• 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.

• Walter Hawthorne
• Richard Roberts
• Fatoumata Seck
• Rebecca Wall

• race
• history
• ethics

This introduction provides a broad overview to the context of digital humanities projects dealing with enslaved people and frames the debate over the ethics and politics of using the names of enslaved people.

• Marie Rodet
• Mamadou Séne Cissé

• ethics
• history
• race
• moving images

• descent-based slavery
• digital public history
• Mali
• ethics of care
• web documentary
• participatory visual research
• digital gap
• co-production
• shared authority
• equitable partnership
• transmedia
• remediation

How do you create a digital public history project on slavery with concerned communities in Mali who are increasingly at risk of violence because of the very topic of slavery?

• Matthew S. Hopper

• dh
• ethics
• history
• social justice

• slavery

This paper examines ethical issues related to the use of the registers of liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean for historical research.

• Mamadou Yéro Baldé
• Djibrirou Daouda Ba
• Ismaïla Mbodji

• ethics
• pedagogy
• history

• global digital literacy
• slavery

Teaching the slave trade and slavery through the Senegalese liberation register is not only to put the digital humanities at the center of pedagogical transmission, but it is also to inscribe Senegalese learners in the time-world of science.

• Lee Mordechai
• Alan Stahl
• Mark Pyzyk
• Ilia Curto Pelle

• collaboration
• data analytics
• data visualization
• databases
• geospatial
• history
• medieval

• Dr. Drew E. VandeCreek

• digital libraries
• data curation
• history
• infrastructure

• Digital Preservation
• Legacy websites
• Website Failure
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Website Sustainability

An examination into why four free use digital humanities websites lost their funding from the National Endowment fo the Humannities' Education Development and Demonstration Program.

• Edgar Lejeune

• dh
• history
• standards
• publishing
• medieval

• History of Digital Humanities
• Digital Medieval History
• Research Instruments

A history of debates about medievalists circulating early digital research instruments.

• Julius Weißmann
• Markus Seidl
• Anya Dietrich
• Martin Haltrich

• machine learning
• cs
• data analytics
• manuscripts
• medieval
• digital libraries
• history
• images
• informatics

• scribe identification
• deep learning
• computer vision
• Carolingian miniscule

Unveiling the secrets of the monastery library with AI based technology! Our latest research explores the power of cross-codex learning for reliable scribe identification in medieval manuscripts.

• 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

• Eugenio Biagini
• Patrick Geoghegan
• Hugh Hanley
• Aneirin Jones
• Huw Jones

• markup
• history
• tools
• corpora
• public history

• collation
• history
• Ireland
• similarity
• text encoding

Automated methods for the reconstruction of political speeches.

• Annette Vee

• code studies
• cs
• users
• history
• project management
• media history
• games

• Critical Code Studies
• BASIC programming language
• programming for all
• computer games
• Dartmouth College
• sports

Annette Vee traces the historical and cultural context of FTBALL as an example of programming for all.

• 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

• Estefanía López Salas

• geospatial
• tools
• project report
• history
• project management

• Digital Art and Architectural History
• Digital Visualization
• Spatiotemporal Web-Mapping
• Spanish Monastic Architecture

The paper focuses on a prototype interactive web-map of the monastic site of San Julián de Samos in north-western Spain and offers a response to questions regarding why and how to create an interactive web-map in the field of architectural history through a particular case study.

• Ethan Davis
• Christopher Danforth
• Wolfgang Mieder
• Peter Sheridan Dodds

• linguistics
• corpora
• history
• data visualization

This article measures temporal changes in the relevance of proverbs within four corpora,differing in kind, scale, and time frame: Millions of books over centuries; thousands of books over centuries; millions of news articles over twenty years; and billions of tweets over a decade.

• Sune Bechmann Pedersen
• Mathias Johansson

• reading
• geospatial
• history
• area studies
• communications
• project report

• Historical Geographical Information Systems
• tourism history
• travel guides
• state socialism
• Cold War
• toponym disambiguation
• Baedeker
• Čedok

This article demonstrates the value of scalable reading of historical travel guides, combining traditional close reading with computer-assisted distant reading.

• 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.

• Helen B. Kampmann Marodin

• history
• dh

Review of Adam Crymble's Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age published in 2021 by the University of Illinois Press.

• 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.

• Jerry Bonnell
• Mitsunori Ogihara

• history
• project management
• tools
• nlp

Introducing a rule-based workflow which can improve the function of pre-trained NLP tools.

• 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.

• Romi Ron Morrison

• social justice
• race
• ethics
• dh
• history

• fugitivity
• computation
• bias
• blackness

A commentary on Black Computational Thought as a unique critical intervention.

• Erik Simpson
• Hannah L.P. Brown
• Lana Sabb
• Olly Shortell
• James Lee

• gender
• network
• history
• performance
• data visualization

Using network theory to analyze cross-dressing in Shakesperean drama.

• Johanna Drucker
• Peter Polack
• Pietro Santachiara

• semantic web
• history
• data visualization

Describing the factors which led to the development of the Heterchonologies project, and its digital platform "Time Capsule."

• Lizhou Fan
• Todd Presner

• history
• data visualization
• data analytics
• semantic web
• cultural heritage
• oral history

• Indexing Agency in Testimonies
• Digital Humanities
• Holocaust Studies
• Information Extraction
• Semantic Triplets

Employing text analysis methods to analyze expressions of agency in Holocaust testimonies.

• Nabeel Siddiqui

• project management
• markup
• tools
• minimal computing
• philosophy
• history
• publishing

Drawing on software studies, data feminism, digital rhetoric studies, information science, and the history of computing, this paper foregrounds Markdown as a cultural object to analyze the social, cultural, and political pressures surrounding the digital humanities.  Rather than beginning with contemporary discourse, it draws parallels between Markdown and Donald Knuth's TeX.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gábor Mihály Tóth
• Tim Hempel
• Krishna Somandepalli
• Shri Narayanan

• history
• gender
• interdisciplinarity
• data analytics
• cultural heritage
• collaboration
• data modeling
• oral history

Applying methods and concepts from molecular physics to computationally approach over 6000 interviews of Aushwitz-Birkenau survivors.

• Elspeth Brown
• Cait McKinney
• Dan Guadagnolo
• Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez
• Sid Cunningham
• Caleigh Inman
• Zohar Freeman
• Amal Khurram
• Alisha Krishna
• Mackenzie Stewart

• history
• race
• gender
• pedagogy

Analyzing an intensive digital collections lab focused on queer and trans community history by focusing on mapped spaces, metadata, and designed interfaces.

• 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.

• 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.

• Mélanie Péron
• Meaghan Moody
• Vickie Karasic

• gender
• pedagogy
• data visualization
• history
• geospatial

Critical making at the university level on the topic of WWII Paris.

• Simone Murray

• literary studies
• history
• elit
• reading
• media studies

Proposing a "meso space" between the disparate poles of digital literary studies.

• 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.

• Wenyi Shang
• Winbin Huang

• history
• literary studies

• digital humanities
• political struggle
• literati politics
• Northern Song dynasty
• Reform of Wang Anshi

Illustrating a feature of “literati politics” which was prominent in 11th century China via a Poission-Gamma factorization model and the Louvain Modularity algorithm.

• Onyekachi Henry Ibekwe

• history
• race
• ethics
• cultural criticism
• data modeling
• data curation

A review of Roopika Risam's recent work: New Digital Worlds

• Kailey Fukushima
• Karen Bourrier
• Janice Parker

• gender
• literary studies
• project report
• history
• tools

In this paper, we explore the material conditions of scholarship and digital editorial work that make uncovering nineteenth-century women’s lives possible in the twenty-first century.

• Kimmo Elo

• network
• communications
• public history
• history

This paper introduces a nonlinear way to analyse texts as networks in order to visualise and analyse how concepts are connected and to explore structural closeness and holes within a corpus of unstructured textual documents.

• Houda Lamqaddam
• Inez De Prekel
• Koenraad Brosens
• Katrien Verbert

• history
• data modeling
• network

We explore the importance of hierarchy in social networks, and investigate whether hierarchies  - strongly present within our models of social structure - affect our perception of social network data

• Nouf Alrasheed
• Praveen Rao
• Viviana Grieco

• digitization
• manuscripts
• history
• machine learning

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

• Tracy L. Barnett

• dh
• history
• pedagogy
• public history

Review of Hannu Salmi’s What is Digital History?

• Pierre Chastang
• Sergio Torres Aguilar
• Xavier Tannier

• medieval
• manuscripts
• history
• tools
• project report

In this paper, we detail the implementation of a model for automatic named entity recognition in medieval Latin sources and we test its robustness on different datasets.

• Dena Shamsizadeh Hayatdavoodi
• Niloofar Razavi
• Mehrdad Qayyoomi Bidhendi

• visual art
• machine learning
• interdisciplinarity
• history
• linguistics

• Ontology
• Knowledge Representation
• Domain Ontology
• Iranian Architectural History

Explores questions and problems of how to create an ontology in Iranian architectural history and how to represent the domain in a machine-readable format.

• 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.

• Gloria Mugelli
• Federico Boschetti
• Andrea Bellandi
• Riccardo Del Gratta
• Anas Fahad Khan
• Andrea Taddei

• classics
• history
• tools
• databases
• users
• annotation
• project report

• textual annotation
• bottom-up approach
• domain specific languages
• ontologies
• ancient Greek
• ancient Greek tragedy
• ritual
• religion

Description of the Euporia annotation system.

• Edward Larkey

• moving images
• cultural criticism
• history
• area studies
• annotation

A comparison of the Quebec sitcom Un Gars, Une Fille ("A Guy and a Girl") to its German remake using Adobe Premiere Pro annotation software and in the context of post-WWII emotional repression.

• Davor Lauc
• Darko Vitek

• history
• tools
• project report

• sequence tagging
• proper name normalisation
• answer set programming

How to perform a fine-grained named entity recognition of proper names?

• 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 Martin

• race
• social justice
• geospatial
• sound
• history
• public history
• anthropology

This article uses ethnography and computational soundscape to listen to processes of gentrification in Washington, DC.

• Melanie Conroy

• tools
• data visualization
• graphic design
• network
• history

Analyzes the strengths and limitations of the network/mapping tool Palladio in comparison to other tools for diagramming the French Enlightenment network

• 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.

• Jan-Hendrik Bakels
• Matthias Grotkopp
• Thomas Scherer
• Jasper Stratil

• moving images
• annotation
• data visualization
• history
• reading

Examines challenges inherent in applying computational methods to qualitative analyses of audiovisual media

• Eva Hielscher

• moving images
• history
• tools
• annotation
• corpora

Examines the the methodology and use of digital tooles such as ELAN, Cinemetrics, and ImageJ in studying 1920/30s city symphony films

• Sarah-Mai Dang

• moving images
• history
• gender
• databases
• data curation
• information retrieval

• digital database
• film history
• feminist theory
• early cinema

Discusses the role of feminist film historiography in constructing film databases

• Diego Jiménez–Badillo
• Patricia Murrieta–Flores
• Bruno Martins
• Ian Gregory
• Mariana Favila-Vázquez
• Raquel Liceras-Garrido

• nlp
• machine learning
• geospatial
• history
• corpora
• area studies

• Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España
• early colonial history
• Mexico
• geographical text analysis
• named entity recognition
• name entity disambiguation
• named entity classification
• geographic collocation
• natural language processing
• machine learning

This article explores a DH project that contributes to discussions on computational analysis of vast historical corpora.

• Emma Slayton

• history
• archaeology
• geospatial
• data modeling
• area studies
• indigenous

• computer applications in archaeology
• seafaring
• navigation

This article investigated Amerindian practices by modeling hypothetical canoe routes across Trinidad and mainalnd coast of South America between 1000 AD - 1550 AD.

• 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.

• 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.

• Christine Barats
• Valérie Schafer
• Andreas Fickers

• access
• data curation
• infrastructure
• social media
• history
• digital

Sustainability in DH as a shared issue of data maintenance and institutional contexts.

• Shanmugapriya T
• Nirmala Menon

• infrastructure
• dh
• glam
• history
• digital libraries
• globalDH
• materialisms
• pedagogy

• Research practice in India
• Digital Humanities
• Infrastructure
• Social Interaction
• Challenges

This article examines the challenges in infratructure

• Alex D. Ketchum

• history
• cultural heritage
• access
• geospatial
• data curation
• gender
• project report

Examines questions on the role and efficacy of online history projects for reclaiming lost LGBTQ+ spaces

• Urszula Pawlicka-Deger

• infrastructure
• dh
• history
• project management
• data curation

• infrastructure
• laboratory
• lab history
• humanities lab
• digital humanities center
• techno-science lab
• virtual lab
• situatedness

This article explores the labratory turn in the humantiies.

• Ashley S. Lee
• Poom Chiarawongse
• Jo Guldi
• Andras Zsom

• tools
• project management
• history
• infrastructure
• information retrieval
• reading
• nlp

The pipeline, a category of tool, and its influence on the development of the HaToRi is discussed in this article.

• 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

• Andreas Fickers
• Tim van der Heijden

• project report
• history
• interdisciplinarity
• infrastructure
• cs

In this article, the authors discuss using the method of thinkering with digital history.

• 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.

• Maria J.Ferreira dos Santos

• history
• project report
• data visualization
• ecocriticism
• geospatial
• area studies

About the experience of developing a digital platform which visualizes the history of natural conservation in California over time.

• Melvin Wevers
• Jianbo Gao
• Kirstoffer L. Nielbo

• history
• interdisciplinarity
• content analysis
• area studies
• data modeling

Shows how methods from econometrics and complexity science may be applied to humanities data to improve understanding of the role of advertising in society

• Gila Prebor
• Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet
• Isaac Miller

• content analysis
• corpora
• manuscripts
• geospatial
• history
• religion
• medieval

Exploring censored historical Hebrew manuscripts via statistical analysis of metadata.

• Marcello Vitali-Rosati
• Servanne Monjour
• Joana Casenave
• Elsa Bouchard
• Margot Mellet

• classics
• databases
• project report
• history
• corpora
• manuscripts
• publishing
• semantic web
• digital

• Digital Classics
• Digital Edition
• Palatine Anthology
• Anthological Imaginary
• Editorialization
• Collaborative Process

How might texts written in Antinquity resonate in our networked digital culture?

• Sharon Block

• history
• databases
• race
• social justice
• metadata
• gender
• area studies
• cultural criticism
• machine learning

Examines the representation of women and minority groups in JSTOR's topical metadata

• 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)

• Peter Meindertsma

• music
• history
• area studies
• digital libraries
• nlp
• data analytics

• Billboard
• charts
• lyrics
• popular music
• cultural diversity

Billboard Hot 100 decreases in quantitative and lyrical diversity between 1956 and 2016.

• Steven Braun

• games
• area studies
• history
• users
• rhetoric

A Review of Mia Consalvo's Atati to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts

• Samantha Blickhan

• transcription
• dh
• ethics
• history
• access

Review of Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities: Crowds, Communities and Co-production, by Mark Hedges and Stuart Dunn.

• Peter Broadwell
• Jack W. Chen
• David Shepard

• history
• literary studies
• corpora
• nlp
• reading
• area studies

Examines how topic modeling and divergence measures can be used to examine literary historical questions regarding Tang poetry

• Costas Papadopoulos
• Susan Schreibman

• history
• geospatial
• ar
• data modeling
• data visualization
• project report
• dh

• Virtual worlds
• digital (re)constructions
• 3D modelling
• digital scholarly editions
• Unity 3D
• WebGL
• battle
• Easter Rising

A case study on methods for digitally modelling complex spatial events with inspiration from digital scholarly editions.

• Timothy C. Duguid
• Maristella Feustle
• Francesca Giannetti
• Elizabeth Grumbach

• tools
• music
• history
• project report
• information retrieval

• digital musicology
• aggregation
• born-digital
• descriptive metadata
• digital peer review

We propose that by leveraging the connections between digital music resources and digital humanities research technologies, MuSO will facilitate new research that expands the musicological discipline.