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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Funded by my @britishacademy.bsky.social BA/Leverhulme Small Grant, my National Librarian's Fellowship in Digital Scholarship, the ESRC Festival of Social Science, and part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social. A lot og support from Inspace @designinf.bsky.social and @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social .

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The project was also a practice research focusing on experimental approaches to messy humanities data with a special emphasis on visualising absence, GLAM data re-use, and on web archive awareness and access.

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The exhibition was built around a mind-blowing centrepiece commission, Digital Ghosts, created by Dorsey Kaufmann. feelingdata.studio/digital-ghos...

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Digital Ghosts - Feeling Data

Packaging, Branding, Email Marketing, Affiliate Management

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

But everything stays on the web, right? Wrong! We used creative approaches to web archival metadata to show the insane scale of web decay, the gaps in online representation, the power of platforms, and the inevitable archival bias embedded in the more-than-heroic web archiving efforts.

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

On paper, it sounded like a crazy idea, but the team smashed it! It was a superb collaboration involving archivists from @natlibscot.bsky.social , artist Dorsey Kaufmann, and students from @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social . Check it out here: inspace.ed.ac.uk/digital-ghos...

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

One day left to vote for us! Our Digital Ghosts exhibition at Inspace @designinf.bsky.social has been nominated for the Digital Humanities Awards 2025 in the Best Data Visualisation category! 🥳 👻 If the project resonates with you, we’d be grateful for your vote: forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...

Posing with the exhibition signage in front of a led wall writing out Digital Ghosts

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

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Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive

According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I'm organising this panel discussion for the (ex)Turing Humanities and Data Sciences group. Successful project owners will discuss the past and future of merging STEM and SHAPE disciplines. Book via the link to join us either in-person in Oxford (the Bodleian is quite a venue tbh) or online.

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Was discussing audience segmentation for web archive accessibility at #iipcwac2025. #webarchiving

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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Today at 11:30 👩🏻‍🏫Keynote by Dr. Andrea Kocsis, Chancellor's Fellow in Humanities Informatics and National Librarian’s Research Fellow in Digital Scholarship 2024-25 at the National Library of Scotland, contributing to making the UK Web Archive’s collections more accessible to wider audiences!

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm going to talk about what can go wrong when the method and its hermeneutics do not match and what it tells about hidden boundaries in interdisciplinarity, black-box software in DH, bad codes, and emotions in medieval dark heritage reviews. And wish me good luck with my 5.25AM flight.

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I’m incredibly honoured (and honestly quite stunned) to have been asked to be a keynote speaker at the 9th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries conference. dhnb.eu/conferences/...

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Keynote Speakers – DHNB

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

‼️New paper alert ‼️TL/DR: To make the preservation worthwhile, we should think of #webarchives both as data and as a creative engagement resource to ensure access and usability. What helps with this is not the collection itself but its metadata. openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

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Digital Healing: Metadata and Documentation for Health Web Archives | Journal of Open Humanities Data

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Andrea Kocsis @andreakocsis.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The historian and the gerund 😂so true, Susan Pedersen @londonreview.bsky.social .(Slim for Britain, 23 jan 2025, p.27.)

A newspaper cut discussing the historian’s obsession with gerund in book titles.

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