The Digital Orientalist is please to announce its annual open call for editors, contributors, and team members for the 2025-2026 academic year. As we continue to expand our coverage, we seek individuals who work at the intersection of digital humanities and area studies. Please note: While we welcome expertise in various specialisations, all applications must demonstrate […]
The Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool (MaRMAT) is an open-source application created by librarians at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library to help metadata practitioners flag various terms and phrases within metadata records using pre-curated and custom lexicons. MaRMAT is schema agnostic and supports library and museum professionals in assessing metadata for harmful, outdated, and […]
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of Cambridge is inviting proposals for the next round of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship offers outstanding early-career researchers the opportunity to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in an academic environment. This scheme aims to help develop the award-holder’s curriculum vitae and boost […]
This lesson demonstrates how to prepare a geographically accurate historical battle scene in the free and open source computer game 0̸ A.D. You will learn to use a multisensory, interactive environment for teaching or learning ancient history and pre-modern languages. See full post.
This position will begin by focusing on important development work on our newly developed digital preservation solution. It will entail designing and implementing digital preservation workflows from our wide-ranging systems through Archivematica and into long-term storage, working closely alongside the Digital Archivist to align with digital preservation best practice. You will also work on our […]
The University of Michigan Library is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join the Library IT Architecture and Engineering (A&E) team in building and maintaining the technology infrastructure that supports the Library’s public and staff-facing enterprise services. You will join a skilled and forward- thinking team of engineers who deploy and manage modern technology infrastructure […]
Interested in how women were portrayed in medieval chronicles of the Iberian Peninsula? Look no further! This open-access website provides structured information on every woman mentioned in the anonymous Crónica de Castilla (ca. 1300, Castile-León). The database was generated within the “FEMIber” project, which uses digital humanities methods to study Spanish and Portuguese medieval historiography […]
A Hybrid Capacity Building Event in Brussels by EUreka3D-XR. EUreka3D-XR is focused on transforming cultural contents such 2D or 3D into extended reality scenarios. At the same time, the European cultural heritage sector is facing the 3D digitisation and the reuse of 3D models. On 26 September 2025, the EUreka3D-XR capacity building event will explore […]
We’re excited to announce the release of Zotero for Android, the best way to work with your Zotero library on an Android device. Zotero for Android lets you work with your Zotero data no matter where you are. See full post.
This year at VISAP—a mini conference and exhibition exploring the intersection of data visualization, art, and science—we’re asking what it means to approach visualization not just as a practice of analysis and synthesis, but as a form of collective care. How do we design visualizations that not only represent, but also actively protect, nurture, and […]
