Beginning in the Spring, we welcomed Veepattra Siroros to the Digital Humanities Institute, an MA English Language and Linguistics...

A lot of great work has gone into locating the affordances of automated transcription and text recognition in data cleaning, metadata...

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit to a collection of essays tentatively entitled Critical Approaches to Automated Text...

With Trump's re-election and the Democratic Party's soul-searching as to why a majority of Americans decided to adopt greater uncertainty; it seems apt to think of historical figures who experienced palpable shifts in their own time. In this case, let's look at Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the abolitionist and social campaigner. Funded by the AHRC, I had the privilege to undergo an international placement at the Library of Congress's Kluge Scholarship Center earlier this y

For a new blog, I wanted to rehash some old work and look back at my time at the National Library of Scotland (NLS). This post revisits work to create the Library's first dataset using AI-enabled Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR). Working with the Digital Scholarship Team, we created an accurate transcription of the 19th century diaries written by Scottish child author Marjory Fleming (1803-1811), published online in 2021. Frontage of the first Fleming volume (1810) The diar