This paper reports on a project of modeling and datafying knowledge in a legacy catalog (Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in den Archiven der neuen Bundesländer (Sources for Jewish History in Archives in the New Federal States of Germany)) that took place in September 2022 during the first DH Jewish Hackathon1 organized by the Moses Mendelssohn…[Read more]

The introduction to a special issue of New Literary History titled “Culture, Theory, Data,” which explores the consequences of computation for cultural theory—and vice-versa.

The introduction begins by explaining how we came to a historical juncture where “culture” and “data” seem to be opposed terms. Then it offers some reasons for believing t…[Read more]

Review of the book “Archival Silences: Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives” edited by Michael Moss and David Thomas. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2021.

Wielded uncritically, the term ‘archival silences’ says more about our inability (or unwillingness) to see beyond the written text, than about the presence of silences in archives. This essay discusses the concept of archival silences as a starting point for archivists to help our users engage critically and generatively with our collections.