Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

"A Byte Sized History of Computer Typography" Feb 14th free zoom lecture

from our friends at the Letterform Archive:

https://letterformarchive.org/products/a-byte-sized-history-of-computer-typography/

A. Michael Noll's 1966 paper comparing a Piet Mondrian painting to his computer-generated version prefigures so many of our modern themes, from generative art, to perceptual studies judging human-vs-computer-generated, even to crediting the computer as collaborator, to non-diversity of the participants

I shared my first impressions with SEdit, the structure editor of Medley Interlisp. I picked up structure editing faster than expected and now it feels second nature.

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/medley-interlisp-structure-editing-first-impressions

#interlisp #lisp

Gesucht: Referent:in für Digital Humanities und #Forschungsdatenmanagement bei den @webertweets! E13, unbefristet, und Zusammenarbeit mit den elf Auslandsinstituten, also auch mit dem @dhiparis und mit mir :) Come join the team => https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/karriere/stipendien-stellenportal/einzelansicht-stellenangebote/detail/News/referent-referentin-mwd-fuer-digital-humanities-und-forschungsdatenmanagement-mws.html

#CostOfLiving: we are financing higher salaries for employees in SNSF-funded research projects. The measure takes effect on 1 March 2023.

https://sohub.io/mkip

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

Reupping this part of the #receptiogate because while not important to the main story it is one hell of a ride!
RT https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1607304878291918848
Receptio https://receptio.eu/story say they were set up at the behest of "The International Philological Society", which itself seems to be an outright scam & which awards a "Nobel Prize for Philology" which the Nobel Committee in Sweden has never heard of.
https://scena9.ro/en/article/rom

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 😁