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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oh, and you can thank you Julia for the Douglas Adams reference in the subtitle 😁

Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Aug 29

The paper was co-authored with Julia Damerow, Robert Casties (@robertcasties.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy ), Cole Crawford, who also contributed to the software development starting at the very beginning with a @dhtech-community.bsky.social hackathon.

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Aug 29

The paper covers why the software exists, how we developed it, what projects it builds on & other related work, and example use-cases to show its potential.

This is the first software paper published in Computational Humanities Research journal, part of the series “Missing Data in the Humanities.”

Heatmap of weekday frequency for Princeton Geniza Project legal documents and letters dated with day-level precision.

Raincloud plot showing how long Gertrude Stein kept the books she borrowed from the Shakespeare and Company lending library; borrow events with unknown years highlighted in orange

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

doi.org

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Aug 19

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!

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Aug 18

📢 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

Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research. Computational Humanities Research.

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Jul 14

hahaha, big fan, I see what you did there

Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Jul 14

Here's the full agenda for the @dhtech-community.bsky.social #DH2025 symposium (times are somewhat inaccurate, in the way of things)

dh-tech.github.io/2025/06/04/d...

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium - Agenda

Digital Humanities Tech Symposium at DH2025 - Agenda From July 14-18, 2025, DH2025 will be held at NOVA University in Lisbon, Portugal. DHTech will hold a …

dh-tech.github.io

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Jul 14

Good turn out for @dhtech-community.bsky.social symposium at #DH2025

Nice mix of folks doing technical work and interested in technical talks.

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Jul 9

There is also github.com/ixc/python-e...

GitHub - ixc/python-edtf

Contribute to ixc/python-edtf development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Jul 9

@jasonheppler.org undate doesn’t have django or db integration yet — I’ve implemented uncertain and historical dates two different ways (for shakespeareandco.princeton.edu and geniza.princeton.edu ) and wasn't sure how to generalize.
There’s existing code to adapt ... would love to discuss!

Shakespeare and Company Project

Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris

shakespeareandco.princeton.edu

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚡ 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...

Call for Papers @ CHR: Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · Jun 25

data.post45.org/posts/futuri...

cool dataset alert!

Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective

This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.

data.post45.org

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Feb 3

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...

discourse.computational-humanities-research.org

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Jan 15

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

cdh.princeton.edu

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Dec 23

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

cdh.princeton.edu

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Dec 11

@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.

startwords.cdh.princeton.edu

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Dec 11

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 · Dec 11

It 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...

Computational Humanities Research 2024

2024.computational-humanities-research.org

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Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social · Dec 10

Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.

You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.

muse.jhu.edu/book/123276

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DH2025 @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social · Dec 6

Javier Cha and Roopika Risam will be the keynote speakers of @ADHOrg #DH2025.

Know more about the keynotes here:
dh2025.adho.org/keynotes/

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Dec 6

Keynote by @laurenfklein.bsky.social! 🎉

"When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research"

This talk is a response to the idea that humanities people can only contribute to LLMs by improving model output as "AI tutors," "prompt engineers," "consultants."

#chr2024

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Dec 6

Excited for @laurenfklein.bsky.social keynote @comphumresearch.bsky.social #chr2024 on When Theory Leads!

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Dec 3

Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1.

Missing Data in the Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

LLMs in Humanities Research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Missing Data in the Humanities

Call for Papers: Missing Data in the Humanities

www.cambridge.org

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · Nov 26

Deadline extended!
dhrescunit.github.io/posts/project/

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Nov 22

🎉 Final Call for Registrations! 🚀
The #CHR2024 Conference is just around the corner, and registration is closing soon!

📅 Registration Deadline: November 25 (local time)
📍 Event Dates: December 4-6
🌐 Register Here: events.au.dk/chr2024/

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