Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, June 3, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a discussion of the possibilities of coding with AI and a case study on large-scale quantitative analysis of rhyme and meter in poetry. We have also included many CFPs, reports, and resources, including […]

Announcements, News

Highlighted Feed: The Digital Shift

The Digital Shift, written by Rosalyn Metz, explores how technology is transforming libraries, cultural heritage, and higher education. For readers of DHNow, this blog is an important resource for current discussions and debates on the role of the digital within libraries and higher education. See feed.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: 2027 International Digital Curation Conference

We are delighted to announce that the call for submissions for the 21st International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC27) is now open! The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal between 9-12 February 2027. The main theme of the conference is, FAIR DO’s: Centering People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects. The FAIR principles […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy. Though AI-based approaches to the digital humanities have been a part of the field for decades, recent years have seen an explosion of methodologies utilizing AI, and of critical discussion concerning the […]

News, Reports

Report: Building Open Infrastructure That Lasts: A Spotlight on Digital Scholar

In a landscape where open source infrastructure routinely outlasts the funding that created it, the Corporation for Digital Scholarship (also known as Digital Scholar) has spent more than 15 years exploring a different path. Built around flagship tools used by millions of researchers worldwide, and now extending that experience to help other projects find their […]

News, Resources

Resource: PoeTree Poetry corpora in 11 languages

PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in 11 languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish). Each corpus has been deduplicated, enriched with Universal Dependencies, provided with additional metadata and converted into a unified JSON structure. See full post.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Interactive Digital Narratives: Creativity, Theory, and Emerging Practices

This Special Issue positions Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) as a coherent, critically urgent, and future-facing interdisciplinary research field, bringing into sustained dialogue scholarship and practice across electronic literature, digital arts, performance studies, Human-Computer Interaction, AI and creativity research, game studies, and computational design. While these domains have historically advanced interactive narrative innovation in parallel, this […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Humanities and Social Sciences from the Perspective of Digital Humanities

The fourth annual Humanities and Social Sciences from the Perspective of Digital Humanities conference will take place on 5–6 November 2026 at the Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc. As in previous years, we are preparing an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the field of digital humanities, not only in literary studies […]