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If you can't be in Lisbon for #DH2025 you can still learn about the excellent range of posters on display at https://dh2025.adho.org/browse-the-program-agenda/

I've given up trying to look through the #DH2025 schedule on Whova, but luckily there's an 'all on one page' version at https://dh2025.adho.org/browse-the-program-agenda/

This week our colleagues @… and Linnea Söhn presented our joint work at the #DH2025 poster presentation at 30 °C outside in Lisbon, Portugal :)
poster at zenodo:

#DH2025 listening to Taylor Marie Faires on UChicago’s Library and Emerging Technologies 2 day bootcamp-style Summer Camp - they had 'share out' sessions including 'scary stories' which allowed people to share their fears about technology

💡 Wie werden die Querverbindungen zwischen kulturellen Ressourcen in @… hergestellt?
🚀 Bei der #DH2025 in Lissabon zeigen unsere 4Culture-Kolleginnen @… und Linnaea Sö…

I've only just remembered about mastowall! Here's a handy way to get a sense of posts, comments, pictures and links from #DH2025 https://rstockm.github.io/mastowall/?h

#DH2025 thanks @flochiff.bsky.social for sharing this link as I wanted to follow up on Pandore! 'Pandore: automating text-processing workflows for humanities researchers' from Sorbonne Université and ObTIC - Observatoire des textes, des idées et des corpus

ADHO (adho.org) updates at the opening of #DH2025 from Diane and Michael - the Italian Digital Humanities association officially joins ADHO, and announces awards including the Zampoli prize to Stylo software, the conference bursaries winners and Fortier prize nominees. Also note the Code of Conduct!

I'll land back to a busy week in the UK, but hope to find some time to follow up on #DH2025 conversations (around final #FF2025 proposal reviews). Please get in touch if we talked about something you want to follow up!

#DH2025 closes with heartfelt thanks to Diane Jakacki for all her work underpinning ADHO as Executive Board Chair for the past four years

#DH2025 Listening to Victoria and Thea on 'Building a FAIR data future at the Journal of Open Humanities' - I'm hoping you'll see a lot more British Library data papers over time, as along with datasheets for datasets it's a big part of making our open collections findable and usable

Reflecting on various talks at #DH2025 I'm struck by the number of projects here and elsewhere at the intersection of oral histories and community archives that don't realise they could draw on those fields and digital public history for ethics, workflows and other practices

Shared on Bluesky from a different #DH2025 'Nwulite Obodo Open Data License — Made for sharing African datasets equitably' https://datasciencelawlab.africa/nwulite-…

My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and D…

Thank you, @roopikarisam.bsky.social, for your closing words for #DH2025: 'the future of DH requires access grounded in accountability; repair sustained by care; scholarship driven by solidarity'
And also, 'hope and strategy are very important things to hold onto right now'

#DH2025, we're delighted to share a Turing's Humanities and Data Science event in Oxford and online on 25th Sept with a panel asking: 'How far can data science and the humanities help to answer each other’s questions?'
Express your interest here:

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

#DH2025 @mcollardanuy.bsky.social presented on HTR for Late Middle Ages Catalan notarial manuscripts https://www.bsc.es/research-development/re

Computational Archival History
Computational Archival History

#DH2025 folk, a gentle reminder about the ADHO conference code of conduct https://adho.org/code-of-conduct/ - while international tensions are understandably high, please be mindful of how you speak to…

Has #DH2025 inspired you to get more involved in Digital Humanities communities? Sign up for the @… newsletter for updates from our 14 DH organisations and 10 special interest groups (SIGs)

Great #DH2025 talk from @luanamcosta.bsky.social on using CLIP to analyse images of the 'New Woman'. Loved the idea of networks of queries, eg women working, voting, doing domestic activities, and querying the intersection of 'women working' and 'women in a public space'. Thus far CLIP was good for insights and exploration rather than definitive analysis - excellent for a …

Listening to a digital history talk at #DH2025 I'm reminded that IMO 'labs' isn't a natural metaphor for 'working together' (but maybe the realities of hierarchies and politics do fit the DH/GLAM use?).
Is importing 'data culture' from the world of business the right move for digital history / humanities?

Our slides for 'The Universal Viewer: radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage' for #DH2025 are available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16040930

A speaker in the handwritten text recognition session speaking for everyone presenting on any topic involving AI or machine learning at #DH2025: 'This was state of the art... seven months ago'
#AI4LAM folk will recognise this too!

Curious about the @… or @… after our #DH2025 session in SP-32: Digital Tools and Techniques for Cultural Heritage and History? Try it out

Folk at #DH2025 might be interested in this article 'From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible'

From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible
In April 2025 the Swedish National Archives made 1,2 million digital images of archival documents into searchable, machine readable text — making the information in the archives more accessible than…

Some excellent talks in #DH2025 LP-07 on 'What Happens When "Hacking" Becomes Easy? Teaching Python in 2025'
Filipa (?): 'A claim about abundance in the future is often a disguised claim about scarcity in the present'
Patrick: 'what do we do when our students can reach for a 'not learning' button? Things that could have been done at home may need …

#DH2025 Cha's group trying to come up with generalisable workflows. Working responsibly to apply this new technology. Looking for tasks that researchers have in common, working with LLM-friendly data. Rather than using very large language models, small models do amazing work on very specific tasks.

#DH2025 Cha has forthcoming piece on Fine-Tuning the Historian's Macroscope
He's trying to align core principles of digital and non-digital history. Has tried topic modelling, social network analysis; now he has transformed his data he can translate research questions into graph database queries

Opening keynote #DH2025 is @javiercha.bsky.social on Automating the past: AI and the next frontiers of Digital History. His career began in the era of dial up and Flash, his DH career c 2008, the era of THATCamp.
He notes his debt to the leadership of NEH and Brett Bobley; spontaneous applause!

Another tip for #DH2025 / life in general - calendar appointments added in different timezones in Outlook often display incorrectly on iPhones. Keep that in mind when adding conference sessions / meetings to your calendar!
(It's been that way for years, who knows if Outlook or iOS is to blame)

So many first timers at #DH2025 - I'm so excited for you all! Library folk, there's a special interest group (SIG) meeting on Monday. Regional DH associations meet throughout the week
If you get overwhelmed easily, suggesting smaller dinners after receptions can keep things manageable

Public service announcement for anyone looking for the web link for Whova for #DH2025 - it's always available from the 'download the app' page or just go to https://whova.com/portal/webapp/kwd19h

Is there a fun run on Wednesday morning at #DH2025 in Lisbon?

Members of the British Library's Digital Research team will be at #DH2025 in Lisbon, July 15-18! Find out what we're presenting https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarshi

I have an extra day in Lisbon after #DH2025 ends (and a night's accommodation at my own expense to get). Would I be mad to finish with a 10km evening race in Loures? https://xistarca.pt/eventos/7a-corrida