DH Fortnight, Issue 1: The digital humanities. Really?
Coverage Period: August 31 - September 14, 2025
Weekly digest of highlights from the past four weeks, hence ‘fortnight’.
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What Happened Last Week (August 31 - September 07)
News & Chat
U of T Researchers Discover GPU Vulnerability Threatening AI Models
University of Toronto researchers have discovered that Rowhammer attacks, previously known to affect CPU memory, are also effective against GPUs equipped with GDDR memory, potentially causing “catastrophic brain damage” to AI models with accuracy dropping from 80% to 0.1%. The team, led by Assistant Professor Gururaj Saileshwar along with PhD student Chris Lin and undergraduate Joyce Qu, demonstrated the GPUHammer attack on an NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU, showing that a single bit flip could massively degrade model performance. This vulnerability particularly threatens cloud computing environments where multiple users share GPU resources, and while NVIDIA has issued a security notice recommending error correction code (ECC) as a remedy, this solution slows down machine learning tasks by up to 10%.
SemTools: Are Coding Agents All You Need?
This blog post introduces SemTools, a CLI toolkit that enhances command-line agents like Claude Code and Gemini CLI with semantic search capabilities for document analysis. The toolkit provides two main tools: ‘parse’ for converting complex formats to searchable markdown using LlamaParse, and ‘search’ for performing fuzzy semantic keyword searches using static embeddings. The authors conducted a benchmark using 1000 ArXiv papers to test whether combining Unix-like tools with semantic search is sufficient for document search tasks. Results showed that agents with SemTools access provided more detailed and comprehensive answers compared to those relying solely on traditional tools like grep, though both approaches achieved accurate results.
Will a Landmark AI Settlement Make Authors Feel Whole? - Dan Cohen on Bartz v. Anthropic
Dan Cohen analyzes the landmark $1.5+ billion settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, where AI company Anthropic agreed to compensate authors of approximately 500,000 books used for training Claude. While Judge Alsup ruled that training AI on purchased books is fair use, he found potential copyright violations in downloading books from unauthorized sources. Cohen argues that despite the financial victory, the settlement may paradoxically strengthen major AI companies by creating a billion-dollar entry barrier for competitors while failing to address authors’ deeper desires for recognition, proper citation, and readers. He suggests that rather than cash payments, authors need AI systems that provide proper attribution, encourage full reading of texts, and serve as discovery tools rather than substitutes for human-authored works.
Conference Bursary Awardee Reflection: Tîng-iông Lîm at DH2025
Tîng-iông Lîm from National Dong Hwa University shares their experience as an ADHO Conference Bursary Award recipient at DH2025 in Lisbon. Their paper on “Historical Vernacular Houses in the Hualien River Basin of Eastern Taiwan” explored spatial humanities and FAIR data principles for cultural landscape documentation. Lîm reflects on the conference’s diverse discussions spanning cultural heritage preservation, postcolonial digital archiving, LLM risks in DH, and the community’s shared commitment to inclusivity and open science principles.
Conference Report: DHd 2025 ‘Wissenswasserfälle’ in Bielefeld
This is a personal conference report by Jan Eberhardt, a Master’s student in Digital Methods in Humanities and Cultural Studies from Mainz, who attended the DHd 2025 conference in Bielefeld with an NFDI4memory scholarship. The report covers his experiences throughout the week, including workshops on LLMs for OCR post-correction and text analysis, Mark Dingemanse’s keynote warning about blind trust in AI outputs and advocating for “slow science,” doctoral consortium presentations, poster sessions, and networking opportunities. Eberhardt reflects on the overwhelming “knowledge waterfalls” (Wissenswasserfälle) of information at such conferences and emphasizes the value for early-career researchers to attend, network, and apply for scholarships. He particularly notes the conference’s focus on Large Language Models across various research presentations and provides recommendations for better, more privacy-conscious LLM alternatives to the commonly used llama-3 model.
New York Times: A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally
Overview Bill Wasik explores how AI technology’s ability to read and summarize text is becoming a valuable tool for historical scholarship. The article examines the potential implications of AI on historical research methods and raises questions about how these technological capabilities might change the narratives historians construct about the past.
Software
Spokenly – Whisper-Powered Mac Dictation App
Spokenly is a Mac and iPhone dictation application that provides speech-to-text functionality across all applications. It offers local Whisper models for offline use (free), supports over 100 languages with automatic detection, and provides real-time transcription. The tool includes Agent Mode for voice-controlled Mac commands, AI-powered text processing with GPT-4 and Claude integration, and maintains complete privacy with local-only processing options. The app has garnered over 10,000 active users with a 4.9 App Store rating.
Projects
KPoEM: Korean Poetry Emotion Mapping Dataset and Model
Overview The Korean Academy of Digital Humanities (KADH) announces KPoEM (Korean Poetry Emotion Mapping), the first Korean poetry emotion classification dataset containing 483 poems from five major Korean poets (Kim Sowol, Yun Dong-ju, Yi Sang, Im Hwa, Han Yong-un) with 7,662 labeled data points across 44 emotion categories. The dataset, developed by the Academy of Korean Studies Digital Humanities Research Institute led by Professor Kim Byung-jun, addresses limitations of existing emotion datasets trained on internet comments by providing poetry-specific emotion analysis that captures subtle literary expressions and Korean cultural emotions like ‘sorrow’ (서러움) and ‘heroic determination’ (비장함). The model achieves F1-micro score of 0.60 and demonstrates superior performance in understanding poetic metaphors and multi-layered emotions compared to models trained on general text.
Collection Renaissance: AI Creativity Competition (典藏新生·AI创意)
The “Collection Renaissance: AI Creativity” initiative is a competition or showcase organized by Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center (PKUDH) and Capital Library Beijing, focusing on AI-powered creative applications for cultural heritage collections. The project involves multiple prestigious institutions including Harvard-Yenching Library, various Chinese student associations at major US universities (Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Columbia), and technology partners like ByteDance Public Welfare and Alibaba Cloud. Organizers: - Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center (PKUDH) - Capital Library Beijing - Peking University AI Research Institute Digital Humanities Center Supporting Institutions: - Harvard-Yenching Library - Chinese student associations from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Oxford, and other universities
PKU Visualization Summer School: Eight Rivers Surrounding Chang’an Cultural Landscape Visualization (北大可视化暑期学校：唐代八水绕长安文化图景可视化)
This visualization project from the 2025 Peking University Visualization Summer School explores the cultural significance of the “Eight Rivers Surrounding Chang’an” during the Tang Dynasty. The team digitized historical maps from the Atlas of Chinese History and created comprehensive vector data including rivers, lakes, administrative regions, and mountain passes. The project integrates 49 Tang poems related to the eight rivers, categorized by emotional themes such as warfare, praise, and nostalgia. The interactive visualization features three main sections: “Eight Rivers’ Old Stories” displaying historical events by political, economic, cultural, and military categories; “Five Canals Irrigating the Capital” showing how the external rivers entered Chang’an through five canals; and “Water Rhyme Legacy” presenting poetry related to each river. Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the team created a scroll-based narrative experience with dynamic map interactions, allowing users to explore the deep connections between Tang Dynasty geography, history, and literature through an immersive digital platform. Language: zh
Research
Romein et al. 2025. “From research proposal to project management: A guide from the Transkribus community on planning and executing workflows”
This collaborative paper from the Transkribus community offers practical guidance for transitioning from research proposals to effective project management in Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) projects for cultural heritage text collections. Drawing from insights shared at the Transkribus User Conference 2024, the guide emphasizes meticulous planning, realistic budgeting, and efficient team coordination, covering essential aspects including workflow documentation, data management plans, high-quality training data preparation, and crowdsourcing strategies. The authors stress the importance of clear objectives, ethical considerations including FAIR/CARE principles, and practical outcomes while providing a comprehensive roadmap for digitization, transcription scheme development, and team formation for researchers and GLAM professionals working with historical documents.
Fyfe 2024. “Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities”
This book argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change, with the nineteenth century’s confrontation with telecommunications changes and print flood defining contemporary responses. Paul Fyfe traces the origins of digital humanities to Victorian debates about information overload, showing how we have inherited Victorian anxieties about quantitative and machine-driven reading, professional obsolescence in the face of new technology, and more. The work provides a predigital history for the digital humanities through nineteenth-century encounters with telecommunication networks, privacy intrusions, quantitative reading methods, and remediation.
Ahluwalia & Miller. 2025. “The digital humanities. Really?”
This editorial critically examines the digital humanities’ institutional heritage and promises of digital transformation. The authors, based in the Global South, trace humanities education’s dual pathways (elite vs. technocratic institutions) from Kant’s Enlightenment ideals to contemporary cybertarianism. They critique the digital humanities’ initial domination by privileged demographics and displacement of progressive scholarship, while acknowledging recent improvements in addressing crucial political questions through projects on women philosophers, slavery, indigenous languages, and Afro-Latin American cultures. The piece argues that regardless of digital methods, the fundamental goal remains creating critical and self-critical perspectives serving the public interest.
OpenAI 2024. “Why Language Models Hallucinate”
Overview This research paper from OpenAI investigates the fundamental causes of hallucinations in language models, arguing that standard training and evaluation procedures inadvertently reward models for guessing rather than acknowledging uncertainty. The authors demonstrate that current accuracy-based evaluations encourage models to provide plausible but incorrect answers instead of abstaining when uncertain, and propose that penalizing confident errors more than uncertainty expressions would reduce hallucinations. The paper provides statistical analysis showing how hallucinations arise from next-word prediction during pretraining, particularly for low-frequency facts that cannot be reliably predicted from patterns alone.
Dang et al. 2025. “The construction of thematic platforms for Chinese old maps: a global overview”
Overview As a significant historical resource in cartography, humanities, and social science research, old maps possess exceptional research value and have garnered extensive attention from various fields and researchers. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive understanding regarding the construction of old map platforms both domestically and internationally, and even a lack of familiarity with how and where to search old maps online. Given this context, we have fully investigated and systematically sorted out the thematic platforms of old maps from around the world, analyzed the construction of each platform, reviewed them in terms of visualization, map interaction, and shared services. Subsequently, this study proposed the direction of the construction of old map platforms from multiple dimensions, with a focus on the points where artificial intelligence can empower historical map research. We advocate for the further integration and sharing of old maps to support multidisciplinary research in fields such as historical geography, cartography, digital humanities, and art.
Arnold & Tilton. 2024. “Humanities Data in R: Exploring Networks, Geospatial Data, Images, and Text” (2nd Edition)
This second edition textbook teaches readers to integrate data analysis techniques into humanities research using R programming. The book bridges quantitative and qualitative methods, covering general-purpose visualization and analysis before introducing domain-specific techniques for networks, text, geospatial data, temporal data, and image analysis. Significantly revised from the first edition, it incorporates modern R packages like ggplot2 and dplyr that center on broad data-science concepts. No programming experience is required, with early chapters covering the data-science pipeline from collection through visualization to manipulation. Examples include analyzing 1930s digitized photographs and Wikipedia page links. The methodology applies to classrooms and self-study across humanities, linguistics, anthropology, and political science, with relevance for research and dissemination in archives, museums, and libraries.
Tsai et al. 2025. “Digital humanities approach to analyzing the roles and military power of Supreme Commanders and Grand Coordinators in the Ming Dynasty”
Abstract This article represents a digital humanities research endeavor that attempts to explore the roles and military power of Supreme Commanders and Grand Coordinators in the Ming Dynasty, employing computational analysis of the Ming Shilu. By leveraging a semi-supervised text classification framework to identify military paragraphs without needing prior annotation and generating heat maps based on location entities identified in the text, we discerned patterns correlating the presence of these officials with the incidence of military conflicts. We acknowledge the study’s limitations, including potential misinterpretations due to the complexity of events and language used in the Ming Shilu. Despite these, our research illuminates the value of computational techniques in historical inquiries. The results underscore the complexity of Supreme Commanders’ and Grand Coordinators’ roles within local administration and military power structures and their impact on the political environment of the Ming Dynasty. This article advocates for future research to integrate diverse textual and data sources and incorporate additional digital methodologies, aiming for a deeper understanding of the Ming Dynasty’s political landscape. This research significantly propels the utilization of digital analytical tools in historical research, offering a richer, more nuanced understanding of the past.
Cui et al. 2025. “A network analytical framework for modeling the global transmission of classics through translation”
Understanding how ancient classics cross linguistic, cultural, and geographical boundaries is crucial for preserving and enhancing their intangible value in contemporary contexts. This study develops an analytical framework combining social network and geographical perspectives to examine their global transmission through translations. Integrating the Classic Dissemination Network and Exponential Random Graph Model, the study analyzes dynamic transmission patterns and the influencing factors, using the Tao Te Ching as a case study. Results reveal that the current transmission structure is spatially expansive yet clustered, exhibiting small-world properties. The analysis also demonstrates a core-periphery hierarchy, where core countries serve as hubs for cultural production and exchange, while peripheral countries primarily receive content. Countries often engage in bidirectional exchanges, influenced by publishing capacity and economic strength. Additionally, religious proximity significantly shapes transmission pathways and reinforces cultural connections. This research offers insights into the cross-cultural movement of classics and advances digital humanities methodologies.
Events
Workshop: Decoding Buddhist Texts - From AI Language Models to Digital Humanities Analysis (解碼佛典：從AI語言模型到數位人文分析工作坊)
September 12 - September 13, 2025 (Asia/Taipei)
Academia Sinica’s Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, in collaboration with CBETA and Dharma Drum Institute, is hosting a two-day workshop exploring AI language models and digital humanities approaches for Buddhist text analysis. The workshop features talks on CBETA’s retrieval indexing, new digital tools for Buddhist studies including Dharmamitra & DharmaNexus, and DocuSky implementations for AI text processing and analysis. Sessions will demonstrate practical applications of AI and computational methods in traditional Buddhist scholarship, bridging classical textual studies with modern digital humanities techniques.
Talk: Network Power - The Humanities and Data Science in Collaboration
September 25 - September 25, 2025 (Europe/London)
This panel discussion, organized by The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group and hosted by the Bodleian Libraries, explores the intersection of data science and the humanities. The event reflects on achievements since 2017 in building infrastructure, knowledge, and communities of practice, while looking ahead to the role of humanities in an increasingly datafied world. Distinguished speakers from landmark projects will discuss the current landscape, celebrate interdisciplinary approaches, and explore new pathways for collaboration between data science and the arts and humanities community. ## Panelists - Dr Rosa Filgueira - Joseph Padfield - Principal Scientist at the National Gallery - Dr Anna-Maria Sichani - BRAID Fellow, Research Associate in Digital Humanities at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London - Professor Melissa Terras (MBE FREng) - Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh - Dr Charlotte Tupman - Senior Lecturer in Classics and Digital Humanities at the University of Exeter - Dr Martin Wynne - Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics and National Coordinator in the UK for CLARIN
Talk: Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities - Jessica Pressman (SDSU)
September 11 - September 11, 2025 (Asia/Seoul)
Jessica Pressman from San Diego State University will deliver an online lecture titled “Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities: An Introduction” hosted by Incheon University’s Institute of Humanities. This talk explores the intersection of electronic literature and digital humanities, examining how digital forms of literary expression contribute to and challenge traditional humanities scholarship.
What’s Coming Up (September 07 - September 14)
Newly Announced Events This Week
Workshop: Decoding Buddhist Texts - From AI Language Models to Digital Humanities Analysis (解碼佛典：從AI語言模型到數位人文分析工作坊)
September 12 - September 13, 2025 (Asia/Taipei)
Academia Sinica’s Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, in collaboration with CBETA and Dharma Drum Institute, is hosting a two-day workshop exploring AI language models and digital humanities approaches for Buddhist text analysis. The workshop features talks on CBETA’s retrieval indexing, new digital tools for Buddhist studies including Dharmamitra & DharmaNexus, and DocuSky implementations for AI text processing and analysis. Sessions will demonstrate practical applications of AI and computational methods in traditional Buddhist scholarship, bridging classical textual studies with modern digital humanities techniques.
Talk: Teachers Talk Humanities - Professional Development for Humanities Education
September 20 - September 20, 2025 (Europe/London)
This free professional development event brings together teachers of History, Geography, and Religious Studies for a day of teachmeet presentations, networking, and educational resources. The event features presentations on topics including metacognition in humanities, GIS in geography, climate change education, Holocaust teaching through cross-curricular approaches, and intellectual humility in RE classrooms. Speakers will share strategies for improving disciplinary writing, addressing geographical misconceptions, and using debate to teach environmental issues.
Talk: Network Power - The Humanities and Data Science in Collaboration
September 25 - September 25, 2025 (Europe/London)
This panel discussion, organized by The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group and hosted by the Bodleian Libraries, explores the intersection of data science and the humanities. The event reflects on achievements since 2017 in building infrastructure, knowledge, and communities of practice, while looking ahead to the role of humanities in an increasingly datafied world. Distinguished speakers from landmark projects will discuss the current landscape, celebrate interdisciplinary approaches, and explore new pathways for collaboration between data science and the arts and humanities community. ## Panelists - Dr Rosa Filgueira - Joseph Padfield - Principal Scientist at the National Gallery - Dr Anna-Maria Sichani - BRAID Fellow, Research Associate in Digital Humanities at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London - Professor Melissa Terras (MBE FREng) - Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh - Dr Charlotte Tupman - Senior Lecturer in Classics and Digital Humanities at the University of Exeter - Dr Martin Wynne - Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics and National Coordinator in the UK for CLARIN
Talk: Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities - Jessica Pressman (SDSU)
September 11 - September 11, 2025 (Asia/Seoul)
Jessica Pressman from San Diego State University will deliver an online lecture titled “Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities: An Introduction” hosted by Incheon University’s Institute of Humanities. This talk explores the intersection of electronic literature and digital humanities, examining how digital forms of literary expression contribute to and challenge traditional humanities scholarship.
Workshop: 2026 Digital Chinese Studies Workshop (2026 디지털중국학 워크숍)
January 26 - January 30, 2026 (Asia/Seoul)
This workshop on Digital Chinese Studies will be held at Sungkyunkwan University from January 26-30, 2026, offering intensive training in digital humanities methods for East Asian textual research. The 5-day program includes foundational DH theory, hands-on training with DocuSky for document structuring, and practical application of Peking University’s Wydian (吾与点) platform. Designed for graduate students and researchers working with Chinese and classical Chinese materials, the workshop requires a minimum of 30 participants and includes a pre-registration survey to gauge interest. ## Program Structure
Talk: Citizen Science and Digital Memory - Building Gestapo.Terror.Places
September 08 - September 08, 2025 (America/Vancouver)
Lambert Heller (TIB Open Science Lab) presents on building Gestapo.Terror.Places, a collaborative digital public history platform mapping Gestapo terror sites across Lower Saxony (1933-1945). The project integrates archival sources with linked open data (Wikidata, OpenStreetMap) using Wikibase, emphasizing open GLAM principles and citizen science for collective memory work.
FLAMES Fall 2025 Training: Statistical Methods & Qualitative Research for DH
October 03, 2025 (Europe/Brussels)
Conference: Digital Humanities Education at the Forefront - Cases from Europe and Japan (dhed2025)
September 11 - September 13, 2025 (Asia/Seoul)
Workshop: Werkstattreihe Standardisierung - DeReKo
September 18 - September 18, 2025 (Europe/Berlin)
Text+, the NFDI consortium for text and language sciences, invites participation in a workshop series on standardization of research data. The September 18 workshop features Jennifer Ecker, Pia Schwarz, and Rebecca Wilm presenting DeReKo (Deutsches Referenzkorpus). The series provides practical examples of using standards and standard-based tools, sharing experiences from various projects to facilitate planning and implementation. The workshops aim to pave the way for future data integrations into the Text+ infrastructure and are suitable for both newcomers and experienced users of standards and tools in text and language sciences.
8th Quantitative Linguistics Academic Symposium (第八届计量语言学学术研讨会)
October 24 - October 26, 2025 (Asia/Shanghai)
The 8th Quantitative Linguistics Academic Symposium, themed “Language and Language Education Research in the Digital-Intelligence Era,” will be held at Zhejiang Normal University from October 24-26, 2025, jointly organized by Zhejiang Normal University’s School of International Culture and Social Development and Beijing Language and Culture University’s Center for Quantitative Linguistics Research, focusing on computational linguistics, digital humanities, big data and AI applications in language research and education. Language: Chinese (中文)
Workshop: Science of Science in Korea 2025
September 11, 2025 (UTC)
The second Science of Science Korea Workshop 2025 will be held on September 11, 2025, at KAIST, featuring keynote speaker Professor Dashun Wang from Northwestern University. This interdisciplinary workshop explores how science interacts with society, policy, and innovation systems, bringing together leading domestic and international researchers to share cutting-edge research and discuss applications to Korea’s science and technology ecosystem. The event includes morning sessions on Korean Science of Science research and policy implications, and afternoon sessions on latest research topics including research impact, knowledge production, and collaboration.
Workshop: 2025년도 ACOMS+ 및 학술지 리포지터리 활용 설명회 | 2025 ACOMS+ and Academic Journal Repository Utilization
September 17 - September 17, 2025 (Asia/Seoul)
KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) hosts an information session on September 17, 2025, to help researchers effectively utilize ACOMS+ (Academic Commons Plus) and academic journal repository systems for academic publishing and research dissemination in Korea.
Workshop: APIs for Text-Based Digital Editions
September 25 - September 25, 2025 (Europe/Berlin)
The University Library Heidelberg in cooperation with NFDI consortium Text+ will host a free English-language online workshop on September 25, 2025, bringing together API users and developers to explore interfaces for text-based digital editions. The workshop will feature presentations on DTS, Shine API/Rise, TextAPI, and UDT-ITF API, followed by discussion sessions and a detailed implementation demonstration of DTS specification in TEI Publisher by Wolfgang Meier.
Events Next Week
Talk: Citizen Science and Digital Memory - Building Gestapo.Terror.Places
September 08 - September 08, 2025 (America/Vancouver)
Lambert Heller (TIB Open Science Lab) presents on building Gestapo.Terror.Places, a collaborative digital public history platform mapping Gestapo terror sites across Lower Saxony (1933-1945). The project integrates archival sources with linked open data (Wikidata, OpenStreetMap) using Wikibase, emphasizing open GLAM principles and citizen science for collective memory work.
Workshop: Science of Science in Korea 2025
September 11, 2025 (UTC)
The second Science of Science Korea Workshop 2025 will be held on September 11, 2025, at KAIST, featuring keynote speaker Professor Dashun Wang from Northwestern University. This interdisciplinary workshop explores how science interacts with society, policy, and innovation systems, bringing together leading domestic and international researchers to share cutting-edge research and discuss applications to Korea’s science and technology ecosystem. The event includes morning sessions on Korean Science of Science research and policy implications, and afternoon sessions on latest research topics including research impact, knowledge production, and collaboration.
Conference: Digital Humanities Education at the Forefront - Cases from Europe and Japan (dhed2025)
September 11 - September 13, 2025 (Asia/Seoul)
Talk: Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities - Jessica Pressman (SDSU)
September 11 - September 11, 2025 (Asia/Seoul)
Jessica Pressman from San Diego State University will deliver an online lecture titled “Electronic Literature and/as Digital Humanities: An Introduction” hosted by Incheon University’s Institute of Humanities. This talk explores the intersection of electronic literature and digital humanities, examining how digital forms of literary expression contribute to and challenge traditional humanities scholarship.
Workshop: Decoding Buddhist Texts - From AI Language Models to Digital Humanities Analysis (解碼佛典：從AI語言模型到數位人文分析工作坊)
September 12 - September 13, 2025 (Asia/Taipei)
Academia Sinica’s Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, in collaboration with CBETA and Dharma Drum Institute, is hosting a two-day workshop exploring AI language models and digital humanities approaches for Buddhist text analysis. The workshop features talks on CBETA’s retrieval indexing, new digital tools for Buddhist studies including Dharmamitra & DharmaNexus, and DocuSky implementations for AI text processing and analysis. Sessions will demonstrate practical applications of AI and computational methods in traditional Buddhist scholarship, bridging classical textual studies with modern digital humanities techniques.
Deadlines Next Week
Job: Metadata Specialist - Illinois State University
September 08, 2025 (America/Chicago)
Illinois State University’s Milner Library seeks a Metadata Specialist to incorporate new content into their digital collections repository. The position involves creating, enhancing, and maintaining descriptive metadata for various digital media types including images, books, manuscripts, oral histories, audio files, moving images, maps, and 3D objects. The role requires working with standardized vocabularies, schema, and linked data to improve discoverability and accessibility of materials. This is a full-time staff position offering $20.94-$21.59 per hour with comprehensive benefits including insurance, retirement planning, and tuition waiver benefits.
Job: Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - UCL
September 08, 2025 (Europe/London)
UCL Department of Information Studies seeks a full-time Lecturer (Teaching) in Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society starting academic year 2025-26. The role involves teaching across the Information in Society BSc at UCL East and the MA Publishing programme at Bloomsbury campus, with expertise in scholarly communication, publishing platforms, multimedia publishing, and information ethics. The successful candidate will develop modules on Information and Cultural Spaces and lead optional modules on the MA Publishing programme.
Job: Digital Content Producer (Video) - University of Reading
September 08, 2025 (Europe/London)
The University of Reading seeks a Digital Content Producer to create engaging short-form video content for The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL) and Reading Museum. This full-time fixed-term position (until March 2027) involves leading TikTok and Instagram content development for both museums under the Museums Partnership Reading. The role requires expertise in video production, strong understanding of internet culture, and ability to create impactful social media content with high engagement. The position offers £31,236 to £35,608 per annum and requires experience in social media performance analysis and strategic content planning.
Job: University Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Sciences / Digital Humanities - University of Helsinki
September 10, 2025 (Europe/Helsinki)
The Department of Digital Humanities at University of Helsinki seeks a University Lecturer for a fixed-term appointment (January 2026 - November 2027) focusing on computational and statistical methods in humanities. The role involves co-designing and teaching in Finland’s first broadly interdisciplinary international bachelor’s programme in Liberal Arts and Sciences, starting autumn 2026. The lecturer will work across five faculties, collaborate heavily with Computer Science, design core courses, and mentor students in this innovative interdisciplinary environment.
Call for Papers: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages - IMC2026 Leeds
September 10, 2025 (Europe/London)
Minimal computing is a loose set of ideas and methodologies in digital humanities research, broadly based around the idea of limitations in resources, whether financial, environmental, infrastructural, labour, or otherwise. As Risam and Gill (2022) put it, minimal computing advocates call for “using only the technologies that are necessary” to achieve a research aim. In this way, minimal computing intends to promote the accessibility of digital scholarship in a wide variety of contexts, counteracting conflation of digital humanities scholarship with expensive software licences, powerful computers or programming expertise (among other concepts). ## Call for Papers We invite papers that consider minimal computing issues as they relate to medieval studies. As the climate crisis worsens, the sustainability of high-performance computing and associated digital research methods have come under scrutiny. Moreover, the difficult funding situation in many countries and institutions poses further problems to the sustainability of digital medieval studies. Expensive equipment, software and computing capacity remains out of reach of many early career, contingent and independent scholars, particularly those without affiliations to well-funded research universities. Minimal computing can be a philosophical choice, but also a choice out of pragmatic necessity. ## Submission Details If you would like to participate, please send: - 150 word abstract - Short bio (no more than 40 words) - Institutional affiliation - Contact details and preferred pronouns Submit to:
Job: Research Associate in Slavery in War (Information Science/Data Management) - King’s College London
September 11, 2025 (Europe/London)
King’s College London seeks a Research Associate to join the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, bringing information science and data management expertise to this interdisciplinary initiative. The role involves developing data management workflows, creating data dictionaries and controlled vocabularies, and managing multi-lingual historical datasets to understand slavery in conflict settings. Working within the “Understanding” research strand, the successful candidate will collaborate with historians, political scientists, and King’s Digital Lab to build data resources that map the distribution, prevalence, and forms of slavery across diverse conflict zones.
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