Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

I've done a lot of newspaper research, but up to now via traditional methods (i.e. going through page by page) combined with word searches in digitised collections. This excellent article gives some great insight into more powerful options for using historical newspapers.

(It also makes clear how much work is involved...)

New Publication: Creating Specialised Corpora from Digitized Historical Newspaper Archives | Joshua Wilson Black

https://joshua.wilsonblack.nz/post/digital-scholarship-in-the-humanities/

There is a new article in the world about PLATO System💻🖥️! (PLATO wasn`t the "world’s first computer learning system" (perhaps the first outside the military?); but PLATO is indeed important for understanding the history of e-learning) #edtech #history

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0046760X.2022.2141353

Our BERT for Humanists team just got a major grant from NEH to study AI and large language models in the humanities. Some context and details from Cornell at https://cis.cornell.edu/cornell-initiative-empowers-humanists-leverage-ai. @dmimno @mellymeldubs #CornellAI

Question: Do you know of any texts on the history of digitisation in Austria and/or Switzerland?

(Images are from the NIG of the University of Vienna)

Dr Francesca Benatti Introduces Hypertext’s “Humanity Within”

The theme is an invitation to the historical Hypertext community to reflect on the human-side of hypertext systems, as new forms of cultural artefacts and infrastructures.
Read more https://ht.acm.org/dr-francesca-benatti-introduces-hypertexts-humanity-within/

La préservation du jeu vidéo en Suisse: publication du rapport final du projet Pixevetica sur la préservation du #jeuvidéo en Suisse

https://infoclio.ch/fr/la-pr%C3%A9servation-du-jeu-vid%C3%A9o-en-suisse-rapport-final

Anyone who reads Reinhart Koselleck’s texts in German will be aware of two striking features in the ways he uses language: first, a frequent recourse to certain metaphorical expressions, and second, an extensive use of a limited number of rather peculiar words, or, contrariwise, of familiar words in an idiosyncratic way.

At ➡ Geschichtstheorie am Werk, Willibald Steinmetz applies historical semantics to one of its founders:

https://gtw.hypotheses.org/11421

#hypoverse #Koselleck100

And on modelling and DH, see also here, by @true_mxp:

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/d2kb6/

Another solicitation for assistance from the #Mastadon-ian side of the #Fediverse:

What's a good #Linux (or #Web) based #XML editor that can handle versioning? 𝘐.𝘦., automatically label changes with HTMLish <𝚒𝚗𝚜></𝚒𝚗𝚜> and <𝚍𝚎𝚕></𝚍𝚎𝚕>, or even something like #Wikipedia's history (although being able to see the changes inline would be better)?

There's got to be such a beast, surely?

Call for Participations: (Hybrid) Workshop on Extracting Heterogeneous Reference Data, 15/16 May 2023, #mpilhlt Frankfurt/M., Germany.

Interested in extracting literature references from historical texts, scholarly literature in the humanities, documents in low-resourced languages? Want to apply your language model to a new use case and enjoy the gratitude of dozens of humanities, law and social sciences scholars? Have a use case or training data?
Please have a look at our CfP:

https://mpilhlt.github.io/reference-extraction/workshop-2023/cfp

#DigitalHumanities #NLP #NaturalLanguageProcessing #ReferenceExtraction #LLM #Bibliometrics

We’re all prompt engineers for humans when we communicate with each other

Think about it the next time you talk to someone, particularly a stranger. How you start, how you craft your “input” (including body language, expression) will affect the “output” from the person 😁

It's really hard to tell which of these wickedly tough challenges will be solved first: AGI, people living on another planet, or getting OSX to remember which fucking screen a window was on when it wakes back up.

Say Hello to Ivory. We are now available to all on Apple’s App Store! We have launched as “Early Access” because we still have a lot of exciting plans ahead of that will make Ivory even better. Go download it, try it free for 7 days, and experience it for yourself!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

Ivory is on the App Store now - highly recommended. I’ve been on the beta for a while now, and subscribed immediately.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274