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Announcement: Internet Archive Celebration and Invitation
Throughout the month of October, Internet Archive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived and available for use in the Wayback Machine! Together with more than 1,300 libraries, we’ve helped preserve a living record of the web for future generations. To mark this once-in-a-generation achievement, we’re inviting all libraries to join the…
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Resource: The Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan: A Brief (Re-?)Introduction
See full post. I recently started working at the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU). When I was preparing for my move to the post, I began exploring some of the tools that the organization has developed. One in particular surprised me, the Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan. As the name…
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Resource: Digital Accessibility Framework Town Halls
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…
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Job Announcement: Web Archiving Data Analyst and Crawl Engineer at National Archives
Archives are special. As a home of our collective memory, The National Archives (TNA) plays a unique role. We hold records of events of national and international importance as well as documents that speak to our everyday lives, over the last one thousand years. Our web archives are unparalleled in their quality and richness and…
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Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Librarian at University of Kansas
The Digital Humanities Librarian collaborates with faculty, staff, and students on the use of digital humanities (DH) scholarship, tools, and methods. Duties will include project consulting and development, working with course instructors to incorporate DH into the classroom, and providing training for faculty, staff, and students in digital humanities tools and methods. The position requires…
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Resource: Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
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…
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Editors’ Choice: Seeing Formalism or Formal Viewing: Computational Formalism for the Analysis of Visual Media Forms and Contexts
An ongoing debate is the epistemological stakes of computational methods in humanistic inquiry. What kind of evidence is a word embedding or face detection and what can it tell us? How do we account for nuances across cultural, temporal, and geographical frames when engaging in pattern recognition and identifying outliers? To what degree does the…
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Editors’ Choice: A global hub for Hollywood history – UW–Madison News
If you dream of reading the original screenplay that kicked off the “Jurassic Park” film franchise — leading to this summer’s blockbuster “Jurassic World Rebirth” 32 years later — look no further than Box 1, Folder 15, of the David Koepp Papers. That precious bit of movie history is safeguarded by UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for…
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Resource: Online/open-access articles, lesson plans, and websites about the Ancient World
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.
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Announcement: Call for DHNow Editors-at-Large
We want to extend our thanks and recognition to the Fall 2025 DHNow Guest Editors: Rachel Hogan, Augustine Fariola, Abirlal Mukherjee, and Lívia Clarete. Thank you so much for your contributions to DH Now! We have been fortunate to receive a significant number of Guest Editor applications since we relaunched this Spring. Due to this,…
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Editors’ Choice: Datavis as a Community Experience: How to (Not) Create a Datavis in a Group
Do you know individuals who seem to focus on one thing for their whole life? I’m on the opposite side of the scale. Inspired by Alli Torban’s “How I’ve spent my time” viz, a course on Domestika from Stefanie Posavec and my interest in doing datavis together with others, I made a workshop to reflect…
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Editors’ Choice: The Future of Storytelling in the Age of AI: Q&A with Nnedi Okorafor
Since fall 2024, the Center for Digital Humanities has led the “Humanities for AI” initiative through a series of events, projects, and conversations. We explore how humanistic values and approaches are crucial to developing, using, and interpreting the field of AI. As part of this effort, we publish a Q&A series with our guest speakers…
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CFP: Comics and Machines Conference | Echo Chamber
We are pleased to announce a two-day international conference on April 22-23, 2026 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and at Uppsala University dedicated to examining the rapidly evolving landscape of comics. Rather than framing this transformation solely as a rupture, the conference seeks to situate it within a longer history of computational…
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CFP: Benchmarking in Digital Humanities | Journal of Open Humanities Data
The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) is pleased to announce a special collection on Benchmarking in Digital Humanities, edited by Dr Jenny C.Y. Kwok and Dr. Liam Jianliang Gao. This collection will explore the critical role of benchmarking in advancing humanities research, highlighting how the creation of shared evaluation data and systematic comparison of…
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Resource: The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online | Open Culture
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…
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Resource: Digital Humanities Slack!
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…