Kathy Harris
@triproftri.bsky.social
Director, Public Programming, College of Humanities & Arts + Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed, *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* PI, DH@CSU Consortium. *Forget Me Not: Rise of British Literary Annual 1823-1835* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
Has anyone used VFlat (mobile app) and then transferred those files to @tropy.bsky.social on a Mac?
Think I can export individual files to my Mac from VFlat (but not the folders I so lovingly set up for each volume)
VFlat does very fast text recognition of photos (better than Adobe).
Think I can export individual files to my Mac from VFlat (but not the folders I so lovingly set up for each volume)
VFlat does very fast text recognition of photos (better than Adobe).
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Has anyone used VFlat (mobile app) and then transferred those files to @tropy.bsky.social on a Mac?
Think I can export individual files to my Mac from VFlat (but not the folders I so lovingly set up for each volume)
VFlat does very fast text recognition of photos (better than Adobe).
Think I can export individual files to my Mac from VFlat (but not the folders I so lovingly set up for each volume)
VFlat does very fast text recognition of photos (better than Adobe).
Scanning 4 vols of the Bengal Annual at the British Library that aren't anywhere else (nor digital...nor in the Boyle index) 🤯
VFlat app has been incredibly helpful...looking fwd to playing with auto OCR creation from 15000 literary annual pages 📖📖📖📂
VFlat app has been incredibly helpful...looking fwd to playing with auto OCR creation from 15000 literary annual pages 📖📖📖📂
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Scanning 4 vols of the Bengal Annual at the British Library that aren't anywhere else (nor digital...nor in the Boyle index) 🤯
VFlat app has been incredibly helpful...looking fwd to playing with auto OCR creation from 15000 literary annual pages 📖📖📖📂
VFlat app has been incredibly helpful...looking fwd to playing with auto OCR creation from 15000 literary annual pages 📖📖📖📂
😊 is spending the week at the British Library trying not to get my finge👈👉rs in the photos
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
😊 is spending the week at the British Library trying not to get my finge👈👉rs in the photos
Reposted by Kathy Harris
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
THIS!
Funding at my institution is non-existent.
I'm on a yearlong, half pay sabbatical that took years to save up for. I'm going to every archive possible bc I won't ever be able to do this again before I retire. Bypassing spending months deciphering hw chicken scratch = time returned to me 💖🛎️
Funding at my institution is non-existent.
I'm on a yearlong, half pay sabbatical that took years to save up for. I'm going to every archive possible bc I won't ever be able to do this again before I retire. Bypassing spending months deciphering hw chicken scratch = time returned to me 💖🛎️
And that is the argument, that’s it! It really levels the playing field (even with proprietary commercial solutions with associated costs) in the sense that academics in area where’s flimsy institutional support for this thing can advance project ideas that seemed unconceivable even 3-5 years ago.
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
THIS!
Funding at my institution is non-existent.
I'm on a yearlong, half pay sabbatical that took years to save up for. I'm going to every archive possible bc I won't ever be able to do this again before I retire. Bypassing spending months deciphering hw chicken scratch = time returned to me 💖🛎️
Funding at my institution is non-existent.
I'm on a yearlong, half pay sabbatical that took years to save up for. I'm going to every archive possible bc I won't ever be able to do this again before I retire. Bypassing spending months deciphering hw chicken scratch = time returned to me 💖🛎️
Oh boy...I can't wait to write this into an update! Thx to @dancohen.org for the latest newsletter on @tropy.bsky.social Gemini & deciphering that chicken-scratch that is #19c correspondence!
Exactly rt that this use of gen #AI helps scholars who are time & cash-strapped
Exactly rt that this use of gen #AI helps scholars who are time & cash-strapped
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Oh boy...I can't wait to write this into an update! Thx to @dancohen.org for the latest newsletter on @tropy.bsky.social Gemini & deciphering that chicken-scratch that is #19c correspondence!
Exactly rt that this use of gen #AI helps scholars who are time & cash-strapped
Exactly rt that this use of gen #AI helps scholars who are time & cash-strapped
Also on my sabbatical, I've been organizing our tenants to fight against the predatory practices and extremely delinquent regular repairs in our rent stabilized apt complex. I mean, some elderly tenants have gone w/o heat or functioning stoves FOR YEARS🙈🙅♀️🤯
Feminist organizing FTW 🙌
Feminist organizing FTW 🙌
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Also on my sabbatical, I've been organizing our tenants to fight against the predatory practices and extremely delinquent regular repairs in our rent stabilized apt complex. I mean, some elderly tenants have gone w/o heat or functioning stoves FOR YEARS🙈🙅♀️🤯
Feminist organizing FTW 🙌
Feminist organizing FTW 🙌
For the morning crowd, especially as we continue grapple with #AI in higher ed with the daily deluge of ed tech sales emails
A 2nd update from this yearlong scholarly adventures. Diving into all things #AI including a glorious AI & Humanities non #NEH summer institute, a #GovAI panel on AI workforce, a keynote on resisting the romance of innovation -- but staying focused on my lil' #19c books
#digitalhumanities
#digitalhumanities
Sabbatical Update 2: AI Everywhere
Each time I began drafting this post, the landscape changed: a new report or white paper is released, new research drops, or new economic impact factors are reported for the AI industry. In the past few days, two serious concerns have floated to the top: New paper warns that most of the research on using AI in higher ed is being funded by the AI industry, which is skewing the results and pushing the sales drive for AI even more…
triproftri.wordpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For the morning crowd, especially as we continue grapple with #AI in higher ed with the daily deluge of ed tech sales emails
A 2nd update from this yearlong scholarly adventures. Diving into all things #AI including a glorious AI & Humanities non #NEH summer institute, a #GovAI panel on AI workforce, a keynote on resisting the romance of innovation -- but staying focused on my lil' #19c books
#digitalhumanities
#digitalhumanities
Sabbatical Update 2: AI Everywhere
Each time I began drafting this post, the landscape changed: a new report or white paper is released, new research drops, or new economic impact factors are reported for the AI industry. In the past few days, two serious concerns have floated to the top: New paper warns that most of the research on using AI in higher ed is being funded by the AI industry, which is skewing the results and pushing the sales drive for AI even more…
triproftri.wordpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
A 2nd update from this yearlong scholarly adventures. Diving into all things #AI including a glorious AI & Humanities non #NEH summer institute, a #GovAI panel on AI workforce, a keynote on resisting the romance of innovation -- but staying focused on my lil' #19c books
#digitalhumanities
#digitalhumanities
Story time: Update on this massive data project with these #19c literary annuals. Including as much data as we can for use in Internet Archive, OCLC & Wikidata to create opportunities for all kinds of user and data crosswalks (1/+)
#periodicals @rs4vp.org
#periodicals @rs4vp.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Story time: Update on this massive data project with these #19c literary annuals. Including as much data as we can for use in Internet Archive, OCLC & Wikidata to create opportunities for all kinds of user and data crosswalks (1/+)
#periodicals @rs4vp.org
#periodicals @rs4vp.org
Reposted by Kathy Harris
📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ
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
#periodicals
#dataethics
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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
#periodicals
#dataethics
Any thoughts?
@rs4vp.org
@patrickleary.bsky.social
@lindseckert.bsky.social
@pritijoshi.bsky.social
#victorianperiodicals #periodicals
@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 🤯
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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 🤯
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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 🤯
Reposted by Kathy Harris
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.
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.
ACLS Online Fellowship and Grant Administration System
ofa.acls.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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.
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😬
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😬
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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😬
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😬
Reposted by Kathy Harris
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...
Peterson Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
Each year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship (henceforth, “the Peterson Fellowship”) in the amount of $20,000 to a single research...
rs4vp.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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...
Reposted by Kathy Harris
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]
📍Mainz (Germany)/hybrid event
📆10–12 Nov. 2025
Make sure to register now and be part of the conversation!
➡️ […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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]
📍Mainz (Germany)/hybrid event
📆10–12 Nov. 2025
Make sure to register now and be part of the conversation!
➡️ […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
Reposted by Kathy Harris
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
dhsi.org/2025/10/01/i...
#DigitalHumanities
dhsi.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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
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
The plan is not the goal. The Goal is the Goal!
triproftri.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/s...
@rs4vp.org #dh
Sabbatical Update 1: The plan is not the goal. The goal is the goal
The pursuit of research & scholarship is similar to research & development of my corporate compatriots. But, a sabbatical provides unique moment of respite to create opportunities and follo…
triproftri.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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
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
Sabbatical Update 1: The plan is not the goal. The goal is the goal
The pursuit of research & scholarship is similar to research & development of my corporate compatriots. But, a sabbatical provides unique moment of respite to create opportunities and follow weird throughlines. My first update about sabbatical highlights leadership and project management upskilling for a very specific purpose in the lifecycle of this loose baggy monster
triproftri.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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
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
Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
@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
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
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
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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
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
Reposted by Kathy Harris
began class today with this slide
October 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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
#dh #digitalhumanities #AI
In Our AI Era (Library's Version)
YouTube video by Rebekah Cummings
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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
#dh #digitalhumanities #AI