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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

But still, most of my work is on GitHub, and I probably won't migrate everything!

Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

More Codeberg lately. Less GitHub. At home here, recovering some old FLOSS roots in academic computing. More to do and say and write than ever! codeberg.org

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Text Encoding is an ongoing Initiative and our annual conference is for all of us who care about “yesterday’s information tomorrow.”—now including born-digital media! Join us as a member! And come to the 2026 TEI Conference in Vancouver! #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social @joeytakeda.bsky.social

Joey Takeda introduces the TEI 2026 Conference in Vancouver !

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

On 2025-08-15, The #TEI released TEI Guidelines version 4.10.0, "The Olinguito Release” + version 7.59.0 of the TEI Stylesheets. Release notes: www.tei-c.org/release/doc/... On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin... mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling... @teiconsortium.bsky.social

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

At #dh2025 @roopikarisam.bsky.social emphasizes an ethic of care at the heart of minimal computing at every level of our lives’ work in digital humanities. 💜

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Celebrating the ADHO leadership of Michael Eberle Sinatra fittingly with an iconic gift!

A gift of sneakers to just the right person

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Dining and coding and teaching (did I get that in the wrong order?) at DHSI in Montreal has been lots of fun this week! #dhsi2025 #dhsi25

Greg Bondar and I in foreground, David Birnbaum (my wise co-instructor) and Juliette Paul from our class at a Korean barbecue place near U. Montreal campus.

Ethiopian food from Queen of Sheba restaurant to be shared 4 ways with hungry DHSI folks from Penn State!

David Birnbaum working on a plan for auto tagging some complex transcription data with one of our students.

A splendid dessert, anticipating my birthday next week!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

At DHSI, in Montreal and not Victoria this year! It’s the 24th anniversary and Ray Siemens is honored with a special T-shirt reading “A Ray of Sunshine” for his founding and care of our DHSI institute and community all these years! #dhsi2025

Me and my co-instructor David Birnbaum, for the “Processing Your XML” class.

Ray Siemens being honored for founding and hosting DHSI

First DHSI lecture being delivered by Ichiro Fujinaga. Title slide reads “On the Virtues of Lazy Machinrs: Rethinking Efficiency, Effort, and Intelligence”

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I've just posted my first Substack, on trying to teach "cognitive endurance" in our technocracy. Come follow me here! :-) open.substack.com/pub/ebeshero...

Plate 9 from William Blake’s First Book of Urizen, associated with his concept of “Newton’s sleep” or the sleep of reason (Urizen as a pun on “reason,” “horizon,” etc). The image of falling into a “clod of clay” bound by energetic snakes is part of Blake’s mythic vision enacting an intellectual fall into physical bounded existence. We become clods of clay bound by forces we don’t control—a nightmare in any technology age! Source: William Blake Archive.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Happy Halloween from the Mad Hatter, the Wicked Witch of the Web, and our friend the Creature whose brains we serve…

Me dressed as a witch, my spouse as the Mad Hatter with a big green hat labeled 10/6. I am holding a bucket decorated as a head of Frankenstein’s Creature.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Now, they consider whether AI tools might help, or not…They require students to acknowledge with with AI, and share their rubric to require students to demonstrate their original work with source materials.

Rubric for evaluating students’ use of AI in Foodways assignments.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Lobalsamo and Segreti shout out to the awesome What’s On the Menu project of NYC restaurants at turn of 20th century

What’s on the Menu as a significant source for Foodways

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Now Teresa Lobalsamo and Dellania Segreti shows us their project on Italian Culture Through Food (very successful class at UToronto Mississauga) and Foodways digital project. #keystonedh24 @keystonedh.bsky.social

Title slide for this talk on experiential online learning about Italian food culture

They begin their talk with a video of herding cats! This is how they see their work with DH on the Foodways project…

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Jason’s closing slide—calling for help with something better than current AI tools

Reuscher’s slide seeking leads for continued work

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Jason Reuscher discusses some challenges of trying Trabskribus @transkribus.bsky.social for HTR: challenged by models from after standardization of German spelling

Reuscher shows us some mixed / messy results from Transkribus

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Jason shows us a glossary he’s developing, perhaps something that can map to related projects!

Glossary Jason is developing of German food words

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Recipes in Kurrentschrift that Jason is working on, including one for macaroni and cheese!

Jason shows us pages from the German cookbook he’s working on

Jason’s transcription process—careful not to translate at first

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Jason Reuscher orients us to lots and lots of German “Kurrentschrift” in our Pennsylvania archives!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Now in the best-named panel at this #keystonedh24 conference (Food Processing in DH), Jason Reuscher of Penn State Schuylkill shows us his process of transcription of German cursive and Fraktur (that’s his handwriting on the right in the second photo) @keystonedh.bsky.social

Jason Reuscher discusses the origins of his project in historic German recipes from German cursive and Fraktur

Jason shows how he tries to replicate Fraktur in his own handwriting

Jason points out how the Fraktur corresponds with cursive

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Carpenter shows us the map of the main character’s movements in Hopscotch Book 1, and the networks he has designed of Book 2

Carpenter’s map of character movements in Book 1 of Hopscotch

Carpenter’s network visualization of locations (and characters?) in Book 2

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Carpenter shows is the diamond realm mandala, home of multiple buddhas—as a parallel to the structure of Hopscotch Book 2

Diamond mandala, in Justin Carpenter’s slide

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

At this point, viewing Justin Carpenter’s slides, I realize I really need to read/play this book!

Hopscotch movements! Carpenter is working on diagramming the structure of this book…

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Now Justin Carpenter speaks on Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch, a book that is a game in its own right(?) comes with a table of instructions! @keystonedh.bsky.social #keystonedh24

Table of Instructions in Cortazar’s Hopscotch

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Ideally, Shu Wan wants his students to play the role of a leader of the ancient Ba state, facilitated by Nation Wars. He provided a writing assignment to accompany the game play.

Slide on the “Ba” state from China’s warring period

Shu Wan’s writing assignment to accompany the game play

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Next, Shu Wan (via recording) discusses game-based instruction of history. He doesn’t want to make them but the games, but prefers to find something freely available: Nation Wars is available on Steam.

Shu Wan’s slide featuring his choice of game for his history students: Nation Wars. Each student chooses a nation to play.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Lim closes with a call to join him on a new project to analyze the climate change awareness of games, similar to what has been done in critique of the film industry—where it’s been found most films don’t demonstrate climate change awareness.

Lim’s slide, indicating very few films pass the “climate reality check”

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Jerald Lim comments that Everything defies expectations of games as genre—not about conquest / victory but something of “more than human” play

Lim’s slide on Everything’s defiance of game genres

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Jerald Lim (in background) argues that OReilly’s Everything cultivated an idea of self that is interconnected—building awareness of a co-constructed world—being part of everyone’s worlds. When you stop game play, Everything continues on its own!

Jerald Lim presenting in background. Zach Whalen, session chair, in foreground

Jerald Lim’s slide on self reflexivity and the game environment in Everything

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

It’s the final day of #keystonedh24! Jerald Lim starts us off with his eco critical investigation of games, featuring O’Reilly’s *Everything*!

Jerald Lin prepares to deliver his talk.

Title slide: The Universe Peoples: Towards a Symptomatic Deep Ecology in David OReilly’s Everything

Slide providing background in style of the game

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Now Katherine Furlong discusses the sudden “AI panic” at Bucknell in Winter 2023! @keystonedh.bsky.social #keystonedh24

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Suggestions for future work on generative AI for DH education

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Natasha Johnson’s takeaways: Students should have basic code knowledge foundation to be able to debug and improve generative AI code. #keystonedh @keystonedh.bsky.social

Natasha Johnson’s takeaways on testing ChatGPT on computational DH course tasks

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

The computational tasks in the DH course that Natasha Johnson tested ChatGPT to accomplish

All the tasks organized from less complex to more complex

Overview of the computational DH course assignments

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

The AI in DH panel is starting at #keystonedh24! Natasha Johnson prepares to speak first on use of generative AI in Digital Humanities education @keystonedh.bsky.social

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Congrats to the Parlamentos team for their NEH funding on this amazing project! #keystonedh24 @keystonedh.bsky.social

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

The interface of the Parlamentos project, facilitated by its document data modeling in TEI XML, with XSLT to transform to HTML

Interface for the side-by-side reading view of the Parlamentos digital edition

Bill Campbell introduces the TEI XML of the Parlamentos project

Sample XSLT to transform TEI to HTML in Parlamentos

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Next on this multilingual DH panel is the Pitt-Greensburg team of Pilar Herr, Sean DiLeonardi, Bill Campbell, and Ellie Withers. #keystonedh24 @keystonedh.bsky.social speaking of the Chilean Parliamentos project involving Spanish and Mapuche cultures.

Pilar Herr introduces the Chiliean Parliamentos project

Handout documenting the Parlamentos project workflow, with recently 3D printed plastic ornament reading "Keystone Digital Humanities 2024"

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Isasi and Ortiz-Baco seek a way to work at large scale with 19c Hispanic travel literature. Tried 3 methods: annotation, gazetteer, NER (NLP). * Annotation via GNER in Recogito: which ids named entities via authority files (too small) * HathiTrust metadata (impossible to correct) * GNER via BERT

"How can we start at bigger scale"? (with emphasis on the word "start")

Small and human supervised methods in the project via Recogito (and also with geonames in HathiTrust.

GNER with language models: expensive / computationally prohibitive

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Now Jennifer Isasi and Joshua Ortiz Baco introduce their talk with the history of their own collaboration! #keystonedh24 @keystonedh.bsky.social Importance of multilingual methods in DH = removing barriers of access! Follow the Bender rule: Always identify the languages you're working with!

Joshua Ortiz Baco with the slide documenting his collaboration with Jennifer Isasi

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Now, Dmitriy Babichenko speaks of converting a knowledge graph of Ecuador indigenous stories into a 3D game in Unity. Project deploys ChatGPT 3.5 to track/identify categories in stories . #keystonedh24 @keystonedh.bsky.social