In a previous post, I have highlighted the usefulness of notebooks for writing Python code. I mentioned tools like Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab. In case you are not familiar with notebooks, t…

My kid and I were listening to a podcast about Jack the Ripper. We started talking, and I mentioned how newspapers would reprint stories from each other. This led to us developing an interesting qu…

Explore motifs from Hamilton, Wicked, and Les Misérables.

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

Jim Duran, Vanderbilt University Vaibhav Ravinutala, Vanderbilt University

This text, part of the #ODDStories series, tells a story of Open Data Day's grassroots impact directly from the community's voices. The event 'Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy in a Polycrisis Context' was successfully held on 6th March 2025 in Imo State, bringing together child rights, teachers, advocates, policymakers, data analysts, church leaders and

Mars is easy to measure but hard to understand. Numbers can describe it, but they don’t bring it closer. My mars data visualization project began..

We examine the large-scale geospatial dynamics of Russian prose literature in the 19th century. Specifically, we analyze how the distribution of location mentions shifts from the early 19th-century romantic era to the late 19th-century realist period. We demonstrate how realist literature moves away from the historical (and often heavily mythologized) landscapes of Russia, Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics. Instead, it increasingly focuses on the modern Imperial capital, Saint Petersburg, as well as on Western European countries and the expanding eastern and southern peripheries of Russia, reflecting the country's ongoing military and economic expansion.

Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the task through the use of generative AI. Their creation is CoMMA, a giant, one-of-a-kind corpus that will now be available to specialists in the humanities, revolutionising the exploration of writing from the Middle Ages.

  Organized by Heritage Malta and the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology, the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: Methodologies, Technologies & Best Practices webinar is dedicated to presenting the results of a groundbreaking global … Continue reading →

Join Dr Eleanor Dare, Convenor of the Cambridge Data Schools, at this virtual information session for Teaching and Learning Critically in an Age of Generative AI, a brand new course offering in our Cambridge Data School suite. The newly developed School will take place over five days in July 2026 at the University of Cambridge.

PhD student Caitlin Wilson showcases the latest results from her research into an accessible search function for The National Archives' Find Case Law service.

Imagine an infinite library, housing thousands of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman manuscripts. Works on medicine, astronomy, poetry, philosophy, and law. The traditional catalogue card, with its predef…

Context Nearly every year for the past decade, I performed experiments examining the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine generated, speech-to-text tools for transcribing oral history. As of late, AI has catapulted the quality and effectiveness of this technology and the proliferation of available services has been swift . Although there is still a...