Print and Probability Project

Thanks so much to Joseph Hone and the Bibliographical Society for selecting P&P's Catalog of Distinctive Type (1660-1700) as February's BibSoc Council's Choice!! @josephhone.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social

For this month's Council's Choice, Joseph Hone highlights the Catalog of Distinctive Type (1660-1700):

bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

[Job 📣] Are you curious about #AI applications in the #humanities? My Print and Probability research group (@print-and-prob.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc! Come help us develop computational methods for identifying clandestine early modern printers!

cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Schmidt Sciences awards $11M in grants to bring AI to humanities research - Schmidt Sciences Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million for up to 23 teams of researchers around the world to develop and apply artificial intelligence to...

I’m excited to share that @print-and-prob.bsky.social has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, joining 22 other teams using AI to open new windows into human history, culture, language, and creativity www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...

After nearly two years running our homespun ESTC 📚📜, we’ll soon retire it at the request of the ESTC. Proud to have been part of the @print-and-prob.bsky.social team 💪, led by Nikolai Vogler, that helped our scholarly community in a time of need 💜

Had a good time collaborating with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and the AI for Humanists team on this! It also features some data we've been cooking up for @print-and-prob.bsky.social. Worth thinking about whether you have a research task that a local LLM could help with...

Forensic Bibliography | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 1 Abstract This article traces the genealogy of “forensic bibliography” in the Anglophone world from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century. It argues that many of the methods and procedures ...

Very happy to have this piece in the new PBSA. Sure it’s a tad provocative in places, but even if people don’t agree on every point, hopefully it will be useful to think with. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

SoFCB Essay Prize | Rare Book School The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) is pleased to announce its annual Essay Prize for 2025, to be awarded to a scholarly article that exemplifies the Society’s mis...

Submissions for the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography annual Essay Prize are now open. Essays published in 2023-24 in any field or time period, on texts, images, and artifacts as material objects are eligible. Deadline March 28.
rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-prize

📢 Print and Probability at #RenSA25 #Shax2025

SAA Digital Exhibit: Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press with @chrisvvarren.bsky.social ky.social

📅 Saturday, March 22 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
📍 Grand-Liberty Foyer, Sheraton 2F

📢 Print and Probability at #RenSA25 #Shax2025

AI and Machine Learning in Computational Bibliography with @chrisvvarren.bsky.social @erinannmcc.bsky.social @dasmiq.bsky.social

📅 Friday, March 21 | 9:00 - 10:30 AM
📍 Boston Westin Copley Place, Adams and Baltic Room

rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...

Print & Probability is an interdisciplinary, NEH- and NSF-funded project at the intersection of book history, computer vision, and machine learning. We develop tools and methods for discovering letterpress printers whose identities have eluded scholars for several hundred years.

we have some updates to our project website, including recent publications and upcoming talks printprobability.org

L-160. Digital Codicology & Book History Dot Porter Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 1–6 June 2025 Format: in person, University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, PA Fee: $1,495 Course description coming soon

In more fun news, I'll be teaching a brand new Rare Book School class this summer, DIGITAL CODICOLOGY AND BOOK HISTORY, focusing on manuscripts and early printed books to 1600. At Penn, Week 1 (June 1-6). Watch this space for more details as they come available!

Please join us for the ACH-sponsored session at #MLA25. #s119 is on "Book History and the Digital Humanities" and will feature a roundtable of greats - Ryan Cordell, Natalie McGartland, Élika Ortega, Whitney Trettien, and Alexandra Wingate. More info at the link below.

The Holy Bible (London: 1630) Image by Dr. Tara Lyons with permission of Reader’s Books, Petworth, UK. This 1630 English Bible has an array of evidence of women’s book ownership. At the top of the front cover’…

Today on our blog on early female book ownership: a post by @tarallyons.bsky.social on a lovely bible with names of early modern women, a gift inscription, and a recipe https://buff.ly/3YPkiQ7 #EarlyModern #HerBook

When our Print & Probability collaborator UCSD grad student Nikolai Vogler heard that ESTC was down due to the BL cyberattack, he jumped into action. Here’s the site he built to help #earlymodern scholars access the essential metadata needed for teaching and research 📚 📜 estc.printprobability.org

Now back up at https://estc.printprobability.org and now on a @CMULibraries server!

Our stopgap ESTC is down. We’re working on a fix and are in process of moving the site to a more robust server. Updates will appear here. #ESTC

@CMULibraries https://estc.printprobability.org is back up!

The Print & Probability ESTC is down. We’re working on a domain transfer to make the site more resilient and with closer technical ties to @CMULibraries — will update here.

Now at more than 480,000 records — the entirety of the ESTC.

https://estc.printprobability.org

Bibliographers and book historians affected by the BL cyber-attack: @NikolaiVogler has built a stopgap English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), fully searchable and comprising a hefty 150,000 pre-1700 records, many with links to EEBO. Spread ye good news!...

https://hackmd.io/@cwarren/rJ6ex7S8h

Do you know someone with programming skills who might want to spend a year building out infrastructure for some fun "who dunnit?" problems? Thanks to @NEHgov @NEH_ODH, we're hiring a fixed-term Digital Humanities Research Programmer to begin September 1!...

(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-person-lecture-clandestine-printing-bibliography-week-tickets-491775984207?aff=ebdsoporgprofile) or online
(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-clandestine-printing-bibliography-week-tickets-490550187817?aff=ebdsoporgprofile)

Next week's Bibliography Week! @ChrisVVarren @samuellemley and Max G'Sell will be giving the @GrolierClub's Bibliography Week lecture on Wednesday, Jan 25 at 2:30 pm EST. Do join in-person...

Huge thanks to our fabulous advisory board -- Sharon Achinstein, David Como, @thecompass, @aarontpratt, @wynkenhimself, and @APettegree (there in spirit) -- for such fantastic questions and suggestions today. Grateful to be undertaking this project with such wisdom behind us.

Thanks for the ink @lisapeet1 @LibraryJournal! https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/cmu-receives-mellon-grant-to-develop-bibliographic-tools

Anything interesting in @nytopinion recently?