Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser publish ‘Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets, Version 2.0’ in Journal of Cultural Analytics

Kotin and Koeser outline the research, data curation, and development that led to a major update of the Shakespeare and Company Project data sets.

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Journal of Cultural Analytics@culturalanalytics.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: 📚 Joshua Kotin and @suttonkoeser.bsky.social outline the research, data curation, and development that led to a major update of the Shakespeare and Company datasets, previously published in 2022. culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JCA seeks a Managing Editor to support day-to-day operations of our peer-reviewed, open-access journal at the forefront of computational and data-driven approaches to humanistic inquiry. More info on requirements and how to apply: cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

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JCA Managing Editor

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Yesterday with @genizalab.bsky.social team & @jerielizabeth.bsky.social in @princeton.edu Commons Visualization Lab to see how the "CURVE" could enable new research on Princeton Geniza Project materials. Shown: mosaic of "join" fragments arranged by similarity; prototype PGP image search/browse.

Neighbors maintain a free broadband network in Philadelphia — @phillywireless.bsky.social — that now serves 7,600+ users. Read about the six-year project to build community-supported infrastructure in the latest Debates in DH volume from @uminnpress.bsky.social cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/06...

New Publication Details Cooperative Broadband and Community-Supported Infrastructure

New Publication Details Cooperative Broadband and Community-Supported Infrastructure

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Each DDH volume is an innovation, and this one is no exception. In CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE STUDIES, @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and @jamessmithies.bsky.social present the "manifest," a documenting of the infrastructure used to research and produce each chapter. Dig in here!

Alan Liu@alanyliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A first-of-its-kind feature of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ is the inclusion of authors' "infrastructure manifests": dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica...

This spring, Grad Fellows across humanities disciplines applied methods such as scanning, modeling, and mapping to their research questions. Their findings? Working with data and computational methods rarely unfolded the way they expected, the labor uncovering “strange and beautiful” discoveries.

Graduate Fellows Scan, Model, and Map: New Discoveries from Sermons to Ballet

Graduate Fellows Scan, Model, and Map: New Discoveries from Sermons to Ballet

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@princeton.edu is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows affiliated with the AI Lab (@princetonainews.bsky.social) and the Center for Digital Humanities to conduct research focused on societal AI. Applications open through Jul 1! cdh.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...

Applications open for AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Applications open for AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows

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Recently published: article on the research that went into the 2.0 version of the Shakespeare and Company Project datasets, and the potential of the updates and additional data on member addresses and authors. doi.org/10.22148/jca... One of the first few in the newly launched JCA!

<em>Shakespeare and Company Project</em> Data Sets, Version 2.0

The Shakespeare and Company Project data sets provide a detailed portrait of Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris. This article outlines the research,...

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Ranging from computational text analysis to the development of language technologies and digital reconstructions of historical places, meet our four inaugural CDH Affiliate Labs! Affiliation recognizes rigorous, innovative work at the intersection of humanities and computation at @princeton.edu.

CDH announces inaugural Affiliate Labs

CDH announces inaugural Affiliate Labs

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🎶 When scholars write about music theory across languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese, are they talking about the same things? A new @princetoncdh.bsky.social Collaborative Research Partnership called MuSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings) hopes to find out.

Introducing MuSE: Linking Music-Theoretical Concepts Across Languages

Introducing MuSE: Linking Music-Theoretical Concepts Across Languages

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"Bears Will Be Boys" was a featured "Link we're digging" in our August 2025 newsletter. Congrats @mellymeldubs.bsky.social!

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Fun to see that "Bears Will Be Boys," which I wrote with folks from the @puddingviz.bsky.social, won a 2025 Digital Humanities Award! pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

When scholars write about music theory across languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, & Portuguese, are they talking about the same things? Check out our new Collaborative Research Partnership w/ assistant professors Anna Yu Wang (Music) & Jürgen Hackl (Civil & Environmental Engineering).

Introducing MuSE: Linking Music-Theoretical Concepts Across Languages

Introducing MuSE: Linking Music-Theoretical Concepts Across Languages

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A more than timely rediscovery of the first 1897 robot-film. Especially given what @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social said today at @princetoncdh.bsky.social about how we shouldn't buy AI company's framing AI as genial automata. (In hindsight, and with Benjamin's "Mechanical Turk," an instructional film…)

Gugusse et l'Automate (1897) Méliès

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Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

4/14: Art historian @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social (UMass Amherst) talks on non-generative AI—particularly computer vision—as a driving force behind the AI industry's most profitable ventures, & the role art historians in museums & universities have played, wittingly and unwittingly, in its development.

Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

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This week, @princeton.edu is hosting the 29th Annual ALTA Conference, April 9–11, co-organized by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, Associate Research Scholar at @princetonainews.bsky.social and CDH affiliate! Theme: "Reimagining African Language Pedagogy in the Digital Age." Open to all to attend.

ALTA 2026: Reimagining African Language Pedagogy In the Digital Age

ALTA 2026: Reimagining African Language Pedagogy In the Digital Age

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Today @ 4:30pm @ CDH! 💙 Please RSVP.

Claudia Carroll@claudia42.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If anybody in the Princeton area is interested in how LLMs write fiction, Gabi Kirilloff and I are giving a talk on the topic tomorrow (Tuesday 31st) at 4.30pm in the Firestone library! @princetoncdh.bsky.social

Attn @princeton.edu humanities faculty! Curious about AI as a research tool but aren't sure where to start or how to use it? RSVP to this workshop on April 8th where we'll break down the jargon, explain how to make informed choices about AI tools, and show what resources are available at Princeton.

AI for humanities research?

AI for humanities research?

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In a panel on 3/26 from the Humanities Council & @princetoncitp.bsky.social, experts will share how AI is already impacting all aspects of the field of journalism – from national to small local newsrooms to data analysis, gathering and checking facts, ensuring source security, and what’s to come.

AI x Journalism: Transforming the News — Journalism

Join the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) for this special event on how artificial intelligence is changing journalism and n...

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Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.

No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPT

No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPT

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Cultural AI felt very real this week at NYU. Outstanding conference; wide-ranging and argumentative in the best way, and full of people trying to build vocab and practices for this emerging space. Huge thanks to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for organizing it!

Earlier this winter, CDH / @marbasprinceton.bsky.social postdoc @cmroughan.bsky.social returned to Vienna for the second year in a row to share her experience using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology for medieval texts. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/02...

Revisiting the 2025 Vienna HTR Winter School for Medievalists

Revisiting the 2025 Vienna HTR Winter School for Medievalists

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Tomorrow at NYU, @wouterhaverals.bsky.social presents "Style and Prejudice: Attribution Bias in Human and AI Literary Judgment" as part of the Cultural AI: An Emerging Field conference. The talk comes out of the Exercises in Literary Style project with @mmvty.bsky.social, linked below.

The Princeton Logion Project has an opening for an RSE Summer Fellow for summer 2026! This is a great opportunity for those interested in gathering demonstrable work experience as a research software engineer on a DH project. Applications close March 31, 2026.

Princeton University Research Software Engineering Summer Fellows Program - 2026 Call for Applications

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled at a US-accredited College or University? Are you enthusiastic about software & programming and interested in applying your skills to exciting…

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Join us for the public talk later today!

Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities

Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities

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Paul Vierthaler@vierth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@zoeleblanc.bsky.social leading a wonderful conversation on AI and data work in the @princetoncdh.bsky.social Modeling Cultures seminar series

"We should try our hardest to put the humanities into every aspect of AI development," says faculty director @mmvty.bsky.social in a new @princeton.edu feature spotlighting CDH-affiliated scholars—including associate faculty director @vierth.bsky.social—doing exactly that, some for over a decade.

AI and the humanities: Across the Princeton campus, an era of collaboration is underway.

Princeton has firmly established its presence at the forefront of AI research — including transformative work in humanities scholarship.

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Next week! For our Modeling Culture program, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social presents two projects exploring how computational methods can help us understand past and present struggles to make information more just. Join us on Tuesday, March 3, 4:30 PM @ CDH!

Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities

Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities

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Each year, our RSE team travels near and far to share their cutting-edge work and learn about new developments in the fields of research software engineering and digital humanities. Last fall: Philadelphia and Luxembourg! More on their presentation and adventures, by @marynaydan.bsky.social.

From Philadelphia to Luxembourg: RSE Team at Fall Conferences

From Philadelphia to Luxembourg: RSE Team at Fall Conferences

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