#BostonDH25

Takeaways from #bostondh25: map archives are super cool, wikipedia editing culture is *intense*, and I wish I'd gotten more people's contact information cause so many projects sounded amazing

Two Indian woman and a white women in a bar

Wrapped up a wonderful day at #BostonDH25 with incredible company @anindita.org (being full blown cranky women of a certain age) 😍

@kelleykreitz.bsky.social and @anindita.org on “The Ground Beneath our Feet: Critical Mapping in the Classroom” #bostondh25

Creating a collaborative map mosaic in the Leventhal Map Center with Ian Spangler of the Boston Public Library.

Allmaps and Atlascope are so fun to explore!

#BostonDH25 #bpl #digitalhumanities

Paviwala compiled a dataset from Chaudhuri (1976) and Bowen (2005) on the commodities dealt with by East India Trading Company and their values. Disambiguating and merging data categories across decades and respective scholarly interests #BostonDH25

Wikipedia image of regions impacted by the East India Trading Company

Finally we have
Building a Digital Trade Archive: Visualizing British East India Company Data (1660–1834) with Munirmahedi Paviwala (Boston College) #BostonDH25

Catholic Directory project schema

I love a data schema 🤗 #BostonDH25

Joanna Schroeder presents an Example: How do we assign IDs to people? Translate rules to processes Students correct any incorrect generated IDs "corrected IDs")

Students working on this large-scale DH project develop research skills and regional expertise that lets them help disambiguate which people with the same/similar names are indeed the same individual #BostonDH25

Next up is Turning Almanacs into Data with Ashlyn Stewart, Joanna Schroeder, Yuchen Xiong (Boston College) #BostonDH25 digitizing 19th c Catholic Directories, with information on dioceses and Catholics across the U.S.

Al and museums, or, can you trust a digital object?

1. Data integrity: what essential information is collected or presented?

2. Data value: how useful is the info that is collected? What value is placed on it?

3. Data use: is the collected info being used ethically?

#BostonDH25

Peter Botticelli presenting

SRO in Data-Driven Approaches to Historical Collections at #BostonDH25 - first up is Digital Engagement with Art Collections with Peter Botticelli from Simmons

It's tough to get true validation data and benchmarks to measure full translations created by LLMs as they don't exist (or are inaccessible?) #BostonDH25

Really appreciate the questions about default (and unchangeable?) map orientations, political boundaries, and colonial assumptions in maps at #BostonDH25

Creating word alignments between ancient Greek and English using existing commercial models to train and finetune small scale open models - more minimal computing approach, creative, scalable #BostonDH25

Big shout out to MIT's Hyperstudio and Kurt Fendt at Boston DH session Perspectives on Curricula Design for DH Programs...

#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities #hyperstudio

Charles Pletcher (Tufts) on democratizing annotations, allowing credit to be given to users who submit annotations and commentary to texts. The problem is with architecture that is designed for read-only access for annotated texts in TEI #BostonDH25

After some technical difficulties, next up at #BostonDH25 is
"AI, Open Scholarship and Access to the Human Record", from Greg Crane, Sarah Abowitz, Alison Babeu, Peter Nadel, Charles Pletcher (Tufts University); James Tauber (Signum U); Clifford Wulfman (Princeton).

Next up at #BostonDH25...
Perspectives on Curricula Design for Digital Humanities Programs, presented by @juliaflanders.bsky.social and others!

.@roopikarisam.bsky.social - "When we are in the position to rebuild, what will we need to have?" A participatory moment for us all to brainstorm #BostonDH25 #DigitalHumanities

Reupping this starter pack for a new era of scarcity in #dh cc #bostondh25

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Introduction: The Questions of Minimal Computing

@roopikarisam.bsky.social on applying The Questions of Minimal Computing to our present fraught moment:

1) What do we need?
2) What do we have?
3) What must we prioritize?
4) What are we willing to give up?
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2...

#bostondh25 #DigitalHumanities

Questions of #minicomp, per @roopikarisam.bsky.social , particularly relevant rn, of course #bostondh25

@roopikarisam.bsky.social: "our cultures are our past, present, and future" and deserve preservation even in (especially in) dire circumstances #bostondh25

We're at Boston DH, excited to hear keynote speaker @roopikarisam.bsky.social of Dartmouth College, presenting "Hold On: Digital Public Humanities in Authoritarian America"

#bostondh25 #digitalhumanities

Testing… 1…2…3 (is this on?) 🙂 #bostondh25