ptrourke
@ptrourke.bsky.social
Software developer at a library.
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Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads
by Tom Brughmans and colleagues has been featured even here in the faraway corner of Europe. Here is the article in Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Way to go, Tom et al. (pun intended)!
www.hs.fi/tiede/art-20...
by Tom Brughmans and colleagues has been featured even here in the faraway corner of Europe. Here is the article in Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Way to go, Tom et al. (pun intended)!
www.hs.fi/tiede/art-20...
www.hs.fi
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads
by Tom Brughmans and colleagues has been featured even here in the faraway corner of Europe. Here is the article in Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Way to go, Tom et al. (pun intended)!
www.hs.fi/tiede/art-20...
by Tom Brughmans and colleagues has been featured even here in the faraway corner of Europe. Here is the article in Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Way to go, Tom et al. (pun intended)!
www.hs.fi/tiede/art-20...
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You're never gonna believe this, but we're out of archaeologists again.
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
SKYPE A SCIENTIST
Skype a Scientist matches your classroom, scout troop, or library with scientists for Q&A sessions for free!
SkypeAScientist.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You're never gonna believe this, but we're out of archaeologists again.
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!
We have 60 unmatched groups rn
Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com
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Zero question that quantum will be the next epicenter of cyber VC hype. And with hype, there's always grift.
This is spot on. Quantum’s gonna be the next cyber grift (again), after the bottom falls out of GenAI. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Zero question that quantum will be the next epicenter of cyber VC hype. And with hype, there's always grift.
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Cool to see this state-level design system tracker by @beeckcenter.bsky.social. Contrary to the beliefs of some—design is so much more than branding and beauty. And it looks like at least MD and NJ are using USWDS as a base (and maybe soon CO).
digitalgovernmenthub.org/publications...
digitalgovernmenthub.org/publications...
State-Level Design System Tracker - Digital Government Hub
This publication explores how centralized design systems help state governments deliver more consistent, accessible, and people-centered digital services, supported by a new tracker mapping design sys...
digitalgovernmenthub.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Cool to see this state-level design system tracker by @beeckcenter.bsky.social. Contrary to the beliefs of some—design is so much more than branding and beauty. And it looks like at least MD and NJ are using USWDS as a base (and maybe soon CO).
digitalgovernmenthub.org/publications...
digitalgovernmenthub.org/publications...
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Join us at the Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana) on Monday, November 17 from 6-8 pm for a lecture by Dr. Emily Hauser, titled "Finding the Female Voice in the Ancient World." This event is free and all are welcome to attend.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Join us at the Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana) on Monday, November 17 from 6-8 pm for a lecture by Dr. Emily Hauser, titled "Finding the Female Voice in the Ancient World." This event is free and all are welcome to attend.
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Well this is fab - Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads: the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. Hasn't quite reached Scotland yet (plenty of Roman roads up here yet to be added), but fun to explore! itiner-e.org
itiner-e
itiner-e.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Well this is fab - Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads: the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. Hasn't quite reached Scotland yet (plenty of Roman roads up here yet to be added), but fun to explore! itiner-e.org
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Could you co-supervise a PhD working with unexplored areas of our collection?
We’re seeking proposals from academics at HEI’s on four specially selected research themes: bit.ly/BritishLibra...
We’re seeking proposals from academics at HEI’s on four specially selected research themes: bit.ly/BritishLibra...
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Could you co-supervise a PhD working with unexplored areas of our collection?
We’re seeking proposals from academics at HEI’s on four specially selected research themes: bit.ly/BritishLibra...
We’re seeking proposals from academics at HEI’s on four specially selected research themes: bit.ly/BritishLibra...
My brothers, just the web archives are multiple petabytes (around 5 PB).
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My brothers, just the web archives are multiple petabytes (around 5 PB).
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An update on the Getty's APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) project, which aggregates and studies panel portraits from antiquity—chugging along since 2013. www.getty.edu/projects/app... 🎨🖌️
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
An update on the Getty's APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) project, which aggregates and studies panel portraits from antiquity—chugging along since 2013. www.getty.edu/projects/app... 🎨🖌️
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Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
My name is Pagliacci, Clown of Clowns. Look on my works, ye doctors; I despair.
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
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How can Wikidata support collaborative and interoperable epigraphic editions? Join us Nov 11, 2025 at the Institute of Classical Studies (or online) for Recording Inscriptions: Epigraphic Editions and Wikidata!
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Recording Inscriptions and Epigraphic Editions in Wikidata
ics.sas.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
How can Wikidata support collaborative and interoperable epigraphic editions? Join us Nov 11, 2025 at the Institute of Classical Studies (or online) for Recording Inscriptions: Epigraphic Editions and Wikidata!
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Classics folks: is there a list somewhere of which grad programs aren't accepting applications this year? I want to be able to advise my students accordingly!
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Classics folks: is there a list somewhere of which grad programs aren't accepting applications this year? I want to be able to advise my students accordingly!
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
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Digital humanities friends, @scholarslab.bsky.social regularly collaborates w/our data science school colleagues! & @histoftech.bsky.social @jhereia.bsky.social et al do awesome work there. (If you ever wanted to try letterpress; or do book-adjacent or DHy data sci+making, I'm here too.) Job ad:
UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs
Faculty Jobs — School of Data Science
School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.
datascience.virginia.edu
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Digital humanities friends, @scholarslab.bsky.social regularly collaborates w/our data science school colleagues! & @histoftech.bsky.social @jhereia.bsky.social et al do awesome work there. (If you ever wanted to try letterpress; or do book-adjacent or DHy data sci+making, I'm here too.) Job ad:
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The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.
Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.
For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.
For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
October 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.
Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.
For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.
For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
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And this year’s Open and Engaged Conference is themed for Open Access Week, and explores the power, ethics, and responsibility in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved. Attend online over three afternoons openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng...
Open and Engaged 2025 | Open and Engaged 2025
Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring ownership, access, and stewardship of cultural heritage in the new era.
openscholarship.gitbook.io
October 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
And this year’s Open and Engaged Conference is themed for Open Access Week, and explores the power, ethics, and responsibility in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved. Attend online over three afternoons openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng...
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Join me at two events at the British Library later this month:
On 20 October, the British Library joins forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on open knowledge and the wider information landscape. In-person only! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
On 20 October, the British Library joins forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on open knowledge and the wider information landscape. In-person only! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Knowledge is Human: The Information Ecosystem in the age of AI
A summit to mark the role of human-created, open knowledge in the age of AI and our collective responsibility to safeguard knowledge integrity and sustainability.
www.bl.uk
October 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Join me at two events at the British Library later this month:
On 20 October, the British Library joins forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on open knowledge and the wider information landscape. In-person only! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
On 20 October, the British Library joins forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on open knowledge and the wider information landscape. In-person only! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
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If you work with historical newspaper data, check out @matthewkollmer.com’s tutorial for generating image clippings—sections of the full page—based on text & coordinate data. Matthew’s been doing yeoman’s work figuring this in for a forthcoming exhibit for our Virality of Racial Terror project
If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.
It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.
It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.
How to Create Newspaper Clipping Images in Chronicling America, Programmatically – Matthew Johannes Kollmer
matthewkollmer.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you work with historical newspaper data, check out @matthewkollmer.com’s tutorial for generating image clippings—sections of the full page—based on text & coordinate data. Matthew’s been doing yeoman’s work figuring this in for a forthcoming exhibit for our Virality of Racial Terror project
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If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.
It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.
It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.
How to Create Newspaper Clipping Images in Chronicling America, Programmatically – Matthew Johannes Kollmer
matthewkollmer.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.
It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.
It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.
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We would like to pay tribute to Tony Harrison, not only for his landmark adaptations of Greek drama but also for being so supportive of the APGRD’s formation and research endeavours; many of our archive’s highlights are indebted to his work - a colleague and friend to many of us over the years 💛
October 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We would like to pay tribute to Tony Harrison, not only for his landmark adaptations of Greek drama but also for being so supportive of the APGRD’s formation and research endeavours; many of our archive’s highlights are indebted to his work - a colleague and friend to many of us over the years 💛
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Oh boy, on Oct 16, @leoba.bsky.social is showing Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1004/29, a mid-14thC physician's belt w/ calendar, tables of solar & lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, & urine wheel. A 🦇 book, b/c it unfolds like a pair of 🦇 wings. libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14872116
Coffee with a Codex On The Road: Bat Book at the Rosenbach
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...
libcal.library.upenn.edu
October 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Oh boy, on Oct 16, @leoba.bsky.social is showing Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1004/29, a mid-14thC physician's belt w/ calendar, tables of solar & lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, & urine wheel. A 🦇 book, b/c it unfolds like a pair of 🦇 wings. libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14872116
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Only a few tickets left for the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @dh-researchhub.bsky.social Annual Digital Lecture.
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen),
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Nov 20, 18:00–20:00, University of London. Book now www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen),
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Nov 20, 18:00–20:00, University of London. Book now www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
www.sas.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Only a few tickets left for the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @dh-researchhub.bsky.social Annual Digital Lecture.
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen),
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Nov 20, 18:00–20:00, University of London. Book now www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen),
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Nov 20, 18:00–20:00, University of London. Book now www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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NYPL Accessible Technology Conference 2025, Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19 #a11y #CivicTech
You Are Invited! NYPL’s Accessible Technology Conference 2025: Connect, Innovate, Act | The New York Public Library
Focused on the impact, affordances, and evolution of accessible technologies used by Blind, low-vision, and print-disabled people.
www.nypl.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NYPL Accessible Technology Conference 2025, Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19 #a11y #CivicTech
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Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison | Tony Harrison | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison
Harrison’s poetry and plays made an electrifying connection with readers and audiences through his use of Leeds dialect, and his ear for rhyme. Writers remember his greatness
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison | Tony Harrison | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
September 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.