Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library

What does it mean to decolonize the archive? In episode 449, Linford Fisher and Lorén Spears discuss Stolen Relations, a tribally collaborative digital database documenting the lives of enslaved Indigenous people. @stolenrelations.bsky.social 🎧 www.benfranklinsworld.com/449 #IndigenousHistory

Happy Medieval Monday-ween! If you haven't chosen a Halloween costume why not visit Digital Bodleian for some inspiration. These images are all taken from MS Douce 134: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/171e2f9a-37fa-4d0b-ac70-9cab486f7ace/surfaces/8fbb7f90-658f-4f91-afc0-b8b8e6393f41/.

Our First Nations traditional territory maps are progressing. We're likely a week away from completing our alpha build. This will replace the Native-Land.ca territory maps, which went offline earlier this year (though they have other maps still online). It'll go online at knowledgekeepr.com

Working on @stolenrelations.bsky.social, led by @linford.bsky.social (now our Faculty Director!), is an honor, and we're thrilled the project has been recognized by the American Studies Association.

Conference Announcement! 📣 📚 ⭐ 👇 'Transitions of Leadership: Succession, Stewardship, and Sustainability in the Digital Humanities' (Online 16 November, 2026) Details: hsscommons.ca/en/groups/dh...

Has AI solved handwriting recognition? The short answer is no! The long answer we'll go over in our presentation Friday, Oct. 16 at 1:30 p.m. at the AI and History conference at Johns Hopkins. You can join virtually for free! proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc... #AI #digitalhumanities

There is a Reddit user who made went 🏺 to the Met and polycam 3D scanned various Greek amphorae. Now they are making one to scale completely out of gingerbread. This is truly delectable reconstructive archaeology. www.reddit.com/r/blender/s/... Greeks did love imported ζιγγίβερις from India!

It can feel overwhelming to learn something new only to have that knowledge quickly become out of date shortly after. Our workshop series this semester looks at enduring skills & knowledge that remain relevant in the midst of rapid change: library.brown.edu/create/libne... #AI #DigitalHumanities

Our first Digital Humanities Salon of the semester is this Thursday, Sept. 24 at noon at the Rock (w/ lunch!) or Zoom! John Cayley, Prof. of Literary Arts, will speak about "Datafied Close Reading." Register: tinyurl.com/2s4fra8w #digitalhumanities #BrownUniversity

🤩 Twice as nice! Announcing double honors for the ON SEEING book series, a joint venture by Brown University Digital Publications and @mitpress.bsky.social @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social @browncds.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social #openaccess library.brown.edu/create/libne...

Come one, come all to our Open House today at noon! Rockefeller Library, room 137 -- we welcome everyone at Brown University -- first year students, faculty, postdocs! Join us & register (lunch provided on a first-come, first-serve basis): events.brown.edu/library/even... #BrownUniversity

After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structured around a single project: training up a C19 LLM from scratch. Here we go! github.com/laurenfklein...

The JCB is hiring! The JCB Digital Research Associate will research, write, design, and produce digital publications on topics relevant to the library’s collections and mission. These publications may be targeted at general, scholarly, or student audiences. jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-job...

What does it mean to decolonize the archive? In episode 449, Linford Fisher and Lorén Spears discuss Stolen Relations, a tribally collaborative digital database documenting the lives of enslaved Indigenous people. @stolenrelations.bsky.social 🎧 www.benfranklinsworld.com/449 #IndigenousHistory

We're hiring! The JCB Digital Research Associate will research, write, design, and produce digital publications on topics relevant to the library’s collections and mission. Details at jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-job...

Elated to see the multimodal edition of Mortevivum nominated for this important ACLS Open Access Book Prize! Congratulations, all! @mitpress.bsky.social @browncds.bsky.social #collaboration #digitalpublishing #openaccess @aupresses.bsky.social www.acls.org/news/10-ways...

okay SO it took a hot minute but I have screened many of the sources recommended in response to this (thank you all!) and added more from my various bookmarks. I now have an instructor-oriented ✨annotated bibliography✨ about generative AI, especially LLMs, and their impact on cognition and writing.

Oooh boy. This is a great opportunity to talk about datasets and what goes into constructing a small one much less a "well structured historical dataset" in some fields. I'm a digital historian of Renaissance and Early Modern Italy and *none* of my material is digitized (1/13)

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

In the wake of that NYT article on online learning, re-amplifying my reflections on my recent positive experiences with an online asynchronous course for grad students interested in English and Digital Studies.

On July 16, The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies, ed. by @eltonteb.bsky.social, Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja was published! I’ve a chapter on digital mapping. It tells the story of how maps became such an important part of ancient world digital humanities academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Today is World Emoji Day! Did you know that Alice Thornton used an early form of emoji in her writing? She often used a ❤ instead of writing the word heart. In the image, see seven lines up on the right: 'Oh that our soules, my mind & ♥' Image: Book of Remembrances, 109. Photo by Derek Beattie. 📜

Public conversation about the OMB proposal has focused on science, but make no mistake: this is about ALL research and humanities are just as vulnerable. I'm back @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social w historian & @historians.org exec director Sarah Weicksel. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/10/t...

What gets saved from the web – and what disappears? Join us and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh to learn how to hack, preserve, and use digital archives 🖥️ Learn how to: 🔎 See underlying web structures and metadata 🔖 Reshape how web pages display 🗺️ Navigate digital collections

MORTEVIVUM by Kimberly Juanita Brown, developed by Brown University Digital Publications, named a finalist in the MULTIMODAL category for the ACLS Open Access Book Prizes & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! @browncds.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social www.acls.org/news/acls-na...

📢 Just over two weeks left to nominate your work or work you love for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-richard-deswarte-prize-in-digital-history/ #dhist

⏰ Just over a month remaining to submit your nominations for the Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Full info here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

Sign up for our Digital Humanities Summer Institute by May 11! We welcome Brown researchers of all levels (undergraduate to faculty) and all disciplines to join us for two week-long digital humanities workshops. Learn more and register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

WATCH 🎥 Partnering to Advance Access & Equity: Three Case Studies from Brown University Digital Publications Learn how BUDP partners with scholarly presses to rethink publishing workflows and amplify underrepresented voices through innovative, accessible #DigitalScholarship:

That's a wrap on Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship! Great to hear from @brettbobley.bsky.social, @tnummedal.bsky.social, @kgallon.bsky.social, @runningwolf.bsky.social, @scalywager.bsky.social, @meaghanbrown.bsky.social, @lyndamk.bsky.social, @ceciliasmith.bsky.social, and everyone else.

It's a community-centered afternoon: a panel and roundtables before a discussion of Future Directions for Digital Scholarship, and a reception.

Thanks to @brettbobley.bsky.social for the great keynote! We've got more coming the rest of today, join us on Zoom.

Kicking off the panel on Multimodal Publishing: Innovation and Impact, chaired by @allisonlevy.bsky.social -- let's go! brown.zoom.us/j/91863221753

This is TOMORROW! We're full for in-person but would love to see you on Zoom. It's going to be a great day.

The #DHmakes mail art collaboration has been extended! Sign up to make a thing and mail it to others, and receive some joy in your own mailbox in exchange.

Our final #DigitalHumanities Salon of this spring semester is THURSDAY 5/7 at noon! Graduate students in the Digital Humanities Doctoral Certificate program will present informal lightning talks on their digital humanities projects. Register here: events.brown.edu/library/even...

New on the blog from @browncds.bsky.social! Brown University Digital Publications expand on their 2025 OIPA symposium presentation: 'New Approaches to Collaboration'. 🧵 oipauk.org/2026/04/28/o...

What if the story of American slavery doesn’t start in 1619? My conversation with @linford.bsky.social will change how you see the origins of this country. Indigenous slavery wasn’t peripheral—it was foundational. Listen now. Share this one. #USHistory #IndigenousHistory #HiddenHistory #Reckoning

And then go get @linford.bsky.social's new book: STEALING AMERICA: THE HIDDEN STORY OF INDIGENOUS SLAVERY IN US HISTORY, dropping TOMORROW at retailers everywhere. amzn.to/3QK7jij

Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship: People, Projects, Priorities This Friday, May 1, the JCB's Meaghan J. Brown and Kimberly Toney will participate in a hybrid event on future directions in digital scholarship. Full event details and registration at events.brown.edu/library/even...

Grateful to @browndailyherald.bsky.social for a nice write up of my book that is officially releasing on April 28 from @liveright.bsky.social / @wwnorton.com. Preorder your copy now, and local friends, hope to catch you at an event! (www.linfordfisher.com). www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...

Our next #DigitalHumanities Salon is THURSDAY 4/23 at noon! Renée Ater and Dannie Ritchie will share two newly launched projects: Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past and Black Family Displacement on the East Side of Providence. Register here: tinyurl.com/5n86xhwf

We’re excited to celebrate the launch of the newly redesigned website for the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship! Explore our workshops, blog, projects, and more through a more accessible and streamlined site: digitalscholarship.emory.edu Read more here: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/celebra...