Save the date! 🗓️
On May 1, the Center for Digital Scholarship will be co-hosting "Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship: People, Projects, Priorities."
Join us for this one-day event at the Brown University Library or on Zoom (registration required): go.brown.edu/digital-scho...
So proud of my team!
Our team at the Center for Digital Scholarship is thrilled to have won an Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion at Brown University! go.brown.edu/excellence 🎉
We have some news! After ten years of working on this project, the new website and database interface will go live on May 10, 2025, during a special launch symposium at Brown University. More details soon! @brownhist.bsky.social @linford.bsky.social @ashleychampagne.bsky.social @browncds.bsky.social
(3/8) The project was conceptualized in 2015 by Brown University @brownhist.bsky.social Associate Professor of History @linford.bsky.social, Principal Investigator, and is currently run through the @browncds.bsky.social directed by @ashleychampagne.bsky.social.
A screenshot of the front page of the Data by Design website, featuring a bunch of charts in a jumble and one, of a mountain and measurements by Francisco José de Caldas, featured at the top right.
I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:
Last term I formed a new group on AI and humanities research at Brown University and it was really interesting! One incredible talk we were honored to host was by Steven Lubar (Prof, American Studies) who talked about AI and Historical Research: stevenlubar.net/uncategorize....
Interested in the intersections of digital game culture and representations of Indigenous characters? Join us Thurs at 4p EST for a talk by Ashlee Bird (Western Abenaki), Assistant Prof of American Studies, University of Notre Dame. Free & open to the public! Zoom in reg page: tinyurl.com/4k2zph6t
A rigid heddle loom with a weaving in white, red, and blue with weft yarns of various colors
And that's a wrap on the DMCA exemption for text and data mining weaving! Now to just get it off the loom and sewn together with the first piece. And ideally find a friendly lawyer to wear it for the upcoming hearing. 😊 #DHmakes
ok I know that many of you teach with my AntConc tutorial, but do any of you teach with any of my other publications? (yes it is getting to be that time!)
find them here: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
The NSF Grad Research Fellowship funds at least 2,500 STEM *grad students* at approx $159k (to be used over 3 years). The NEH Fellowships for *faculty* funds an avg of 71 awards up to $60k for one year. There is 0 funding available for hum grad students. The imbalance is astonishing and harmful.
.@eliterature.bsky.social invites submissions for two proposed sessions at MLA 2025: one on textual futures + generative AI and the other on alternative platforms + networks for elit and digital humanities. Please consider sending us an abstract! :-D #dhmakes mla.confex.com/mla/2025/web...
"they also display a bias that Tilton calls “presentism.” Because the vast preponderance of training data is scraped from the contemporary internet, models reflect a contemporary worldview. ... labeling typewriters as computers and their paperweights as their mice."
www.theverge.com/24068716/ai-...
Thanks! This is neat. Looking forward to reading it.
Thanks so much! I've added these to my Zotero group on AI in Humanities Research.
That's great. Good to know about your work! Thank you. I'll add your chapter to my newly growing AI & Humanities Research Zotero group!
Hi, everyone! New here. I’m leading a new working group at Brown focused on AI and Humanities Research. It’s focused on utilizing AI in a practical way for research while also critically thinking about AI in the process. Is there any humanities scholarship in this area you’d recommend?
