Scholars' Lab

#DhMakes once I made my decision, I start the painting with my computer on the side, so I can check the nodes in Gephi.

Before starting to paint, sometimes I like to do a small legend on my notebook. In this way, I can organize and compare the colors with the threads. #DHMakes

Today for the #DHMAkes it’s time to pick the colors for the nails. In this case, I decided to use the colors I associated with the role of each individual in the Concurso de Cante Jondo (1922)‘a Network.

Medievalist digital humanities + gorgeous critical craftwork/book arts by @leoba.bsky.social: how Books of Hours were created as fanfic-style "transformative works": "where people respond emotionally+creatively to something they love". Loved getting a peek at this at #ACH2025's #DHmakes session!

In which I draw upon a long and storied little league career to discuss writing instruction, AI, and play in the classroom - "Step Back Writing"

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Stay tuned for a free zine workshop+talk series from @uvalibrary.bsky.social this fall+spring. As part of it, SLab will host events teaching: letterpress-printing zine covers, zinemaking for community advocacy, turning your research into zines, zine content design, zinemaking intro; & a zine exhibit

Charlottesville Zine Fest Saturday, October 18, 2025 at JMRL Central Library

We're saving the date to attend the 3rd Annual Charlottesville Zine Fest this fall at the JMRL: www.charlottesvillezinefest.org

Decorative inage of two xeroxed-looking grayscale scissors, in the background of all caps sans serif text saying "International Zine Library Day 7/21"

More about International Zine Library Day at this highly recommended zine-resource site: www.zinelibraries.info/events/zinel... +

Happy International Zine Library Day! Visit us for some free zines from our public distro rack (scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/work/zine-ba...) or since it might be running low given staff vacations, browse @literaturegeek.bsky.social's catalog of free online/printable zines on tech, culture, justice:

Big zine cover in the lower-right of my #DH2025 poster is the free "DIY Web Archiving" zine by me + @quinnanya.me @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @ilya.webrecorder.net Friendly tutorial how anyone can help preserve what you ❤️ on the web. Read online+print copies: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

ZineBakery.com poster at the #DH2025 conference in Portugal, for your digital humanities + zine cataloguing/coding/making + 🌈Geocities-style rainbow neon design aesthetic✨ needs (ty @gworthey.bsky.social & @manuscriptagraeca.bsky.social for photos since I'm attending remotely!)

New-to-me cool #DH + #bookhistory 2020 dissertation by Bridget Christine Moynihan, studying both content+materiality of midcentury scrapbooks re:scrapbooking as a queer method. Built database+3 interface prototypes w/design+remediation as the intervention (rather than Scholarly Facsimile as goal)

“Care is not infinite labor. It is knowing what can still be mended — and what must be set aside.”

“We are not starting from scratch. Even in crisis, we have models to draw from. They are often small, often precarious, often ignored. But they are real. And they are enough.“

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Finished my neon sign layout, & didn't forget @scholarslab.bsky.social's apostrophe. Wiring up sections & adding a blue neon underline balancing the taller Ss is next. LEDs can be any color/pattern, so we might program them w/an Arduino to respond to some environmental or external data. #DHmakes

Excited to announce that my work would be display at @scholarslab.bsky.social! Thanks for this amazing opportunity

Next up: Sara Arribas Colmenar on recovering María Lejárraga's forgotten legacy & the choreographic evolution of the Art Theatre trough social network analysis.

Maria Lejárraga (1874-1974) was a feminist writer & dramatist associated with the Martínez Sierra Dance Company.
#DH2025

Super happy to announce that my methodological article about #SNA applied to historical dance and theater is out! Available here: revistas.uned.es/index.php/RH...

Follow @sararribas.bsky.social & check their recent media posts to follow along w/their process creating this data art—and stay tuned for details on when Sara's work will be exhibited in the Scholars' Lab, & a virtual presentation and methods discussion w/her later this fall.

Thank you to the amazing, international pool of applicants who generously shared their proposals with us!

We're delighted to announce our 2025-2026 Data Art Prize scholar, Sara Arribas Colmenar! @sararribas.bsky.social's piece combines social network analysis & string visualization art to map the constellation of human relations & events from a pivotal moment in Flamenco arts+culture history:

More info on @okreylos.bsky.social's site—uses Kinect 3D camera, standard slides (light) projector, box of actual sand, PC w/decent but not $$$ graphics card, code reacting to changes in the sand 3D structure (Kinect cam=structured light scanning: projects patterns+recognizes how these get deformed)

Our GIS Specialists Chris & Drew rebuilt our long-dormant topographic mapping sandbox 🏖️🌏 Still a WIP, refining+adding new improvements (e.g. a button for rain)—but here's a sneak peek. Built w/@okreylos.bsky.social's generously OS code+hardware instructions: web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/Re...

Collective Biographies of Women Find the 1271 English-language books that collect chapter-length biographies of women of all types, famous and obscure, from queens to travelers, from writers to activists. CBW studies versions of wom...

"Fabulation and Care: What AI, Wikidata, and an XML Schema Can Recognize in Women's Biographies" -- @alisonbooth.bsky.social promises to be as cheekily adversarial to contemporary AI as possible. Interrogating (caringly) metaphors of text "mining," "distant" reading, &c.

#DH2025

I’m proud to share the #DH2024 conference proceedings. This year we’ve chosen to celebrate the poster as a key part of the DH conference. zenodo.org/records/1592... #DH2025 @adho-org.bsky.social

Editors' Choice: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data: A dh+lib Special Issue - Digital Humanities Now Last spring dh+lib published the special issue “Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities,” which featured seven case studies on ways critical making coul...

Editors’ Choice: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data: A dh+lib Special Issue digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/07/craf...

I created a zine about some of the contradictions in open access. Please print, discuss, and share!

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#openaccess #OA

Happy to see @plach.bsky.social's #ByteSizedPedagogy contribution featured in @dhnow.bsky.social. It's a great piece that discusses "Bringing Back the Joy in Teaching."

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Photo of 3 tall dark-wood bookshelves, bearing 6 BookBeetle tabletop printing presses, a Provisional Press cylinder tabletop press, and multiple boxes of BookBlossom type, all neatly organized

Photo of Ada Hubrig's poem "Ending Gender Truth" printed out as two columns filling two 11x17 pieces of paper; it's a poem made from redacting a trans-hate executive order, so there are many blacked-out words and some extra lines introduced to allow acrostics for emphasis

Photo of Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.'s book "Citizen Printer", a large book with colorful layered letterpress wood-type printing providing texture on the covers

Good book arts things today: @josefbeery.bsky.social +a scurry of BookBeetles in @scholarslab.bsky.social; printed @adahubrig.bsky.social's "Ending Gender Truth" for my wall (poetry redaction of a hate Exec Order www.citizentrans.com/ending-gende...); @kennedyprints.bsky.social book from the library

Our 3D Technologies Specialist Will Rourk mentored UVA students in submitting historic documentation of the Dunbar Rosenwald School to the Library of Congress' Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), including 20 architectural drawings.