Melissa Terras

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Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at Edinburgh Uni. Fan of pointing computers at old stuff. Digital Humanities & Digitisation. Transkribus.
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As previous organisers (and survivors) we wrote "The circus we deserve? A front row look at the organization of the annual academic conference for the Digital Humanities": http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/4/000643/000643.html

Now @ADHOrg has responded: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/4/000664/000664.html

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: The circus we deserve? A front row look at the organization of the annual academic conference for the Digital Humanities

January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
Public Domain Day 2023 | Duke University School of Law

Tweet       By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1  They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.

Academia would get a C-, could try harder for its latest performance. So today I went onto the #ucu picket line at Old College, University of Edinburgh, to strike for fair pay, equal pay, pensions, and to end precarity in UK HigherEd. #ucuRISING #ucustrikes #ucustrike

I'm hiring 2 PhDs in Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing for the GOLEM project golemlab.eu (computational literary studies, fanfiction, reading studies, cultural evolution)

Here are the details of the positions: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009QIP&cat=wp
#academicmasdoton #academicjobs #jobvacancy #joblisting #DigitalHumanitis #computationallinguistics #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #naturallanguageprocessing #nlp

Vacatures bij de RUG

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Good morning, all! The server appears to be stable enough that I'm reopening account requests for hcommons.social. I am likely to space out approvals a bit to be sure that things remain stable.

We are still looking into ways of recovering some of the missing data. In the meantime, do alert folks who followed you since 11/17 that they might see you in their following lists but they may want to unfollow and refollow to ensure a proper connection.

More as we know it. And happy Friday, in the meantime!

As the #Fediverse expands it will get increasingly complicated reconciling different terms of service, moderation policies, etc.

I wonder if some clearly defined standards will emerge? Sorta like the way Creative Commons standardized certain #copyright licenses, and that promoted #interoperability.

Is this kind of approach already in the works?

#opensource #openinfrastructure

Come one and all to the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society's annual lecture, ‘Which Way to the Quickest Exit? Lessons from the Global South on Restoring the Possibilities of the Internet’ presented by Nanjala Nyabola. Hybrid event, so do sign up to watch online, or to come in person. 14 Dec 2022, 17:00 – 19:00 UK time. Hope to see you there, and please share! https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/annual-lecture-2022
CDCS Annual Lecture 2022 | Data, Culture & Society

Am enjoying finding and seeing familiar faces/handles on here. Even if we've never met IRL, the familiarity still counts! 😊

All right, #IIIF community on Mastodon, please boost this post!

I've just set up a list: the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) on Mastodon: https://julsraemy.ch/mastodiiif/.

This list and offers an easy method to follow multiple accounts at once. You can can either download the full CSV or decide which account you would like to follow.

You can add your name using this form: https://forms.gle/MxCR4zZrrxfvhKke9. This could also be interesting for #digitalhumanities, #culturalHeritage and #glam folks @iiif @dh

IIIF on Mastodon

A list of actors active in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) in the fediverse

Seven years ago, a fellow named "MIDI_MAN" compiled 130,000 unique MIDI files by browsing a ton of sites, placing them into directories, and generally assembling years of MIDI music.

Now that collection (1gb compressed, 3.5gb uncompressed, 130,000 files for real!) is at the Internet Archive at this URL:

https://archive.org/details/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06

MIDIMAN Melody Kit Version 1.0 (130,000 MIDI Files) : Curated by MIDI_MAN : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Original Collection by MIDI_MAN. Modified by Jason Scott/Internet Archive for ease of use/interaction. (Click on VIEW CONTENTS links to interact with the...

Internet Archive