After nearly two years running our homespun ESTC 📚📜, we’ll soon retire it at the request of the ESTC. Proud to have been part of the @print-and-prob.bsky.social team 💪, led by Nikolai Vogler, that helped our scholarly community in a time of need 💜

Had a good time collaborating with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and the AI for Humanists team on this! It also features some data we've been cooking up for @print-and-prob.bsky.social. Worth thinking about whether you have a research task that a local LLM could help with...

Very happy to have this piece in the new PBSA. Sure it’s a tad provocative in places, but even if people don’t agree on every point, hopefully it will be useful to think with. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Submissions for the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography annual Essay Prize are now open. Essays published in 2023-24 in any field or time period, on texts, images, and artifacts as material objects are eligible. Deadline March 28.
rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-prize

📢 Print and Probability at #RenSA25 #Shax2025

AI and Machine Learning in Computational Bibliography with @chrisvvarren.bsky.social @erinannmcc.bsky.social @dasmiq.bsky.social

📅 Friday, March 21 | 9:00 - 10:30 AM
📍 Boston Westin Copley Place, Adams and Baltic Room

rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...

we have some updates to our project website, including recent publications and upcoming talks printprobability.org

In more fun news, I'll be teaching a brand new Rare Book School class this summer, DIGITAL CODICOLOGY AND BOOK HISTORY, focusing on manuscripts and early printed books to 1600. At Penn, Week 1 (June 1-6). Watch this space for more details as they come available!

Please join us for the ACH-sponsored session at #MLA25. #s119 is on "Book History and the Digital Humanities" and will feature a roundtable of greats - Ryan Cordell, Natalie McGartland, Élika Ortega, Whitney Trettien, and Alexandra Wingate. More info at the link below.

Today on our blog on early female book ownership: a post by @tarallyons.bsky.social on a lovely bible with names of early modern women, a gift inscription, and a recipe https://buff.ly/3YPkiQ7 #EarlyModern #HerBook

When our Print & Probability collaborator UCSD grad student Nikolai Vogler heard that ESTC was down due to the BL cyberattack, he jumped into action. Here’s the site he built to help #earlymodern scholars access the essential metadata needed for teaching and research 📚 📜 estc.printprobability.org

Our stopgap ESTC is down. We’re working on a fix and are in process of moving the site to a more robust server. Updates will appear here. #ESTC

Bibliographers and book historians affected by the BL cyber-attack: @NikolaiVogler has built a stopgap English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), fully searchable and comprising a hefty 150,000 pre-1700 records, many with links to EEBO. Spread ye good news!...

Do you know someone with programming skills who might want to spend a year building out infrastructure for some fun "who dunnit?" problems? Thanks to @NEHgov @NEH_ODH, we're hiring a fixed-term Digital Humanities Research Programmer to begin September 1!...

Next week's Bibliography Week! @ChrisVVarren @samuellemley and Max G'Sell will be giving the @GrolierClub's Bibliography Week lecture on Wednesday, Jan 25 at 2:30 pm EST. Do join in-person...

Huge thanks to our fabulous advisory board -- Sharon Achinstein, David Como, @thecompass, @aarontpratt, @wynkenhimself, and @APettegree (there in spirit) -- for such fantastic questions and suggestions today. Grateful to be undertaking this project with such wisdom behind us.

Thanks for the ink @lisapeet1 @LibraryJournal! https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/cmu-receives-mellon-grant-to-develop-bibliographic-tools

Anything interesting in @nytopinion recently?