Amalia S. Levi, PhD
@amaliasl.bsky.social
Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
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Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...
February 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...
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The Weekly Read is "Indigenous Archives" by Floridalma Boj Lopez, which analyzes the modes through which young Mayas in Los Angeles and Guatemala make sense of and respond to transnational structures of settler colonialism. Read the entire book for free now thanks to TOME!
buff.ly/BTvGoKo
buff.ly/BTvGoKo
February 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The Weekly Read is "Indigenous Archives" by Floridalma Boj Lopez, which analyzes the modes through which young Mayas in Los Angeles and Guatemala make sense of and respond to transnational structures of settler colonialism. Read the entire book for free now thanks to TOME!
buff.ly/BTvGoKo
buff.ly/BTvGoKo
Digitization in countries beyond Europe and North America is often a fine balance between standards and realities on the ground.
Several institutions provide digitization guidelines (and grants) that have been developed for projects in such locations.
Here I point to some:
Several institutions provide digitization guidelines (and grants) that have been developed for projects in such locations.
Here I point to some:
February 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Digitization in countries beyond Europe and North America is often a fine balance between standards and realities on the ground.
Several institutions provide digitization guidelines (and grants) that have been developed for projects in such locations.
Here I point to some:
Several institutions provide digitization guidelines (and grants) that have been developed for projects in such locations.
Here I point to some:
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now available — the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social (3rd printing) www.weherepress.org
February 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM
now available — the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social (3rd printing) www.weherepress.org
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Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30
www.history.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30
Beautiful public outreach! Academic research on archival material "transformed into a series of stunning musical arrangements on stage."
'What a brilliant night! Wills: dry, formal, boring? This was story telling at its best: intriguing, engaging, human!’
In this new blog post, find out what happened when Chris Hoban and his band, The Executors, played to a packed house in Topsham
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#EarlyModern 🗃️
In this new blog post, find out what happened when Chris Hoban and his band, The Executors, played to a packed house in Topsham
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#EarlyModern 🗃️
February 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Beautiful public outreach! Academic research on archival material "transformed into a series of stunning musical arrangements on stage."
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We’re thrilled to launch the BlueSky page for CONTACT
🧪We are using radiocarbon, isotopes, DNA & historical analysis to map the timeline of Norse expansion into North America. Follow along!
A 5-year ERC-funded project @rug.nl
#Norse #Archaeology #NorthAtlantic #Research
🧪We are using radiocarbon, isotopes, DNA & historical analysis to map the timeline of Norse expansion into North America. Follow along!
A 5-year ERC-funded project @rug.nl
#Norse #Archaeology #NorthAtlantic #Research
February 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
We’re thrilled to launch the BlueSky page for CONTACT
🧪We are using radiocarbon, isotopes, DNA & historical analysis to map the timeline of Norse expansion into North America. Follow along!
A 5-year ERC-funded project @rug.nl
#Norse #Archaeology #NorthAtlantic #Research
🧪We are using radiocarbon, isotopes, DNA & historical analysis to map the timeline of Norse expansion into North America. Follow along!
A 5-year ERC-funded project @rug.nl
#Norse #Archaeology #NorthAtlantic #Research
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My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you
Merovingian cursive:
Merovingian cursive:
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you
Merovingian cursive:
Merovingian cursive:
"Newer inks on the palimpsest’s top layers contained more iron, whereas those used to transcribe Hipparchus’s catalog a few hundreds of years earlier left a calcium-rich residue that researchers zeroed in on with the x-ray imagery."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost...
Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time
www.scientificamerican.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:11 PM
"Newer inks on the palimpsest’s top layers contained more iron, whereas those used to transcribe Hipparchus’s catalog a few hundreds of years earlier left a calcium-rich residue that researchers zeroed in on with the x-ray imagery."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost...
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I can finally share the happy news 🚀 liiive.now — my tool for real-time collaborative annotation of #IIIF images — is going open source!
First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive
Self-hosted setup coming by end of February.
#OpenSource #DigitalHumanities
First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive
Self-hosted setup coming by end of February.
#OpenSource #DigitalHumanities
January 30, 2026 at 9:35 AM
I can finally share the happy news 🚀 liiive.now — my tool for real-time collaborative annotation of #IIIF images — is going open source!
First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive
Self-hosted setup coming by end of February.
#OpenSource #DigitalHumanities
First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive
Self-hosted setup coming by end of February.
#OpenSource #DigitalHumanities
The Atlas of Digital Damages "is a staging area for collecting visual examples of digital preservation challenges, failed renderings, encoding damage, corrupt data, and visual evidence documenting #FAILs of any stripe."
www.flickr.com/groups/21217...
www.flickr.com/groups/21217...
The Atlas of Digital Damages
Prompted by a blog post by Barbara Sierman, this space is a staging area for collecting visual examples of digital preservation challenges, failed renderings, encoding damage, corrupt data, and visual...
www.flickr.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The Atlas of Digital Damages "is a staging area for collecting visual examples of digital preservation challenges, failed renderings, encoding damage, corrupt data, and visual evidence documenting #FAILs of any stripe."
www.flickr.com/groups/21217...
www.flickr.com/groups/21217...
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The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
January 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
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Haven't checked out the #Sinners syllabus yet? Well, w/ a record of 16 Oscar nominations, it's high time to do so! bsky.app/profile/disc...
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Haven't checked out the #Sinners syllabus yet? Well, w/ a record of 16 Oscar nominations, it's high time to do so! bsky.app/profile/disc...
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How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world?
On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
January 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM
How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world?
On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
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Our latest report— Implementing Mission Barbados: A roadmap for state transformation—co-authored with Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley shows how Barbados is working to align finance with national goals around six missions.
Read the report ➡️ buff.ly/3Xk7nHB
Read the report ➡️ buff.ly/3Xk7nHB
January 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Our latest report— Implementing Mission Barbados: A roadmap for state transformation—co-authored with Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley shows how Barbados is working to align finance with national goals around six missions.
Read the report ➡️ buff.ly/3Xk7nHB
Read the report ➡️ buff.ly/3Xk7nHB
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brilliant article about dispersed, displaced, lost and destroyed collections and the strange combination of emotional, affective, technical and administrative language used to describe them
Looted libraries : Politics, Memory, and German- Polish Entanglements
@European Review of Books: europeanreviewofbooks.com/looted-libra...
@European Review of Books: europeanreviewofbooks.com/looted-libra...
Looted libraries - The European Review of Books
« In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »
europeanreviewofbooks.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
brilliant article about dispersed, displaced, lost and destroyed collections and the strange combination of emotional, affective, technical and administrative language used to describe them
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What is supervised learning? Why should it matter to digital humanities practice? And, most importantly, why should historians get involved in the process?
Brief answers are offered at the link below:
#digitalhumanities #AI #research #socialhistory #history #academia
Brief answers are offered at the link below:
#digitalhumanities #AI #research #socialhistory #history #academia
Q&A: Historians, Digital Humanities with an AI focus — Colourful Histories
colourfulhistories.squarespace.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:28 PM
What is supervised learning? Why should it matter to digital humanities practice? And, most importantly, why should historians get involved in the process?
Brief answers are offered at the link below:
#digitalhumanities #AI #research #socialhistory #history #academia
Brief answers are offered at the link below:
#digitalhumanities #AI #research #socialhistory #history #academia
Beautiful thread.
Farther back in history and on the subject of books and libraries, Anthony Grafton's collected essays in "Worlds Made by Words," Andrew Hui's "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries," and Eric Marshall White's new biography of Johannes Gutenberg were all excellent.
January 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Beautiful thread.
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'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance.
50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...
(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)
50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...
(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)
January 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance.
50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...
(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)
50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...
(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)
🔥 "to address what is missing from the cultural record, we should not replace the real with the fabricated. We must elevate the accountability, specificity, and reflection that has long accompanied archival work"
arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190
arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190
Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research
The effects of generative AI are experienced by a broad range of constituencies, but the disciplinary inputs to its development have been surprisingly narrow. Here we present a set of provocations fro...
arxiv.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
🔥 "to address what is missing from the cultural record, we should not replace the real with the fabricated. We must elevate the accountability, specificity, and reflection that has long accompanied archival work"
arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190
arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190
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Among all the details of this great watercolour showing the interior of a British museum around the 1780s, is a #Greenland Kayak (in the upper right corner). This collection of Sir Ashton Lever (1729-1788) echoes the #earlymodern Wunderkammer and adds a colonial interest of the world. #skystorians
January 14, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Among all the details of this great watercolour showing the interior of a British museum around the 1780s, is a #Greenland Kayak (in the upper right corner). This collection of Sir Ashton Lever (1729-1788) echoes the #earlymodern Wunderkammer and adds a colonial interest of the world. #skystorians
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Level up: “Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research,” arXiv:2502.19190, preprint, arXiv, January 12, 2026, doi.org/10.48550/arX.... Written by some of the best minds I've had the honor of collaborating with or admire up close over the years. Absolutely solid read.
Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research
The effects of generative AI are experienced by a broad range of constituencies, but the disciplinary inputs to its development have been surprisingly narrow. Here we present a set of provocations fro...
doi.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Level up: “Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research,” arXiv:2502.19190, preprint, arXiv, January 12, 2026, doi.org/10.48550/arX.... Written by some of the best minds I've had the honor of collaborating with or admire up close over the years. Absolutely solid read.