This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor.
This week, our first two Editors’ Choice are focused on questions of digital space and place. The first Editors’ Choice is a blog post about a crowdsourcing project to georeference a collection of digitized maps. Georeferencing allows historical maps to be used as geospatial data and to answer new research questions. The second selection interrogates eighteenth century British travel writing, and what it reveals about British perceptions and understandings of the Orient. Using a combination of large language models and GIS techniques, the author creates digital maps that visualize the frequency of mentions of these locations. Our third selection features a blog post reporting on a fellowship to improve the historical record of women in the physical sciences. This work includes digital archives, oral histories, and Wikipedia edit-a-thons. Our resources and reports this week take a wide view of the DH landscape, including the importance of version control and multiple open source tools that can aid digital archives and repositories.