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Decolonial by Design: Building Sekuru's Stories
  • Jennifer W. Kyker
  • music
  • oral history
  • cultural heritage
  • access
  • African studies
  • Zimbabwe
  • Mbira

Sekuru's Stories is a co-authored digital humanities project that contributes toward the decoloniality of knowledge through the music and oral histories of Zimbabwean mbira player Sekuru Tute Chigamba.

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AI and Medical Images: Addressing Ethical Challenges to Provide Responsible Access to Historical Medical Illustrations
  • Lise Jaillant
  • Katherine Aske
  • archives
  • digitization
  • machine learning
  • cultural heritage
  • access
  • medical images
  • digital archives
  • artificial intelligence
  • responsible access

Through a series of interviews with 10 archivists, librarians, and researchers based in the UK and US, the authors show that improved access to medical illustrations is essential to produce new knowledge in the humanities and medical research, as well as to bridge the gap between historical and modern understandings of the human body.

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Augmenting Access to Embodied Knowledge Archives: A Computational Framework
  • Giacomo Alliata
  • Yumeng Hou
  • Sarah Kenderdine
  • cultural heritage
  • access

    This study examines a computational workflow that combines posture recognition and movement computing to bridge the gap in accessing digital archives that capture living knowledge and embodied experiences. By analysing and visualising such archives through bodily features, we aim to enhance archival interaction in the context of digital museology, as demonstrated through two use cases.

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    Lilypond Music-Notation Software in the Digital-Humanities Toolbox
    • Andrew A. Cashner
    • access
    • editing
    • markup
    • minimal computing
    • music
    • tools
    • users
    • music notation
    • open-source software
    • free software
    • minimal computing
    • semantic markup
    • conversion and exchange
    • musicology
    • publishing
    • editing
    • music encoding
    • workflow

    Lilypond music-notation software as a case study: how to make open-source tools work for us.

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    Exploring Combinatorial Methods to Produce Sonnets: An Overview of the Oupoco Project
    • Frédérique Mélanie-Becquet
    • Clément Plancq
    • Claude Grunspan
    • Mylène Maignant
    • Matthieu Raffard
    • Mathilde Roussel
    • Fiammetta Ghedini
    • Thierry Poibeau
    • access
    • corpora
    • elit
    • gender
    • literary studies
    • materialisms
    • nlp
    • project report
    • users
    • poetry
    • language generation
    • natural language processing
    • poetry generation

    Poetry combinatorics: exploring how poetry can be produced automatically, using a mix of literature, computer and art!

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    DH as Data: Establishing Greater Access through Sustainability
    • Alex Kinnaman
    • Corinne Guimont
    • access
    • data curation
    • project management
    • project report

      Unlocking Digital Humanities access: Discover how treating DH as traditional data drives sustainability and accessibility - Insights from our Virginia Tech study! #DigitalHumanities #DHasData @VTLibraries @alex_kinnaman @CorinneMayV

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      Automated Transcription of Gə'əz Manuscripts Using Deep Learning
      • Samuel Grieggs
      • Jessica Lockhart
      • Alexandra Atiya
      • Gelila Tilahun
      • Suzanne Akbari
      • Eyob Derillo
      • Jarod Jacobs
      • Christine Kwon
      • Michael Gervers
      • Steve Delamarter
      • Alexandra Gillespie
      • Walter Scheirer
      • digitization
      • access
      • minimal computing
      • history
      • area studies

        The paper describes the collaborative development of a new open-source tool for Ethiopian manuscript transcription.

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        The Dangers of Disappearance, the Opportunities of Recovery
        • Sara Diamond
        • archives
        • project management
        • data curation
        • access
        • project report
        • visual art
        • sound
        • indigenous
        • media history
        • project resiliency
        • Banff New Media Institute
        • Daniel Langlois Foundation
        • Crista Dahl Library and Archive
        • Sara Diamond Fonds

        Disappearing archives

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        Lessons from the Library: Extreme Minimalist Scaling at Pirate Ebook Platforms
        • Martin Paul Eve
        • archives
        • access
        • minimal computing
        • ethics
        • digital libraries

          This article examines the limits on scalability of the distribution of the Library Genesis through its torrent archive and other distributed networking technologies such as IFS, which despite their promise of peer-to-peer redundancy fall down on an archive of this size.

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          Minimal Computing for Exploring Indian Poetics
          • Zahra Rizvi
          • Rohan Chauhan
          • A. Sean Pue
          • Nishat Zaidi
          • literary studies
          • project management
          • access
          • minimal computing
          • data modeling

            Exploring minimal computing as a method for creating multilingual, digital critical editions of Indian-language poetry.

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            Minimal Computing from the Labor Perspective
            • Tiffany Chan
            • Jentery Sayers
            • project report
            • minimal computing
            • access
            • project management

              A brief exploration of Vault, a digital asset management system, and how it illustrates minimal computing from the labor perspective.

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              Minimizing Computing Maximizes Labor
              • Quinn Dombrowski
              • globalDH
              • access
              • tools
              • minimal computing
              • ethics
              • collaboration

                This paper focuses on the practical realities of implementing the most common minimal computing methods for web development.

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                Open, Equitable, and Minimal: Teaching Digital Scholarly Editing North and South
                • Raffaele Viglianti
                • Gimena del Rio Riande
                • Nidia Hernández
                • Romina De Léon
                • access
                • globalDH
                • pedagogy
                • project report
                • minimal computing

                  In this paper, we present our preliminary reflections on whether minimal computing as a practice can extend beyond computing done under some technological constraints to serving as a common ground between different digital humanities research dynamics in the Global North and South.

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                  Power and Precarity: Lessons from the Makers by Mail Project
                  • Christina Boyles
                  • Andy Boyles Petersen
                  • access
                  • ethics
                  • social justice
                  • minimal computing

                    This article has examines notions of precarity within the Makers by Mail project to interrogate the relationship between minimal computing methodologies and academic austerity.

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                    Healing the Gap: Digital Humanities Methods for the Virtual Reunification of Split Media and Paper Collections
                    • Stephanie Sapienza
                    • Eric Hoyt
                    • Matt St. John
                    • Ed Summers
                    • JJ Bersch
                    • data curation
                    • access
                    • project report
                    • minimal computing
                    • project management

                      This paper introduces and unpacks several challenges faced by stewards who work with audiovisual resources, departing from the premise that audiovisual resources are undervalued and underutilized as primary source materials for scholarship and therefore receive less attention in the sphere of digital humanities.

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                      Ticha: Collaboration with Indigenous communities to build digital resources on Zapotec language and history
                      • George Aaron Broadwell
                      • Moisés García Guzmán
                      • Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
                      • Felipe H. Lopez
                      • May Helena Plumb
                      • Mike Zarafonetis
                      • collaboration
                      • history
                      • cultural heritage
                      • digital libraries
                      • indigenous
                      • language studies
                      • translation
                      • access
                      • social justice
                      • digital schoalrship
                      • digital humanities
                      • Colonial Mexico
                      • Zapotec
                      • archives
                      • collaoration
                      • humanidades digitales
                      • México colonial
                      • zapoteco
                      • archivos
                      • colaboración
                      • colaboración

                      This article discusses the Ticha project which is a digital text explorer that provides access to media and documents associated with the Zapotec community.

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                      A Prosopography as Linked Open Data: Some Implications from DPRR
                      • John Douglas Bradley
                      • classics
                      • access
                      • semantic web
                      • network
                      • users
                      • digital libraries
                      • Roman Republic
                      • Linked Open Data
                      • Resource Description Framework
                      • Digital Prosopography

                      Explores how a Prosopography of the Roman Republic has been presented as Linked Open Data through an RDF server.

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