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 ...

Quinn Dombrowski has updated A guide to writing DH conference submissions with How to Write an ADHO DH Conference Proposal in 2023 I’ve been the ACH representative to ADHO since summer 2021, and one of the major initiatives that ADHO has undertaken has been to rework the review criteria for the conference. … The goal ...

Ethics in Linked Data, edited by Alexandra Provo (New York University), Kathleen Burlingame (University of Pennsylvania), and B.M. Watson (University of British Columbia), “brings together contributions that explore ethics in linked data initiatives.” The book focuses on the idea that ethics should be at the forefront of consideration when the data is created, pre-existing damage ...

The Programming Historian recently published a new lesson, Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings. Developed by Jonathan Reades and Jennie Williams, this lesson “uses word embeddings and clustering algorithms in Python to identify groups of similar documents in a corpus of approximately 9,000 academic abstracts. It will teach you the basics of dimensionality reduction ...

Given the ongoing deterioration of Twitter as a viable space for the sharing of digital humanities work, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has begun exploring alternatives. Bluesky social has the makings of a viable alternative, but it requires an invitation to join. This form was created to facilitate the sharing of these invitation ...