Bibliojo

@bibliojo.bsky.social

Librarian; musician; United Empire Loyalist descendent; gadabout.

this sounds fascinating! @bsky.app Project: The American Soldier in World War II Project By Edward Gitre et al. | Source: Virginia Tech During World War II, the US Army administered more than 200 surveys to over half a million American troops to discover what they thought #digitalhumanities

this sounds fascinating! @bsky.app Project: The American Soldier in World War II Project By Edward Gitre et al. | Source: Virginia Tech During World War II, the US Army administered more than 200 surveys to over half a million American troops to discover what they thought #digitalhumanities

#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅 Head of #DigitalHumanities Sarah Lang presents her article “(Doing) Computational History,” exploring #ComputationalMethods gaining traction among historians. She highlights the often-overlooked labor behind these approaches. 💻 🔗 https://bit.ly/4e0wFl5

MPIWG Research Reels: (Doing) Computational History

"Our digital infrastructure depends on the labor of book scanners, ...

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Registration for this year’s Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and @sas-news.bsky.social, is now open. Join us in London on 26 Nov to hear Prof Jennifer Edmond talk about ‘From collection to collective: what is an archive now?’ Free to attend! #DigitalHumanities

From Collection to Collective: what is an archive now?

Explore how digital platforms are reshaping cultural memory at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

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New on the Hub 🖋️ open tools for historical Danish HTR: a YOLO line segmenter (mAP50 ~0.79), a kraken baseline segmenter, and 160k synthetic Danish lines with perfect ground truth, plus a live demo. Segmentation is the hidden tax in historical HTR. hf.co/abhishekjha1008 #DigitalHumanities #HTR

abhishekjha1008 (Abhishek Jha)

Historical handwriting recognition (HTR) & multilingual document AI. Building specialist recognisers that stay faithful to the page where general VLMs hallucinate; cross-lingual transfer for low-re...

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LIBRARIES BUY BOOKS. In fact, they buy ebook licenses with rather unfavorable terms because of how much the service benefits the community. The only people getting screwed in this situation are libraries and library users. The only people doing the screwing are publishers.

“Reading is a great way to support our brain health, develop important cognitive skills and boost our wellbeing. It’s something we ought to be encouraging from an early age, given the increasing evidence of its benefits, particularly to children…” Sahakian #reading www.cam.ac.uk/stories/read...

Reading for pleasure - and for better health

Reading for pleasure – from tucking into a Jane Austen classic to devouring a Heartstopper graphic novel – is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia.

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