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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14d

Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!

Publisher's Marketplace screenshot: DATA EMPIRE
By Roopika Risam
Imprint: Harper, Transworld
Associate professor at Dartmouth College Roopika Risam's DATA EMPIRE, a
history of 11,000 years of data collection, from ancient cave markings and
knotted strings to colonial censuses and modern digital surveillance, showing
how it has always been used to shape civilizations, uphold empires, and
control lives, to Sarah Haugen at Harper, in a pre-empt, for publication in July
2026, by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency (NA).
Rights also to Alex Christofi at Transworld (UK).

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 11d

ICYMI: Torva, an imprint of Transworld, has signed the first trade book by Roopika Risam, associate professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth, in a seven-way auction. Data Empire: A Human History of Records and Rule will be published on 9th July 2026 👇 #BookSky

Torva wins seven-way auction for ‘breathtakingly ambitious’ human history of data

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 18d

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Check it out:
www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Performant Studio

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

www.performantsoftware.com

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 27d

Looking for a streamlined Solution to generate IIIF manifests? We’ve got you. In our new how-to video, Performant’s Nick Laiacona walks you through the process of creating a IIIF manifest using FairData, our open-source online database.

How to Create a IIIF Manifest

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 28

Access powerful solutions with Performant Studio.
Harness our suite of integrated tools––transcribe and markup text––bring your text into FairCopy, our easy-to-use TEI word processor, and collaborate on a textual corpus with your team.

Learn more: performantsoftware.com/studio

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · Jul 19

Roopika Risam's keynote at the #DH2025 conference.

"Many of us came to [DH] because we believed in the liberatory promise of information, in a relationship between access and equality. Or that digital platforms might redistribute power, offer possibilities for new voices and stories to emerge."

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Slide with title Digital Humanities for a World Unmade, blue background with stylized images of a Dutch windmill, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hagia Sofia, Big Ben, and the Singaporean lion.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

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Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social · Jul 20

What I like (a lot) about this #DH2025 keynote is that it is both inspiring — a call to arms (or, better, a call to care) — and, at the same time, practical. It values as much what's already there and used as it does what's shiny and new.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 20

You can find yourself in this #DH2025 state-of-the-union. In our small way, we are prioritizing "care over speed, sufficiency over spectacle, community over competition", by sharing knowledge, giving advice & building resilience into tool development (thanks to Partners like @performant.bsky.social)

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · Jul 20

Great keynote from #DH2025 that resonates - go give it a read:

roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thank you, ADHO friends for this wonderful opportunity! #DH2025 Still miss all of you.

Christof Schöch @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 18

RR: Repair must be our ethic, care our method. #dh2025.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · Jul 18

And if you aren’t at #DH2025, ping any of us — happy to chat :)

We’ve been working on all sorts of open source tools, and I am *personally* quite excited about the mapping tools and the annotation tools because, well, #PlaceNerd and #LitNerd. I map and mark things up for fun 😅

Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Performant Studio

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

www.performantsoftware.com

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Mark Schwindt @schwindt.bsky.social · Jul 18

Just be FAIR and CARE, people!
#DH2025

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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · Jul 6

🎉Hello, DH community! The official DH2026 account is now live!
🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026
🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social
Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community!
#DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 17

Working with Performant over the last year has been dreamy! I had wanted to collaborate with them for a while, and it’s been as awesome as I hoped. (And this link has a tiny sneak preview, aka screenshots, of what we’ve been up to.)

Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Performant Studio

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

www.performantsoftware.com

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re thrilled to be a Pelagios Partner. Great working with such a smart, generous group of collaborators.

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 17

Pelagios is proud to count Performant & Rainer as Partners. Together, we are trying to build methods/tools for annotating & structuring data "in the round", where different Partners contribute knowledge, resource and/or funding, towards distributive resilience. Join our community of practice #dh2025

Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

Performant Studio is a set of smaller sharper tools which you can use together or separately, and which integrate nicely with others, including Recogito Studio, the TEI and IIIF annotation platform we built in collaboration with @aboutgeo.bsky.social, University of Bonn and others. #dh2025

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

The whole suite is available at affordably for those who can’t or don’t want to self-host, and the final product of a project can be built as a static website, hostable freely, and independently of the software (static images, maps and search coming soon) #dh2025 #minicomp

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Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social · Jul 17

Possibly of interest for folks at #DH2025. Dan is using Rainer's magic liiive.now. Give it a whirl.

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

Performant Studio is a set of smaller sharper tools which you can use together or separately, and which integrate nicely with others, including Recogito Studio, the TEI and IIIF annotation platform we built in collaboration with @aboutgeo.bsky.social, University of Bonn and others. #dh2025

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

We feel so lucky to work with you, Roopsi! Data essays (among other great ideas you imagined) have become key features available to future projects.

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

Alongside the software, we’ve started a series of how-tos, describing things you can do with Performant Studio, with or without our help. The first is “How to Publish a Digital Edition”: www.performantsoftware.com/solutions/ed...

How to Publish a Digital Edition

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Performant Studio

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

www.performantsoftware.com

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hi #DH2025, I miss you all. Thanks to everyone skeeting for those of us who have to follow along from afar because life.

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ATRIUM Research @atrium-eu.bsky.social · Jul 17

ATRIUM is present at #DH2025 in Lisbon this week, especially at the presentation "Engaging Diverse Communities: The ATRIUM Project's Participatory Research Initiatives" 🤗 🏺

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