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Hannah Jacobs

Prof Library Staff
Duke University Libraries
90193, 411 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708
411 Chapel Drive, Box 90193, Durham, NC 27701

Selected Publications


Transkribus

Journal Article ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews · October 2025 Transkribus is a web-based platform supporting transcription of historical documents for researchers, students, and communities. The platform is part of a suite of tools developed by read-coop to support the digitization workflow from scanning through to t ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

“Who Shall Dare Compute in Dollars and Cents the Worth of One Mind!”: Mental Health, Disability, Addiction, and Jim Crow Laws in North Carolina, 1866–1967

Journal Article Journal of Open Humanities Data · January 1, 2025 What do laws concerning Jim Crow racial oppression and mental health, disability, and addiction care have in common? How might an existing dataset of historical North Carolina General Assembly laws reveal legal intersections between racial oppression and m ... Full text Cite

Dictionary of Art Historians – Art Historian Entries 2017-2023

Dataset · January 17, 2024 The Dictionary of Art Historians is a free, privately funded biographical dictionary of historians of western art written and maintained by scholars for the benefit of the public. It became associated with the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Stu ... Full text Cite

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, a Collections as Data Case Study

Journal Article Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage · December 31, 2023 On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance is a collections as data and machine learning project from the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This project has created a plain text corpus of North Caroli ... Full text Cite

A tale of two Durhams: how Duke University and North Carolina Central University are increasing access and building community through DH pedagogy

Chapter · December 19, 2023 Exploring how digital humanities (DH) is taught and what that reveals about the field itself, this book highlights how DH can transform learning across a vast array of curricular structures, institutions, and education levels, from high ... ... Link to item Cite

Representing Early Modern Venice: Augmented Reality Experiences in Exhibitions

Journal Article International Journal for Digital Art History · October 27, 2023 Full text Link to item Cite