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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · 15h

This year's #Nobelprize in literature has been awarded to the Hungarian author, László Krasznahorkai!
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

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EurAsian Transformations @coe-eurasia.bsky.social · 9d

📜 💻 Alíz Horváth and co-authors created a data-driven typology of users in multilingual DH, then checked to see how accurate they were.
📢 Read up on how well we know the community how to reduce bias!

#DigitalHumanities #CentralEuropeanUniversity #Multilingual #Data

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Who are the users in multilingual digital humanities?

Abstract. Building upon previous work on the study of the multilingual digital humanities (DH) community through user experience (UX) lens and the conclusi

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · 13d

Fantastic Friday news! Our co-authored article "Who are the users in multilingual digital humanities?" is now available in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities! The article combines conceptual considerations w actionable steps towards stronger language inclusivity. academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

Who are the users in multilingual digital humanities?

Abstract. Building upon previous work on the study of the multilingual digital humanities (DH) community through user experience (UX) lens and the conclusi

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Coming up on Oct 3-4, 2025 at Central European University: OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced &Under-represented Languages in DH, funded by the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations &CLARIAH-AT! (Main organizer: yours truly) #digitalhumanities #multilingualdh #textrecognition #ocr #htr

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Jul 21

And here comes the 3rd visual backlog from the fantastic Hengstberger Symposium at the University of Heidelberg which I attended as an invited speaker. This idyllic city has made it to my absolute favorites in Germany! Thanks for the fabulous experience @chnunn.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Jul 21

I really liked enjoyed the tours around the city and in the university library too:

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Jul 21

Another visual blog from the @dariaheu.bsky.social annual event in Göttingen! Our Multilingual DH WG was well represented: WG meeting,WG showcase & DARIAH funding panel - I presented on our workshop: Creating, managing &archiving corpora in under-represented languages w Francesco Gelati (RDM WG).

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Jul 21

Visual backlog from #DH2025 in wonderful Lisbon! Great people, lots of revelations, Schmidt Sciences happy hour w a view, poster sessions under palm trees &lots of bacalhau. Thanks for the great experience @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy @djwrisley.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social

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DARIAH-EU @dariaheu.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Multilingual DH Working Group presented by @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Apr 28

'Enhancing Language Inclusivity in Digital Humanities: Towards Sensitivity and Multilingualism: Includes interviews with Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra and Cosima Wagner' by @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social examines the strive to strengthen language diversity. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Horvath @dariaheu.bsky.social

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · Apr 8

🗃️In this post James Harry Morris explores issues associated with Japanese text segmentation and creating visualizations with Voyant Tools.

📜He considers issues with stopword lists and asks how and to what extent they should be implemented🌏 #digitalhumanities

digitalorientalist.com/2025/04/08/o...

On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation

Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and Zionism during the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō periods (1912-1926) a…

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Apr 1

Our article w @cosimawagner.bsky.social , Cornelis van Lit & David Wrisley, has been nominated for a DH Award (Best short publication category). If you liked our non-standard&OA article, we'd appreciate your support thru the voting site: dhawards.org/dhawards2024... (open until April 4) Thank you!

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Paul Spence @politonaiz.bsky.social · Apr 1

OpenMethods Metablog relaunched with Call for new Volunteers & Editors: openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call-fo... An excellent European open science initiative celebrating #DigitalHumanities methods. OpenMethods is Multilingual/would be great to see people from new languages & geographies involved too!

Open Call for Volunteers and Editors to join OpenMethods Metablog

The OpenMethods platform is intentionally interdisciplinary and multilingual, aiming to showcase the richness of DH discourses as they take shape in different regional, national and language commun…

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DARIAH-FI @dariahfi.bsky.social · Apr 1

Would you like to know more about multilingual DH? want to develop infrastructures to meet the realities of researchers working in other-than-English languages in DH? Register to the next Friday Frontiers Webinar "Multilingual DH & its Users" before April 11th 👇

Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Apr 1

Join us on April 11th at 11:30 CET for "Multilingual DH & Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration" with Cosima Wagner, David Wrisley, and myself, as part of the
@dariaheu.bsky.social #FridayFrontiers webinar series!
Free and open to the public! Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/03/12/f...

Friday Frontiers Webinar on Multilingual DH and Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration | DARIAH

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Apr 1

The direct registration link for the talk is here: dariah.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Friday Frontiers - Aliz Horvath, Cosiima Wganer, David Joseph Wrisley - "Multilingual DH and Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration". After registering...

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Apr 1

The direct registration link is here: dariah.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Friday Frontiers - Aliz Horvath, Cosiima Wganer, David Joseph Wrisley - "Multilingual DH and Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration". After registering...

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Apr 1

Join us on April 11th at 11:30 CET for "Multilingual DH & Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration" with Cosima Wagner, David Wrisley, and myself, as part of the
@dariaheu.bsky.social #FridayFrontiers webinar series!
Free and open to the public! Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/03/12/f...

Friday Frontiers Webinar on Multilingual DH and Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration | DARIAH

www.dariah.eu

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Mar 26

OpenMethods is looking for volunteers and editors. Further info: openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call-fo... #dh #digitalhumanities

Open Call for Volunteers and Editors to join OpenMethods Metablog

The OpenMethods platform is intentionally interdisciplinary and multilingual, aiming to showcase the richness of DH discourses as they take shape in different regional, national and language commun…

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Mar 26

CLARIAH-AT Summer School: Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions - application deadline March 31. Further info: CLARIAH-AT Summer School: Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions #dh #DigitalHumanities

Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our article w @cosimawagner.bsky.social, Cornelis van Lit & David Wrisley, has been nominated for a DH Award (Best short publication category). If you liked our non-standard&OA article, we'd appreciate your support thru the voting site: dhawards.org/dhawards2024... (open until April 4) Thank you!

DH Awards 2024 Voting | Digital Humanities Awards

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Mar 10

Exciting #conference #cfp: "The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)",deadline: March 30, 2025.The organizers are keen to hear from East Asianists! Info: www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/... #asia #asianstudies #eastasia #japan #china #korea

Conferences

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Feb 7

The open access @appjournal.bsky.social, dedicated to publishing articles of various formats about Asia, is having an upcoming deadline on March 3. Submit your articles, photo essays, book reviews, and think pieces on topics important for our understanding of the Asia Pacific. bit.ly/4155mjh #asia

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Jan 8

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.bsky.social · Jan 22

It's publication day!
Available in print and Open Access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091...

A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.

@mitpress.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social

Digital Social Reading

How digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read.Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology i...

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · Jan 22

Our DH-related class offerings at CEU (also as part of the Advanced Certificate in #DigitalHumanities) are growing and now include our new co-taught course "Data Criticism: #multilingualism, #ethics, & #social perspectives" - now featured in the @dariaheu.bsky.social DH Course Registry too!

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