News, Reports

Report: Bringing Back the Joy in Teaching

I’ve been reflecting a lot about what I don’t like about my pedagogy lately. Recently I began experimenting with ways of refreshing my approach. I learned to manage my sense of failure in the classroom by letting go of trying to cover a lot of content, honoring the knowledge and experience students bring into the […]

News, Resources

Resource: A more interesting upside of AI

My friends are generally optimistic, forward-looking people, but talking about AI makes many of them depressed. Either AI is scarier than other technologies, or public conversation about it has failed them in some way. Or both. I think the problem is not just that people have legitimate concerns. What’s weird and depressing about AI discourse […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has been scheduled for December 15-19; the conference will be a fully virtual, synchronous event. The call for papers, posters, and more has been released. For more information, see https://2025.jcdl.org/ As we have for many years, CNI is delighted to be a cooperating organization for this important annual […]

News, Reports

Report: Preparing Students for an AI-Infused Workforce

On June 3, 2025, the University of Baltimore hosted its second AI Summit, organized by the university’s Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology (CELTT). The event, as described by the organizers, was “an in-depth exploration of artificial intelligence’s transformative impact across sectors, with a particular focus on workforce development, educational adaptation, and responsible […]

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Resource: I fight bots in my free time – Xe Iaso

Hi, I’m Xe, and I fight bots in my free time. I’d love to do it full time, but that’s not financially in the cards yet. I made Anubis. Anubis is a web AI firewall utility that stops the bots from taking out your website. It’s basically the Cloudflare “Are you a bot?” page, but […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: CFA: Join the DO Team 2025/26

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 […]

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Resource: MaRMAT: Marriott Reparative metadata assessment tool

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 […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

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 […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Digital Library Software Developer at University of Edinburgh

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 […]