• Walter Hawthorne

• archives
• race
• ethics
• history

• slavery
• naming

This paper examines the ethical implications of public, internet-based history projects that list enslaved people by name.

• Kelly M. Duke Bryant

• ethics
• archives
• databases
• history

• children
• slavery
• liberation
• post-emancipation
• liberated minors
• naming
• aliases

This article describes the process of building a database of names and information about formerly enslaved children in early colonial Senegal, and it uses the database to ask both historical and ethical questions about naming practices and aliases, experiences of unfreedom, and self-fashioning among these children.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel

• race
• archives
• pedagogy

In this paper, I examine the ethics and pedagogical implications of unnaming for the political project of historical recovery, showing how students' interpretive choices when working with archival materials illuminate the ways that deliberate unnaming can enact a shift away from anonymity and erasure and, in turn, a move towards productive engagement with the limits of knowledge and recovery in slavery's archive.

• Loren Lee

• digitization
• medieval
• materialisms
• digital libraries
• archives

Bridget Whearty's Digital Codicology spotlights the intellectual, human labor behind every digitized manuscript, advocating for a codicology that honors these digital objects as worthy subjects of scholarly attention in their own right.

• Angela Sutton
• Jessica Power

• archives
• collaboration
• data analytics
• data curation
• databases
• digitization
• ethics
• semantic web
• interdisciplinarity
• race
• social justice
• network
• public history
• social justice

• race studies

This article explores the use of community engagement and the principles behind linked data to create a spatial history database that both serves a local Black community in the US South and makes accessible the sources that complicate our understanding of the Civil War.

• Jina DuVernay

• archives
• race

• librarians
• libraries
• archivists
• Black digital humanities

Reflecting on my own work as a library professional, I argue that bridging the gap between the Black digital humanities and the social sciences, particularly library science, can prove to be incredibly fruitful in all phases of a digital humanity project.

• Rachel Pierce

• archives
• digitization
• data curation

This articles demonstrates that the sustainability of digitized collections depends on understanding their unmoored nature and role in history-making, meaning that their indeterminateness should thus be built into collections development and description from the beginning.

• 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.

• Lise Jaillant

• archives
• digitization
• glam
• machine learning

• artificial intelligence

This Special Issue focuses on the theme of  Using Visual AI Applied to Digital  Archives. It is an invitation to work collaboratively, across disciplines and sectors, to address challenges associated with AI and fully embrace the potentialities of technology to make visual archives more accessible in an ethical way.

• Jonathan Dentler
• Lise Jaillant
• Daniel Foliard
• Julien Schuh

• visual art
• machine learning
• archives

• artificial intelligence
• computer vision
• colonial archives
• sensitive images
• visual culture
• open access
• sensitivity
• critical artificial intelligence
• multimodal artificial intelligence

Can AI help confront colonial photographic archives? Check out this article exploring how semi-automation can augment our capacity to produce knowledge using digital visual archives of contested pasts.

• Hilary Havens
• Eliza Alexander Wilcox
• Meredith L. Hale
• Jamie Kramer

• collaboration
• transcription
• metadata
• markup
• archives
• manuscripts
• semantic web
• ethics
• editing

• crowdsourcing
• Zooniverse
• TEI
• linked open data
• Maria Edgeworth
• name authorities
• digital archives
• Romantic period
• long eighteenth century
• correspondence
• controlled vocabularies

Our article describes how we are building the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project, an open-access archive containing Maria Edgeworth's correspondence, tracing our steps including image retrieval and processing, metadata generation, transcription, linked open data, and TEI encoding.

• Martin Holmes
• Janelle Jenstad
• J. Matthew Huculak

• project management
• archives
• dh
• cultural criticism
• infrastructure

• project resiliency
• endings
• introduction

The end is where we start from.

• 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

• Moshe Blidstein
• Daphne Raban

• project report
• tools
• religion
• classics
• archives

Exploration of Tiresias, a multilingual database constructed constructed as an efficient tool to access and understand ancient texts for research purposes.

• Louis M. Maraj

• archives
• data curation
• race
• social media

• Digital blackness
• telos
• Sylvia Wynter

I refuse the idea that the goal of Black digital technologies and their uses remains building some Black canon of texts, some particular archive of artifacts, a catalogue of ways of being in the world somehow authentically emerging from black experience.

• Jazma Sutton
• Kalani Craig

• archives
• data curation
• race
• cultural heritage
• history
• oral history
• social media
• project report

• Black women
• Black digital humanities
• History harvest
• Memory work
• Digital community archive

In a world that has always conceived of Black women in opposition to others, but never on her own terms, Remembering Freedom History Harvest builds a local Indiana historiography that relies less on resistant readings of archives and more on the community archives and memory work that join together in descendant archival practice as a way to generate Black women’s histories.

• 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.

• Blanca Gómez Cifuentes
• Carlos Fernández Freire
• Isabel del Bosque González
• Idoia Murga Castro

• project report
• performance
• cultural heritage
• history
• archives

Systematizing preserved sources of the Ballets Espagnols de Antonia Mercé La Argentina to create interactive maps which visualize their activity.

• Lacey Schauwecker

• archives
• geospatial
• data visualization
• ecocriticism
• ethics

Investigating methods for counter-mapping and proposing a more multi-sensory practice.

• Tanya Clement
• Ben Brumfield
• Sara Brumfield

• access
• archives
• annotation
• project report

The AudiAnnotate use case presented here provides context to three recordings of Zora Neale Hurston created during the Works Project Administration Federal Writers Project from 1937-1942

• James Baker
• Andrew Salway
• Cynthia Roman

• archives
• glam
• metadata
• history
• ethics

Tracking the transmission of Mary Dorothy George's voice through time from the British Museum in London to the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut.

• Suphan Kirmizialtin
• David Joseph Wrisley

• transcription
• machine learning
• digitization
• archives
• history
• graphic design
• language studies

Exploring the special challenges of OCR for Arabic-script Ottoman Turkish newspapers.

• Ciaran B. Trace

• archives
• infrastructure

• Infrastructure
• maintenance
• maintenance work
• humanities scholarship
• archival work

This article examines the notion of the archive as revealed through a process of infrastructural inversion, with an emphasis on understanding the working information practices of archivists as a prerequisite to any discussion of humanities infrastructure initiatives. Situating the archive as a form of infrastructure and archival labor as a form of maintenance work generates descriptions of archival systems and practices that shine a spotlight on key negotiations and tensions that adhere in a profession that exists in service of others.

• Doran Larson

• social justice
• archives
• reading
• history
• public history

This article proposes that there exists a broad, well established, but underappreciated mid-range manner of reading that stands between traditional close reading and computer-aided distant reading of first-person witness testimony.

• Ryan Cordell

• literary studies
• history
• archives
• gender

This is a review of A World of Fiction by Katherine Bode.

• Samantha Fritz
• Ian Milligan
• Nick Ruest
• Jimmy Lin

• transcription
• collaboration
• archives
• users
• access

Examines community engagement with datathon events to propose how to build and engage users in open-source DH projects

• Eric Kaltman
• Joseph Osborn
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin

• games
• citation
• standards
• archives

Presentation of a prototype tool for citing games and software

• Mark Williams
• John Bell

• history
• media studies
• data curation
• archives
• images
• project management

This essay details the development and current NEH-funded research goals of The Media Ecology Project (MEP), directed by Prof. Mark Williams and designed by Dr. John Bell at Dartmouth.

• Jean Carrive
• Abdelkrim Beloued
• Pascale Goetschel
• Serge Heiden
• Antoine Laurent
• Pasquale Lisena
• Franck Mazuet
• Sylvain Meignier
• Bénédicte Pincemin
• Géraldine Poels
• Raphaël Troncy

• moving images
• history
• project report
• tools
• archives
• semantic web

The ANTRACT project is a cross-disciplinary apparatus dedicated to the analysis of the French newsreel company Les Actualités Françaises (1945-1969) and its film productions.

• Eef Masson
• Christian Gosvig Olesen
• Nanne van Noord
• Giovanna Fossati

• moving images
• digitization
• archives
• information retrieval
• images

Discusses the Sensory Moving Image Archive project and its use of computer vision and feature extraction in video analysis

• Manuel Burghardt
• Adelheid Heftberger
• Johannes Pause
• Niels-Oliver Walkowski
• Matthias Zeppelzauer

• images
• moving images
• pedagogy
• glam
• archives
• information retrieval
• media studies

Introduction to Film Studies Special Issue

• Laura Matthew
• Michael Bannister

• archives
• users
• transcription
• translation
• collaboration
• indigenous
• language studies
• project report

This article discusses the Nahuatl/Nawat in Central America digital archive and its challenges.

• Aleksandra Kil

• project report
• infrastructure
• history
• archaeology
• archives
• materialisms

The author looks into the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale's Human Relations Area Files and how their production helped secure funding and space for the lab.

• Cody Mejeur

• games
• images
• tools
• data visualization
• users
• archives

Explores the use of ImagePlot for analyzing video game narratives

• Christoph Wick
• Christian Reul
• Frank Puppe

• digitization
• annotation
• tools
• transcription
• graphic design
• archives

Examines Calamari as new line based OCR engine to replace OCRopy or Tesseract on historical prints pretraining

• Ana Jofre
• Vincent Berardi
• Kathleen P.J. Brennan
• Aisha Cornejo
• Carl Bennett
• John Harlan

• images
• project report
• machine learning
• annotation
• tools
• archives
• corpora
• area studies

This is a case study that demonstrates how the authors' software can be used to extract and annotate faces from a magazine archive.

• Paul A. Broyles

• publishing
• project report
• archives
• editing
• citation
• data curation
• medieval

Examines versioning practices and policies as social products to argue for transparency in assigning meaningful version numbers to digital editions

• S.L. Ziegler

• cultural heritage
• digitization
• archives
• ethics
• glam
• metadata
• access

Analyzes the interaction between data brokers and cultural heritage institutions' data collections to explore how to mitigate the harm potentially caused by data in cultural institutions

• Brian M. Watson

• archives
• media studies
• performance
• social media
• data curation
• history

Review of Abigail De Kosnik’s Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press, 2016)

• Jasmijn Van Gorp
• Marc Bron

• interdisciplinarity
• collaboration
• archives
• project report
• moving images
• cs
• media studies

Sheds empirical light on interdisciplinary collaboration between the computer sciences and media studies on the DH project BRIDGE.

• Cait Coker
• Kate Ozment

• literary studies
• citation
• archives
• gender
• project management

Articulates a digital adaptation of enumerative bibliography and argues for its recuperative potential in feminist literary history.

• Dr. Jeanie Austin

• project report
• social justice
• archives
• gender

What can be learned from the institutional FemTechNet archive.

• James Smithies
• Carina Westling
• Anna-Maria Sichani
• Pam Mellen
• Arianna Ciula

• archives
• infrastructure
• project management
• dh
• digital

Details the conceptual, procedural, and technical approaches used to secure the short to medium term future of the King's Digital Lab projects, and offers policy recommendations to prevent repetition of the situation in the future.