Category: Resources

This review of Claire Warwick’s Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001: A World Elsewhere (2024) praises the monograph’s unique value to the digital humanities as a comprehensive reconstruction of 1990s attitudes and practices regarding cyberspace. Warwick’s justification for her hybrid methodology, which combines history, analysis, thick description, and autoethnography, is discussed, as well as […]

Accessible Community recently released the Digital Accessibility Framework for public review. This project aims to expand our collective understanding of the requirements for accessible digital content, considering the impact of emerging technologies and engaging with broad user groups to predict their full impact. A complex project like this needs wide engagement in order to get […]

Over the past few years, the development of excellent self-paced tutorials and training materials for undertaking digital scholarship and data science in libraries have proliferated online. For library professionals who are relatively new to this area however, it can be hard to know where to begin! Without knowing a little bit about the context of […]

A collection of online/open-access articles, lesson plans, and websites about the Ancient World, including accessibility and inclusivity in the ancient studies classrooms. See full post.

Ear­ly lit­er­a­ture shows us a range of dif­fer­ent atti­tudes, where ani­mals are treat­ed as equals, with char­ac­ter traits both good and bad, or as noble mes­sen­gers of a god or gods rather than live­stock, mov­ing scenery, or exploitable resources. The most lav­ish of them all, the Aberdeen Bes­tiary, which dates from around 1200, was once […]

The Digital Humanities Slack is a set of informal, connected chat rooms for the digital humanities and related interests, with over 50 “channels” (chat rooms) devoted to specific topics such as DH teaching, coding, library work, and conferences. Come join us! Absolutely no DH background is needed, and we specifically have channels for supporting students […]

Navigate the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. Using advanced AI text recognition techniques, much of this material has been transcribed and made searchable for the first time. Many of the tales are categorised by Aarne–Thompson (AT) […]