Programming Historian has released a lesson by Luling Huang (Missouri Western State University), titled “Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python.” The description for the lesson describes how, “Using two news media case studies, this lesson provides a practical guide for making digital humanities research outputs more accessible and engaging.” From ...

TRIDIS (Tria Digita Scribunt) is a Handwritten Text Recognition model trained on and for medieval and Early Modern manuscripts. While trained specifically for legal, administrative, and memorial writings from the Late Middle Ages, it may also be useful for a more diverse range of materials including literature and treatises. The model was originally trained on ...

The Digital Preservation Coalition has released version 2 of The DPC Competency Framework that “builds on previous work on identifying competencies for digital preservation and guidance from key models of good practice to provide a framework” that is accessible for professional development, training, and easy access. Like version 2, the original version contained 5 competency areas ...

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released an updated version of SMILE, Social Media Intelligence & Learning Environment (formerly the Social Media Macroscope). The platform is a free GUI wrapper/application that does not require coding knowledge, for collecting social media data from both the YouTube and reddit APIs, ...

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) has created a new public listserv, which is open to non-ACH members as well. The listserv aims to connect community members, and offers a place for listserv members to post job opportunities, announcements, CFPs, and the like, with each other. Sign-up at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gFRjabvERQwcBrnzKkKTGm19jjLkRrDRb17iPYwKoAA/viewform dh+lib ReviewThis post was ...

Kelda Habing and Lian Ruan (University of Illinois Fire Service Institute) have published a qualitative study on digital humanities practices from seven US academic libraries to provide insights into how varied academic libraries operate their DH programs, in Digital Transformation and Society. Using semi-structured interviews, they highlight practices around space, technology, staffing, instruction, and collaboration. ...

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Research Libraries Guiding Principals for Artificial Intelligence,” a brief values-statement on the use of AI in their policy advocacy and engagement. From the background statement: Articulating a set of research library guiding principles for AI is useful to influence policy and advocate for the responsible development and ...

Mixing up table-top role playing games (RPG) with digital humanities project lifecycles, Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford) created The DH RPG for a course 2020. The resource remains a fun and relevant way to explore and teach project management and ethical collaboration, and explore infrastructures critically. The site includes a guide to play, character building templates, and ...

This week’s editors-at-large nominated “Exploring LLM Weirdness” by Cord, a quiz that requires players to convince Chat-GPT4 to select the right answer in a multiple choice quiz. It serves as an interactive lesson and teaching tool on the limitations of AI in certain scenarios. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a cooperation between Ruth Carpenter, ...

The latest lesson from Programming Historian is “Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer” by Susan Grunewald and Ruth Mostern. The lesson takes the learner through the process of creating a gazetteer from historical texts and then shows how one might leverage the gazetteer’s data using linked open data and GIS. ...

The collaborative, NEH-funded AI for Humanists project (formerly the BERT for Humanists project) creates learning resources aimed at empowering humanities scholars to use machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs) in creative new ways. Adding to its repository of tutorials, primarily for python coding, two new tutorials have recently been published ...