Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, May 13, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a two-part post using text analysis to better understand the emotional language of Fatimid Geniza petitions and a post that considers the scholarly utility of ‘vintage LLMs’ such as Talkie-1930. We have also included conferences, job announcements, reports, projects […]

Announcements

Highlighted Feed: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) News

SHARP News is a free, open-access online publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). SHARP is a global scholarly society focused on the histories of material texts. While this sometimes means “book history,” the purview of SHARP is much broader, including the digital transformation of current publishing, the roles […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication Specialist at Boston College

The Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Specialist (the Specialist) supports the creation, curation, and long-term preservation of digital projects and collections. The incumbent builds digital collections, collects and promotes the Law School’s intellectual output, develops websites and applications for the Library and the Law School, and works with the Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Librarian […]

News, Projects, Resources

Project: Enslaved Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles, 1760s-1860s

The information in the dataset is extracted from newspapers across the region of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles, for the purpose of this dataset, begin with the Virgin Islands, extend south to Barbados, Grenada, and Tobago, and circle west towards Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (see fig. 1). Researchers knowledgeable about Caribbean history will recognize […]

News, Resources, Tools

Tool: TALL (Text Analysis for ALL)

TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for Natural Language Processing, enabling researchers without extensive programming skills to perform sophisticated text analyses through an intuitive graphical interface. TALL integrates state-of-the-art NLP techniques — tokenization, lemmatization, Part-of-Speech tagging, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: The AI-BRIDGES Symposium: Bridging Institutions, Open Knowledge, and AI

Institutional data is rich, carefully curated and of immense public value, yet it remains difficult to share, connect and reuse at scale. Open knowledge platforms like Wikidata have shown what’s possible when data is structured and collaboratively maintained, but contributing to them remains hard. At the same time, AI-based platforms are rapidly reshaping how knowledge […]

News, Reports

Report: Frankencitations Ravage the Academic Countryside

An interview with an academic who has seen their impact up close and personal. Ben Williamson of the University of Edinburgh has been tracking the phenomenon because of a very personal experience with Frankencitations. I asked him some questions about what’s going on and what he thinks we should do about it. See full post.

Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, May 6, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a post calling for historians to make use of emerging technologies and embrace larger scale arguments. We have also included conferences, job announcements, reports, and tools, including a tool for reimagining remote research.