanities

Day 2: Japan #digitalhumanities #dh conference/colloquium with a full day of very interesting talks. Unsurprisingly, many presenters are focused on people (instead of data), surfacing voices (instead of same old same old), understanding past to uplift the future (instead of accepting imperialism)

Yes, please! Prof dr. Karina van Dalen-Oskam uses of stylometry. Coolest comparision + between authors on story length over time Methods that we can use to assess the development of short stories 1820-1860 eg how did Mary Shelley hone her short story craft via the annuals? #dh #digitalhumanities

@elotroalex.bsky.social I name checked your talk at the outset just in case they thought I was crazy for advocating for ditching Dublin Core (and most controlled vocab). Went well! They are here for the revolution 👀😂😏😉 #dh #digitalhumanities

Well, presentation done! It seems I'm on the rt track with all ethical considerations in this project - including involving SJSU students as collaborators. Very slow progress in design phase for each major component but worth it #japandh #dh #globaldh #digitalhumanities

We begin! Incredibly excited to sit in a #dh conference that *doesn't* privilege English langauge projects & tech. (I'm presenting, but kinda wish I cd just attend & listen & chat = learn) #globaldh Japan Digital Humanities Colloquium jadh2025.hmt.osaka-u.ac.jp/program#h.7y...

Reminder: The Call for Proposals (CFP) for #MSUGlobalDH (April 13-17, 2026) is now open and due October 15 in your timezone! Get those proposals in #DH folks! #digitalhumanities

Presenting on Forget Me Not project today. It's been a *journey* so far! Getting my hands dirty with #criticalcataloguing means wandering into controlled vocabs but also trying @elotroalex.bsky.social call to action to ditch Dublin Core for less imperialist methods #digitalhumanities #japandh

I miss a world where we wrote and engaged with each other about DH in small bites. @dhnow.bsky.social helped create that community and I'm glad it's back. digitalscholar.org/dhnow-and-co...

Getting word that the #NEH grant oppty for #AI #Humanities Research Centers has been quietly nixed (due to budget & staff restrictions / shortfalls per an email) Continues to be sad days for the NEH, but it's making us more determined out here in Cali to keep going & support all we can w/lmtd $

In our perambulations abt #criticalcataloguing, we're rdg from LIS & DH journals. Similar ethos, but differ in disciplinary vocab. Good to see that librarians involved in early formation of #DH got important concepts ingrained into DH foundations. 💖 this cross-disciplinary time of my sabbatical!

Excited to share a new project: launch of Humanities and AI Podcast! 🎙️What does it means to be human in an age of AI? Each episode brings together stories, scholarship & convos at the intersection of technology & the humanities humanities-and-ai-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/wel...

We’re thrilled to be hosting a 4-part fall event series in collaboration with the New York Public Library, exploring the social implications of AI & its impacts on democracy, the environment, & human labor. Learn more and RSVP to attend live in NYC or via livestream! datasociety.net/events/under...

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Calling all #periodicals studies peeps! Has anyone ever seen this database of India's periodicals?! www.ideasofindia.org A colleague sent it to me as I navigate how to study India's print culture from afar - very cool! cc @rs4vp.org

A neighbor (former k-12 teacher) queried me about how the new semester is going. When I said I'm on research leave, she said "oh, you're completely off? vacation?" Me: Um, no, I'm working doing research on a project. Her: Oh, so you're off? 1/2

Calling all #librarians & #cataloguers . We are working on a project that is focusing on #criticalcataloguing . We would enjoy interviewing/speaking w/some cataloguers working in this area. A 15min convo w/my wonderful iSchool research asst. If you have time, please let me know! #bookhistory #dh