It is difficult to exaggerate the impact of AI on academia in general and on scholarly publishing in particular. Tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have made it possible for anyone to turn free-floating information into what looks like knowledge using a combination of real and artificial intelligence. There are many open questions and knotty […]
How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine? What kinds of tools, methods, and approaches do they use? What other kinds of tools might support critical and creative repurposing of archived web materials? As web archives have come to play an increasingly important role in understanding, reporting […]
The 5th Hundzula NLP and Linguistics Retreat took place from 3–7 February 2026 at North-West University’s Mahikeng Campus, South Africa. The retreat aims to establish a networking and collaboration platform for both humanities and computer science researchers and enthusiasts through learning, teaching and supporting each other. Computer scientists and linguists from various higher education institutions […]
In January 2026, Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) began serving as publisher of the Journal of Cultural Analytics (JCA), a leading open-access publication in computational approaches to culture. Today, CDH announces JCA’s vision for expanding cultural analytics scholarship amid rapid technological change and the launch of a new website, supported by Schmidt Sciences’ […]
This is a write-up of a talk I gave at CESTA on January 29, 2026, with an epilogue covering the last few weeks. The talk wasn’t recorded, and since I wrote this up later, it’s less off-the-cuff and probably a bit better than the original. As we confront this moment of great institutional and societal […]
Over eighteen days, from 19 January to 6 February, working in dialogue with Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s large language model running in their Claude Code development environment, I developed a web application for annotating and analysing source code. The reason for developing this was the result of working with a group of colleagues attempting to […]
Factum Foundation collaborated on the PhD thesis carried out by Ana Carrasco Huertas at the University of Granada, co-supervised by Víctor Medina (University of Granada) and Carlos Bayod Lucini (Factum Foundation). The research was defended on 30 January 2026 and focuses on the study, digitisation, and virtual reconstruction of three groups of decorative architectural surfaces […]
Jeremy Silver had been enjoying his retirement when he was asked to take the helm of the beleaguered British Library three months ago. Silver, a tech entrepreneur and investor, had been a trustee of the library since 2019. He had a front-row seat for its crippling by the hacking group Rhysida in October 2023, which […]
In December, hundreds of library, museum, archive and research staff gathered in the British Library’s Knowledge Centre to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage. The 250 international participants onsite at the British Library Knowledge Centre, 3-5 December 2025 included dozens of presenters who delivered 16 workshops, 19 posters and […]
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive will share the results of its recently completed database migration project. Vanderbilt’s database of one million tv news stories and half-a-million commercial breaks, 1968 to present, has undergone several transformations over the decades. Starting as a print catalog in the 1970s, then debuting as an early website in the mid-1990s, […]
