Project Status: In Progress

The Center for Digital Scholarship is committed to exploring the use of AI for digital scholarship and digital humanities. Our project on "Experiments in Artificial Intelligence & Digital Scholarship" documents a few of the smaller projects and work our team is developing with researchers at Brown University to utilize advancements in AI for digital scholarship.

Contributors to this project include Patrick Rashleigh, Tarika Sankar, Khanh Vo, and Ashley Champagne

Spring 2024 Experiment: 

Could AI help recreate and help preserve the work of David Jhave Johnson’s AI poetry that relied on broken code with dependency problems?

Read our paper: Gone in an Adobe Flash: Five new frameworks to preserve born-computational literary art for the future. Journal of Digital Media Management (13, 2 158-175). 2025.

Project team: Ashley Champagne, Cody Carvel, Patrick Rashleigh, Khanh Vo, Hilary Wang, John Cayley (Professor Literary Arts, Brown University)

Fall 2024/Spring 2025 Experiment: 

Could AI take a PDF of an ancient inscription and generate a high-quality XML file? If not all, what about part?

Read Michael Satlow's write up on the experiment (February 2025)

Project team: Patrick Rashleigh, Daniel Kang (undergraduate majoring in Math, CS, and Linguistics), Justin Uhr, Tarika Sankar, Michael Satlow (Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies)