Another collection of links on digital cultural heritage topics from the last few months, mainly for my own benefit but possibly of interest to others as well.
(I started on this in the Spring but never finished writing it. Posting now so I can move onto a links catchup post for Spring 2026 now and maybe actually post it on time...)
Drimmer, S. (2025) ‘MACHINE YEARNING’, Artforum, 1 April. Available at: https://www.artforum.com/features/generative-ai-structure-of-feeling-1234728310/ (Accessed: 12 April 2025).
Burnett, D.G. (2025) ‘Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?’, The New Yorker, 26 April. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence (Accessed: 28 April 2025).
The DeepSeek Series: A Technical Overview (no date) martinfowler.com. Available at: https://martinfowler.com/articles/deepseek-papers.html (Accessed: 30 April 2025).
Fittschen, E. et al. (2025) ‘Pretraining Language Models for Diachronic Linguistic Change Discovery’. arXiv. Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.05523. [AKA - Text generation from historical time periods - https://huggingface.co/collections/Hplm/pretrained-historical-models-67fd13f6827793785525a095]
Langlais, P.-C. et al. (2025) ‘Even Small Reasoners Should Quote Their Sources: Introducing the Pleias-RAG Model Family’. arXiv. Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.18225.
Mei, X. et al. (2025) ‘ZuantuSet: A Collection of Historical Chinese Visualizations and Illustrations’, in Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713276.
Green DiSC: a Digital Sustainability Certification | Software Sustainability Institute (no date). Available at: https://www.software.ac.uk/GreenDiSC (Accessed: 30 April 2025).
‘On the NEH and Our Path Forward – Knowledge Commons’ (2025), 17 April. Available at: https://about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/ (Accessed: 30 April 2025).