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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

💌In this gig, I have distinct pleasure of popping into as many events as I can in a day. TODAY: DISCUSSION abt Yamaha synthesizers & motorcycles; LIVE classical Beethoven performance; RDGS by new fiction authors; tech TALK & MOVIE; machine dreams wind ENSEMBLE -- JUST ONE DAY College of H&A 🤩😎🔥🤯

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mmmm...a little time to explore before an afternoon flight

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Note that the review was from the metadata I created / verified for these 83 vols with titles & my notes -- and has not yet been released to the public. Metadata supported creating verified catalog descriptions for my @archive.org collection archive.org/details/kath...

slide from Harris' UVA presentation on textual editing that demonstrates the use of spreadsheet to work through metadata issues. This material was eventually added to individual volumes in Internet Archive -- adding table of contents, artists, engravers, page numbers, titles of engravings, authors to each of the 83 vols accurately for the first time ever.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

At Univ of Virginia @elaboratories.bsky.social this weekend to talk about #19c annuals from a textual editing + #DH (always) perspective. Underneath all of the different presentations this year has always been my 💌for #textualstudies / #bibliography / editing 📚🧠🤩rooted in #bookhistory #uva #cde

Opening slide for "The Literary Annuals as Editorial Problem: Editing Empire on the Parlour Table" plus Katherine D. Harris' contact information. Background image is a view of Harris' collection of British and American literary annuals, emblems and almanacs.

A slide from the presentation that focuses on the editing tasks with text "Material form is editorial evidence" and 4 images of book cover, slipcase, inscription page, and gilt spine from the Internet Archive.

Slide from the presentation with 2 images and the text "What does a page know?" and the images providing both the page and a close up a footnote to demonstrate an editorial intervention (or intrusion!) into the reading experience.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's been intense traveling between @rs4vp.org #rsvp2026 in Dublin to #dh2026 in Deajeon, South Korea where I moved b/w metadata & periodicals to arguing about the designation of "small data" as not worth pursuing. REF: Tully Barnett who urged #dh to focus on more "small data" project #dhsi

opening slide from the presentation deck. Small Data, Big Shift: Reinterpreting Literary Annual Beyond Colonial Legacies

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

🤯 completely packed panel for Saturday morning slot #RSVP2026 final day! Thanks to my wonderful co-panelists Jessica Valdez & Beth Gaskell w/Jim Mussell moderating

3 people smiling at the camera selfie with a large group in the background looking for chairs

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Wolff Lecture #RSVP2026 - an incredible thinker around LLMS & probabalistic thinking. She's weaving bibliographic arrangements, libraries, 19c newspapers, word embeddings & paratexts to comment on commercial LLMs (w/o selling us anything or pushing an agenda!)

Kath Bode standing at the front of a stage at lectern with her large presentation opening slide behind her, which states “Moving Types: Irishness, Migration, and Machine Learning in Digital Periodical Studies”

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

ARRIVED! Dublin experience activated for the #RSVP2026 conference - 1 of my fav conferences on 19c global periodical studies 😁 Already managed a sunset walk to see The Famine Memorial Jet lag tho 🫪😵‍💫😴 @rs4vp.org

Watching the sunset over the River Jaffey

Schooner on the River Jaffey in fading light

The Famine Memorial in Dublin. A woman looks forlornly up into the sky with a thin man beside her carrying a package

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm asking bc the crest/lion/unicorn show up on the boards of Forget Me Not 1825. Those represent British crown, England & Scotland, but look at all of the swords poking out 😵🤯and what seems to be battle ships(?) but nothing living. Seems to be drawn by Pugin? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ #periodicals @rs4vp.org

green paper covered boards of the 1825 Forget Me Not literary annual, published by Rudolph Ackermann and using similar british crown iconography to the Microcosm of London, but supposedly for an audience of women readers

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#periodical #history buffs, help me out here. I'm at the NYPL doing research on Ackermann, 19c print culture & literary annuals (final push!) & am stymied by the iconography in this volume title page for Microcosm of London (1808-1810). Can you name any of the animals, crests, buildings, vignettes?

illustrated title page for the collected parts of the Microcosm of London (Ackermann, 1808-1810) vol. 1. Variety of architectural vignettes, warlike imagery, animal iconography, and coat of arms in what seems to be a woodcut for a collection focusing on colored aquatint.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Grateful for the opportunity to speak to @modernlanguage.bsky.social Friday morning plenary about #ai & humanities around leadership 🍵🫖 2nd photo lists 8 provocations from @laurenfklein.bsky.social et al Talk gleaned from a previous blog post triproftri.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/s...

Kathy Harris in fly red suit with slide behind in blue with title of talk, The Romance with Innovation

Slide with provocations from Lauren Klein et al with Kathy Harris in foreground presenting

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

While in New Zealand, spent a few days farm-sitting for friends so they could vacation together. Fed horses (from NZ wild mustangs!), mucked for mini-horses, waved to sheep, cautiously built trust w/big horses 💙🧡 @roopikarisam.bsky.social am I a horse lady now? @aearhart.bsky.social so many sheep!

Kaizen and his sister in their paddock with the morning feed

mini horses bella and cosack in their paddock eating morning breakfast

farmer thiri leading her bottle fed sheep thumper for a good morning in a wide open paddock

george the alpaca staring bewildered at the new human trying to feed him in his pen

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Been following my adventures in #periodicals ? Join me on March 6 @ 8am PST with @rs4vp.org Pick-a-Periodical: "The Racial Anxieties of Polite Culture in the *Forget Me Not* British Literary Annual" (1825 & 1833) rs4vp.org/digital-even... Free, reg rqrd: zoom.us/meeting/regi... #digitalhumanities

Announcement for RSVP event with green paper boards of the 1825 Forget Me Not British Literary Annual

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Also, discovered Tom Young's *Unmaking the East India Company* (2023) with full page color illustrations from the British Library collection of 19th century engravings 🤯🤯 Up next: re-reading Dan White's * From Little London to Little Bengal* & Anindita Ghosh's * Power in Print* #periodicals

Image of Tom Young's on making the East India company opening illustration

Scholarly books from Dan White and Anindita Ghosh

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Incredible Find! Artist Biographies Master Index used copy with handwritten notes inside the cover 🤯🤯🤯 #peridocals

The book artist biographies Master index handwritten notes by a researcher on the inside of the front cover

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

#janeausten fans! Join Book Club of California for "Jane Austen in the 21st Century" w/ guest @kleuner.bsky.social discussing the #bookhistory elements of the new edition March 2nd @ 5:30pm PST In person reg: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... or Virtual reg: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

meeting information for the presenting jane austen event on march 2nd

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Also, here is The binding of the 1852 Keepsake - so odd that they chose this binding instead of using the original red paper covers

Gilt stamped spine in leather of the 1852 keesake

Front marbled board with black leather pieces on the binding of the 1852 Keepsake

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

@michaelhancher.bsky.social does this video help a little bit in terms of those covers? This looks like paper and not cloth

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Another mystery #periodical people! Here's a woodcuts on The illustrated title page for the 1854 Keepsake. The name on the left is the artist and usually the name of the engraver is on the right. Here's my question: Dalziel = wood engraver?!! Or is this grass? @rs4vp @michaelhancher.bsky.social

Illustrated title page woodcuts with the artist and potentially the engraver signatures evident for the 1854 Keepsake

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Odd finding in Keepsake 1852: at conclusion of the literary texts are I think the illuminated paper front and back boards intended for rebinding this volume - pristine. I've never seen this before 🤯 has anyone ever seen this? @rs4vp.org @patrickleary.bsky.social @michaelhancher.bsky.social

Illuminated front paper board of the Keepsake 1852; red and Gilt stamping

Illuminated back paper board of the Keepsake 1852; red and Gilt stamping

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

But it's not the same name, I think, as on the second illustrated title page- but I can't really tell. Working on flipping it in my Adobe software

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Thank you! Here's a little tidbit for you: the engraver's name on the other side of the page is backwards 🤯

Engraver and the embellishment with cuts on the 1848 keepsake

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

There's a second illustrated title page in this volume. It looks like the same person also did the embellishments here with a better view of the name- yes?

2nd illustrated title page with clearer name

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Mystery: what's the name here? From illustrated title page on 1848 Keepsake

Signature of artist on keepsake 1848 illustrated title page

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

#dhmakes check this out! Artist/weaver Susie Taylor at SF Fog ❤️ johanssonprojects.com/artist/susie... Showing at SJ Museum of Quilt & Textiles - opening on Thurs 1/29 @4pm ! Very cool @quinnanya.me

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Scanning 4 vols of the Bengal Annual at the British Library that aren't anywhere else (nor digital...nor in the Boyle index) 🤯 VFlat app has been incredibly helpful...looking fwd to playing with auto OCR creation from 15000 literary annual pages 📖📖📖📂

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

😊 is spending the week at the British Library trying not to get my finge👈👉rs in the photos

Appropriate oxfords for library work in London

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Oh boy...I can't wait to write this into an update! Thx to @dancohen.org for the latest newsletter on @tropy.bsky.social Gemini & deciphering that chicken-scratch that is #19c correspondence! Exactly rt that this use of gen #AI helps scholars who are time & cash-strapped

Felicia Hemans letter to William Blackwood including a dramatic sketch for Blackwood's Magazine from early nineteenth century in London, England. Letter from the Berg Collection, New York Public Library

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Building a spreadsheet of every pg in 83 vols of literary annuals w/ 300-400pp, 40 to 50 literary texts & 10 to 12 engravings. Stumbled on this engraving in 1833 Forget Me Not. Accompanying short story =ekphrastic rendering of engraving. Never seen a Black woman portrayed in this way in annuals 🤯

Engraving entitled Uncle Anthony's blunder from the 1833 Forget Me Not. An unusual scene of a black woman and a white man touching. Steel plate engraving in a Duodecimo volume

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Up next: invited to participate on a discussion panel on workforce readiness for #AI in local govt orgs A: Well, hire people not with degrees in "prompt engineering" but instead with liberal arts degrees or community engagement experience Not sure I'm gonna tell them what they want to hear😬

Poster for with agenda for future proofing jobs at GovAI convention in San Jose CA

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Join me, Ray Siemens @gworthey.bsky.social for our #digitalhumanities leadership seminar @ 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. For a/o curious about or already in leadership around & about #DH! dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f... Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY... Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Me too with @zotero.org ! My research progress happens slowly over years so I forget what I read back in 2019 or 2020. Longer thoughts go into a Word doc, but I tag individual articles in Zotero, add to folders, attach the Word note & make a brief comment abt why this source is important

Zotero working page for long term research project

example of research source with quote copied from pdf and highlighted for important part. inclues full citation so I don't have to search for it when making bibliography

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Not recorded! It was a short 10min ppr (thankfully!) to get some feedback to ensure I'm headed in the rt direction. Seems to have gone over well! Lots of nodding heads...started w/this salvo (in image) And then someone said "oh you want to do folksonomy!" Ah yes, I'm in the midst of my people 🧐😃

summary of Alex Gil's call to action from a 2024 talk. Ditching controlled vocabs and moving to folksonomy instead

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Yes, please! Prof dr. Karina van Dalen-Oskam uses of stylometry. Coolest comparision + between authors on story length over time Methods that we can use to assess the development of short stories 1820-1860 eg how did Mary Shelley hone her short story craft via the annuals? #dh #digitalhumanities

slide from Prof. dr. Karina van Dalen-Oskam during plenary at Japan DH Conference in Sept 2025

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Well, presentation done! It seems I'm on the rt track with all ethical considerations in this project - including involving SJSU students as collaborators. Very slow progress in design phase for each major component but worth it #japandh #dh #globaldh #digitalhumanities

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Presenting on Forget Me Not project today. It's been a *journey* so far! Getting my hands dirty with #criticalcataloguing means wandering into controlled vocabs but also trying @elotroalex.bsky.social call to action to ditch Dublin Core for less imperialist methods #digitalhumanities #japandh

Nanubiki Falls in Kobe to experience the beauty in cities surrounding Osaka. Green landscape with double waterfall and older digital humanist in repose

An invitation to dream from the Cloud Hammock at Shibuya Sky in Tokyo

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I knew it was coming. Still stings. Denial of #neh AI Humanities Research Center proposal today. Our proposal was TIGHT. The project includes creating Critical #AI Keywords a la #digitalpedagogy in the #Humanities and *real* human-centered AI discussions Anyone got a cool million to spare? #dh

keywords for a not-funded neh project to construct a critical ai keywords volume with all of the wonderful voices of humanists

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

What an incredible 2-wks! Nothing can replace being in the same room, talking all things #ai -- then touching grass, hiking mtns, taking the time to walk/talk/think abt where we're going in this moment Favs: Spiral Jetty art at the Great Salt Lake + hiking Ensign Peak during a storm #dh

Spiral Jetty at the Great Salt Lake in Utah

Ensign Peak in Salt Lake City, Utah during an oncoming summer storm

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Incredibly jazzed to be at U Utah in Salt Lake City for the (previously NEH ) AI & Humanities Summer Institute - the organizers got a gift from their library & then 💲💲came in 🤯 check out these donors ❤️

Large video screen with images of seminar organizers

The sponsors who stepped up to provide support for the AI & Humanities institute

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A fun part of #dhsi - presenting at the parallel colloquium and conference at the very beginning of my project - sharing the joy, enthusiam & dreams at the outset of building infrastructure for a #dh project ...also, for those in-person, sharing BIG news about a wonderful grant award!

a table full of 19th century books with stats of what's published in these books

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

So much incredible work we've been able to perform in #dhsi Agile Project Management - revising project goals & NOT letting the budget dominate is a 1st for me 🤯 Then, time to ride 🚴🏻‍♀️

Chalkboard with 3 columns modeling a sprint

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Change of plans: swapped to #dhsi seminar on Agile project management w/ Jim Smith 🤯 Just in time to map out sabbatical research project which, true to form, prolly more than can accomplish 👀🫣🤞🏻🤪 a perennial problem w/humanities grants bc must promise 🌍 #hopelives #sabbaticaljoy #overpromising

Tree lined street in Montreal, quebec in summer with lots of full trees

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Ray Siemens joins us from video to welcome #dhsi Week 2 with some nostalgia & history of the 24 yrs in Victoria/Vancouver With @djakacki.bsky.social & Jentery Sayers we taught the 1st digital pedagogy DHSI seminar in 2012😎 Jazzed to take a seminar just in time for sabbatical shenanigans 🎉

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

What an incredible event yesterday with @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social and Rhonda Holberton! Thank you for joining us at the #SJSU #dh center to talk about *The #AI Con*🔥 Packed house in person & on Zoom + other SJSU live socials 🎉🎇 with a long line for the author signing 😲👏🏻

Alex Hanna and Emily Bender signing books for The AI Con in the SJSU Digital Humanities center

Alex Hanna, Emily Bender and Rhonda Holberton sitting on tall stools talking about The AI Con at SJSU DH Center

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Happening now! Watch on SJSU.edu

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Coming up next WEEK! Share widely! "AI in Creative Spaces" May 7 @ 5pm PST Virtual // free // public // conversation Registration required: events.sjsu.edu/event/quickb...

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

EVENT: 5/16 @ 2pm PST #DH Center, King Library (Rm 113) SJSU In-person/Hybrid Join us for @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social South Bay book launch, The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want Reg: events.sjsu.edu/event/a-conv... Coffee & treats too! #ai

book cover for The AI Con with authors Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna beside the image of the cover. Invitation to join in person or via zoom with registration on May 16 at 2pm PST at King Library, San Jose State University.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I haven't been able to get past this screen, though, without subscribing

Katina Rogers' article in slate with paywall subscription request

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