This day 341 years ago: birth of John Gay (1685-1732).

Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00303.shtml

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

On this day (279 years ago), Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College published anonymously by Robert Dodsley in 1747.

Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1747

#c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #EtonOde #OTD

On this day (297 years ago), birth of William Dodd (1729-1777).

Poems appear in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00220.shtml

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

📚 Von #DigitalInfrastructures über #Ökologie und DH zum Digital Turn in den #ReligiousStudies: Hier die aktuellen #DH-Neuerwerbungen der @stabi_berlin des Monats April 👉https://lab.sbb.berlin/neuerwerbungen-digital-humanities/

#digitalhumanities #newbooks #stabilab

#CCLS2026: 11th Talk is "Modeling and Reasoning over Observations: An Ontology for Literary Criticism" by Emilio Sanfilippo, Claudio Masolo, Alessandro Mosca, Gaia Tomazzoli, reasoning about explicit observations (claims) on research subjects in #DH.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7993

Projects die. Data survives.

While sustainability debates in digital humanities often focus on formats, metadata, and archives, Joudy Sido Bozan asks: who maintains the code, the website, the expertise, and the community once the funding ends?

https://ctg.hypotheses.org/617

#DigitalHumanities #ResearchInfrastructure #DH #DFG #hypoverse

Since Monday, 11 May 2026, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 51 new and 442 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 13 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize the full preceding two weeks' worth of such work, but meantime, here's a #SneakPeek at a new place resource for modern Kocapınar in Turkey's Van province, authored by Birgit Christiansen in collaboration with Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott. At Kocapınar (known as Hagi/Aği until officially renamed in 1959) a stela with an inscription of the Urartian king Argišti II, son of Rusa (8th / 7th century BCE) was found which reports the creation of an artificial lake in front of Mount Quria.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/742516213

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #classics #DH #gazetteers #HGIS