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Weekly Highlight: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota
The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota publishes high quality peer-reviewed and popular books, with a particular emphasis on digital archaeology. It uses digital and print-on-demand technologies to publish timely works in the digital humanities, broadly conceived. The press also prioritizes open access digital publications. As well as digital publications, the Digital Press…
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CFP: Special Issue of Big Data & Society on Trans Data
Data and the lives of trans people go hand in hand, for better and (often) for worse. From surveillance systems that attempt to normalize and control trans bodies (Beauchamp, McKenzie) to activists’ efforts to use data infrastructures or data-driven epistemologies and forms of knowledge to resist cultures of exclusion (Hicks, Keyes), there is a long…
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Editors’ Choice: An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
Editors’ Summary: This post considers the historical background behind the difficulty of rendering Arabic typography online. The author uses an example of a project where the Arabic prose was rendered with a ragged left edge, even though the team explicitly specified justified text. This issue had nothing to do with the specific stylesheet of the…
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Editors’ Choice: Roundtable Recap: How to digitise a physical archive to work strategically with AI?
Editors’ Summary: This roundtable, hosted by Open Knowledge Foundation in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences in Guatemala, fills a key gap in digital archives by focusing on how archives and museums in the Global South or regions experiencing political or social instability can effectively engage with digital or AI tools…
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Project Update: Transcribe Bentham
Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance. By doing so they will contribute to the production of the authoritative edition of The…
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Opportunity: AI Literacy: Join the Latest Cohort
Beginning this July, Ithaka S+R will convene a cohort of 15-20 colleges and universities to explore how existing information literacy frameworks can be adapted and revised to reflect the changing realities of an AI-driven information ecosystem. The project will bring together librarians, teaching and learning professionals, and other campus leaders committed to advancing AI literacy…
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DHNow Newsletter, June 24, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an interactive discussion of rendering Arabic typography on the web, a roundtable discussing how to digitize physical collections in concert with AI and a reflection on the difficulties of teaching that numbers are…
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Interview: Sari Altschuler, Before Disability
Today, Sari Altschuler is bringing us a sneak peek of her new book, Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship, which will be released on June 16. Sari is an Associate Professor of English and the Founding Director of the Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern University. Here’s Sari to tell us more about her…
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Report: Full Circle: Library Collaboration Leads to Significant DNA Data Storage Milestone
The following post was authored by Vincent Coltellino from the Library of Congress. Vincent leads the Library’s synthetic DNA data storage initiative, which investigates the feasibility of synthetic DNA as a high-density, scalable, and durable medium for storing the Library’s digital collections. During his first year at the Library, he established a contract with the…
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Opportunity: Join The DO Team 2026/27
The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic year. We seek individuals who work at the intersection of digital humanities and area studies. Our current coverage includes the following areas – with links to recent contributions within each of these teams – though…
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DHNow Newsletter, June 17, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include a LibGuide on the environmental impacts of AI and discussion of AI and book history. We have also included CFPs, job announcements, opportunities, and reports, including a digital archive of cartography. As part…
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Weekly Highlight: Now & Here
Now & Here is a collection of original research projects created by emerging scholars in collaboration with partners in communities, historic sites, and public lands. Now & Here shares the work of the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. See full post.
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Job Announcement: Digitization Archivist at Letterform Archive
Reporting to the Collections Director, the Digitization Archivist will be responsible for implementing digitization services and managing resources that support the current and future needs of our team and community. The Digitization Archivist will support the Collections Director in key areas of digitization project management, data preservation, workflow strategy, and design and launch of the…
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CFP: Alabama Digitorium
In 2026, Digitorium is focused on the theme of Preserve. As Digital Humanists, we engage in so many levels of preservation, and we want to make space to explore and document that work. Digital Humanities is a field committed to uncovering and preserving culture and society that is hidden. Sometimes hidden means time, as in…