Performant Software Solutions
@performant.bsky.social
We partner with humanities scholars to build software tools for research and teaching. Also at @performant@mastodon.cloud
https://www.performantsoftware.com/
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Performant Studio
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
www.performantsoftware.com
We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
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We are running a Winter School, where all of the courses are online! You can find out more information here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We are running a Winter School, where all of the courses are online! You can find out more information here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Great piece, Dan. I can confirm: Over the years, this has indeed been a longstanding problem. I've helped fund numerous projects over the years trying to address handwriting recognition and it is exciting to see what we can do today.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Great piece, Dan. I can confirm: Over the years, this has indeed been a longstanding problem. I've helped fund numerous projects over the years trying to address handwriting recognition and it is exciting to see what we can do today.
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Lightning talks include IIIF's AI/ML working group presented by the excellent Martin Kalfatovic www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2025
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Lightning talks include IIIF's AI/ML working group presented by the excellent Martin Kalfatovic www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2025
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Good news today for anyone who got a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services: all grants are reinstated! www.imls.gov/news/statem...
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersedes any prior notices which may have been received related to grant termination.
www.imls.gov
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Good news today for anyone who got a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services: all grants are reinstated! www.imls.gov/news/statem...
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Tomorrow (Wed) 14:00 GMT is our Annotation December Stammtisch, at which Rocio Da Riva (Barcelona) will discuss RelNet — a project exploring sacred landscapes and the connections between Babylonian cult centres. Join us to hear about all the issues of annotating cuneiform texts with digital tools
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Tomorrow (Wed) 14:00 GMT is our Annotation December Stammtisch, at which Rocio Da Riva (Barcelona) will discuss RelNet — a project exploring sacred landscapes and the connections between Babylonian cult centres. Join us to hear about all the issues of annotating cuneiform texts with digital tools
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aww thanks for the kind words
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
aww thanks for the kind words
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Honoring our collaborators @performant.bsky.social, whose rigor and skill helped make Native Bound Unbound possible.
They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across time—a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination.
#NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities
They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across time—a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination.
#NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Honoring our collaborators @performant.bsky.social, whose rigor and skill helped make Native Bound Unbound possible.
They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across time—a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination.
#NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities
They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across time—a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination.
#NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities
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Hands down, the best professional decision I made last year was to work with @performant.bsky.social. Could not love collaborating with @jamiefolsom.bsky.social @anindita.org and their amazing colleagues more. 😍
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hands down, the best professional decision I made last year was to work with @performant.bsky.social. Could not love collaborating with @jamiefolsom.bsky.social @anindita.org and their amazing colleagues more. 😍
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A project that my company @performant.bsky.social has been working on for multiple years launches tomorrow! Launch events will be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm MT. It's been such a privilege to work with the Native Bound Unbound team. They describe the project as follows... (1/4) #DH
The world premiere of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery will be streamed live on YouTube this weekend.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A project that my company @performant.bsky.social has been working on for multiple years launches tomorrow! Launch events will be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm MT. It's been such a privilege to work with the Native Bound Unbound team. They describe the project as follows... (1/4) #DH
Check out this amazing project so many of us at Performant Software have been working on for the past couple of years. We can't wait for the launch and for everyone to see it!
The world premiere of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery will be streamed live on YouTube this weekend.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Check out this amazing project so many of us at Performant Software have been working on for the past couple of years. We can't wait for the launch and for everyone to see it!
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Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!
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ICYMI: Torva, an imprint of Transworld, has signed the first trade book by Roopika Risam, associate professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth, in a seven-way auction. Data Empire: A Human History of Records and Rule will be published on 9th July 2026 👇 #BookSky
Torva wins seven-way auction for ‘breathtakingly ambitious’ human history of data
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September 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ICYMI: Torva, an imprint of Transworld, has signed the first trade book by Roopika Risam, associate professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth, in a seven-way auction. Data Empire: A Human History of Records and Rule will be published on 9th July 2026 👇 #BookSky
We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Check it out:
www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
Performant Studio
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
www.performantsoftware.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Check it out:
www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
Looking for a streamlined Solution to generate IIIF manifests? We’ve got you. In our new how-to video, Performant’s Nick Laiacona walks you through the process of creating a IIIF manifest using FairData, our open-source online database.
How to Create a IIIF Manifest
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
www.performantsoftware.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Looking for a streamlined Solution to generate IIIF manifests? We’ve got you. In our new how-to video, Performant’s Nick Laiacona walks you through the process of creating a IIIF manifest using FairData, our open-source online database.
Access powerful solutions with Performant Studio.
Harness our suite of integrated tools––transcribe and markup text––bring your text into FairCopy, our easy-to-use TEI word processor, and collaborate on a textual corpus with your team.
Learn more: performantsoftware.com/studio
Harness our suite of integrated tools––transcribe and markup text––bring your text into FairCopy, our easy-to-use TEI word processor, and collaborate on a textual corpus with your team.
Learn more: performantsoftware.com/studio
July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Access powerful solutions with Performant Studio.
Harness our suite of integrated tools––transcribe and markup text––bring your text into FairCopy, our easy-to-use TEI word processor, and collaborate on a textual corpus with your team.
Learn more: performantsoftware.com/studio
Harness our suite of integrated tools––transcribe and markup text––bring your text into FairCopy, our easy-to-use TEI word processor, and collaborate on a textual corpus with your team.
Learn more: performantsoftware.com/studio
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Roopika Risam's keynote at the #DH2025 conference.
"Many of us came to [DH] because we believed in the liberatory promise of information, in a relationship between access and equality. Or that digital platforms might redistribute power, offer possibilities for new voices and stories to emerge."
"Many of us came to [DH] because we believed in the liberatory promise of information, in a relationship between access and equality. Or that digital platforms might redistribute power, offer possibilities for new voices and stories to emerge."
Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Roopika Risam's keynote at the #DH2025 conference.
"Many of us came to [DH] because we believed in the liberatory promise of information, in a relationship between access and equality. Or that digital platforms might redistribute power, offer possibilities for new voices and stories to emerge."
"Many of us came to [DH] because we believed in the liberatory promise of information, in a relationship between access and equality. Or that digital platforms might redistribute power, offer possibilities for new voices and stories to emerge."
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Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
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What I like (a lot) about this #DH2025 keynote is that it is both inspiring — a call to arms (or, better, a call to care) — and, at the same time, practical. It values as much what's already there and used as it does what's shiny and new.
Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What I like (a lot) about this #DH2025 keynote is that it is both inspiring — a call to arms (or, better, a call to care) — and, at the same time, practical. It values as much what's already there and used as it does what's shiny and new.
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You can find yourself in this #DH2025 state-of-the-union. In our small way, we are prioritizing "care over speed, sufficiency over spectacle, community over competition", by sharing knowledge, giving advice & building resilience into tool development (thanks to Partners like @performant.bsky.social)
Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
You can find yourself in this #DH2025 state-of-the-union. In our small way, we are prioritizing "care over speed, sufficiency over spectacle, community over competition", by sharing knowledge, giving advice & building resilience into tool development (thanks to Partners like @performant.bsky.social)
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July 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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And if you aren’t at #DH2025, ping any of us — happy to chat :)
We’ve been working on all sorts of open source tools, and I am *personally* quite excited about the mapping tools and the annotation tools because, well, #PlaceNerd and #LitNerd. I map and mark things up for fun 😅
We’ve been working on all sorts of open source tools, and I am *personally* quite excited about the mapping tools and the annotation tools because, well, #PlaceNerd and #LitNerd. I map and mark things up for fun 😅
We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
Performant Studio
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
www.performantsoftware.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
And if you aren’t at #DH2025, ping any of us — happy to chat :)
We’ve been working on all sorts of open source tools, and I am *personally* quite excited about the mapping tools and the annotation tools because, well, #PlaceNerd and #LitNerd. I map and mark things up for fun 😅
We’ve been working on all sorts of open source tools, and I am *personally* quite excited about the mapping tools and the annotation tools because, well, #PlaceNerd and #LitNerd. I map and mark things up for fun 😅
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🎉Hello, DH community! The official DH2026 account is now live!
🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026
🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social
Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community!
#DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social
🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026
🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social
Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community!
#DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎉Hello, DH community! The official DH2026 account is now live!
🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026
🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social
Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community!
#DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social
🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026
🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social
Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community!
#DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social
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Working with Performant over the last year has been dreamy! I had wanted to collaborate with them for a while, and it’s been as awesome as I hoped. (And this link has a tiny sneak preview, aka screenshots, of what we’ve been up to.)
We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/
Performant Studio
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
www.performantsoftware.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Working with Performant over the last year has been dreamy! I had wanted to collaborate with them for a while, and it’s been as awesome as I hoped. (And this link has a tiny sneak preview, aka screenshots, of what we’ve been up to.)