Rachele Sprugnoli
@rsprugnoli.bsky.social
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Computational linguist and digital humanist.
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vedph.bsky.social
Hidden Venice (together with another addition to the HistoryCity family) won the Heritage in Motion Prize for Virtual and Augmented Reality!
Congratulations to Fabrizio and the rest of the team!
Very happy that VeDPH had the opportunity to play a crucial role in it.
rsprugnoli.bsky.social
In Cagliari for #clicit2025! Tomorrow I will presents two papers: 1) Ciallabacialla! Modeling and Linking a Regional Lexical Resource to Include Sicilian in the SemanticWeb; 2) Annotating Manzoni: Challenges in the Annotation of Lemmas, POS and Features in “I Promessi Sposi”
@ailc-nlp.bsky.social
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umblaetterer.bsky.social
In just a few seconds, we’ll be presenting our #TEI2025 talk:

»Generating TEI Documents Through a Game of Dice« 🎲

Slides:
lehkost.github.io/slides/2025-...

Web app:
temporal-communities.github.io/999/

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @temporal-communities.de @schwindt.bsky.social @viktor.im
Title slide. Web app.
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jamescummings.bsky.social
At #TEI2025 in Kraków listening to keynote by Sebastian Winkler of the #ERC explaining how to navigate creating an ERC proposal, especially SH5 (Texts and Concepts)

@teiconsortium.bsky.social
Sebastian Winkler (ERC) giving keynote at #TEI2025 ERC evaluation panel structure 2025-26
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tommasoc80.bsky.social
It's the end of the day, but this morning I got a pretty good news: I've been awarded an #NVIDIA DGX Spark as part of the #NVIDIA Academic Grant Program to run LLM experiments on Cultural Heritage data @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social #HAICu
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umblaetterer.bsky.social
Next up at #TEI2025: @danja.bsky.social presents our work on the Ukrainian Drama Corpus 🇺🇦

So far, we encoded 47 plays (1810s–1920s) by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka & others.

Explore the corpus here:
dracor.org/u

#DraCor @dracor.org @teiconsortium.bsky.social @schwindt.bsky.social
Title slide from the presentation. Another slide from the presentation.
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archeosilviag.bsky.social
Per gli amici milanesi (e per chi passa da Milano) ecco il calendario delle aperture per il mese di settembre della Cripta di San Giovanni in Conca (piazza Missori).

Al link potrete trovare date e modalità di prenotazione!
➡️ www.museoarcheologicomilano.it/oltre-il-mus...
Cripta di S. Giovanni in Conca - Museo Archeologico di Milano - Comune di Milano
Tutti gli aggiornamenti sulle modalità di accesso alla Cripta di San Giovanni in Conca.
www.museoarcheologicomilano.it
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bcgl.bsky.social
Excited to be co-editing a special issue of @dhquarterly.bsky.social on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches
dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html

We're inviting abstracts now - please feel free to reach out with any questions!
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: News
dhq.digitalhumanities.org
rsprugnoli.bsky.social
In partenza verso L'Aquila per il LVIII Congresso internazionale di studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana #SLI2025! Insieme a me Claudia Corbetta per presentare un poster su Dante e Manzoni ⬇️
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molor-msca.bsky.social
Final Call for Participation: MOLOR Closing Event—"Old Irish Resources and Linked Data Approaches for Historical Languages". Registration closes on the 8th September.
🗓️ 16/09/25, 9:00 - 18:30
🌍 Università Cattolica, Milan & Online
🔗 forms.gle/FJuhCJKLiTVe... (registration & programme)
forms.gle
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gusthema.bsky.social
We've just released an amazing Embedding model:

EmbeddingGemma, the new best-in-class open embedding model! 🚀

🏆 Top multilingual model on MTEB (<500M)
💾 Runs on <200MB RAM
⚙️ Customizable output for on-device use
🧩 Integrated with your favorite tools

developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...
Introducing EmbeddingGemma: The Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embeddings- Google Developers Blog
Discover EmbeddingGemma, Google's new on-device embedding model designed for efficient on-device AI, enabling features like RAG and semantic search.
developers.googleblog.com
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mattitiahu.bsky.social
Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published.

C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset
www.nature.com
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icepfl.bsky.social
EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model.
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.

Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
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durhamclassics.bsky.social
🎉 Happy new (academic) year, and welcome to three new colleagues!

💻 We are joined today by Dr Chiara Palladino and Dr Thea Sommerschield, both as Assistant Professors in Digital Humanities and the Ancient Greek World.

👩🏫 Dr Ilaria Bucci joined us back in May as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow.
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dracor.org
DraCor @dracor.org · Sep 1
✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today!

5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

Programme:
summit.dracor.org

@temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Logo for the DraCor Summit 2025 taking place in Berlin.
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narrativesimtask.bsky.social
🚨 Shared Task Alert! 🚨
We are announcing the shared task on narrative similarity: SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning

We invite you to benchmark LLMs, embedding models, or even test your favorite narrative formalism. Sample data is now available!
Narrative Similarity Task - Narrative Similarity Task
SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning
narrative-similarity-task.github.io
rsprugnoli.bsky.social
Here are the keywords extracted from the titles: the main ones are certainly no surprise ☺️
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
"Interesting digital humanities data sources": I blogged about 18 datasets for DHy teaching, research, & tool-learning I've bookmarked, & why they might be useful—plus some relevant tools, events, & resources re:data at risk:
I bookmark sources of data that seem interesting for:
literaturegeek.com
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miaout.bsky.social
On small, local language models: 'In a world increasingly dominated by massive models and opaque APIs, we believe there’s still room for small, transparent, controllable systems. Models you can fine-tune, understand and run on your own terms' www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI
Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments
www.turing.ac.uk
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harald-klinke.de
JOB: Lecturer in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data

Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100% 👀
Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films…

#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory
UZH: Lecturer Teaching
The Art History Department (Program Directorate) in collaboration of the departments of Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences of the University of Zurich is seek...
jobs.uzh.ch
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hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy
JOB: Looking to start a PhD in Digital Humanities?
University of Graz is hiring a University Assistant (pre-doc, 30h/week, 4 years) starting September 2025.

Focus: dissertation + research & teaching in DH.
Fluency in English & (eventually) German required.
Apply by 6 August 2025
👉 […]
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det.social
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samuelmoore.org
We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...
Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge
An academic position as a Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...
www.jobs.ac.uk