Friday, November 7, 10:30-11:30 pm (CT), Online
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Minimal Computing has served as both practice and a provocation in the Digital Humanities, asking us to consider what is necessary, what is sustainable, and what places agency back in the hands of humanists. In the current age of AI, when technologies increasingly operate as opaque systems and decisions are delegated to automated processes, revisiting Minimal Computing is urgent. This talk will explore how Minimal Computing can act as a counterbalance to the black-box nature of AI, creating spaces where scholars, students, and communities retain control over both process and product. Moreover, the Minimal Computing principles ensure longevity, accessibility, and sustainability of the digital records while nurturing a more reflective relationship with digital tools. Dr. Del Rio Riande will illustrate this through the digital editions produced at the HD LAB, the Digital Humanities lab at CONICET (Argentina). The minimal digital editions of the HD LAB demonstrate how lightweight, open source and accessible technologies can coexist with—yet critically interrogate—the rapid integration of AI tools into Digital Humanities.
Gimena del Rio Riande is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET. Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Professor at the Universidad del Salvador. MA and PhD in Romance Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), her main academic interests deal with Digital Scholarly Editing, Digital Humanities, and Open Research Practices in the Humanities. She serves as Ambassador of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in Latin America and as member of the Board of Directors of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). She is the Director of the Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales (HD LAB, CONICET) and the Diplomatura en Humanidades Digitales certificate. She also coordinates the activities of the Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD).