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Rachele Sprugnoli
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Computational linguist and digital humanist.
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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UNESCO has launched an impressive Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - an immersive digital space that brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries — and the voices of the communities they were taken from.

www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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📣 The Call for Papers for the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 is now open!

🌐 This year’s event will explore 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 & 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮: 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 & will take place from May 26-29th in Rome, Italy🇮🇹

🚨 Deadline: December 22

ℹ️ www.dariah.eu/2025/11/11/d...
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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We present alongside the paper:
1. ‘NewsWords’ - unigrams from the entire digitised collection, github.com/Living-with-...
2. Newspaper metadata, openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
3. Mitchell's Press Directories, bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/data...
3/7
GitHub - Living-with-machines/newswords: Code for the counts data derived from historical newspapers
Code for the counts data derived from historical newspapers - Living-with-machines/newswords
github.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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(3) Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, convened by Gethin Rees, Elton Barker, Sarah Middle, Anna-Maria Sichani, Mia Ridge. Working on the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook. Sign up at forms.gle/DErqFUuY2Vn7...
Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, Linked Pasts 2025
Combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with Linked Open Data (LOD) offers great potential to make cultural heritage metadata FAIR. The proposed activity will bring together specialists from cultural h...
forms.gle
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Linked Pasts 11 programme (December 1–5 and some 8–12)

linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
linkedpasts.hcommons.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026

(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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📢 NEW FAQ added to #DH2026 CFP!
✅You can submit multiple proposals
✅Max 2 presentations as lead presenter (long/short)
✅Posters: no limit, but in-person only & no AI translation
✅Workshops/mini-conferences: not counted toward limit
⏰Deadline: Dec 8
dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.
dh2026.adho.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
È uscito il volume "Rapsodie dantesche. L'incipit della Commedia e le sue traduzioni"!
Nel volume anche il mio "AI Meets Dante: Evaluating Machine Translation Applied to the First Tercet of the Divine Comedy".
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢

Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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It's great to see the #computationalhumanities DDH volume getting attention! We start with two essays about interpretation. In Chap 1, Hannah Ringler distinguishes tools and interpretations, asking with vs asking about.

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
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hcommons.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Piccolo anticipo sul Repubblica per il nuovo libro:
"La differenza fondamentale - Artificial Agency: una nuova filosofia dell'intelligenza artificiale"
in uscita il 4 Novembre.
E ora vedo che su Amazon con il 5% di sconto, come resistere? 🤓
amzn.eu/d/gmVJMiU
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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This week, we announce another article from #JCLS 4 (1):
Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169).
Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience
From Readers to Data. Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science
We examine uncertainty in computational literary citizen science by analysing The Hebrew Novel Project, a large-scale initiative collecting reader interpretations of Hebrew novels. While citizen scien...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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#rassegnastampa Da TorinoCronaca: "Quando le macchine imparano i nostri pregiudizi: all'Università di Torino il convegno su IA e società" che vede la Prof.ssa Viviana Patti tra le organizzatrici.
torinocronaca.it/new...
#aibias #ai #artificialintelligence #aiethics
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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📣 Call for projects: DARIAH Working Groups Funding Call 2026-2027

DARIAH ERIC is delighted to introduce its fifth call for projects open exclusively to DARIAH Working Groups.

⚠️ Submission deadline: November 7, 2025
ℹ️ www.dariah.eu/2025/09/19/d...
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Folks in DH working with German-language data!

Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮

openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
de-Corp: A Corpus of German-language Fiction and Non-Fiction (1780–1930) | Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure.

Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities
How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our worldCritical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Dal 10/11 al 14/11 si terrà la prima edizione dell’Autumn School del dottorato in #DigitalHumanities dell'Università degli Studi di Genova incentrata sulla conoscenza e sull'utilizzo dell'#IntelligenzaArtificiale.
Ci sarò anche io e in ottima compagnia!
digitalhumanities.phd.unige.it/node/1230
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Free workshop (two afternoons) on ‘Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research’, 6-7 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research
www.sas.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
📢 In uscita il 24 ottobre il libro dell'amico Davide Astori: "Che cos’è una lingua inventata"!

www.carocci.it/prodotto/che...
Che cos'è una lingua inventata - Carocci editore
Inventare lingue è, insieme, una necessità e un piacere: esse nascono per finalità ludiche, personali, emozionali, letterarie, cinematografiche, ma anche come ausilio alla comunicazione internazionale...
www.carocci.it
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Hidden Venice (together with another addition to the HistoryCity family) won the Heritage in Motion Prize for Virtual and Augmented Reality!
Congratulations to Fabrizio and the rest of the team!
Very happy that VeDPH had the opportunity to play a crucial role in it.
October 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
In Cagliari for #clicit2025! Tomorrow I will presents two papers: 1) Ciallabacialla! Modeling and Linking a Regional Lexical Resource to Include Sicilian in the SemanticWeb; 2) Annotating Manzoni: Challenges in the Annotation of Lemmas, POS and Features in “I Promessi Sposi”
@ailc-nlp.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM