An honor to serve as @ach.bsky.social co-President with Andy Janco! I've been around since 2018 (through COVID and other major challenges). A quick look back and forward. 🧵
Rebecca Sutton Koeser
@suttonkoeser.bsky.social
research software engineering @princetoncdh.bsky.social collaborating & co-authoring innovative humanities research capacious curiosity https://rlskoeser.github.io/
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...
Making sure you're not a bot!
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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...
JCA Managing Editor
JCA Managing Editor
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Excited to be part of this! Tomorrow I'll talk about how the poetic canon shifts, traced through +200 years of poetry and prosody handbooks in the Princeton Prosody Archive. @princetoncdh.bsky.social
Judith Brottrager@jbrottrager.bsky.social · 2mo agoVery excited about a very special event: in two weeks, some of the most interesting quantitative work on the literary canon and canon formation comes together in Darmstadt 🧵
I added python bindings to RustMallet, with a sklearn-like API. Performance is almost exactly equal to pure rust. github.com/mimno/RustMa...
GitHub - mimno/RustMallet: Rust implementation of sparse Gibbs sampling LDA, following the SparseLDA scheme from MALLET
Rust implementation of sparse Gibbs sampling LDA, following the SparseLDA scheme from MALLET - mimno/RustMallet
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The web site for @dhtech-community.bsky.social can now be found at dh-tech.adho.org ! (existing dh-tech.github.io url will still work & redirects) Thanks to @adho-org.bsky.social for supporting Special Interest Groups like DHTech
DHTech
Are you developing code for Digital Humanities research? Have you ever thought about publishing your code? Do you wish code would be more reusable, visible, and impactful? Join our upcoming webinar to explore how code review and publication …
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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.
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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Today is the 190th anniversary of the publication of the first installment of The Pickwick Papers. I thought it would be interesting to read at the original cadence. This page reveals each section on the original timeframe, offset by 190 years: mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/Pickwick/
The Pickwick Papers — 190th Anniversary Edition
Read The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens as it was originally published: in monthly installments. Celebrating the 190th anniversary of the serialization (1836-1837).
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I wrote about restoring my early digital history projects.
Restoring Old Digital History | Jason A. Heppler
If there’s one thing I’ve come to appreciate about generative AI, it’s the ability to automate routine things. One of my digital history sites—the first one I ever made—broke at some point. It’s an old site that really should’ve always been a static site, but static site generators were not quite a thing when I first made this project. Instead, I had a mix of HTML and PHP that assembled the site.
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According to our award committee, these papers are must-reads of the #CHR2025 proceedings. Congratulations to the authors on winning the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Awards! Links and honourable mentions are available on our website: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/best-pa...
We will continue to evolve the system and are grateful for any feedback or contributions from anyone interested in exploratory search, multimodal IR, or digital collections research!
Rebecca Sutton Koeser@suttonkoeser.bsky.social · 8mo agoCheck out the recently published software paper on Digital Collections Explorer by @yh-huang.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social - web-based, open-source exploratory, multimodal search for cultural heritage collections doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Check out the recently published software paper on Digital Collections Explorer by @yh-huang.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social - web-based, open-source exploratory, multimodal search for cultural heritage collections doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Digital collections explorer: An open-source, multimodal viewer for searching digital collections | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Digital collections explorer: An open-source, multimodal viewer for searching digital collections - Volume 1
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Do you write research software for the humanities? Consider writing a software paper to share your work! Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
Lauren Tilton@nolauren.bsky.social · 8mo ago“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology. This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 9mo agoYou can check out the first official volume from the DH Tech Symposium, edited by Julia Damerow and @suttonkoeser.bsky.social. anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Are you hosting a workshop or conference series that would like to publish peer-reviewed proceedings or other materials in the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities? Reach out to Taylor Arnold @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for more details!
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology
Can AI be creative if it doesn't believe it can? We asked 556 humans and 13 LLMs to judge creative writing. Then we lied about who wrote what. Result: AI has learned to distrust itself, showing 2.5× stronger bias than humans against AI-labeled creativity. Proud of this work with @mmvty.bsky.social 👇
Meredith Martin@mmvty.bsky.social · 10mo ago📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵
📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵
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I'm very pleased to share my new article on the python library undate, which is an ambitious in-progress effort to make it easier to work with incomplete dates and multiple calendars, building on work from Shakespeare and Company Project, Princeton Geniza Project, etc. doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Undate: humanistic dates for computation | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Undate: humanistic dates for computation - Volume 1
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And we feature software papers! Check out @suttonkoeser.bsky.social Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!
Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 12mo ago📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research! Read the issue #openaccess here: 📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow #computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research! Read the issue #openaccess here: 📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow #computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
Good turn out for @dhtech-community.bsky.social symposium at #DH2025 Nice mix of folks doing technical work and interested in technical talks.
⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research! Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting! for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social ! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
After publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR for 5 years, we need a new venue. 🚨 How do we ensure that the CHR proceedings remain free, accessible, and interdisciplinary? 🖥️ Join the discussion and share your thoughts here: discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/call-for-i...
Call for input: finding a new publication venue for our conference proceedings
Dear Computational Humanities Research Community, As many of you know, we have been publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR Workshop Proceedings since the first edition of CHR back in 2020. C...
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It's a new year and "A New Phase for Derrida’s Margins" 🌘 @jerielizabeth.bsky.social interviews @suttonkoeser.bsky.social on the decision and process of transforming Derrida’s Margins into a “read-only” version and discusses the challenge of defining endings and potential futures for DH projects.
Read-Only: A New Phase for Derrida's Margins
Read-Only: A New Phase for Derrida's Margins
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FINISH the year with STARTWORDS! Announcing the release of Issue 5: Processes 🎉 This issue features the work of 3 leading grad students from CDH using data curation and visualization to highlight the importance of everyday, historical people whose lives may otherwise have remained unknown to us.
Finishing the year with Startwords. Introducing Issue 5: Processes
Finishing the year with Startwords. Introducing Issue 5: Processes
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@miguelev.bsky.social following up on our conversations about data physicalization - here is my work from a few years ago: startwords.cdh.princeton.edu/issues/1/dat...
Data Beyond Vision
How do we represent tangible objects in a visual medium? We use words, pictures, and diagrams. We describe, share, show, and fail.
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Thanks again to all the organizers and presenters at #CHR2024 for such a great conference and so many good conversations. I'm continuing to process and take in all the things I learned, as I share insights with my colleagues at @princetoncdh.bsky.social .
Computational Humanities Research@comphumresearch.bsky.social · 2y agoIt is already a week since Aarhus University welcomed #CHR2024. We look back on inspiring days of talks and research! Next year, the C²DH at the University of Luxembourg will host us. We hope to see many of you there! 🇱🇺 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/announcement...