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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleTechnical 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...
View ArticleOctober 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...
View Article[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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleDH 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...
View ArticleAlex 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...
View ArticleGenerous 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...
View ArticleRebecca 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...
View ArticleDH 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...
View ArticlePalladio
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...
View ArticleDLCL 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)...
View ArticleDay 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleAnimal 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleConferencing 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleRussian 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleWelcome 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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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View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleAcademic 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,...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleSpring 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...
View ArticleSUCHO 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleComing 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...
View ArticleFinding '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...
View ArticleDeformance 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleUkrainian 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...
View ArticleAI 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleGeeking 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...
View ArticleDLCL 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...
View ArticleDOIs 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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