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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 17h

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 15

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 22h

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 22h

I didn't have $$ for indexing and did it myself....oofff....entries that lead nowhere.

Also, just got a note from the publisher asking if I'd like to convert my 2015 book to open access for $1500 🤯doesn't seem like a lot, but I'm on v thin margins w/current project 😪

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 23h

I wonder if there will be a turn to generative AI to build an index for a book? And I wonder if it could have caught that not one but 3 paragraphs were repeated in error in 2015 book bc final print didn't insert the corrections from the copyeditor (error introduced in typesetting)?

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic article! It reinvorces exactly why I'm taking so infernally long to create metadata for my @archive.org collection of literary annuals -- bc once s/o quotes it, that knowledge gets re-quoted & calcified!

Building the metadata for a crosswalk to Internet Archive, Curran Index +

Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 5d

I'm enjoying that he basically is re-publishing all of those original periodical articles and adding an intro which is really a mini-monograph. So many reviewers were aghast when I included big excerpts in my book, but it was bc no one had access to the literary annual texts!

What a boon!

Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 5d

The 60pp intro to the collection 🤯
His economic take here is so interesting and the final section of the intro tackling what I think is very similar to your take the power dynamics of India's cultural growth in the early 19c.

Bonus that this intro is such an expansive history lesson.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 5d

I had already gotten up and wandered halfway down the hallway before remembering that he's not there anymore

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 5d

Today was spent wading thru a fab book by Rahul Sagar *To Raise a Fallen People* that resurrects 19c articles from India's periodicals. When my brain is bursting like today, I usually wander down the hallway to visit my wonderful Philosophy colleague, Anand Vaidya. He passed away suddenly Oct 2024 😥

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 5d

In searching for a family contact for a deceased colleague's family to ensure we can re-purpose his dataset, I bumped into my 2012 post lamenting lack of $$ & time to do what I'm doing now in 2025 😪 triproftri.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/l...
Thnx to our #DH center, the dream lives 13 yrs later 🤩

Living Outside the Institution but Inside DH

All of the conversations about gender, Digital Humanities, coding, archives, silences, and the like have made me really begin to think about this sense of isolation that many technologists, alt-ac,…

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 8d

Japan #DH was incredible! Next up, discussing critical cataloging at CA Library Assoc for feedback on the line b/w agnostic vocab & scholarly apparatus = metadata

So grateful for ongoing guidance from the community incl @gworthey.bsky.social 🙌

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CLA 2025 Annual Conference

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 16d

[I think I need another year of research leave to continue having fun on this #dh project! ]

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 16d

After borrowing workflows to tag those 1k images

THEN I'll launch into asking really interesting questions about the development of the short story in early 19c, representations of colonial voices, warping of beauty standards, inclusion of non-English texts & more

@rs4vp.org #digitalhumanities #dh

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 16d

I now have a much better grasp on what's going to be required to clean the OCR from @archive.org HCOR files that feeds into the workflow for converting into TEI so the corpus embraces the material (serialized) form -- all prepped to share w/other #periodicals scholars

#dh / Minimal Computing FTW!

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 16d

Wrapped the Japan #Digitalhumanities conf & am so incredibly grateful for this community! Such interesting and engagement people with very poignant and important projects.

Thanks for @rs4vp.org for the support from the @patrickleary.bsky.social Field Development Grant award to attend!

#dh

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