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We partner with humanities scholars to build software tools for research and teaching. Also at @performant@mastodon.cloud https://www.performantsoftware.com/

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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 below๐Ÿ‘‡

17.02.2026 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Black Modernism Black Literary Movement Publications and the Black Aesthetic

Companion site to my upcoming book: This digital poster tracks the way Black literary movements and Black little magazines influenced canon development, as represented in the Norton Anthology of Am Lit. #DH #digitalhumanities #BlackStudies #Periodicals and #Modernism. blackmodernism.com

18.02.2026 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#DigitalHumanities

19.02.2026 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#DigitalHumanities

19.02.2026 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#DigitalHumanities

19.02.2026 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#DigitalHumanities

16.02.2026 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

16.02.2026 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Position: Full-Time Visiting Position, English (Application Deadline: 4/1/26) navsa.org/News/13597863

13.02.2026 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Winter School 2026

๐’๐“๐”๐ƒ๐ˆ๐Ž๐‹๐Ž: ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐†๐ˆ๐“๐€๐‹ ๐‡๐”๐Œ๐€๐๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐„๐’ ๐‹๐€๐
Only 8 Days Left to Register!
Deadline: ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐…๐ž๐›๐ซ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”

Take a look: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/studi...

Check the Programme: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../CSMBR_WS....

#CSMBR #Studiolo #DigitalHumanities

14.02.2026 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OpenITI Release, version 2025.1.9 Citation: please use the citation information (available to export in various formats) on the publication page.

Delighted to share that documents from our digital corpus now appear in the latest version of the OpenITI corpus, available at Zenodo. For more information see: kitab-project.org/OpenITI-Rele...

Let us know how you are using this new functionality!

#Documents #digitalcorpus #digitalhumanities

12.02.2026 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Turnkey FairData Website Package We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

Did you know you can get a turnkey DH website for less than $5,000? Complete with an interactive map-based search, built-in content management system, hosting, maintenance, and support! dh.tools/fairdata #DigitalHumanities #Mapping #LinkedData

12.02.2026 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Happy to report the addition of the 1843 edition of _Elegia di Tommaso Gray_ to the #ThomasGrayArchive digital library. The volume contains 12 Italian, 5 Latin, 1 Hebrew, 6 French, and 4 German #Elegy translations:

www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib...

#c18th #poetry #19thC #DigitalHumanities

12.02.2026 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ScribbleSense and Trends in Handwriting Recognition Online Digital IMAFO Lecture | by Michal Hradiลก

Interested in learning about a new HTR tool?
Join tomorrowโ€™s online Digital IMAFO Lecture: Michal Hradiลก will present ScribbleSense, starting at 3 PM Central European Time.
Register here:
www.oeaw.ac.at/en/imafo/eve...
#htr #atr #ocr #digitalhumanities #dh

10.02.2026 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Performant Newsletter

Stay on top of the latest news on the technical side and of #DigitalHumanities and learn about innovative new projects with our newsletter dh.tools/newsletter #Mapping #LinkedData #OpenSourceSoftware #DHTools

10.02.2026 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our latest newsletter is out, featuring the @natboundunbound.bsky.social digital platform focusing on the lives of enslaved Indigenous people across the Americas. dh.tools/NativeBoundU... #DigitalHumanities #NativeBoundUnbound #Archives #Mapping

10.02.2026 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reminder, Registration is open and the program has been released for #msuglobaldh 2026 April 13-17th. Join us in MI, online, and in Monterrey, MX! #dh #digitalhumanities #musetech

06.02.2026 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Check out our newsletter for February 2026 !
us14.campaign-archive.com?u=cd5d1b663f...

In addition to our regular blog posts, this issue features the proceedings of the DOโ€™s 2025 conference, โ€œAI and the Digital Humanities.โ€

Announcements for upcoming #digitalhumanities
events โฌ‡๏ธ

08.02.2026 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#dhoxss2026 | Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) A range of bursaries are available for online and in-person attendance at #DHOxSS2026 - don't miss your chance to apply! Deadline to apply is noon (GMT), Monday 9 February Apply here: https://lnkd....

Bursary deadline is this coming Monday!
#digihums #digitalhumanities #dhoxss26
www.linkedin.com/posts/digita...

05.02.2026 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reisestipendium NFDI4Memory integriert erstmals historische Forschungs-, Gedรคchtnis- und Informationseinrichtungen in einer digitalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur.

๐Ÿ“ฃReminder: Call for Application bis 15. Februar!๐Ÿ“ฃ

Doktorand:in, Absolvent:in oder Masterstudent:in der #DigitalHistory oder anderer historischer #DigitalHumanities? Dann bewirb Dich fรผr einen der #NFDI4Memory Early Career Travel Grants!

๐Ÿ‘‰ 4memory.de/aktivitae... #DH #NFDI @vhdonline

06.02.2026 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cover of book showing man reading newspaper on anvil and NYU discount code NYUAU30.

Cover of book showing man reading newspaper on anvil and NYU discount code NYUAU30.

Today is publication day for my book, Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century. nyupress.org/978147983053...

I am grateful to @nyupress.bsky.social for making it possible!

#NYUPress #LatinxStudies #19thCenturyPrintCulture

27.01.2026 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026

We are running a Winter School, where all of the courses are online! You can find out more information here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

15.12.2025 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Great piece, Dan. I can confirm: Over the years, this has indeed been a longstanding problem. I've helped fund numerous projects over the years trying to address handwriting recognition and it is exciting to see what we can do today.

25.11.2025 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Lightning talks include IIIF's AI/ML working group presented by the excellent Martin Kalfatovic www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2025

05.12.2025 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Statement of Agencyโ€™s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Statement of Agencyโ€™s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DCโ€“ Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersedes any prior notices which may have been received related to grant termination.

Good news today for anyone who got a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services: all grants are reinstated! www.imls.gov/news/statem...

03.12.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 115    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Tomorrow (Wed) 14:00 GMT is our Annotation December Stammtisch, at which Rocio Da Riva (Barcelona) will discuss RelNet โ€” a project exploring sacred landscapes and the connections between Babylonian cult centres. Join us to hear about all the issues of annotating cuneiform texts with digital tools

02.12.2025 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

aww thanks for the kind words

01.12.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's been an honor to work on such an important project, with such a thoughtful group of experts. We are thrilled to be on the team.

06.11.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Honoring our collaborators @performant.bsky.social, whose rigor and skill helped make Native Bound Unbound possible.

They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across timeโ€”a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination.

#NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities

04.11.2025 21:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Hands down, the best professional decision I made last year was to work with @performant.bsky.social. Could not love collaborating with @jamiefolsom.bsky.social @anindita.org and their amazing colleagues more. ๐Ÿ˜

06.11.2025 00:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A project that my company @performant.bsky.social has been working on for multiple years launches tomorrow! Launch events will be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm MT. It's been such a privilege to work with the Native Bound Unbound team. They describe the project as follows... (1/4) #DH

31.10.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

@performant is following 20 prominent accounts