Our take: DataCite, the nonprofit association that provides open infrastructure for research such as DOIs for data, has opened its annual call for members of three groups with terms starting in January 2027. The Community Engagement Steering Group supports outreach and community feedback, the Services and Technology Steering Group advises on technical development, and the […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include a discussion of the evolution of Unicode to encompass Egyptian hieroglyphs, an argument about how GLAM institutions can best adapt to changing technologies, and a humanistic framework for thinking about AI. We have […]
Our take: The association sees itself as a forum and formal representation of interests for all those who are involved in research and teaching in the German-speaking world – regardless of the discipline – in the field of digital humanities. The association shares resources, events, and other news of interest to readers of DHNow. See […]
Our take: The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched How to Build a Responsible AI Chatbot Using Open Technologies, a free course on its School of Data platform. It grew out of the Responsible Climate Chatbot Lab, where the #semanticClimate team built CABot, a chatbot that answers questions using the Climate Academy as its knowledge base. […]
Our take: Scott Cunningham announces CodeChella Mexico City, a four-day workshop on modern panel methods for causal inference to be held at ITAM’s Santa Teresa campus from January 11 to 14, 2027. Cunningham and Kyle Butts will teach difference-in-differences, synthetic control and newer imputation estimators, with a strong focus on coding and application and no […]
Our take: In “‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI,” Jason Koebler of 404 Media describes a sudden wave of people using AI agents to clone, decompile and modify existing software. Users are replacing the operating systems on smart TVs to strip out ads, reviving abandoned devices and copying features from commercial apps, […]
Our take: In “Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots,” Jill Walker Rettberg responds to an AI agent called Velvet Vale that introduced itself on Air-L, the mailing list of the Association of Internet Researchers, and sparked a lively debate about consent and research ethics. She connects the episode to a recent offer of […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an interview about the state of digital and public humanities in Japan and a post that uses computational text analysis to explore the essential vocabulary lists (General Service List). We have also included […]
Our take: The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) aims to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. It hosts annual conferences, awards annual prizes for works of and criticism of electronic literature, hosts online events and has published a series of collections of electronic literature. See source.
The DHLabs (Digital Humanities Laboratories) at the University of Basel is looking for a postdoctoral researcher (80%) for a four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The position starts on 1st January 2027. For the right candidate, an earlier or a later start can be arranged, at the latest 1st September 2027. […]
