MJ and I will be presenting our research "Enhancing Discovery with AI: Volume Extraction and Summary Statements for Holdings Metadata" at the #DCMI conference next week. I am excited to get feedback and learn more about innovative ideas in metadata and digital librarianship. #AIinLibraries

Owen Monroe@owenmonroe.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Metadata Librarian MJ Han and I presented research with the HathiTrust Research Center this week. We discussed using Gemini AI to extract date information from digitized volumes of serials and using BERT to detect title pages. It was great to connect with HTRC on using AI in librarianship!

Yesterday I presented research in the iSchool Pro Seminar class. I discussed how DH work with historical periodicals requires an iterative process - building new datasets and and historical arguments. It was great to reflect on how messy research process can be moved towards valuable products.

Metadata Librarian MJ Han and I presented research with the HathiTrust Research Center this week. We discussed using Gemini AI to extract date information from digitized volumes of serials and using BERT to detect title pages. It was great to connect with HTRC on using AI in librarianship!

This was an excellent discussion! Professor Strandgaard Jensen's work inspires me to think deeply about working with digital texts, using AI to organize big archives, and connections between media and childhood. It's great to see and meet DH scholars from all over the world at U of I and SourceLab.

SourceLab@sourcelab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Last week we had a *fantastic* presentation and discussion with Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen (@sesamescholar.bsky.social) visiting from Aarhus University in Denmark! She discussed her journey as a digital historian, using AI in research, and the Web Child project - cas.au.dk/en/erc-webch...

In a larger sense, my experience with NEH taught me the importance of dedicated civil servants and public institutions that serve all Americans through preserving culture and knowledge, while ensuring we are safe, educated, and always learning from many voices!

Honored by this iSchool internship spotlight! Through my internship with NEH, I learned a lot about supporting digital work for the long term, working with a team, and how to evaluate and support research. I also got to meet and speak with many great scholars and professionals!

iSchool at Illinois@ischoolui.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

Forgot to cc: the excellent @owenmonroe.bsky.social on this repost last week. Congrats again, Owen, and thanks sharing your thoughts on this internship with the community!

iSchool at Illinois@ischoolui.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

A second AI-model labels for @owenmonroe.bsky.social the topic of each identified half-page chunk about science—gender, astronomy, etc. I missed the training data for this second model. Owen then performs close reading on the articles. #SHARP2025 #BookHistory

Back to the live-posting! @owenmonroe.bsky.social is training an AI model to find scientific articles in Victorian political periodicals based on the half-page chunks of the *Penny Magazines* he has labelled as being about science #SHARP2025 #BookHistory

I had a great time with SourceLab sharing MinDoc at Illinois State University's "Tea and DH" session this week. MinDoc is a GitHub minimal computing system for digital editions. I enjoyed sharing with the great people at ISU! The Digital Scholarship Lab at Milner Library is a wonderful space too!

I really enjoy working with the U of I SourceLab. Im an editorial board member, helping with digital documentary edition projects. I've studied site + edition building in classes too. It's been a great way to connect with others and explore interests in DH pedagogy, minimal computing, and archives.

Hello, all! SourceLab is a digital humanities collective at the University of Illinois focused on teaching, research, and publishing. We engage with DH research, publish digital editions of historical documents, and teach skills in digital documentary editing through history courses.

I had an amazing experience interning with the Office of Digital Humanities at the NEH, Summer and Fall '24. I wrote a report on DH project sustainability through research and interviews. I received wonderful guidance and mentorship too. I'm excited to share more from this experience in the future!

I will present some of my research this summer at the SHARP 2025 and DH 2025 Conferences. I presented a poster at SHARP last year and I'm really excited to be at DH for the first time in July. I am looking forward to connecting with scholars and researchers in book history, DH, and beyond!

I am also very interested in DH pedagogy. I am currently contributing to a project studying how DH is taught on GitHub. I also teach a class, Reading and Writing about Data, focused on teaching writing composition and discussing how meaning is produced in our big data digital society.

I study digital humanities, and am interested in early Victorian periodicals and the history of science. I am using digital methods to find scientific discourse within political papers. I am excited to see how mass media popularized scientific knowledge while promoting political agendas!