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Brandes in translation: multilingual corpora at the Digital Brandes Hackathon

Quinn Dombrowski · May 23, 2019What do you do when you're invited to a hackathon around a text in a language you can't read? In keeping with my tendency to navigate difficulty by means of additional...

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DLCL ATS round-up, spring 2019

Quinn Dombrowski · June 24, 2019My first academic year at Stanford has come to a close, ushering in a summer that promises to be surprisingly busy, despite the relatively empty hallways and offices...

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To DH and ACH with a Skeleton in Tow

Quinn Dombrowski · July 29, 2019July was the month of digital humanities conferences, with DH 2019 in Utrecht, closely followed by ACH 2019 in Pittsburgh. I was fortunate enough to attend both, and the...

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Technical enough

Quinn Dombrowski · September 3, 2019One of the most memorable panels at ACH was the one with DH Developers talking about how they got to where they are. Matthew Lincoln, Zoe LeBlanc, Rebecca Sutton...

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October 2019 DH Happy Hour

Quinn Dombrowski · September 19, 2019Date/Time: Thursday, 17 October 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pmLocation: The TreehouseJoin colleagues from Stanford's digital humanities community for drinks and friendly...

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[CANCELED] November 2019 DH Happy Hour

Quinn Dombrowski · September 19, 2019Date/Time: Thursday, 21 November 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pmLocation: The TreehouseThe November DH Happy Hour has been canceled due to the special meeting of the...

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DLCL ATS round-up, summer 2019

Quinn Dombrowski · September 23, 2019In my first summer as the DLCL ATS, I have concluded that the quarter’s reputation as a “slow” time is crucially overlooking all the conferences and events that get...

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A guide to writing DH conference submissions

Quinn Dombrowski · October 16, 2019This year I’ve had the opportunity to try to convince a number of graduate students — both at Stanford and beyond — to submit something to the international DH...

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Book Review: "Failing Gloriously and Other Essays" by Shawn Graham

Quinn Dombrowski · November 18, 2019After 15 years of doing DH in some form or another, opportunities to sit in the company of fellow “veterans”, swapping tales of bygone years and campaigns won and...

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DLCL ATS round-up, fall 2019

Quinn Dombrowski · December 20, 2019It's been an eventful quarter in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and Stanford Libraries! Writing it up, it's hard to believe it was packed into...

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DH lightning talks + happy hour

Quinn Dombrowski · January 28, 2020Date/Time: Thursday, 30 January 2020 - 3:00pm to 5:00pmLocation: CESTA (4th floor Wallenberg hall)Join us for a new take on DH consulting: lighting talks about...

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Alex Wermer-Colan on "The SF Nexus: Digitizing, Curating, and Modeling...

Quinn Dombrowski · January 30, 2020Date/Time: Thursday, 6 February 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:30pmLocation: CESTA (4th floor Wallenberg hall)The SF Nexus is an ongoing project to restore the "great unread" of...

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Generous Thinking January

Quinn Dombrowski · February 5, 2020January was a rough month, between the last gasps of a too-long family trip over the holidays, getting ready for teaching a new course on Project Management and...

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Rebecca Wall on "Slave Liberations in French West Africa, 1850–1905: A (Very)...

Quinn Dombrowski · February 6, 2020Date/Time: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pmLocation: CESTA (4th floor Wallenberg hall)The end of slavery in French West Africa was a multi-decade process...

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DH lightning talks w/ Russian NLP group + happy hour

Quinn Dombrowski · February 6, 2020Date/Time: Thursday, 13 February 2020 - 3:00pm to 5:00pmLocation: CESTA (4th floor Wallenberg hall)Join members of the Stanford DH community, as well as guests...

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Palladio

Quinn Dombrowski · March 19, 2020Developed at CESTA's Humanities + Design Lab, Palladio is a widely-used web-based tool for visualizing data using networks and maps. You can save your work by...

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DLCL ATS round-up, winter 2020

Quinn Dombrowski · March 23, 2020It is a strange time to be writing my quarter-in-review blog post. The quarter is over (according to the calendar we started the year with, it’s spring break right now)...

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Day of DH 2020 at Stanford

Quinn Dombrowski · April 24, 2020CESTA and CIDR are participating in Day of DH, an international celebration of the work that digital humanists do, sponsored by centerNet.On Tuesday, April 28th at 4 PM...

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DLCL ATS round-up, spring 2020

Quinn Dombrowski · June 22, 2020In describing this quarter, it’s hard to avoid the cliches of our time, starting with “unprecedented”. Daycare and public schools in Berkeley shut down at the end of...

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DLCL ATS round-up, summer 2020

Quinn Dombrowski · September 13, 2020It’s hard to believe that fall is already here. A couple weeks of virtual first grade have given me some time to start preparing for teaching my non-English DH...

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Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities

Quinn Dombrowski · October 6, 2020This talk series hosted by Quinn Dombrowski (DLCL ATS at Stanford) and Liz Grumbach (Arizona State University) brings together DH scholars from around the world in the...

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DLCL ATS round-up, fall 2020

Quinn Dombrowski · January 11, 20212020 was the first year I taught in the fall -- and I'm very glad to have arranged teaching that way, so I have the rest of the year to continue supporting DLCL...

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DLCL ATS round-up, winter 2021

Quinn Dombrowski · March 24, 2021Winter quarter was a time of consolidation and slow progress, without much to share by way of exciting new developments. I worked on a lot of things that I expect will...

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DLCL ATS round-up, spring 2021

Quinn Dombrowski · July 9, 2021Spring quarter gave me the first chance in a long while to take some time off. The first week of the quarter was my kids' spring break, which we spent in a cabin in the...

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Conferencing from Home: ACH 2021 and !!Con

Quinn Dombrowski · July 28, 2021In 2019, I wrote a blog post about the experience of going to the DH conference in Utrecht, followed by the ACH conference in Pittsburgh. Two years later, it's time for...

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DLCL ATS round-up, summer 2021

Quinn Dombrowski · September 27, 2021Summer always disappears too quickly, especially when it involves navigating childcare gaps at various points. I spent almost the whole summer at home, but started...

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Russian Computational Periodicals

Quinn Dombrowski · October 19, 2021PI: Katherine Hill Reischl, Slavic Languages and LiteraturesThis ever-growing project seeks to transform the complexities of early Soviet journals’ graphic...

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DLCL ATS round-up, fall 2021

Quinn Dombrowski · December 16, 2021This fall was not at all what I planned. The DH Role-Playing Game class I'd spent 18 months planning for and thinking about only had one student enroll. That bad...

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DLCL ATS round-up, winter & spring 2022

Quinn Dombrowski · June 15, 2022In almost four years at Stanford, I've never missed one of my quarterly round-ups, but March 2022 was unlike any other month of my life. When Russia invaded Ukraine at...

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Welcome Anne Ladyem McDivitt, New History ATS

Quinn Dombrowski · July 6, 2022The Department of History and the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR), part of Research Data Services at the Stanford Libraries, are excited to announce...

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A Day in the Life of a DLCL ATS

Quinn Dombrowski · August 30, 2022With a hard-to-explain job title like "Academic Technology Specialist", I've often gotten the question, "What's a normal day like for you?" Every day is different, but...

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DLCL ATS round-up, summer 2022

Quinn Dombrowski · September 19, 2022Summer 2022 brought with it some major organizational changes in the library. Nonetheless, the work continues: with SUCHO, getting back to everything else I was...

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DLCL ATS round-up, fall 2022

Quinn Dombrowski · December 20, 2022Fall 2022 was a whirlwind of travel -- both personal and for work -- and promising developments for the Textile Makerspace. SUCHO also continued, with a set of...

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Academic Mastodon Survey, November 2022

Quinn Dombrowski · January 30, 2023In late November 2022, I drafted an email in English to 49 Mastodon server admins, looking for academically-oriented instances on various lists of extant servers,...

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DLCL ATS round-up, winter 2023

Quinn Dombrowski · March 31, 2023Winter 2023 was the quarter that everything came together for the Textile Makerspace, from infrastructure to staffing to events. A lot of things still feel uncertain in...

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Spring AI and Pedagogy Workshop

Quinn Dombrowski · May 1, 2023At the beginning of spring quarter, Laura Wittman and I organized a three-part workshop on AI and pedagogy. Workshop 1 (slides available here) began with an explanation of...

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SUCHO week

Quinn Dombrowski · May 18, 2023The week of May 8th was the culmination of this year's DLCL "Cultural Heritage at War" research unit, bringing the co-founders and several volunteers from Saving...

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New Horizons in Digital Humanities and Cultural Data Science

Quinn Dombrowski · June 14, 2023From May 29-June 2, the Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Digital Technologies program at the University of Hong Kong hosted a workshop on New Horizons in Digital...

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DLCL ATS round-up, spring 2023

Quinn Dombrowski · June 21, 2023Attempting to restore some order to my inbox reminded me what a busy quarter this spring has been, with a combination of teaching, travel, and on-campus...

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Coming to Terms with IDEs

Quinn Dombrowski · August 23, 2023This week Brandon Walsh finished up his summer of blogging, a series I very much enjoyed following along with. It was a refreshing reminder that a blog post doesn't...

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Finding 'close enough' text

Quinn Dombrowski · September 7, 2023For people new to text analysis, it can be hard to wrap your head around the gap between what's completely obvious to you as a human and what's easily detectible by...

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Deformance and the Library Strategic Directions

Quinn Dombrowski · September 20, 2023The Library Strategic Directions arrived shortly before last week's all-staff meeting: a single slide formatted into four columns, each offering a big-picture...

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DLCL ATS round-up, summer 2023

Quinn Dombrowski · September 26, 2023I've never needed summer as badly as I did after this spring, and this summer's conferences, family time, and relatively quiet lulls were just what I was looking...

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Ukrainian Memes at 'AI at IA'

Quinn Dombrowski · October 19, 2023On October 12th, I presented the SUCHO Meme Wall at the Internet Archive with Slavic department grad student Alyssa Virker, as part of the "AI at IA" event. The Meme...

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AI class final project proposal

Quinn Dombrowski · November 8, 2023Week 6 of "Future Text: AI in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures" has me approaching more familiar ground than the quarter so far. The class, like my non-English DH...

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How to Write an ADHO DH Conference Proposal in 2023

Quinn Dombrowski · November 14, 2023Four years ago I wrote a guide to writing DH conference submissions, a blog post that got a fair bit of traction and seems to be passed around every time there's a...

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Geeking Out at Face/Interface 2023

Quinn Dombrowski · December 13, 2023Fonts, like fountain pens, are a locus of intense, niche geekery — one I've only ever dabbled in, but where I can imagine my life being different very if I stumbled...

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DLCL ATS round-up, fall 2023

Quinn Dombrowski · December 20, 2023This fall, I got my first experience teaching a large class, helped launch a major new Unicode project, and got excited about the possibility of weaving as a medium...

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DOIs for DSC

Quinn Dombrowski · January 30, 2024The first month of the quarter has been busier than I imagined, kicking off a new class of the DH RPG (Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists) and...

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