Federico Pianzola

Come join our lovely team at DHSS!

Teamassistenz am Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (m/w/d)

We are looking for an administrative assistant to join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social

Working in an international context, we are looking for people who can operate in both German & English.
Full-time, initially fixed-term, but with a long-term perspective!

www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/teamass...

The MORPHSS project is conducting a really interesting experiment in article peer-review process, getting reviewers to meet after their final individual report writing to produce a synthetic agreed final version. Will it work? I don't know. Is it interesting: definitely.

We use the same approach to grade Master's theses in Groningen. Most of the times the two independent grades are within 1 point difference, so a discussion is not required. In other cases, the discussion helps and we rarely need to involve a third reviewer.

New #FanStudies article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Pilati, F., Tartari, M., Houssard, A., & Sacco, P. L. (2024). From fandoms to heritage. Understanding fanfiction forums as Digital Heritage Communities. Convergence, 31(4), 1383-1400.

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

BOOKCOREF: Coreference Resolution at Book Scale Coreference Resolution systems are typically evaluated on benchmarks containing small- to medium-scale documents. When it comes to evaluating long texts, however, existing benchmarks, such as LitBank,...

Great work by @robertonavigli.bsky.social and the Sapienza NLP team on coreference resolution for (very long) books!

tl;dr: it's hard!

#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #NLProc

arxiv.org/abs/2507.12075

this is extremely good advice

My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

I'm excited to guest co-edit the JCA ten-year anniversary issue with two of the greats: Matt Erlin and Susan Schreibman.

(Matt is another fellow survivor of the UCLA NEH bootcamp!)

📢 CFP: JCA Ten-Year Anniversary Issue

The Journal of Cultural Analytics turns 10! We're marking the moment with a special issue reflecting on a decade of studying culture at scale—and imagining what comes next.

📅 Abstracts due: Sept 1, 2025

culturalanalytics.org/post/3316-cf...

Slide with title Digital Humanities for a World Unmade, blue background with stylized images of a Dutch windmill, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hagia Sofia, Big Ben, and the Singaporean lion.

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Don't leave AI to the STEM folks.

They are often far worse at getting AI to do stuff than those with a liberal arts or social science bent. LLMs are built from the vast corpus human expression, and knowing the history & obscure corners of human works lets you do far more with AI & get its limits.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

Book cover for Speaking with Pictures by Neil Cohn

My book has a cover and the final copyedited pages are submitted… my graphic novel "Speaking in Pictures: A Vision of Language” about language, cognition, and graphic communication will be out in February 2026! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Are you in Paris on 11/06? Do you need an excuse to come to Paris in early summer solely for scholarly purposes ? Join us for plenty of #manuscriptstudies & #digitalhumanities goodies at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social 1/2

Locations for next ADHO conferences:
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !

dh2026.adho.org

#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

🎉 #ExcitingNews #DH2025
We’re proud to announce our newest Constituent Organization,Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) further strengthening our vibrant global digital humanities community. Join us in welcoming our Italian colleagues as they join the ADHO family.

My temptation is to think that, actually, LLMs are another form of dissemination that could be open and beneficial... IF they can fix the hallucinations. Also, if this is how people are to be getting their information, I want the systems to work well for the educational benefit of humankind.

Steffen Pielström presents FAIRness analysis of SPP-CLS projects at DH2025

#DH2025: Steffen Pielström, Kerstin Jung & Patrick Helling put the SPP #CLS projects to the test, examining their level of #FAIRness as a case study to assess how equal automated FAIRness tests are.
#FAIR #FAIRprinciples

Artjoms presenting their study of meter at DH2025

Their main finding: Mind the Meter

#DH2025: What are we really measuring when we count words? @artjomshl.bsky.social, @philaut.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social show how different meters distinctly shape seemingly unrelated feature distributions across Czech, German & Russian #poetry. Their main finding: Mind the meter! #CLS

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We're now on Mastodon! You can find the official account for DH2026 Daejeon at the link below.

Please give us a follow for the latest news and updates. We look forward to connecting with you there!

#DH2026
mastodon.social/@dh2026daejeon

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration Free event. Registration required.

#DH2025, we're delighted to share a Turing's Humanities and Data Science event in Oxford and online on 25th Sept with a panel asking: 'How far can data science and the humanities help to answer each other’s questions?'

Express your interest here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...

For archiving purposes, the slides for our #dh2025 talk presented yesterday are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1603...

Screenshot showing a musical ephemerum (?) in tones of black and red.

Something for @toroe : musical ephemera gathered and described as LOD... in the talk on "Preserving Musical Ephemera : A Digital Archive Framework for Classical Vocal Music" by Minji Kim and Eunsoo Lee at #DH2025.

CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026).

Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper ‪‪@andrewpiper.bsky.social‬.

Submission deadline: 31 August.

2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/

#HKADH

Xiaoyan Yang presenting their pipeline at DH2025

#DH2025: Xiaoyan Yang & @fpianz.bsky.social present a #multilingual #CLS pipeline comparing #English & #Chinese #fanfiction. Using #BookNLP, #ARMCC & #LLMs, they address #CoreferenceResolution, dialogue speaker & character feature extraction 🔥 hot topics at this year's conference. 📚🌏

HathiTrust Research Cenger Extracted Features 2.5 info card

HathiTrust Research Cenger Extracted Features 2.5 info card

The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce a new release of our open-access Extracted Features dataset, a statistical snapshot of:
18,725,868 volumes
6,867,699,164 pages
3,255,304,293,468 tokens
450+ languages

go.illinois.edu/EF25 for details & download
cc:@hathitrust.bsky.social #DH2025

Picture of a conference session room full of people.

I love how the audience is so big for a #DH2025 session about the semantic modeling of cultural heritage data!

Here, Kim Minji presents their amazing work about preserving and visualizing music ephemera.

happyhillll.github.io

@kadhsocial.bsky.social

Picture of slide citing the WikiBio article.

WikiBio mentioned at #DH2025
@marcostranisci.bsky.social @tommasoc80.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social

aclanthology.org/2023.acl-lon...