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Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Aug 22, 2024

I'm so excited about the launch event for my first grant project! Please share with anyone interested in Black entrepreneurship, the Civil War era, mapping, or datasets derived from 1800s "phonebooks" 📞🗺

https://udel.libcal.com/event/12928503

Mapping Black Entrepreneurship in Civil War Wilmington: Pilot Project Findings

What did Black entrepreneurship in Wilmington look like, as slavery died and emancipation took root? Black entrepreneurs during the Civil War era in Wilmington worked as...

Library, Museums and Press

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Feb 5, 2024

Registration for #dreamlab2024 is open! Lauren Cooper and I will be offering "Nuts of Bolts of DH Project Development." Dream Lab is a great place to learn #digitalhumanities skills, and at a new lower registration cost! Learn more: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Nov 2, 2023

@VickyRampin This is for an undergrad one-shot session about text mining. I usually show examples of collocation, word freq analysis, and topic models, but my example for the first two is no longer available. The purpose is for them to see "text mining in action," so they can know how they might incorporate it into their final project.

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Oct 30, 2023

Does anyone know a great example of a digital humanities #textmining project that uses collocation and word frequency analysis? For teaching purposes, so really needs good visualizations 📈

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Sep 8, 2023

Excited for my first #DLF Forum presentation! I'll be presenting with grad student Brit Henry on our pilot Collections as Data project, using the correspondence of 20th century activist and author Alice Dunbar-Nelson to create network data. Hope to see you there! Registration and schedule: www.forum2023.diglib.org

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Sep 5, 2023

dh+lib Sep 5, 2023

Have you signed up for your first editor-at-large (EAL) shift and have questions? Are you a current EAL and want to connect with the community? Join us for our 🍁Fall EAL Welcome 🍁 event on Tuesday, September 12, at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 7pm UTC

RSVP: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYufu-vrzMpHdOmOalGeaCZDQXeg2EecrKH#/registration

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: dh+lib Review: Editors-at-Large Welcome, Fall 2023. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Zoom

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Jul 13, 2023

Rebecca Sutton Koeser Jul 13, 2023

In case you don’t know, DHTech is working to develop a process for community code review.
Read more or submit code for review:
https://dhcodereview.github.io/

Think your project is too big? Let‘s talk.

#DH2023

DHTech Code Review Working Group

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Jul 11, 2023

jacobsberg Jul 11, 2023

Your academic article of the day reminds you to become ungovernable: Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes (pdf) https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/documents-nmr/Publicaties/Deinsea/Deinsea_21/Deinsea_21_17_25_2023_Hiemstra_et_al.pdf

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Apr 6, 2023

Sheila A Brennan Apr 6, 2023

NEH's Office of Fed-State Partnerships is hiring a Program Specialist, GS-11, usajobs.gov/job/717683100.

Job open until April 20.

Fed-State works closely with all state and territorial humanities councils. It is a great opportunity to see how public humanities is alive and well at the local level.

Kayla Abner 🌈🔮Mar 27, 2023

Roopika Risam Mar 27, 2023

Jennifer Guiliano & I are excited to share the March 2023 issue of #ReviewsInDH and some big news! We've received a $566,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the growth of the journal. We're super grateful for this investment in the future. Check out our editors' note for this month for details about what we're doing with the funds and don't miss the exciting projects we have for you this month. #DigitalHumanities #AcademicMastodon

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Personal Site	https://kaylaabner.github.io/