Mary Borgo Ton
@maryton.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, magic lantern enthusiast, and maker. Opinions my own.
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Mary Borgo Ton
@maryton.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hello, BlueSky! Excited to see the DH conversation move here. Photo of recent photogrammetry experiment for tax.
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Hi, Bluesky, we are DigitalArc! 👋 Funded by @acls1919, we advance community-led archiving projects in the Midwest, offering communities options for exhibiting & managing their own stories. We believe communities, not just institutions, should decide how things appear in the historical record.
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Hi, Bluesky, we are DigitalArc! 👋 Funded by @acls1919, we advance community-led archiving projects in the Midwest, offering communities options for exhibiting & managing their own stories. We believe communities, not just institutions, should decide how things appear in the historical record.
It was an absolute joy to coauthor a piece on supporting text mining across disciplines with @hagman.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading the other pieces in this collection!
Our latest book - "Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians," edited by Whitney Kramer, Iliana Burgos, and Evan Muzzall - demonstrates how academic libraries are supporting TDM literacy through services, workflows, and professional development. https://bit.ly/428QlNC
October 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It was an absolute joy to coauthor a piece on supporting text mining across disciplines with @hagman.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading the other pieces in this collection!
Excited to be joining #SHARP2025 virtually this morning! Massive thanks to the conference organizers and Liz Hoiem for accommodating multiple panelists joining from afar!
July 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Excited to be joining #SHARP2025 virtually this morning! Massive thanks to the conference organizers and Liz Hoiem for accommodating multiple panelists joining from afar!
Too much to absorb at #buildingbooklabs25 to post, but I will be returning to the teaching techniques and advocacy strategies we discussed time and again over the next few months. Massive kudos to @skeuomorphpress.org and @ryancordell.org for bringing us together!
May 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Too much to absorb at #buildingbooklabs25 to post, but I will be returning to the teaching techniques and advocacy strategies we discussed time and again over the next few months. Massive kudos to @skeuomorphpress.org and @ryancordell.org for bringing us together!
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"My artist's book will not get me tenure but my article about the artist's book will. [...] Even though the artists book makes the argument better"
We have to change our understanding of what citation looks like, what rigor means
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#buildingbooklabs25
We have to change our understanding of what citation looks like, what rigor means
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#buildingbooklabs25
May 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"My artist's book will not get me tenure but my article about the artist's book will. [...] Even though the artists book makes the argument better"
We have to change our understanding of what citation looks like, what rigor means
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#buildingbooklabs25
We have to change our understanding of what citation looks like, what rigor means
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#buildingbooklabs25
Very excited to kickoff #buildingbooklabs25 and to welcome so many #DHmakes folks! If you need some help wayfinding, please find me!
May 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Very excited to kickoff #buildingbooklabs25 and to welcome so many #DHmakes folks! If you need some help wayfinding, please find me!
Massive thanks to our Sponsored Program Administration and our campus legal team for submitting an appeal to the NEH on our behalf! With all the battles going on right now, to have their support means more than words can express.
May 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Massive thanks to our Sponsored Program Administration and our campus legal team for submitting an appeal to the NEH on our behalf! With all the battles going on right now, to have their support means more than words can express.
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the loss of @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehgov.bsky.social and IMLS will undoubtedly impact humanities and digital humanities research and teaching for decades to come. Worse is the separation of the incredible staffs at those agencies who have decades of stewardship and leadership in cultural heritage.
April 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
the loss of @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehgov.bsky.social and IMLS will undoubtedly impact humanities and digital humanities research and teaching for decades to come. Worse is the separation of the incredible staffs at those agencies who have decades of stewardship and leadership in cultural heritage.
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It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.
Welp, just received confirmation through eGMS that NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant was cancelled by DOGE.
April 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Welp, just received confirmation through eGMS that NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant was cancelled by DOGE.
Amplifying!!grant_notifications@nehemail.onmicrosoft.com (which sent a letter of termination of our NEH HCRR to our Sponsored Programs Admin) is not an official NEH address. Check eGMS!!
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
April 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Amplifying!!grant_notifications@nehemail.onmicrosoft.com (which sent a letter of termination of our NEH HCRR to our Sponsored Programs Admin) is not an official NEH address. Check eGMS!!
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Was happy to present a workshop with @maryton.bsky.social & Sarah Christensen on magic lantern slides, and using techniques in visual literacy to remix these historic materials to engage others in science. #AAASmtg Images of a few of our new species of “Boston butterflies”.
February 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Was happy to present a workshop with @maryton.bsky.social & Sarah Christensen on magic lantern slides, and using techniques in visual literacy to remix these historic materials to engage others in science. #AAASmtg Images of a few of our new species of “Boston butterflies”.
Realizing just how many of these words are in my currently funded and under review grants under the NEH.
More context here: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders
National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...
www.washingtonpost.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Realizing just how many of these words are in my currently funded and under review grants under the NEH.
Anyone got tutorials on how to web archive Esri Story Maps content? #dh
Accidentally broke @maryton.bsky.social by casually announcing that I'd been reviewing some of our DH LibGuides and found out that Esri Story Maps is being retired this Fall 2025: www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis...
Esri Story Maps Retirement | Transition to ArcGIS StoryMaps
Learn how to transition from classic Esri Story Maps to ArcGIS StoryMaps. Compare features and access resources to continue sharing stories with maps.
www.esri.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Anyone got tutorials on how to web archive Esri Story Maps content? #dh
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In case you missed it, here is my position paper from #MLA25 as a blog post about the relationship between #DH and #BookHistory in my work! It was such a fun roundtable, and I loved hearing my fellow panelists' thoughts!
alexandraewingate.com/2025/01/10/b...
alexandraewingate.com/2025/01/10/b...
Book History and Digital Humanities: Some thoughts from MLA 2025
The following is my position paper for MLA 2025 for the roundtable 119: “Book History and Digital Humanities.” Hi everyone, and thank you so much for coming to listen to us today! My co…
alexandraewingate.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
In case you missed it, here is my position paper from #MLA25 as a blog post about the relationship between #DH and #BookHistory in my work! It was such a fun roundtable, and I loved hearing my fellow panelists' thoughts!
alexandraewingate.com/2025/01/10/b...
alexandraewingate.com/2025/01/10/b...
Happy St. Nicholas Day!
December 6, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Happy St. Nicholas Day!
Deeply appreciate posts like these that explain how the tool works without using technobabble but with very concrete descriptions of how this could shape your use of an AI tool.❤️
I always learn so much from @bringthehuman.bsky.social and this article does a great job explaining OpenAi new Search capabilities #AiEd #EduSkyAi #TLSky open.substack.com/pub/reedhepl...
Understanding and Using ChatGPT Search
It is NOT a Search Engine, But It CAN Search the Web
open.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Deeply appreciate posts like these that explain how the tool works without using technobabble but with very concrete descriptions of how this could shape your use of an AI tool.❤️
In our review of digital scholarship guides, we have options for "YIKES" and "Burn it all down"
Why am I on my libguide-burn-it-all-down rant? My library has 2400 libguides. 1200 published. 50% haven't been updated in 5 years, and most of those 10 years. They are outdated and unfindable and generally just a list of a list.
That being said I have been working several solutions!
That being said I have been working several solutions!
November 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM
In our review of digital scholarship guides, we have options for "YIKES" and "Burn it all down"
Playing with SourceLab's MinDoc template for digital critical editions. Play, fork, edit, enjoy! github.com/TonLeon/mindoc
November 11, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Playing with SourceLab's MinDoc template for digital critical editions. Play, fork, edit, enjoy! github.com/TonLeon/mindoc
Hello, BlueSky! Excited to see the DH conversation move here. Photo of recent photogrammetry experiment for tax.
November 11, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Hello, BlueSky! Excited to see the DH conversation move here. Photo of recent photogrammetry experiment for tax.