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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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    Language, Materiality, and Digital Neapolitanitá
    • Cristina Migliaccio
    • web
    • moving images
    • globalDH
    • dh
    • cultural heritage

      This article explores how usages of Neapolitan-Italian language on YouTube might counter the linguistic and cultural subordination of Neapolitans.

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      New Questions, Next Work
      • Bethany Nowviskie
      • race
      • cultural heritage
      • dh
      • infrastructure
      • cultural criticism
      • social justice
      • Digital humanities
      • Organizing
      • Reform
      • Mutual aid
      • Infrastructure
      • Reflection

      We have pathways forward and tantalizing hints, but can scarcely imagine what it will mean to shift from extractive modes of digital research and curation — quantifying, fragmenting, pinning, hoarding — to ones that are generative, healing, open-ended, and which make us whole.

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      Reaping the Harvest: Descendant Archival Practice to Foster Sustainable Digital Archives for Rural Black Women
      • 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.

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      Simple but Beautiful: A Case Study on the ZHI Project of Traditional Craftsmanship
      • Jing Chen
      • Mengqi Li
      • Wensi Lin
      • Yinzhou Zhao
      • Mengyue Zhang
      • Han Chen
      • Qiang Hu
      • Yongqing Xie
      • project report
      • visual art
      • cultural heritage
      • collaboration
      • minimal computing
      • history
      • publishing

        This essay offers a case study of the ZHI project, a digital craftsmanship project showcasing the beauty of traditional craftsmanship at three levels: knowing, making, and intelligence.

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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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