• 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.

• 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.

• Ana Quiring

• digitization
• gender
• glam
• race
• gender
• materialisms
• data curation

• invisible labor
• World War II
• Lucia Moholy
• microfilm
• EEBO

Centering photographed fingertips in a feminist labor history of Early English Books Online.

• Adéla Hamplová
• Avital Romach
• Josef Pavlíček
• Arnošt Veselý
• Martin Čejka
• David Franc
• Shai Gordin

• machine learning
• digitization

• cuneiform
• convolutional neural networks
• artificial intelligence
• OCR
• object detection

An innovative approach towards cuneiform OCR of identifying strokes instead of signs offers insight into the challenges and methodologies of quantitative epigraphy.

• Epameinondas-Konstantinos Barmpounis
• John Pavlopoulos
• Panos Louridas
• Dritsa Konstantina

• digitization
• nlp
• history

• OCR
• digital humanities

From pixels to historical insights: using HTR and NLP, we provide a nuanced exploration of the issues and societal responses within Greek parliamentary speeches (1946–1947).

• Eva Sánchez-Salido
• Antonio Menta
• Ana García-Serrano

• nlp
• information retrieval
• machine learning
• transcription
• digitization
• history

Transcribe, annotate and train: towards effective search and information management in historical documents.

• 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.

• Kimberly Woodring
• Julie Fox-Horton

• history
• project report
• digitization
• glam

• History Harvest, digital history, digital project management, community archiving, regional history

• Marlene Ernst
• Sebastian Gassner
• Markus Gerstmeier
• Malte Rehbein

• digitization
• content analysis
• tools
• nlp
• history

Three different approaches to categorising semi-structured information concerning legal history

• Nick Thieberger

• project report
• access
• data curation
• cultural heritage
• metadata
• anthropology
• linguistics
• digitization
• indigenous

• PARADISEC
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Pacific
• Papua New Guinea (PNG)
• South-East Asia
• project resiliency

You wonʼt know what you had till itʼs gone: analog recordings and cultural restitution in the 21st century

• Liselore Tissen
• Sanne Frequin
• Ruben Wiersma

• digitization
• history
• images
• visual art

This paper presents a methodological solution of approaching the problem of restoring the medieval Crucifixion of the Lindau Master (c. 1425) by combining the knowledge of art historians, restorers and by integrating modern 3D technologies before, during, and after the restoration.

• Quintus van Galen

• images
• digitization
• history
• media history

Analysis of historical periodicals through digital tools is still a predominantly text-based field. This paper seeks to expand the toolbox of researchers of these sources, and addresses the observed capability gap, by proposing a new technique for the discovery of appearance patterns in historical newspaper collections.

• Adán Israel Lerma Mayer
• Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques
• Ernesto Priani Saiso
• Hannu Salmi

• history
• digitization
• network
• area studies
• corpora
• linguistics

Analyzing the news flow following Maximilian I's death across a multilingual research setting.

• Till Grallert

• project report
• digitization
• cultural heritage
• markup
• minimal computing
• access

This paper introduces and evaluates the project Open Arabic Periodical Editions (OpenArabicPE) as a case study of minimal computing.

• Jaap Verheul
• Hannu Salmi
• Martin Riedl
• Asko Nivala
• Lorella Viola
• Jana Keck
• Emily Bell

• corpora
• history
• area studies
• digitization
• digital libraries

this article demonstrates how word vector models can be used to explore the way concepts have shifted in meaning over time, as they migrated across space, by comparing newspapers from different countries published between 1840 and 1914.

• 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.

• Nouf Alrasheed
• Praveen Rao
• Viviana Grieco

• digitization
• manuscripts
• history
• machine learning

This article examines the handwriting of seventeenth-century Spanish American notary records

• Jason Boyd

• literary studies
• digitization
• databases
• editing

Review of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools

• Giulia Freni

• medieval
• classics
• collaboration
• tools
• interdisciplinarity
• digitization

An exploration of the possibilities offered by future collaborations between classical studies and digital humanities.

• Hazel Wilkinson
• James Briggs
• Dirk Gorissen

• databases
• project report
• graphic design
• digitization
• visual art

• computer vision
• machine learning
• book history
• fleuron
• ornaments
• database

The creation of a database of a million printers’ ornaments.

• John Bonnett
• Joe Bolton
• William Ralph
• Amy Legault
• Erin MacAfee
• Michael Winter
• Chris Jaques
• Mark Anderson

• ar
• digitization
• sound
• performance

The DataScapes Project is an exploration of how Augmented Reality objects can be used as constituents for Landscape Architecture.

• Eugenia S. Kim

• ar
• oral history
• data curation
• performance
• digitization

In this article I propose that motion capture (mocap) and virtual reality (VR) technology can be used to record and visualize movement histories as a supplement to oral histories or for when a memory is based in a embodied experience.

• Jason Mittell

• moving images
• images
• cultural criticism
• digitization
• sound
• visual art

Following upon the strain of digital humanities practice that Mark Sample terms the deformed humanities, this essay subjects a single film to a series of deformations: the classic musical Singin' in the Rain.

• Iben Have
• Kenneth Enevoldsen

• music
• digitization
• history
• machine learning

This article investigates the research question: How has the distribution of music and talk on the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s radio channel P3 developed 1989-2019 by comparing a qualitative case study with a new large-scale study.

• Alison Langmead
• Christopher J. Nygren
• Paul Rodriguez
• Alan Craig

• collaboration
• visual art
• machine learning
• digitization

Explores the value, role, and pitfalls for digitel methods of art attribution

• Eric Hoyt
• J.J. Bersch
• Susan Noh
• Samuel Hansen
• Jacob Mertens
• Jeremy Wade Morris

• metadata
• data visualization
• data curation
• digitization

We share three different methods for studying RSS feeds and podcast metadata: 1) visualizing how topics and keywords trend over time; 2) visualizing networks of common associated keywords entered by podcasters; and 3) analyzing norms and common practices for the duration of podcasts (as a time-based media format, podcasting is unusual in that it is not bound by the programming schedules and technical limitations that provide strict parameters for most audiovisual forms).

• Michael J. Kramer

• images
• digitization
• interdisciplinarity
• sound
• gender

I investigate how digital image sonification amplifies issues of gender, power, embodiment, spectacle, performance, hierarchy, and performance in a photograph of Joan Baez` performing at the Greek Amphitheater in Berkeley, California, during the early 1960s.

• 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

• Geoffrey Rockwell
• Stéfan Sinclair

• history
• archaeology
• digitization
• collaboration
• nlp
• media studies
• markup
• materialisms

Examines innovations in Index Thomisticus and their implications for mechanical and human labour

• Patricia Ferreira-Lopes

• history
• geospatial
• cultural heritage
• digitization
• data modeling
• area studies

Applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in cultural and historical studies, especially on the Iberian peninsula.

• 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

• 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

• Desmond Schmidt

• digitization
• manuscripts
• markup
• transcription
• editing

Presents a critique of current text-encoding practices centered on difficulties concerning the encoding of multiple versions of individual texts

• Adam James Bradley
• Victor Sawal
• Sheelagh Carpendale
• Christopher Collins

• tools
• data visualization
• nlp
• digitization

Presents a system for automatically adding visualizations and NLP applications to analog texts, using any web-based device with a camera.

• Amelia Chesley

• access
• collaboration
• digital libraries
• transcription
• digitization

The author discusses digital humanities beyond institutional sponsorshop with the example of LibriVox.