We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)
At ACM Hypertext 2025, Sarah Abowitz (@lepidopterane.bsky.social) describes her observation & user studies for translation & aids for students learning Greek.
Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025
Happy #DouglassDay! We’re holding a transcribe-a-thon until 3 pm today at Tisch Library. Drop in for some or all of it!! More info at tischlibrary.tufts.edu/node/3379 @dh-at-tufts.bsky.social
You can find the By the People datasets here:
www.loc.gov/collections/...
Peter Nadel presents his streamlit application at the front of the room. The interface looks like a simple search engine. He is searching the Library of Congress Rosa Parks crowdsourced transcription dataset for the term “segregation.” There are 25 pages with 10 results per page. A result shows metadata from the spreadsheet including the transcription campaign, document title, link to the facsimile, and transcription text with search term in bold.
For our third #lovedata25 workshop @pnadelofficial.bsky.social taught about building your own search engines with NLP. He demonstrates his streamlit app where you can load your own data and customize your search.
It just so happens that the LC’s crowdsourced transcriptions are perfectly formatted.
We have a whole week of workshops coming up in-person on the Medford Campus.
Wed: Analyzing historical documents with minimal computing methods (i.e., TEI)
Thu: Building your own search engine
Fri: Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
tinyurl.com/tufts-lovedata
Last year we worked with the BPL Leventhal Map Center (@bplmaps.bsky.social) to host the symposium at Tufts and it was so much better for it!
We're looking forward to the Greater Boston DH Symposium in April! We hope you'll submit a proposal (students too!) and join us at the Boston Public Library.
bostondh.org/symposium-20...
Crafting with Data:
The Digital Design Studio will host two crafting with data workshops, teaching some basics of weaving and zine-making.
Developing Digital Project Assignments series:
We'll be talking with faculty/grad students about what it looks like to do digital projects in class--assignment inspo, scaffolding, expectations, creative assessment, and learning a few tools.
Our Love Data line-up:
@kaylendwyer.bsky.social - Handwriting Text Recognition w/ @transkribus.bsky.social
@akijas.bsky.social - TEI LeafWriter @pnadelofficial.bsky.social - building a search engine
Finally, @douglassday.bsky.social transcribe-a-thon.
We'll be using Douglass Day data all week!
