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docuracy.co.uk
✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa.
Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality.
docuracy.github.io/datini/

#DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory
A dark-themed interactive map of the medieval western Mediterranean showing 14th-century merchant letter routes as curved arcs coloured from cyan (fast, 0–5 days) through yellow to red (30+ days). Short land routes between Tuscan cities glow cyan; longer sea routes to Barcelona and Majorca burn orange and red, revealing the unpredictability of medieval maritime travel. (299 characters) Long (accessible description for screen readers / figure caption): Screenshot of the Datini Letters Geospatial Explorer in Travel Time mode. A dark basemap of the western Mediterranean is overlaid with curved arc lines connecting pairs of cities in the Datini merchant network. Arc colour encodes average letter delivery time on a gradient from cyan (near-instant, 0–5 days) through green and yellow (one to two weeks) to orange and deep red-magenta (more than 30 days). Dense clusters of fast cyan arcs radiate from Florence and Pisa across Tuscany, reflecting the reliable day-or-two land post. Arcs reaching westward to Barcelona, Valencia, and Palma de Majorca shift to orange and red, capturing the slower and far more variable sea routes that could take anywhere from a week to several months. City nodes are shown as circles: pink for the main Datini fondacos (Pisa, Florence, Barcelona, Genoa, Valencia, Majorca) and blue for correspondent cities. A sidebar on the left shows the Travel Time mode is selected, with a cyan-to-red colour legend and a filter slider for minimum letters per route.
May 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
melissaterras.bsky.social
Absolutely astonished at being awarded an MBE for services to Digital Humanities. I’ve no idea who nominated me - great to see #digitalhumanities supported in this context! It will take a moment for this to sink in!

Also if the King gives you an MBE for DH, does that mean it’s a real subject? 😊💃👩‍💻📜
New Year Honours List recognises culture, education and sport
In this year’s New Year Honours, painter and printmaker, Barbara Rae, CBE, RA, receives a damehood, and others involved in the fields of sport, education and public service in Edinburgh are also honou...
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
December 31, 2024 at 9:50 AM
waitmanwbeorn.com
The (beta) version of the Visualizing Janowska Project is live.

Can I ask anyone who is interested to please take a look and if you do, please take a moment to fill out the feedback form below so I can potentially make changes?

#DH
#DigitalHumanities

storage.net-fs.com/hosting/8432...
VJ- Intro Tour
Virtual Tour
storage.net-fs.com
September 23, 2026 at 11:03 AM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #skystorians #bookhistory #digitalhumanities
A hand soaked with sweat, in a plastic glove, caught in the act while doing a digital scan of a broadside for a Munich based library. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10811151?page=6,7
March 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
megsmith.bsky.social
Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities
9:20 ‹ Back へく 9:03 AM odh@neh.gov To: Elizabeth, Margaret & 1 more... › Information about your NEH Grant Application HT-308154 You don't often get email from odh@neh.gov. Learn why. this is important This is to inform you that NEH Grant Application HT-308154 for project "Null Results: Dealing with Failure in the Digital Humanities" has been withdrawn by the NEH. Thank you so much for applying to the NEH's Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Unfortunately, all the programs under the Office of Digital Humanities have been cancelled. So we are unable to review your proposal and have marked it as Withdrawn by Agency in our system. I realize that writing a proposal takes a long time and I'm so sorry we can't fund your excellent work anymore. thanks, Brett Bobley Director, Office of Digital Humanities 血 口 介 囗
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
layersoflondon.bsky.social
Hello! We are over here now. Come and explore our more than 400 historic maps of London available to view on our website. Which is your favourite? layersoflondon.org/map?layers=t...
#Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps #MapMonday
Layers of London
layersoflondon.org
November 14, 2024 at 10:46 AM
jfwinters.bsky.social
Registration for this year’s Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and @sas-news.bsky.social, is now open. Join us in London on 26 Nov to hear Prof Jennifer Edmond talk about ‘From collection to collective: what is an archive now?’ Free to attend! #DigitalHumanities
From Collection to Collective: what is an archive now?
Explore how digital platforms are reshaping cultural memory at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 24, 2026 at 3:15 PM
plach.bsky.social
I created a starter pack for folks who work in and/or are interested in the intersection of #DigitalHumanities and #libraries. Happy to add folks!
go.bsky.app/Fg9dqjc
November 14, 2024 at 4:04 PM
harald-klinke.de
Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code.

#DigitalHumanities #RStats

link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Cultural Data Science
This book introduces basic concepts in data science, drawing from contextual examples in art history, visual computing, cloud computing, and microservices
link.springer.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
megsmith.bsky.social
If you, like me, are looking for firm details on what’s happened so far at NEH, here’s a list of programs that are marked as discontinued or cancelled on the website. This is a snapshot - I’m sure this the impacts will grow as more cuts unfold throughout the day. #NEH #DigitalHumanities
Cancelled or discontinued NEH grants • community and cultural resilience • awards for faculty at TCUs • awards for faculty at HSls • humanities initiatives at HSls • humanities initiatives at TCUs • digital projects for the public • humanities connections • summer stipends • climate smart humanities organizations • spotlight on humanities initiatives higher ed
April 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
voetnoot.bsky.social
I think as historians we should be very very cautious about using AI images, especially when there are more than enough good pictures available. And certainly never without a caption clearly stating that "this is an ai image". #skyhistorians #digitalhumanities diaries.amsterdamtimemachine.nl
January 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
mariaa.bsky.social
Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal.

Deadline January 31st!

#NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research
Call for Papers: Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research.
www.cambridge.org
January 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
For 30 years I've been experimenting with ways to see & use the online collections of libraries, archives & museums. I've made useful things, playful things, & weird things. Here's a big list of them for you to explore! https://wraggelabs.com #glam #histodons #digitalhumanities
Wragge Labs
A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.
wraggelabs.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
michamahlberg.bsky.social
At day #3 @andreaswagnr.bsky.social is bringing geo data to our course on concordance reading at the Computational Linguistics Fall School at UTN Nuremberg #digitalhumanities #corpuslinguistics with a corpus from @idsmannheim.bsky.social
September 23, 2026 at 1:26 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
via Siska De Baerdemaeker:
2 #HPS #philjobs in Philosophy Dept @ Stockholm Uni:
1. #PhilSci w/ a focus on social epistemology, values & science:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

2. #HistSci or #DigitalHumanities:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: November 8, 2026.
Researcher in Philosophy of Science
The Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University is the largest in Sweden, with vibrant research groups in a wide range of philosophical disciplines. The department has significant strengths in ph
su.varbi.com
September 22, 2026 at 1:45 PM
foundhistory.bsky.social
Lots of people are hurting today, but I think it’s important to say that the closure of NEH and IMLS is an existential event for #DigitalHumanities #DH
April 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
emdigit.bsky.social
📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...
The cover of a white paper booklet titles Early Modern Digital Itineraries and featuring an early printed map of Europe
April 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
jfwinters.bsky.social
Call for papers: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual event, Glasgow, 17-18 June 2025 (CFP deadline 15 Jan 2025) easychair.org/cfp/ukie2025. The theme is ‘Collaboration beyond boundaries’ #DigitalHumanities
November 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM
adho-org.bsky.social
We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon.

Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027!
#DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway
February 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
melissaterras.bsky.social
Here I am! 🤗 - what is the point of #digitalhumanities in a world which is on fire? and how has DH changed over the past 20 years? My personal take:
June 5, 2026 at 12:17 PM
umblaetterer.bsky.social
⚡ New #DraCor merch available:

Our new network analysis card-game, "Battle of the Plays", published @sukultur.bsky.social, order here:
sukultur.de/produkt/batt...

Rules of play & background info:
battle-of-the-plays.github.io

@schwindt.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
Playing card. Playing card. Playing card. Playing card.
November 29, 2024 at 9:06 AM
meganpeiser.bsky.social
Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...
www.press.jhu.edu
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
ukiedh.bsky.social
🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association!

From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups.

🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities
Announcement: New CIGs | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org
September 21, 2026 at 9:46 AM
caromein.bsky.social
New study compares state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition engines—PyLaia, IDA, and TrOCR—for digitizing historical documents. Findings highlight the impact of language models and diverse datasets on recognition accuracy.
Read more: rdcu.be/elLLR
#DigitalHumanities #HTR #HistoricalDocuments
Assessing advanced handwritten text recognition engines for digitizing historical documents
rdcu.be
May 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
megsmith.bsky.social
🤩 Thanks again to @literaturegeek.bsky.social for immortalizing this line from the NEH wake session at ACH. If I have a scholarly motto, this is it — infrastructure is mutual obligation and mutual benefit. #DigitalHumanities #DHMakes
A framed print that reads “Infrastructure is something we owe to one another. - Meg Smith” Made by Amanda Wyatt Visconti! It’s printed in a beautiful pink-blue gradient.
January 14, 2026 at 2:13 AM