#DOT2025 kommt leider nach wie vor antiquiert daher: Keine Hybridität, #DigitalHumanities Anteil verschwindend gering. Hätte gern mit der Handvoll Leute gesprochen, die dort im weitesten Sinne unter #DH fallen, wenn also jemand jemanden kennt, die:der aus dem DACH-Raum dort ist, gerne Bescheid geben, dann kontaktiere ich die Person direkt.

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We are KISHIB – Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.

Our project documents thousands of Mesopotamian seals and sealings in digital form, making them accessible for research and the public.

Expect insights into archaeology, digital methods, and the fascinating world of cylinder seals!

An der Uni Bochum gibt es am 16.9. nachmittags ein "Projekt- und Methodenpanel" in Sachen #DigitalHumanities:
https://www.dhday.rub.de/panel.html
Dort "treffen sich Forschende und Bibliotheksmitarbeitende des Raumes Deutschland/Österreich/Schweiz, um sich kennen zu lernen, Wissen über ihr DH-Engagement zu teilen und dadurch Impulse für Neues zu geben. Die UB Bochum und der FID Nahost (@menalib_FIDNahost) haben Projekte mit Fokus auf dem MENA-Raum eingeladen, …

A slightly updated #introduction as I'm closing out my tiny private instance and moving here.

I had stepped away for a bit, so I am hoping the move here really pushes me to refocus and re-engage with communities on Mastodon.

As for who I am:

I'm a researcher, writer, and developer living in Minnesota. I have a PhD in #TechComm with research interests in the #digitalhumanities and the #sociotechnical histories surrounding technology.

I work primarily in the #civictech and #nonprofit space helping organizations tackling homelessness.

I also talk a lot about #poetry , #art, and the random #ttrpg.

I am looking forward to re-connecting!

Diese Woche Donnerstag bieten wir wieder unsere offene Sprechstunde, die „Text+ Research Rendezvous“ an. Einfach vorbeischauen und Anliegen zu text- & sprachbezogenen Forschungsdaten oder rund um #NFDI direkt mit Mitarbeitenden aus Text+ besprechen: -> https://events.gwdg.de/category/208/. Wir freuen uns auf Sie und Euch! #digitalhumanities #consulting #Forschungsdaten #academia #researchdata #FAIR

'I don't: I'm sick of trying to define it. When forced to, I'll make the referent the people instead of the ideas or methods -- Digital Humanities is the thing practiced by people who self-identify as Digital Humanists. It's helpful to have a name for the field chiefly for institutional authority. Though granted I think it does involve coding / making / building / doing things with computers, things related to, you know, the humanities.' Amanda French 01.01.2011 #DigitalHumanities #WhatIsDH

Doing History in Public: Web Archives as Big Data: experimenting with the internet as a historical source. “One very interesting aspect of historical research through web sources is that content cannot be disentangled from methodology. I had no previous experience dealing with the internet as a historical source, and this represented a unique opportunity to plunge into this new type of archive, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/15/web-archives-as-big-data-experimenting-with-the-internet-as-a-historical-source-doing-history-in-public/

JOB: Lecturer in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data

Department of Art History seeks a scholar to teach and research at the intersection of global visual cultures and computational analysis.

Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100%
Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films, digital media & archives.

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/lecturer-teaching/f44ac514-61e7-4a09-bc87-a5986ca17159
#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #ArtHistory #DigitalArtHistory

Release 5.2.0 bringt wieder neue Daten ins #Handschriftenportal: Großen Zuwachs verzeichnen wir mit 1.500 Beschreibungen der @stabi_berlin, knapp 620 Beschreibungen der Badischen Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe und 1.350 KODs der @subugoe.

Release Notes https://handschriftenportal.de/info/release-notes

@medievodons @histodons

Gizmodo: Why AI Shouldn’t Replace Historians Anytime Soon. “…after I tested generative AI tools with some historical facts, it seems like historians shouldn’t worry too much about the robots taking over just yet. At the very least, they shouldn’t be afraid that AI could do their job well.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/gizmodo-why-ai-shouldnt-replace-historians-anytime-soon/

Mein toller neuer Kollege Christoph Sander startet demnächst sein ERC-Projekt @scigma bei uns am CERES @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Eine erste Promotionsstelle (75%, 3 Jahre) ist schon ausgeschrieben: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1b63dff2eab1d2c4f72e32ca6fa4fb65c85f9cfe0?ref=homepage Wer sich für #Ideengeschichte, #Neulatein und/oder #DigitalHumanities interessiert und gerade sucht (oder jemanden kennt): Meldet euch! Gerne auch RT! #FediHumJobs

Interested in #IntellectualHistory, #NeoLatin, and/or #DigitalHumanities? Looking for a funded PhD position (3 years, 75%)? Come join my excellent colleague Christoph Sander and his @scigma project and work with us at CERES @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1b63dff2eab1d2c4f72e32ca6fa4fb65c85f9cfe0?ref=homepage RTs welcome! #FediHumJobs

Relational Databases with NocoDB in the humanities

Die Lektion bietet eine Einführung in die Nutzung von NocoDB, einer Open-Source-Plattform, mit der sich relationale Datenbanken über ein tabellenbasiertes Interface, ganz ohne Programmierkenntnisse verwalten und erstellen lassen.

Die Sprache ist Englisch und die Lektion kann zum Selbststudium genutzt werden.

https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/RDBMS-with-NocoDB-in-the-humanities/

ⓘ https://hermes-hub.de/lernen/datacarpentrieslektionen/lektionen/relational-databases-with-nocodb-in-the-humanities.html

#OpenAcess #Indigenous #books #DigitalHumanities

'... the expansion of the Big Ten Open Books project [is] the publication of the second 100-book collection. The second collection is centered on Indigenous North Americans. '

https://btaa.org/about/news-and-publications/news/2025/08/06/big-ten-open-books-project-launches--indigenous-north-americans--collection

Call for papers & posters for CAA UK, 9th-10th December 2025 is now open - see https://uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025/ for details ...

Was just watching a recording of the second day of #Wikimania in #Nairobi and happened on a #Wikidata presentation. A member of the audience suggested a tool registry to be implemented on top of Wikidata during the Q&A. As comments are disabled for the recordings (on YouTube), I would like to mention our modest effort at building exactly such a tool registry for the #DigitalHumanities.

The project website can be found at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_DH_Tool_Registry

#ToolRegistry @wikimediaDE

Bei uns am SCDH in Münster ist aktuell eine unbefristete E14-Stelle als Leiter*in des SCDH ausgeschrieben. Noch bis zum 05.09. bewerben: 

https://stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/aa2e6b033a1691c1c9bccfd7af876d06a24ff1690?ref=homepage

#DigitalHumanities #DH #Münster #IchbinHanna #Koordinierung #Jobs 
https://stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/aa2e6b033a1691c1c9bccfd7af876d06a24ff1690?ref=homepage

Research resources in archaeology and the humanities are rich, web-based, and constantly evolving, but they often lack reliable, citable versions of their content.

CiVers develops tools to generate versioned snapshots of web resources and assign Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for precise, long-term citation without changing existing web application infrastructures.

Learn more in our first article:
https://lens.idai.world/?url=/repository/FdAI_2025/FdAI-2025_Riedel_et_al.xml