Gabriel Hankins

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Associate Prof, DGS, Clemson English. Series co-editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies (https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2020/08/18/introducing-the-cambridge-elements-in-digital-literary-studies/)
Sound Studies + dh people — good resources or directories you use? I have found some for ethnomusicology but surprisingly little elsewhere
Also a shoutout to @up_johd !
@proghist I should have tagged
What resources are folks using to introduce digital workflows as an idea and resources? Programming historian of course, what else?
Huge new release of my LLM CLI tool (and Python library) for accessing Large Language Models: it now supports additional models via plugins, so you can "llm install llm-gpt4all" to get models that run on your own machine!
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jul/12/llm/
My LLM CLI tool now supports self-hosted language models via plugins

LLM is my command-line utility and Python library for working with large language models such as GPT-4. I just released version 0.5 with a huge new feature: you can now …

I released three new LLM plugins this morning:

- llm-gpt4all adds 17 models from the amazing https://gpt4all.io/ project - https://github.com/simonw/llm-gpt4all
- llm-mpt30b adds the MPT-30B model (a 19GB download) - https://github.com/simonw/llm-mpt30b
- llm-palm adds support for Google's PaLM 2 model, via their API - https://github.com/simonw/llm-palm

GPT4All

Free, local and privacy-aware chatbots

We're coming to the end of a major digitization project to image about 100 of our Judaica manuscripts. I took the time to write out what it takes to digitize lots of manuscripts (spoiler: a lot of time and effort on the part of a lot of people) and how this project led us to hire a short-term conservator.

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2023/07/05/just-digitize-it-a-peek-into-the-labor-and-workflows-of-the-judaica-digitization-project/

"Just digitize it!?" A peek into the labor and workflows of the Judaica digitization project

Image from KTIV showing Columbia's digitized manuscripts At Columbia University Libraries, and at the Norman E. Alexander Library in particular, one of our major goals is to provide access to materials to as broad a user base as possible. With one of the largest Judaica manuscript collections in

Jewish Studies @ CUL

As @miriamkp once memorably put it, "It's just awful trying to find a humanities dataset." So here are some, available as an R package, which I used to teach Data and Culture with @mlmcgill last fall:

https://github.com/agoldst/dataculture/

Discussion, with intemperate remarks about various subjects: https://andrewgoldstone.com/blog/dataculture/

Course materials, including labs in R:
https://dc22.andrewgoldstone.com/slides

People whose data and work I pirated^H^H^H^H^H reverently built on: @kjhealy @TedUnderwood @riddella and others not here

GitHub - agoldst/dataculture: Supporting Materials for Data & Culture Course

Supporting Materials for Data & Culture Course. Contribute to agoldst/dataculture development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Dear @Gargron, this is what we need here.
Digital cultural heritage folks, suggestions on a good bibliography or recent survey? My references here are 15 yrs old— better examples?