Iain Emsley
@iainemsley.bsky.social
Currently a Research Software Engineer at CIM where I teach Digital Media. Working on a book on sonification and an Encyclopaedia article on Computing and Sound. Occasionally I garden. Owned by cats.
The windowsill behind my desk has a new furry ornament. She has been trying to work out how to get there for some time.
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The windowsill behind my desk has a new furry ornament. She has been trying to work out how to get there for some time.
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“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!
Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“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!
I will be going to #dmrn (www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/) with a poster on some ongoing archival work that is proving challenging in many ways to explore signals in sound and words.
DMRN+20 - Digital Music Research Network
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I will be going to #dmrn (www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/) with a poster on some ongoing archival work that is proving challenging in many ways to explore signals in sound and words.
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🎉 On 5 Nov 2025, we held our first DAHRSE Midlands meeting: “Co-Creating DAHRSE Midlands: Vision, Voices, and Next Steps.” A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible! Here's a quick recap 🧵👇
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
🎉 On 5 Nov 2025, we held our first DAHRSE Midlands meeting: “Co-Creating DAHRSE Midlands: Vision, Voices, and Next Steps.” A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible! Here's a quick recap 🧵👇
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Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
Just heard the John Rylands lunch time seminar is out and about. More details at:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylan...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylan...
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
John Rylands Research Institute and Library promotes world-leading research in the humanities and sciences using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library – National Resea...
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Just heard the John Rylands lunch time seminar is out and about. More details at:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylan...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylan...
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Starting soon. #KADH2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbg...
[학술대회] KADH2025 / Reimagining the Humanities: Big Data, Culture and the Public - Day1
YouTube video by 디지털인문학 in Korea
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October 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Starting soon. #KADH2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbg...
A morning spent doing some overdue family errands was brightened by overtaking a #ghostbusters car on the A43. Presumably a replica
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A morning spent doing some overdue family errands was brightened by overtaking a #ghostbusters car on the A43. Presumably a replica
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🌊 Do you have an idea for a mini-workshop, demo, or a lightning talk? This is your chance to take the stage and present your work at #CollabW26.
The deadline for applications is Friday 16 January 2026. We can't wait to see all your amazing proposals!
www.software.ac.uk/news/take-st...
The deadline for applications is Friday 16 January 2026. We can't wait to see all your amazing proposals!
www.software.ac.uk/news/take-st...
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🌊 Do you have an idea for a mini-workshop, demo, or a lightning talk? This is your chance to take the stage and present your work at #CollabW26.
The deadline for applications is Friday 16 January 2026. We can't wait to see all your amazing proposals!
www.software.ac.uk/news/take-st...
The deadline for applications is Friday 16 January 2026. We can't wait to see all your amazing proposals!
www.software.ac.uk/news/take-st...
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Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool!
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025
Our project, Linked Open Profiles, is a WordPress plugin designed to display ORCID profile data directly on websites. With ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) support, we moved the tool from a proto...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool!
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
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Registration now open for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities seminar on 12 Nov at 12pm (UK time) with @ehameeteman.bsky.social!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Registration now open for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities seminar on 12 Nov at 12pm (UK time) with @ehameeteman.bsky.social!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm
Have just come across the Hooked on Sonics essay on the Public Domain Review.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
Of all the senses cultivated throughout the 19th century, it was the sense of hearing that experienced the most dramatic transformation, as the science of sound underwent rapid advancement. Lucas Thom...
publicdomainreview.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Have just come across the Hooked on Sonics essay on the Public Domain Review.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...
An hour and a alf of fireworks are too much for one cat who has slunk off. Other one not remotely bothered.
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
An hour and a alf of fireworks are too much for one cat who has slunk off. Other one not remotely bothered.
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"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
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I went to the amazing @scholarslab.bsky.social and they have a lot of cool stuff like zines! I took my favorites with me and I have now a #DHMakes space in my office
October 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I went to the amazing @scholarslab.bsky.social and they have a lot of cool stuff like zines! I took my favorites with me and I have now a #DHMakes space in my office
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Folks in DH working with German-language data!
Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
de-Corp: A Corpus of German-language Fiction and Non-Fiction (1780–1930) | Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Folks in DH working with German-language data!
Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
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CFP (due 10/15 initial interest) from Journal of Open Humanities Data with Jenny Kwok co-editing this special edition, Benchmarking in #DigitalHumanities
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...
Benchmarking in Digital Humanities | Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
CFP (due 10/15 initial interest) from Journal of Open Humanities Data with Jenny Kwok co-editing this special edition, Benchmarking in #DigitalHumanities
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...
Found out that #zeehaven, a micro tool developed with @publicdatalab.bsky.social, is being used in another institution.
publicdatalab.github.io/zeehaven/
publicdatalab.github.io/zeehaven/
zeehaven - convert zeeschuimer ndjson to csv
publicdatalab.github.io
October 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Found out that #zeehaven, a micro tool developed with @publicdatalab.bsky.social, is being used in another institution.
publicdatalab.github.io/zeehaven/
publicdatalab.github.io/zeehaven/
Yesterday, I gave our first EDI Bites talk at @cimethods.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on Alternative Text. A small start, but hoping that it develops into something larger.
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Yesterday, I gave our first EDI Bites talk at @cimethods.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on Alternative Text. A small start, but hoping that it develops into something larger.
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Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure.
Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities
How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our worldCritical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure.
Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
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#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Abstract submission: November 17, 2025.
More: 🔗 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
More: 🔗 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”
The Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society calls for papers for a special issue marking the 60th anniversary of ELIZA, one of the first chatbots developed by Joseph Weizenbaum.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
September 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Abstract submission: November 17, 2025.
More: 🔗 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
More: 🔗 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
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#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
October 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement
It is going to be one of those periods where I look at all the small tasks that were not done while dealing with large tasks and strict deadlines.
October 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It is going to be one of those periods where I look at all the small tasks that were not done while dealing with large tasks and strict deadlines.
The @cdi-warwick.bsky.social and @cimethods.bsky.social workshop with Syster Server is still provoking thoughts. Should finish off a task associated with it shortly.
October 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The @cdi-warwick.bsky.social and @cimethods.bsky.social workshop with Syster Server is still provoking thoughts. Should finish off a task associated with it shortly.
A morning of creating and writing documentation for a couple of repositories led to writing a bash script to add in the various required bits and files. No doubt it will change over time: austgate.co.uk/2025/09/work...
Working through a Development Process – The Aust Gate
austgate.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A morning of creating and writing documentation for a couple of repositories led to writing a bash script to add in the various required bits and files. No doubt it will change over time: austgate.co.uk/2025/09/work...