Arielle's Bindery

My work with the @dhandlib.bsky.social team to co-edit two special issues dedicated to #DHmakes really transformed my way of thinking about the possibilities for teaching #DigitalHumanities. Links to both special issues below👇

Undergrads often struggle with this determination when using sources, especially on unfamiliar topics:

Is this a preliminary study being treated as definitive? Is this one contrarian researcher being positioned as consensus? Is this correlation being presented as causation?

I love this interview and the parallels between what he discovered as a historian making a thing and realizing all the little decisions a weaver makes in the process, and all the many things DH staff know about doing projects that just don't get written into the record of scholarship. #DHmakes

Storymaps and rare books! Here at #GISdays at @westernulibs.bsky.social showcasing student work from my LIS course.

Save the date: the 2026 DH@Guelph Summer Workshops will take place May 19th-22nd!

We are looking for folks to run workshops on UX, DataVis, and Videogames, with an emphasis on equity and diversity. Pls see full call here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/researc...

Applications due December 15th. #DH

Screenshots of the Fellou interface while its browser agent is in progress on a research task prompted by the user. (A) and (B) represent windows with multiple browser tabs open to searches. Each tab in these windows shows rapidly changing thumbnails of the websites, articles (including PDFs), and other materials that Fellou is currently searching and analyzing. A panel at the right of each window shows a partial view of the kinds of sources and topics Fellou has planned to search in response to the user’s prompt. (C) is a window showing a periodically refreshed report on progress so far. In this window, the panel at the left shows in separate blocks some of the kinds of sources and topics that Fellou plans to search. The wide panel in the center summarizes results. And the panel at the right shows in blocks the specific sources and key phrases currently being “deep searched.”

My blog post reporting on testing the use of agentic AI (the Fellou.ai browser) to start a research project on gathering definitions of the humanities: “Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI” (liu.english.ucsb.edu/humanities-d...).

Maps of the Disappearing — Olia Fedorova

Was introduced today to the work of Olia Fedorova, who makes striking embroidered textile maps (among other pieces) about Ukraine. Adding this to my list of examples for the Data Visualization with Textiles class. #DHmakes

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The dh+lib Review is back for the fall! We invite you to join us as a volunteer Editor-at-Large (EAL). Our welcome event, open to all prospective and current EALs, will take place Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 6pm UTC. 💻

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Fantastic little article about reproductions

Speculative Codicology - Dot Porter Digital In March 2025, I presented a talk for the “Medievalia at the Lilly Library” annual event called “VCEditor as a Tool for Speculative Codicology.” I started the talk with a description of the VisColl Pr...

That's so cool! icymi I've been thinking about speculation, coming from a slightly different direction - speculating about manuscripts that don't exist. idk it's all such an interesting area to consider www.dotporterdigital.org/speculative-...

over the summer I embroidered this giant tapestry about mill towns and textile strikes. now I’m working on another one about streetcar drivers and their militant labor struggle in the early 20th century!

Chronicles of a Book Detective: The case of MS 328 A lost sewing structure. A trip to Winchester which turns up an unexpected clue. A conservator looking for answers. This is the case of MS 328.

Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work

A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...

DSC: Thoughts on AI and DH We published what might turn into a controversial DSC book on AI, which will probably bring up a lot of thoughts and feelings from the DH community. We're already planning a follow-up book where were ...

Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!

A kid labeled "higher ed" splashes AI on Dawn, in a pink bikini on the beach.

The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...

Earlier this month I asked folks to let us know about the book labs at their institutions—You can still contribute info about yours here: forms.gle/HMZ8be5nmVnq...

As folks are contributing, this page will allow you get info about booklabs around the world: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#dhmakes

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

@westernulibs.bsky.social #dhmakes illuminated letters for STEM camps

Lasercut blocks of some of this quote; thinking I'll surround them with the same text set in actual moveable type when I print them (cc @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social)

Digitised manuscripts - The British Library Access 1,000 of our digitised manuscripts from the British Library archive, available to view in high definition

News you can use, BL manuscripts edition: Tl;dr you CAN download images detailed enough to teach from. Read on for a hack. #medievalsky #paleography 🧵

At the time of writing, links from www.bl.uk/research/dig... to the IIIF viewer are not working for me in Chrome but are in Firefox.

My indigo results with fabrics! Soot approved.

Spent today learning how to create a vat of indigo and dying Usu Kuchi paper! Tomorrow, we will play with dying fabric.

A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again - Dot Porter Digital This paper was originally presented at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK, in July 2025. It was part of the session In Memoriam Johanna Green, III: Digital Medievalisms and owes a huge d...

It's a two-blog-post-day! This one is "A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again," which I presented at Leeds in a session in memory of Johanna Green <3 Find out all about the weird book of hours I've been making since 2022!

www.dotporterdigital.org/a-franken-bo...

Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures.

Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜

Paws on Parchment This paws-itively adorable exhibition explores how medieval people thought about, engaged with, and admired cats in books from the period.

🚨 CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS, repeat CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS 🚨 exhibit opening at the Walters in August!
thewalters.org/exhibitions/... #medievalsky #baltimore

While you were writing, engineers and product people were building. :) Bluesky doesn't really believe in user docs. Fortunately, Amanda Visconti has been an angel building and maintaining this guide.

A CTRL/CMD-F for "starter pack" and you'll be on your way. :)

Screenshot of Amanda Wyatt Visconti (that's me) poster for the Digital Humanities 2025 conference in Portugal happening later this week. The poster has a lot of color going on: a border of zine covers, at least 7 rainbows not counting the rainbow-leopard-print border around the Zine Bakery zine-toaster-rainbow logo, lime green text on bright purple, magenta arrows, etc. The poster's intro text says "Zine Bakery / Author: Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti / Project Website: ZineBakery.com / Exploring zines for DH research, methods training, & scholarly communication. You might be picturing zines as their 20th-century origins: collaged, xeroxed, free paper booklets on subcultures, social justice, marginalized experiences; or their earliest precursors, like the "little magazines" of the Harlem Renaissance. But today, creators make "zines" varying widely in format, from 100+ page tiny books to digital-only creative websites. Content varies widely: comics, tutorials, scholarly or personal essays, collage, creative writing, news, & more. However they look, most zines stay true to the form's original vision of radically low barrier authoring, publication, dissemintation, & reading. Zines are a welcoming, inexpensive, and effective format for do-it-yourself scholarly communication, friendly teaching of digital research methods, and public humanities outreach - as well as an opportunity for data analysis and other DH explorations. The Zine Bakery (ZineBakery.com) is a digital humanities project collecting, amplifying, researching, & authoring zines, with an emphasis on free, resharable zines & zines about culture, tech, & justice." The poster goes on to share some stats about the zines in the catalog, list the different parts of the research, and give an overview of how zines are useful for urgent advocacy.

I'm attending #DH2025 virtually*, but I designed my conference poster on my ZineBakery.com research to be as Visually Extra as possible (🎵rainbow leopard print🎶) to give me (& hopefully you?) joy, so please enjoy! (*bc of fascism vs. trans passports, & recently getting sick from people not masking)

A very impressive X by one camper! Many wanted more time to continue working on their letters carefully! These letters were created by @bibliojo.bsky.social using ChatGPT so we could have simplified initials that work well for younger kids and are limited time for the workshop.

Thanks again @leoba.bsky.social for the lesson! 🥰 It was doable with the camp kids but I am looking forward to trying it in the fall with university students. 😅

Did everyone leave heavily dusted in gold? Yes. Did they have fun? 💯

Our STEAM camp workshop was a success! The kids asked lots of questions during the manuscript show & tell portion and had fun creating their own illuminated initials!

@westernulibs.bsky.social
#DHmakes #booklabbers