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Humanities + digital insights is HyperStudio's weekly mailing about news in digital humanities. Every week we provide you with summaries on innovative digital projects and current discussions in the field, with pointers to conferences and innovative digital tools, as well as information on new publications and digital library initiatives.

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Focus: Digitization Processes and Analyses

First, Andrew Prescott and Lorna Hughes write for Archive Journal about "slow digitization," an approach that emphasizes the "importance of gradually exploring and accumulating knowledge and understanding of a particular manuscript" within the digitization process. Prescott and Hughes offer this critical approach not as a replacement for bulk digitization projects, but as a complement geared towards careful engagement.

Next, Ben Schmidt of creatingdata.us publishes a large-scale visualization of the Hathi Trust digitized library, using a lexical mapping technique developed in his work on “stable random projection.” An interactive mode allows users to view the entire collection at once, while a “guided tour” mode highlights some features, process, and interesting results. 

Finally, Louise Seaward of the Transcribe Bentham Project at University College London presents a web interface for searching the handwritten manuscripts of philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The search tool allows users to query the text for keywords that have been picked up by the text recognition (HTR) software, or dive into the text and click on words to see the HTR best guesses.

Digital Humanities Digest

Digital media scholar Jeffrey Moro examines computational humanities through the metaphor of the ocean, exploring the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Zong massacre, and archive aesthetics.

Trevor Owens of the Library of Congress writes about the LOC's project to data mine memes from the websites Meme Generator and GIPHY, a part of their larger initiative to archive web cultures.

The Ubisoft blog presents the first results of their Hieroglyphics Initiative in collaboration with Google Cloud, Psycle, and Egyptologist Perrine Poiron, producing a hieroglyphics translator that will soon be made available to the public.

Roger C. Schonfeld writes for The Scholarly Kitchen about academic publishing, digital platforms, and syndication, arguing that scholarly publishers need better distribution strategies that extend their owned content outside of their own web platforms.

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has published their special issue on AI governance. Of special interest to digital humanists are perhaps Luciano Floridi's article on "soft ethics" and the GDPR and Joshua A. Kroll's article on the "fallacy of inscrutability."

Giuseppe Oliverio of the Photographic Museum of Humanity online platform interviews Verónica Sanchis Bencomo about her Foto Féminas project, a digital archive showcasing the work of Latin American and Caribbean women photographers.

Conferences, Fellowships + Publications

Registration is now open for the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) held by Loyola University Chicago (9 - 11 November, 2018).

Submissions are due October 31 for a special issue of Social Sciences on the theme of "Big Data and the Human and Social Sciences."

Submissions are due November 10 for the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) inaugural conference (23 - 26 July 2019).

Submissions are due November 15 for Michigan State University's Global Digital Humanities Symposium (21 - 22 March 2019). 

Submissions are due November 27 for ADHO's 2019 Digital Humanities conference in Utrecht (8 - 12 July 2019) for papers, posters, and panels. Workshop and tutorial submissions are due January 10. This year's theme is "Complexity."

Submissions are due December 31 for a special issue of Open Theology on "Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology."

Submissions are due December 31 for a special online edition of Big Data & Society focused on "Data Politics."

Submissions are due January 15 for David Ramirez Plascencia and David Dalton's edited book, Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants, a part of Brill's Critical Latin America series. 

* Submissions are due January 16 for the Time in Space: Geohistorical Applications, Methods, and Theories in GIScience conference in Pisa (26 - 28 June 2019).

* Submissions are due March 15 for the special issue of Computers and Composition titled "Rhetorics of Data: Collection, Consent, & Critical Digital Literacies."

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