Wrapped up a wonderful day at #BostonDH25 with incredible company @anindita.org (being full blown cranky women of a certain age) 😍
April 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Wrapped up a wonderful day at #BostonDH25 with incredible company @anindita.org (being full blown cranky women of a certain age) 😍
Reupping this starter pack for a new era of scarcity in #dh cc #bostondh25
Hey @elotroalex.bsky.social and @roopikarisam.bsky.social! 👋 Happy Friday! I made a starter pack for #minicomp folks, but I'm sure I left people out. Any suggestions for additions? go.bsky.app/L2Zas63
April 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Reupping this starter pack for a new era of scarcity in #dh cc #bostondh25
We're at Boston DH, excited to hear keynote speaker @roopikarisam.bsky.social of Dartmouth College, presenting "Hold On: Digital Public Humanities in Authoritarian America"
#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities
#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities
April 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We're at Boston DH, excited to hear keynote speaker @roopikarisam.bsky.social of Dartmouth College, presenting "Hold On: Digital Public Humanities in Authoritarian America"
#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities
#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities
@roopikarisam.bsky.social on applying The Questions of Minimal Computing to our present fraught moment:
1) What do we need?
2) What do we have?
3) What must we prioritize?
4) What are we willing to give up?
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2...
#bostondh25 #DigitalHumanities
1) What do we need?
2) What do we have?
3) What must we prioritize?
4) What are we willing to give up?
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2...
#bostondh25 #DigitalHumanities
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Introduction: The
Questions of Minimal Computing
www.digitalhumanities.org
April 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
@roopikarisam.bsky.social on applying The Questions of Minimal Computing to our present fraught moment:
1) What do we need?
2) What do we have?
3) What must we prioritize?
4) What are we willing to give up?
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2...
#bostondh25 #DigitalHumanities
1) What do we need?
2) What do we have?
3) What must we prioritize?
4) What are we willing to give up?
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2...
#bostondh25 #DigitalHumanities
Takeaways from #bostondh25: map archives are super cool, wikipedia editing culture is *intense*, and I wish I'd gotten more people's contact information cause so many projects sounded amazing
April 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Takeaways from #bostondh25: map archives are super cool, wikipedia editing culture is *intense*, and I wish I'd gotten more people's contact information cause so many projects sounded amazing
.@roopikarisam.bsky.social - "When we are in the position to rebuild, what will we need to have?" A participatory moment for us all to brainstorm #BostonDH25 #DigitalHumanities
April 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
.@roopikarisam.bsky.social - "When we are in the position to rebuild, what will we need to have?" A participatory moment for us all to brainstorm #BostonDH25 #DigitalHumanities
Next up is Turning Almanacs into Data with Ashlyn Stewart, Joanna Schroeder, Yuchen Xiong (Boston College) #BostonDH25 digitizing 19th c Catholic Directories, with information on dioceses and Catholics across the U.S.
April 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Next up is Turning Almanacs into Data with Ashlyn Stewart, Joanna Schroeder, Yuchen Xiong (Boston College) #BostonDH25 digitizing 19th c Catholic Directories, with information on dioceses and Catholics across the U.S.
Students working on this large-scale DH project develop research skills and regional expertise that lets them help disambiguate which people with the same/similar names are indeed the same individual #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Students working on this large-scale DH project develop research skills and regional expertise that lets them help disambiguate which people with the same/similar names are indeed the same individual #BostonDH25
@kelleykreitz.bsky.social and @anindita.org on “The Ground Beneath our Feet: Critical Mapping in the Classroom” #bostondh25
April 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
@kelleykreitz.bsky.social and @anindita.org on “The Ground Beneath our Feet: Critical Mapping in the Classroom” #bostondh25
It's tough to get true validation data and benchmarks to measure full translations created by LLMs as they don't exist (or are inaccessible?) #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's tough to get true validation data and benchmarks to measure full translations created by LLMs as they don't exist (or are inaccessible?) #BostonDH25
Creating a collaborative map mosaic in the Leventhal Map Center with Ian Spangler of the Boston Public Library.
Allmaps and Atlascope are so fun to explore!
#BostonDH25 #bpl #digitalhumanities
Allmaps and Atlascope are so fun to explore!
#BostonDH25 #bpl #digitalhumanities
April 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Creating a collaborative map mosaic in the Leventhal Map Center with Ian Spangler of the Boston Public Library.
Allmaps and Atlascope are so fun to explore!
#BostonDH25 #bpl #digitalhumanities
Allmaps and Atlascope are so fun to explore!
#BostonDH25 #bpl #digitalhumanities
Questions of #minicomp, per @roopikarisam.bsky.social , particularly relevant rn, of course #bostondh25
April 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Questions of #minicomp, per @roopikarisam.bsky.social , particularly relevant rn, of course #bostondh25
@roopikarisam.bsky.social: "our cultures are our past, present, and future" and deserve preservation even in (especially in) dire circumstances #bostondh25
I'm @ the Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium at @bpl.boston.gov today: bostondh.org/symposium-20... Thank you to all the institutions (Northeastern, Brown, Tufts, BC, BPL, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Ctr) that have come together to support this #digitalhumanities community
2025 Symposium
bostondh.org
April 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@roopikarisam.bsky.social: "our cultures are our past, present, and future" and deserve preservation even in (especially in) dire circumstances #bostondh25
Big shout out to MIT's Hyperstudio and Kurt Fendt at Boston DH session Perspectives on Curricula Design for DH Programs...
#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities #hyperstudio
#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities #hyperstudio
April 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Big shout out to MIT's Hyperstudio and Kurt Fendt at Boston DH session Perspectives on Curricula Design for DH Programs...
#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities #hyperstudio
#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities #hyperstudio
Paviwala compiled a dataset from Chaudhuri (1976) and Bowen (2005) on the commodities dealt with by East India Trading Company and their values. Disambiguating and merging data categories across decades and respective scholarly interests #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Paviwala compiled a dataset from Chaudhuri (1976) and Bowen (2005) on the commodities dealt with by East India Trading Company and their values. Disambiguating and merging data categories across decades and respective scholarly interests #BostonDH25
Creating word alignments between ancient Greek and English using existing commercial models to train and finetune small scale open models - more minimal computing approach, creative, scalable #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Creating word alignments between ancient Greek and English using existing commercial models to train and finetune small scale open models - more minimal computing approach, creative, scalable #BostonDH25
After some technical difficulties, next up at #BostonDH25 is
"AI, Open Scholarship and Access to the Human Record", from Greg Crane, Sarah Abowitz, Alison Babeu, Peter Nadel, Charles Pletcher (Tufts University); James Tauber (Signum U); Clifford Wulfman (Princeton).
"AI, Open Scholarship and Access to the Human Record", from Greg Crane, Sarah Abowitz, Alison Babeu, Peter Nadel, Charles Pletcher (Tufts University); James Tauber (Signum U); Clifford Wulfman (Princeton).
April 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
After some technical difficulties, next up at #BostonDH25 is
"AI, Open Scholarship and Access to the Human Record", from Greg Crane, Sarah Abowitz, Alison Babeu, Peter Nadel, Charles Pletcher (Tufts University); James Tauber (Signum U); Clifford Wulfman (Princeton).
"AI, Open Scholarship and Access to the Human Record", from Greg Crane, Sarah Abowitz, Alison Babeu, Peter Nadel, Charles Pletcher (Tufts University); James Tauber (Signum U); Clifford Wulfman (Princeton).
Charles Pletcher (Tufts) on democratizing annotations, allowing credit to be given to users who submit annotations and commentary to texts. The problem is with architecture that is designed for read-only access for annotated texts in TEI #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Charles Pletcher (Tufts) on democratizing annotations, allowing credit to be given to users who submit annotations and commentary to texts. The problem is with architecture that is designed for read-only access for annotated texts in TEI #BostonDH25
Really appreciate the questions about default (and unchangeable?) map orientations, political boundaries, and colonial assumptions in maps at #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Really appreciate the questions about default (and unchangeable?) map orientations, political boundaries, and colonial assumptions in maps at #BostonDH25
SRO in Data-Driven Approaches to Historical Collections at #BostonDH25 - first up is Digital Engagement with Art Collections with Peter Botticelli from Simmons
April 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
SRO in Data-Driven Approaches to Historical Collections at #BostonDH25 - first up is Digital Engagement with Art Collections with Peter Botticelli from Simmons
Al and museums, or, can you trust a digital object?
1. Data integrity: what essential information is collected or presented?
2. Data value: how useful is the info that is collected? What value is placed on it?
3. Data use: is the collected info being used ethically?
#BostonDH25
1. Data integrity: what essential information is collected or presented?
2. Data value: how useful is the info that is collected? What value is placed on it?
3. Data use: is the collected info being used ethically?
#BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Al and museums, or, can you trust a digital object?
1. Data integrity: what essential information is collected or presented?
2. Data value: how useful is the info that is collected? What value is placed on it?
3. Data use: is the collected info being used ethically?
#BostonDH25
1. Data integrity: what essential information is collected or presented?
2. Data value: how useful is the info that is collected? What value is placed on it?
3. Data use: is the collected info being used ethically?
#BostonDH25
Testing… 1…2…3 (is this on?) 🙂 #bostondh25
April 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Testing… 1…2…3 (is this on?) 🙂 #bostondh25
Finally we have
Building a Digital Trade Archive: Visualizing British East India Company Data (1660–1834) with Munirmahedi Paviwala (Boston College) #BostonDH25
Building a Digital Trade Archive: Visualizing British East India Company Data (1660–1834) with Munirmahedi Paviwala (Boston College) #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Finally we have
Building a Digital Trade Archive: Visualizing British East India Company Data (1660–1834) with Munirmahedi Paviwala (Boston College) #BostonDH25
Building a Digital Trade Archive: Visualizing British East India Company Data (1660–1834) with Munirmahedi Paviwala (Boston College) #BostonDH25
Next up at #BostonDH25...
Perspectives on Curricula Design for Digital Humanities Programs, presented by @juliaflanders.bsky.social and others!
Perspectives on Curricula Design for Digital Humanities Programs, presented by @juliaflanders.bsky.social and others!
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Next up at #BostonDH25...
Perspectives on Curricula Design for Digital Humanities Programs, presented by @juliaflanders.bsky.social and others!
Perspectives on Curricula Design for Digital Humanities Programs, presented by @juliaflanders.bsky.social and others!