For those of us in the humanities, the last 20 years have often felt like a siege. But maybe we’ve reached a nadir. Here are a few links that may provide a needed boost for the new semester.
#AI #HigherEd #humanities #DH #digitalhumanities
https://foundhistory.org/2025/08/briefly-noted-for-august-3-2025-some-good-news-for-the-humanities/
#Preprints and #OpenAccess are of course a big thing in #DigitalHumanities! A lot of us, especially in Europe, use #Zenodo for papers / preprints, datasets, presentations, and more.
#DH is of course not representative of the #Humanities. We're a small (but loud and dynamic!), interdisciplinary field at the intersection of the humanities and computer science, simply put.
Methods evolve quickly in DH, so that may be a factor. Accessibility and openness are highly valued as well.
A new toy for use in class: https://shawngraham.github.io/homecooked-history/pkm-webapp/
Even has block embeds where you create an anchor ^ and identifier, ^my-first-block inside Source Note ) and then reference the note: ![[Source Note#^my-first-block]]
The idea is to introduce personal knowledge management ideas but not require downloading anything or getting sucked into plugins/customization until _after_ the basic ideas become familiar. Tiny glitch - getting names of notes in the sidebar to update, so ctrl+r baby
#pkm #dh
New blog post! In "From Access to Ethics: Data Discussions at the DH2025 Conference in Lisbon", our #DHLab_IEG team members Sofia Baroncini, @ConstanzeBuyken, @JuditGarzon, Ian Marino, @SarahOberbichler and Cindarella Petz @cprog7 share their impressions of the #DH2025.
Take a look at the patterns and trends they identified in the conference topics and at the subjects they explored in more detail:
https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/7355
#Stellenausschreibung
Wir suchen eine*n #WiMi an der Professur (75%, 4 Jahre) zur Mitwirkung bei Forschung, Lehre und Wissenschaftsmanagement, insbesondere auch im Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Digitalität und digitale Methoden.
Die Entwicklung eines eigenen Projekts zur #Promotion im Bereich #DigitalHistory ist vorgesehen.
https://haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/stellenausschreibungen/an24325
Bewerbung bis 13.08.25
Fun (and important) feature of #Emojipedia is it's historical design archive, documenting what emoji used to look like on previous generations of devices. Super important for interpretation of historical SMS and SMS-like communications with #emoji. E.g. below for the "robot".
Digital Scholarly Edition from A to Z: Call for Participation to a Collaborative Booksprint in March 2026 at the @dhiparis - The aim of this three-day collaborative book sprint is to produce an open-access handbook for the use of those wishing to set up a digital scholarly edition. Information and participation procedure =>https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/11782 #dh #DigitalHumanities #digitaledition #edition
We have additionally published our #DH2025 contribution at #zenodo:
Söhn, L. C., Tietz, T., Steller, J. J., Kehrein, P., Büttner, A., Bruns, O., Posthumus, E., Grünewälder, J.-P., Hörnschemeyer, J., Sander, C., Grund, V., Fliegl, H., Sack, H., & Schrade, T. : NFDI4Culture Integration Stories: Bridging Gaps between isolated Research Resources
https://zenodo.org/records/16570076
#dh #digitalhumanities #culturalheritage @fiz_karlsruhe @jonatan @tabea @sashabruns @heikef @epoz #semanticweb @nfdi4culture
just in time for me to start working on my next new class, I *think* my asynchronous intro-to-digital-archaeology course (aimed at history students) is ready to go. Features using jupyterlab as a personal knowledge management system with a bunch of premade notebooks. Feel free to poke & prod around. Expect typos and clumsy writing because me.
Last Month in the #PleiadesGazetteer of ancient places (30 June - 28 July 2025)
Last month the Pleiades editorial college published 51 new and 333 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Robert Consoli, Tom Elliott, Matthias Grawehr, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert, and Scott Vanderbilt.
Details may be seen on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-month-in-pleiades-30-june-28-july-2025. Please note that detailed modification descriptions are currently unavailable and some modification credits may be incomplete.
@jwildeboer : modern certificates are used for authentication only, not for secure connections.
OTOH, if you have no certainty that your software is communicating with the server you intended, a secure connection to it is pointless - but the connection remains secure.
Using TLS v1.3, the connection is even secured before the server is authenticated (if, after encrypting the connection, the authentication of the server fails, then the client should at least warn the user - if not immediately disconnect).
Yes, I know, these are boring details, but they are misunderstood way too often by people who SHOULD know how this works (I know you do, but please don't simplify things too much).
Turning NASA Wake-up Calls into data
by @beet_keeper
For a while back then I was into space flight again. Scientists, science communicators, and engineers were all excited for a new era of rocket launches and the potential unification of the human race as we look towards the future.
During that time I discovered Colin Fries’ work in the NASA History Division to document all NASA “Wake-up calls”. A wake-up call is simply a piece of music used to wake astronauts on missions, a different piece of music, daily, for the duration of the flight.
Take, for example, the last Space Shuttle mission (Space Transportation System) STS-135; it was in flight for 13 days, and the wake-up call on day one was Coldplay’s Viva la Vida, while on day 13 it was Kate Smith singing God Bless America.
As a huge music buff who has the radio or music television on 18 hours a day, I really wanted to delve into this further. While Colin’s work is great, it’s just a PDF file (@wtfpdf). A PDF is not an ideal file format for querying data and gleaning new insights. So, while I wanted to explore it, I first decided to turn it into a true dataset. The result was a set of resources, a website, a JSON, a CSV, and an SQLite database which are each more functional and more maintainable over time.
Lets take a look at the results and https://nasawakeupcalls.github.io below!
SODa bei der FORGE 2025 in Rostock!
Wir freuen uns, bekannt zu geben, dass SODa auf der Konferenz @FORGE vertreten sein wird – und das gleich doppelt!
Workshop: „Sammlungen als Forschungsdaten. Datennutzung als Gemeinschaftsaufgabe“: Poster: „Ontologien als Schlüssel zur Konservierungs- und Restaurierungsdokumentation“
Wann?
24 - 26. September 2025 Universität Rostock
Jetzt anmelden und dabei sein! https://lnkd.in/eupCwKkd
Letzte Woche auf der #DH2025 habe ich unseren interdisziplinären Ansatz präsentiert, der qualitativ-philologische Verfahren mit NLP-basierten Analysen kombiniert, um sprachlich-linguistische Muster als Heuristiken für kulturelle, politische und ästhetische Semantiken in serieller Literatur im Kontext historischer „Frauen-Zeitungen“ zu nutzen.
Vielen Dank für die anregenden Fragen und Gedanken!
Das Programm für die FORGE25 ist nun online! (siehe Infos auf https://www.forge25.uni-rostock.de/)
Auch die Registrierung für die Konferenzteilnahme ist geöffnet (bis 15.9.). Die Tagung wird in Präsenz stattfinden, die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei.
Wir freuen uns auf alle Teilnehmenden!
Sincere thanks to Western University Library, for renewing their membership to our Institutional Partnership Programme.
As a Diamond OA publisher, we rely on support from organisations across the world to keep growing our multilingual portfolio of #DH lessons.
Thank you @adho.org @dh2025 for a brilliantly organized & stimulating #DH2025 in sunny Lisbon! 
We have uploaded our presentations through #Zenodo:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15829204 ("Auden in Austria Digital: Formalizing <interp>retation in TEI/XML through RDFa") https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15849036 ("tei-rdfa: A Python Utility for Extracting RDFa Data from TEI-XML Documents")
Already working toward #DH2026. 
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Interesse an digitaler Geschichtswissenschaft und nächstes Semester in Paris?
Wir suchen eine studentische oder wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft zur Mitarbeit an der Neustrukturierung und dem Relaunch der Datenbank „Frankreich unter deutscher Besatzung 1940–1944“.
PHP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, OpenStreetMap/Leaflet Ab 1.9.2025 | 10–15 Std./Woche | zunächst 4 Monate Alle Infos & Bewerbung: https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/0973d7dd4ecca9edff3b3f5998eb2d87483432fd0 #Job #histodon #digitalegeschichte #dh #datenbank #openscience
I was thinking of getting tickets for one of the #CriticalRole events in Europe, but they're a tad too expensive for my taste. I wish the #critters who do go a lot of fun. #DH #DaggerHeart #DnD #RPG
️ #Vagabond 
