David Valentine
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Cool article (with all-star quotes) on university archives and record keeping across #CdnPSE. Well worth reading and sharing. universityaffairs.ca/opinion/arch...
Archiving Canada’s universities - University Affairs
How university archivists prepare the past for future researchers.
universityaffairs.ca
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Wonderful event on 30 Oct in London: "Challenging maps and exploration symposium" @rgsibg.bsky.social @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social & co-organised w/ the amazing Sunderland Collection (oculi-mundi.com).

www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

#maps #histsci #skystorians
Challenging maps and exploration symposium
Join us for a day of expert panels discussing the connections, historical and contemporary, between maps and exploration.
www.rgs.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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@roopikarisam.bsky.social is giving a great keynote on multiple fronts, but I really appreciate her calling out the tendency towards going for the latest shiny new toy for analysis just bc it’s new versus solid, traditional methods that work and may be more practical and sustainable #DH2025
July 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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New issue!!! @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are happy to share the March 2025 issue of #ReviewsInDH, a special issue from the DH Unbound conference, edited by Barbara Bordalejo, Emmanuel Château-Dutier, and me. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n3
Vol. 6, No. 3: March 2025 - DH Unbound · Reviews in Digital Humanities
Vol. 6, No. 3 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...
reviewsindh.pubpub.org
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Retrocomputing as an Integral Part of Digital Humanities Practice? | Torsten Roeder | #DH2025
July 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Lot's of cool topics coming up in the session on "Automating Text Processing with LLMs & Data Visualization Tools" at #dh2025...

All talks listed here: https://www.conftool.pro/dh2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=193&presentations=show
DH2025 Lisbon - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
www.conftool.pro
July 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Sabine Lang is presenting her talk "Provenance data as Fair data?!" and shares her experience of teaching FAIR data production in a seminar last winter! 🤩
@sabinelang.bsky.social
@dhssfau.bsky.social
@fau.de
#dh2025
July 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Great to now be at the session on "Semantic Web Technologies for Historical and Cultural Data" at #dh2025! It's all about #wikidata, #lod, #triples, #reconciliation and the like for biographical data, bibliographical data, cultural heritage data, and more!

See the list of presentations here […]
Original post on fedihum.org
fedihum.org
July 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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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!
July 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Inferring Semantic Social Networks from Scientific Texts: The Case of Astrobiology | Christophe Malaterre #DH2025
July 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Gephi Lite: a lighter web based version of Gephi | Alexis Jacomy | #DH2025
July 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
Performant Studio
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
www.performantsoftware.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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- "The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy," by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber.

- And this super-important current preservation project currently led by Hannah: dahvc.org/project/blue...

#DH2025
Blue Devil Herbarium – Duke Digital Art History and Visual Culture Research Lab
dahvc.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Philipp Sauer & Caroline Helm presenting stylish & cool work on
"Event-Based Modeling and Preserving Cultural Heritage of Dance in the DDR": data modeling for choreography & oh-so-ephemeral dance.🤩

Also: ❤️❤️❤️ their cultural history of Late Socialism (memories of my student days in CCCP...)
#DH2025
July 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Using MapReader text spotting feature to understand clusters of maps in the Illustrated London News! #DH2025
July 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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I've given up trying to look through the #DH2025 schedule on Whova, but luckily there's an 'all on one page' version at dh2025.adho.org/browse-the-p...

Sometimes old-fashioned beats engagement-on-steroids
July 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides!
1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. bit.ly/xslt-2025
DIGIT AI for Localized TEI/XML Assistance
A presentation about a small explainable AI project to fine-tune a language model with a graph RAG built with the TEI Guidelines.
bit.ly
July 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Later today at #DH2025: teaching the MapReader workshop w/ @danielwilson.bsky.social & Kaspar Beelen + Rosie Wood remote. And first thing Wednesday we are giving a paper about analyzing text on maps as research data.
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM