What an incredible loss for the entire DH community...

In partnership with the Centre Jean Pépin UMR 8230 CNRS 🌍 and with the support of the École normale supérieure | PSL, we continue to add to the Encyclopédie Méthodique database. In all, we now have some 34 volumes of text and plates available: encyclopedie.uchicago.edu/content/encycl… #DigitizingEnlightenment

We have a blog post about our twitterstorm last week, thanks to OxUniStEnlightenment! Read all about it on our bog: 'The #digitizingenlightenment ‘twitterstorm’ of 3 August 2020' voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2020/08/13/the… via WordPress.com

On the Voltaire Foundation blog : Final results of #DigitizingEnlightenment ‘twitterstorm’ #C18 #dh voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2020/08/13/the… via WordPress.com

‘No figure from the 18th-century “age of revolution” had as extraordinary a life as Toussaint Louverture’: David A. Bell reviews the fascinating new biography by Sudhir Hazareesingh Oxford Politics and IR

New Voltaire Foundation blog: From the mundane to the philosophical: topic-modelling Voltaire and Rousseau’s correspondence... #DigitizingEnlightenment #Lumières voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2020/09/10/fro…

Intellectual #twitterstorians - are you wondering about what digital methods have to do with your work? --> Check out this workshop DHNordicBaltic tomorrow org. by Mark Hill and Benjamin Martin. Begins 13:30 EET Register: markjhill.github.io/ih-and-dh/ #USIH History of Science ARTFL

How digital tools enable both distant and close readings: Voltaire's correspondence as test case in a new study by our director Nicholas Cronk & Glenn Roe. Free to download over the next 14 days for subscribers Cambridge Core! voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/exp…; cambridge.org/core/elements/…

New ARTFL Research Blog: Topic Models in the Intertextual Hub - an overview of the many ways which we attempt to use topic models as a way to search and navigate the various digital #18C collections assembled for our NEH Digital Humanities grant. artfl.blogspot.com/2020/11/topic-…

Love the ARTFL Encyclopédie- that's all entries of the #Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, etc. by Diderot and d'Alembert easily accessible in scan & fulltext. Txs Glenn Roe et al.

New blog post: Revolutionary pamphlets from the Newberry Library, topic models, intertextuality and 'le Club de la propagande' artfl.blogspot.com/2020/11/club-d… #DigitizingEnlightenment

Official release of the Intertextual Hub Aim: to provide a means of moving from distant to close reading Comments, suggestions, & feedback welcome Access the Hub: intertextual-hub.uchicago.edu More info on the project: intertextual-hub.org Overview video: intertextual-hub.uchicago.edu/intertextual_h…

Recrutement d'un.e développeur.e informatique (web) au sein de l'équipe projet ObTIC (ancien Labex OBVIL): obvil.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualite/recr…

Virtual workshop (in French) UChicagoParis on geographic discourse in 18th c. France on June 15! Focus on evidence from Diderot and d'Alembert's #Encyclopédie w/Ludovic Moncla Thierry Joliveau(@[email protected]) + ARTFL colleagues Clovis Gladstone Glenn Roe and more! centerinparis.uchicago.edu/events/donnees…

Congrats to Rowan Dorin (Stanford History), Thawsitt Naing and many other researchers (esp. CESTA) who made Corpus Synodalium, a resource for searching/mapping extant local ecclesiastical legislation in Latin Christendom (13-14th c.) corpus-synodalium.com cc ARTFL

New blog post! Machine translation and text alignment looking for hidden connections between Chambers' Cyclopaedia and the #Encyclopédie voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2021/09/23/fro… #lumieres #18C #DigitizingEnlightenment

New blog post: multilingual text alignment using machine translation of #18C #Encyclopédie and the #Cyclopaedia - what's not to love: artfl.blogspot.com/2021/09/cyclop… #lumieres #DH

How much did the French Encyclopédie of Diderot & d’Alembert owe to the British Cyclopædia? Glenn Roe and Mark Olsen write in our blog on the use of machine translation as ‘intertextual bridge’ between such multilingual corpora: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2021/09/23/fro… ARTFL