Chiara Palladino
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Chiara Palladino
@geophilologist.bsky.social
#digitalhumanities, #classics, ancient geographies, text alignment, #machinelearning, and #Tolkien. Yogi and coffee drinker in my spare time.
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I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.'

We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I guess there is a legitimate concern about credit mechanisms, especially when people spend years curating data and when jobs and funding depend on demonstrating impact. Perhaps we need a serious and honest discussion about attribution mechanisms, beyond paper citations?
July 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Very nice final thoughts:

"Your local community is my global community" #DH2025
July 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reuse of data through interpersonal collaboration and shared projects can change the academic culture. However, data are deeply dependent on research questions and data models - reuse can become a double-edged sword. #DH2025
July 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Matt Gold on ethics & complicity of OA publishing: encouraging students to publish openly their work that may (or will) be monetized and capitalized by the AI industry.

Citation: "Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons." doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons
General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built on massive swathes of public web data, assembled into corpora such as C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma. To our knowledge, we conduct the first, ...
doi.org
July 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM