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CFP: Digital Americas: Global Perspectives on American Narratives Online
Digital environments have generated a vast ecosystem of literary and para-literary production, including fan fiction communities, transmedia projects, Alternate Reality Games, Wiki-based Storyworlds, and countless hybrid forms that challenge older taxonomies. At the same time, social platforms such as Reddit, TikTok, Substack, and Wattpad have become powerful engines for the creation and circulation of American…
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CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower
Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower emerges from this critical juncture in the humanities, where the decline in tenure-track positions and the rise of part-time and contingent roles necessitate explorations of the extensive career paths that are both meaningful and viable for DH scholars. Synthesizing recent advice-oriented monographs such as Katina Rogers’s Putting…
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Editors’ Choice: Marimo Notebooks
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Zach Butler highlights features of Marimo Notebooks, and demonstrates how Marimo is an improvement over Jupyter Notebooks. He points out how difficult Jupyter notebooks are to track by git, making version control and collaboration difficult. Unlike Jupyter notebooks, Marimo notebooks are actual Python files. The interface of the notebook opens…
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Editors’ Choice: Common Threads
Editors’ Summary: This post uses data visualizations to analyze the way that musical motifs are used by musicals to further the storytelling. For the purpose of the study, the author defines motifs as melodic motifs that are sung. She demonstrates how musicals rely on motifs to create structure and meaning , especially when there is…
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Resource: Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning
For some time, I’ve been gathering tools and activities to help me [introduce students to the mechanics of machine learning with neural nets]. (Things come and go so fast on the web that I have to do it every year!) It’s always a challenge to find high-quality tools, especially since they’re buried in layers and…
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DHNow Newsletter, January 21, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice provides an assessment of Marimo Notebooks, a new tool similar to Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab. The second selection is a case study of agentic coding for text analysis of newspapers, highlighting the continued difficulty of OCR on newspapers. Our…
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Editors’ Choice: Futzing with Newspaper OCR
Editors’ Summary: Shawn Graham’s post describes an exploratory text analysis project using agentic coding and newspapers. He used Claude to help determine whether his local paper reported on the Jack the Ripper murders. The most difficult part of the entire process was the OCR of the newspapers, and he discusses the difficulties he encountered with…
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Event Announcement: Webinar on the state of 3D Digitisation in Cultural Heritage
Organized by Heritage Malta and the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology, the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: Methodologies, Technologies & Best Practices webinar is dedicated to presenting the results of a groundbreaking global survey carried out in the context of Heritalise project to exame the current state of the…
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CFP: 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
The European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is a major venue for academic research and developments in the area of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs. The 23rd edition will take place from May 10 to 14, 2026, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. ESWC welcomes original research and application submissions covering all aspects of Semantic Web technologies and…
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Editors’ Choice: Designing Mars: Transforming Scientific Data Into Human Understanding
Editors’ Summary: Rhea Shukla’s work combines graphic design seamlessly into data processing and visualization. This project reminds us about visual accessibility: information needs to be made easy for members of the public (and not just for academics) to grasp and understand. This is where skills in graphic design, UI/UX development, and user research come into…
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Editors’ Choice: The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature
Editors’ Summary: This paper uses geocoding to study 19th century Russian literature. The authors extracted location data using NER to quantitatively measure the literary “transition from romanticism to realism.” This paper is a helpful reference for readers who want to combine quantitative methods with historical periodization. See full post.
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CFP: International Spatial Humanities 26
We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers (abstracts) for the International Spatial Humanities 26 (SH26) Conference, which will be hosted at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, 23-25th September 2026. SH26 international conference is guided by the theme “Artificial Intelligence and Geotechnologies for Human Experiences”. We welcome submissions on all aspects of…
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CFP: CSDH/SCHN Congress 2026
The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN) invites proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at Université de Montréal between June 3rd and 5th, that coincides with the INKE Partnership annual meeting and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). The Society encourages submissions on all topics relating…
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Event Announcement: Teaching and Learning Critically in an Age of Generative AI | Data School Virtual Information Session
Join Dr Eleanor Dare, Convenor of the Cambridge Data Schools, at this virtual information session for Teaching and Learning Critically in an Age of Generative AI, a brand new course offering in our Cambridge Data School suite. The newly developed School will take place over five days in July 2026 at the University of Cambridge.…