Resources
Slides, writing and software from the workshop, and the archives, tools, publishing venues and networks that came up in its discussions.
Slides
Slides that presenters have shared, in programme order.
Writing on the workshop
Accounts of the four days by people who took part.
A Digital Humanities and AI landscape: From data vineyard to data jungle(opens in a new tab)
Luca Bruls Substack
A walk through the STIAS garden, from its ordered vineyard to its wilder corners, becomes a way of thinking about structured data and the messier material humanities scholars work with — and about whether AI curation leaves room to challenge the colonial biases archives carry.
Made for the workshop
Live Translation & Subtitles(opens in a new tab)
Frédérick Madore Microsoft Store
A Windows app that shows live captions in a transparent overlay above slides or a call. It was written for the workshop and captioned its sessions in English and French. Whisper transcribes speech on the computer itself, with no account or internet connection; translation, into one or two languages at once, goes through Gemini or OpenAI with your own API key. Transcripts export as text, SRT or WebVTT. Free, for Windows 11, under the MIT licence.
Archives, data and digital projects
SlaveVoyages(opens in a new tab)
Rice University
Databases of the voyages that carried more than twelve million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic and within the Americas, searchable by vessel, place and period, with records of the enslaved people and of their enslavers.
The Zamani Project(opens in a new tab)
University of Cape Town
Spatial documentation of heritage sites — more than 250 structures at some 65 sites in 18 countries across Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asia — together with training in the same methods.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa(opens in a new tab)
Aluka and JSTOR
Primary sources on the liberation, decolonisation and anti-apartheid movements of Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe: periodicals, pamphlets, commission records, UN documents, personal papers, photographs and interviews.
Archives of Nigerian Radicalism(opens in a new tab)
Centre for Democracy and Development
Digitised papers of Nigeria's radical and pro-democracy movements, including the Socialist Library and Archives (SOLAR) and the archives of Yusufu Bala Usman, Baba Omojola, and Ola and Kehinde Oni. The project is funded by the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA).
Unity Atlantic Rhythm Map(opens in a new tab)
Deirdre C. Molloy
An interactive map of Black Atlantic rhythms, from precolonial times to the present, built from dance videos, audio and texts by culture-bearers. It accompanies the docu-fiction Drum Calls | Body Recalls.
Noga Mo Jozi Loop of Dreams(opens in a new tab)
Authentic Studio
An eleven-minute film in which three architects use AI scripting to imagine spatial change in Johannesburg, working from the city's past and present towards a speculative design of its future.
Mozilla Data Collective(opens in a new tab)
Datasets for speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation and computer vision, many of them in low-resourced languages, Lingala and Swahili among them. Each carries its own licence, from CC0 to restricted terms. Incubated by the Mozilla Foundation.
History of Philosophy: Summarized & Visualized(opens in a new tab)
Deniz Cem Önduygu
Western philosophy set out as a network of summarised statements, with links marking where one idea agrees with or builds on another and where it disagrees.
Historical language models
Models trained only on text written before a given date, so that they answer without hindsight.
talkie(opens in a new tab)
A 13B vintage language model from 1930
Nick Levine, David Duvenaud and Alec Radford
A 13-billion-parameter model trained on 260 billion tokens of English published before 1931 — books, newspapers, journals, patents and legal texts — to converse from within its period and to study how models generalise from the data of one era.
History LLMs(opens in a new tab)
Daniel Göttlich, Dominik Loibner, Guohui Jiang and Hans-Joachim Voth
The project behind Ranke-4B, a family of 4-billion-parameter models each trained on 80 billion tokens of time-stamped text, with knowledge cutoffs of 1913, 1929, 1933, 1939 and 1946.
Tools for AI assistants
Agent Skills(opens in a new tab)
The open format behind SKILL.md files. A skill is a folder of instructions, with optional scripts and reference material, that an AI agent loads only when a task calls for it. Developed by Anthropic and released as an open standard, it is supported by a wide range of agents.
Zotero MCP(opens in a new tab)
Connects a Zotero library to AI assistants through the Model Context Protocol, so that they can search it by title, author, tag or meaning and read items' metadata and annotations.
Publishing and sharing research
Identifiers, repositories and open-access venues for making work findable and citable, and two takes on who gets credit for it.
ORCID(opens in a new tab)
A free, persistent identifier for researchers, which keeps a record of their work attached to them across name changes, institutions and publishers.
Zenodo(opens in a new tab)
CERN
A general-purpose open repository for papers, data, software, slides and more. Every upload receives a DOI.
HAL(opens in a new tab)
Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD)
France's multidisciplinary open archive, for depositing and freely sharing articles, theses and other scholarly work.
NAKALA(opens in a new tab)
Huma-Num
A repository for humanities and social science data that gives each deposit a DOI. The Unity Atlantic Rhythm Map's video tours, listed above, are published there.
Knowledge Commons Works(opens in a new tab)
Knowledge Commons
The open repository of Knowledge Commons, a non-profit scholarly network affiliated with Michigan State University. Papers, datasets, presentations and software each receive a DOI.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)(opens in a new tab)
A community-curated index of peer-reviewed open-access journals, searchable by subject and language: a way to find a venue in your field.
Open Research Europe(opens in a new tab)
An open-access platform launched by the European Commission, where articles are published first and peer-reviewed openly afterwards, with no fees for eligible authors. From autumn 2026, research organisations in eleven countries extend fee-free publishing to their own researchers.
CRediT: Contributor Role Taxonomy(opens in a new tab)
NISO
Fourteen standard roles, from conceptualisation and data curation to software and writing, for stating who did what on a piece of research rather than leaving it to the order of names.
You Put my name, I Put your name: exploring unethical practices in academic publishing using the authorship misappropriation Diamond framework(opens in a new tab)
Ethics & Behavior
Michael Oyedele Oyenuga, Stella Bolanle Apata, Thomas Oyetunde Oladele and Solomon Jeresa
Interviews with eighteen Nigerian lecturers on gifted, padded and exchanged authorship, and a model of how such practices come to be treated as normal. Behind a paywall.
Networks and associations
Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA)(opens in a new tab)
Southern Africa's digital humanities association and a member of ADHO. It publishes the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA).
Network for Digital Humanities in Africa(opens in a new tab)
Founded by the participants and facilitators of the 2019 workshop 'Digital Humanities: the perspective of Africa', its blog gathers news, events and resources on digital humanities across the continent.
Humanistica(opens in a new tab)
Association francophone des humanités numériques
The francophone digital humanities association and a member of ADHO. It holds an annual conference and publishes the journal Humanités numériques.
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)(opens in a new tab)
The global coalition of digital humanities associations, DHASA and Humanistica among them. It organises the annual Digital Humanities conference, which goes to Ireland in 2027 and to South Africa in 2028.
Meetings
Digital Humanities (DH) Summit 2026(opens in a new tab)
University of South Africa, Pretoria, and online SADiLaR, UNISA, Nelson Mandela University and North-West University
A national working summit rather than a conference of papers: eight working groups bring their drafts towards a South African position paper on the state of digital humanities.
DH2027(opens in a new tab)
University of Galway, Ireland ADHO
The 37th annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, on the theme 'Creativity'.
Colloque Humanistica 2027(opens in a new tab)
Nancy, France Archives Henri-Poincaré
The francophone digital humanities conference, on the theme 'Patrimoine & Durabilité' (heritage and sustainability), with pre-conference workshops on 5 and 6 July.