iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Today we celebrate 40 year of Humanities Computing and Computational Linguistics in Groningen! @gronlp.bsky.social We started in 1986 with Alfa-Informatika and in 1993 John Nerbonne had the chair in Humanities Computing (first in the world?!). #NLProc #DigitalHumanities

Speaker in front of a slide saying Celebrating four decades of GroNLP

2446 44

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

"Provenance by default". YES, thank you! #DH2026

Slide about requirements for modelling books data

0164 16

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

GOLEM poster at #DH2026 A manually annotated corpus in 7 languages to develop and evaluate tools for Computational Literary Studies: characters, relationships, dialogue, and events. Stop by at 15:30 KST to know more about it.

Poster of the GOLEM multilingual annotated corpus available at https://github.com/GOLEM-lab/GOLEM-multilingual-annotated-corpus

13110 31

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Peizhen Wu reminding us of the importance of ethical use of internet data. #DH2026

Slide about ethical use of fanfiction data and some past controversies

0133 13

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Light and music show starting in 5 minutes in front of DCC. #DH2026

092 9

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

I love when data and models are readily available* Some journals are becoming really embarrassing... #OpenScience #DigitalHumanities Source: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities [*sarcastic]

Photo of a page of a journal article mentioning supplementary data and their availability but no link is provided to access them.

021 2

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026

While we convene at @jcls-io.bsky.social, computer scientists have solved computational narratology... by asking LLMs. CS PhDs should be advised better.

Table presenting narrative features used in the StoryScope article.

191 9

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 05/05/2026

Amazing exhibition for Giorgia Lupi and #DataHumanism in Vicenza (Italy) #DHmakes

Data visualization by Giorgia Lupi embroidered on a sweater

Folded pages with stitches used to visualized data

Hand drawn postcard with the text: it is only by adding personal context that you get closer to real meaning.

1134 13

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Brilliant talk by @gumarten.bsky.social in Verona about book criticism in the 21st Century. #DigitalHumanities #bookishness

Slides about German literary critics and authors, comparing elitist display to social media bookishness.

142 4

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 28/02/2026

All cultural archives and databases are suffering from huge traffic from bots and crawlers, including the fan-managed ones. Hearing directly from fan db managers like vndb.com, animecharactersdatabase.com, and animeclick.it at the Japanese Visual Media Graph project jvmg.iuk.hdm-stuttgart.de

screenshot of home page of the Visual Novel Database

110 1

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

Ok, I gave it a try. I co-designed a DH research project with Opus 4.6 in 1 hour... on my phone. Tomorrow I'll give it to Claude Code and we'll see if it runs smoothly.

Screenshot of Calude app with instructions to run Claude Code

020 2

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 26/11/2025

Available in print and Open Access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091... A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.

1157 15

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 03/10/2025

Great tips from @jiruiqi.bsky.social about how to choose your reinforcement learning strategy. @gronlp.bsky.social

Slide showing practical tips about how to choose reinforcement learning strategy between PPO, DPO, and GRPO.

071 7

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 17/07/2025

I love how the audience is so big for a #DH2025 session about the semantic modeling of cultural heritage data! Here, Kim Minji presents their amazing work about preserving and visualizing music ephemera. happyhillll.github.io @kadhsocial.bsky.social

Picture of a conference session room full of people.

0143 14

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 17/07/2025

Brain-split for many #DH2025 participants, who are also finalizing their @comphumresearch.bsky.social submissions. #CHR2025

Picture of a laptop with an Overleaf template used to write a Scientific article.

1175 17

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 16/07/2025

Don't you want to track down artworks looted by Nazis in Germany? Thanks to the work by Dalal El Youssoufi you can! #DH2025

Slide of a digital humanities project that tracks data about artworks looted by Nazis in Germany

052 5

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 16/07/2025

As expected: we need more diverse sources to study canonicity and world literature. Great work! #dh2025

Slide showing the geographic distribution of canonical literary works retrieved from wikidata

0116 11

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 14/07/2025

#DH2025 attendants, we will also stream this mini-conference about digital methodsin comparativeliterature, so anybody is welcome to attend! With 17 lightning talks and demo! ⚡️📢 dls.hypotheses.org/1952 #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

Poster of a mini conference at DH2025 about digital methods for comparative literary studies

11811 18

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 14/07/2025

Hi #DH2025 attendants, tomorrow we have a workshop titled "Exploring the GOLEM ontology and knowledge graph for narrative and fiction" and a very big room! So, even if you didn't register, you're welcome to attend in room Aud B3. You can attend online. 🥳 @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

slide promoting a workshop about graphs and ontologies for literary studies, held at DH2025

1173 17

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 15/05/2025

Tomorrow, Friday 16th May, I will present the GOLEM project at KAIST in South Korea. Online too. 2025-05-16 13:30~15:00 KST (15th May, 21:30 Pacific time) The GOLEM Project: Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models DM me for Zoom link #DigitalHumanities @gronlp.bsky.social

introductory slide of a talk by Federico Pianzola, titled "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models", a project funded by the European Union

152 5

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 17/01/2025

Arrived today, I look forward to playing ot and maybe using it for teaching network analyses of literary texts. @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

Deck of cards of the game Battle of the plays

052 5

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 28/06/2024

Quite accurate 🤣 glif.app/@fab1an/glif...

Meme about a digital humanities scholar with funny cliché sentences

010 1

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 12/12/2023

Thanks! I've just tried it out for some narrative analysis on a fanfic published today... damm, it's good!

Output by the LLM Mixtral doing a narrative analysis of fanfiction indicating arousal and valence of each scene.

140 4

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 08/12/2023

#CHR2023 has been a very rich experience! Already looking forward to CHR2024 in Aarhus where we'll have some first results from the GOLEM project golemlab.eu Btw, we're also hiring a PhD to work on the computational analysis of narrative in argumentative text www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... #nlproc

0197 19

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 26/11/2023

Definitely lived in too many places tenpages.github.io/us-level/eu....

Map of Europe with countries colored based on where I lived or visited.

120 2