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Publisher's Marketplace screenshot: DATA EMPIRE By Roopika Risam Imprint: Harper, Transworld Associate professor at Dartmouth College Roopika Risam's DATA EMPIRE, a history of 11,000 years of data collection, from ancient cave markings and knotted strings to colonial censuses and modern digital surveillance, showing how it has always been used to shape civilizations, uphold empires, and control lives, to Sarah Haugen at Harper, in a pre-empt, for publication in July 2026, by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency (NA). Rights also to Alex Christofi at Transworld (UK).

Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!

Torva wins seven-way auction for ‘breathtakingly ambitious’ human history of data

ICYMI: Torva, an imprint of Transworld, has signed the first trade book by Roopika Risam, associate professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth, in a seven-way auction. Data Empire: A Human History of Records and Rule will be published on 9th July 2026 👇 #BookSky

Performant Studio We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Check it out:
www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

How to Create a IIIF Manifest We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

Looking for a streamlined Solution to generate IIIF manifests? We’ve got you. In our new how-to video, Performant’s Nick Laiacona walks you through the process of creating a IIIF manifest using FairData, our open-source online database.

Access powerful solutions with Performant Studio.
Harness our suite of integrated tools––transcribe and markup text––bring your text into FairCopy, our easy-to-use TEI word processor, and collaborate on a textual corpus with your team.

Learn more: performantsoftware.com/studio

Roopika Risam's keynote at the #DH2025 conference.

"Many of us came to [DH] because we believed in the liberatory promise of information, in a relationship between access and equality. Or that digital platforms might redistribute power, offer possibilities for new voices and stories to emerge."

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...

What I like (a lot) about this #DH2025 keynote is that it is both inspiring — a call to arms (or, better, a call to care) — and, at the same time, practical. It values as much what's already there and used as it does what's shiny and new.

You can find yourself in this #DH2025 state-of-the-union. In our small way, we are prioritizing "care over speed, sufficiency over spectacle, community over competition", by sharing knowledge, giving advice & building resilience into tool development (thanks to Partners like @performant.bsky.social)

Great keynote from #DH2025 that resonates - go give it a read:

roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Thank you, ADHO friends for this wonderful opportunity! #DH2025 Still miss all of you.

And if you aren’t at #DH2025, ping any of us — happy to chat :)

We’ve been working on all sorts of open source tools, and I am *personally* quite excited about the mapping tools and the annotation tools because, well, #PlaceNerd and #LitNerd. I map and mark things up for fun 😅

Just be FAIR and CARE, people!
#DH2025

🎉Hello, DH community! The official DH2026 account is now live!
🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026
🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social
Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community!
#DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social

Working with Performant over the last year has been dreamy! I had wanted to collaborate with them for a while, and it’s been as awesome as I hoped. (And this link has a tiny sneak preview, aka screenshots, of what we’ve been up to.)

We’re thrilled to be a Pelagios Partner. Great working with such a smart, generous group of collaborators.

Pelagios is proud to count Performant & Rainer as Partners. Together, we are trying to build methods/tools for annotating & structuring data "in the round", where different Partners contribute knowledge, resource and/or funding, towards distributive resilience. Join our community of practice #dh2025

The whole suite is available at affordably for those who can’t or don’t want to self-host, and the final product of a project can be built as a static website, hostable freely, and independently of the software (static images, maps and search coming soon) #dh2025 #minicomp

Possibly of interest for folks at #DH2025. Dan is using Rainer's magic liiive.now. Give it a whirl.

Performant Studio is a set of smaller sharper tools which you can use together or separately, and which integrate nicely with others, including Recogito Studio, the TEI and IIIF annotation platform we built in collaboration with @aboutgeo.bsky.social, University of Bonn and others. #dh2025

We feel so lucky to work with you, Roopsi! Data essays (among other great ideas you imagined) have become key features available to future projects.

How to Publish a Digital Edition We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

Alongside the software, we’ve started a series of how-tos, describing things you can do with Performant Studio, with or without our help. The first is “How to Publish a Digital Edition”: www.performantsoftware.com/solutions/ed...

Performant Studio We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Hi #DH2025, I miss you all. Thanks to everyone skeeting for those of us who have to follow along from afar because life.

ATRIUM is present at #DH2025 in Lisbon this week, especially at the presentation "Engaging Diverse Communities: The ATRIUM Project's Participatory Research Initiatives" 🤗 🏺

Chose “Digital Mapping & Crowdsourcing for Cultural Heritage & Dialect Studies” for my first #DH2025 session. bit.ly/40R5T7U / maps are such a key entry point for many DH projects and these were all excellent examples / great to see @iiif.bsky.social used in various projects

Let the #DH2025 conference officially begin 🎉 #Lisboa #DigitalHumanities #Lisbon #OpenScience

AVAnnotate We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

We developed a state-of-the-art, web-based collaborative audio and video annotation platform–AVAnnotate–for the University of Texas, with support from Brumfield Labs.
Read more:
www.performantsoftware.com/work/avannot...

Edition Crafter A simple digital critical edition publication tool.

Nick Laiacona of Performant is at Columbia today, presenting EditionCrafter as part of a workshop on Teaching and Research Resources from the Making and Knowing Project.

Edition Crafter allows users to easily publish digital editions as feature-rich, sustainable static sites. editioncrafter.org

Free Consultation for NEH Grant Recipients We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

@performant.bsky.social is committed to supporting our friends in the Digital Humanities. If you’ve had a grant cancelled, we want to help if we can. Get in touch for a free consultation. #dh #ach2025 www.performantsoftware.com/pages/free-c...