A self-replicating culture of secrecy has taken root inside the U.S. government—and it both resists outside scrutiny and enforces a sense of exclusivity, write Matthew Connelly and Patricia Irvin. trib.al/zDQPHCS

Tim Hitchcock led an excellent discussion with #ArchiveAsData participants on how historians and archivists can work together to stop the privatization of scholarship and collections behind paywall. NEH Digital Humanities #IATDH Columbia Libraries ISERP History Lab at Columbia University | FOIArchive

Another great day for #ArchiveAsData, this time with Barbara Rockenbach of Yale University Library She showed us PixPlot, the Ferrari of DH projects. All kinds of questions -- and possibilities -- for archival arrangement and description NEH Digital Humanities #IATDH Columbia Libraries History Lab at Columbia University | FOIArchive

Greg Eow of Center for Research Libraries made an excellent presentation to #ArchiveAsData on decolonizing archives and libraries. Q&A included how historians can help without presuming they know better than archivists -- we are one among many constituents NEH Digital Humanities #IATDH History Lab at Columbia University | FOIArchive

Heidi Tworek takes no prisoners in scraping newspaper databases and exposing opaque pricing structures that shortchange libraries and the public. Another day at #ArchiveAsData NEH Digital Humanities #IATDH History Lab at Columbia University | FOIArchive

Join us next Friday for a History Lab at Columbia University | FOIArchive conference on Writing the History of Covid-19, organized by Matthew Connelly, @wilmotjames and Stephen Morse. Register here! eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-… #covid19 #research #history

This Friday, June 9! ISERP and History Lab at Columbia University | FOIArchive host a conference on Writing the History of Covid-19, organized by Matthew Connelly, @wilmotjames and Stephen Morse. Details and registration: eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-…

We had so many amazing talks as part of #ArchiveAsData I could barely keep up with the shout-outs. From Cameron Blevins on big, dumb data and the need to stay smarter than AI, to...

This Friday, June 9th, along with ISERP we're hosting a conference on Writing the History of Covid-19, organized by Matthew Connelly, @wilmotjames, and Stephen Morse. Details and registration: eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-…

Apply now: Archives as Data. FREE National Endowment for the Humanities workshop Columbia University June 10-21, 2024. It is a crash course for historians and archivists in analyzing digital & digitized texts and an intro to AI methods for advanced beginners: history-lab.org/archives-as-da… #digitalhistory #twitterstorians

Applications are now open for Archives as Data. A FREE National Endowment for the Humanities workshop Columbia University June 10-21, 2024. It's a crash course for historians and archivists in analyzing digital & digitized texts with an intro to AI for advanced beginners: history-lab.org/archives-as-da…… #twitterstorians

Our PI Matthew Connelly discussing the world of government secrets on Something You Should Know: somethingyoushouldknow.net/1020-the-world…

Please join us Friday, April 19th, either in person or online, for "The 2nd Annual Conference in Honor of Robert Jervis: The Dark State? Government Secrecy and American Democracy." Agenda and registration details: eventbrite.com/e/the-dark-sta…

Looking forward to spirited debate this Friday Columbia University on Biden admin secrecy reform proposals with leading experts on constitutional law and AI tools that can be used to defend -- or attack -- state secrets: eventbrite.com/e/the-dark-sta…

I enjoyed sitting down with David Adam to talk about the future of future studies Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and around the world. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Into US Foreign Policy or text analysis? 🚀 History Lab has released the full text+metadata from our FOIArchive on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/datasets/Histo…. 🔍 Perfect exploring diplomatic history, NLP, & document analysis.#USForeignPolicy #DigitalHistory #TextAnalysis #OpenData

Applications for Archives as Data are open until the end of March! 📅 Decisions will be announced shortly after. Don’t miss this opportunity—submit your application today! lab.history.columbia.edu/content/worksh… #ArchivesAsData #DigitalHistory #OpenData