FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Many members of the digital humanities field generously share their work on the open web. Our goal is to bring attention to those contributions that feature research findings, methods, theories, pedagogies, or practice. “Now” is part of the name because the materials we distribute are typically released in the previous two weeks.

DHNow also is a critical case study for experimenting with PressForward methodology (curation of aggregated content by communities of scholars) and technology (an open source WordPress plugin to facilitate sourcing and distribution).

Though originally automated, since June 2012, DH Now has relied on groups of volunteer Guest Editors to use the PressForward plugin and the Nominate This bookmarklet to nominate items from our collection of RSS feeds and from their own sources.

Learn about our volunteers and how to sign up here.

The DH Now Project Manager selects content for publication, and then prepares posts and manages communication with our editors.

You can read our criteria described here.

If you are already a Guest Editor, you may use the Nominate This bookmarklet at any time, not just during your scheduled weeks. If you are not a guest editor, you can sign up to become one and gain access to the Nominate This bookmarklet. Learn how to register on our Guest Editors page.

If you would like to submit an RSS feed to be added to DHNow’s PressForward plugin, please fill out this form. If you are a current or former Guest Editor, you can also use the PressForward bookmarklet (found in the Tools section of the PressForward plugin menu) to nominate a feed associated with an item.

If you would like to read everything we monitor then you can access an OPML file of the unfiltered feed and import the file into your preferred RSS reader. You can also browse our list of subscribed feeds.

We publish using WordPress and our own PressForward plugin to aggregate, nominate, and review content via RSS feeds.

Since June 2013 we have been using our own PressForward plugin to aggregate, nominate, and review content via RSS feeds. You can track our development or download the plugin from WordPress or GitHub. More information about the different iterations of DHNow's methods can be found on the History page.

You can read about our previous iterations here:

• Introducing Digital Humanities Now – November 2009
• Digital Humanities Now 2.0: Bigger and Better, with a New Review Process – November 2011
• Six Month Review of DHNow 2.0 – May 2012
• Sixteen Month Review of DHNow 2.0 – February 2013
• Four Year Review of DHNow – November 2013
• 2015 Year in Review – December 2015

If you would like to participate in the selection process, consider becoming a Guest Editor.

We are happy to discuss how you might develop a similar publication for your field using the PressForward plugin or methodologies. We have helped dh+lib, Ant, Spider, Bee, MicroBEnet and others. Visit pressforward.org to find out more about our partner publications, methodologies, and the PressForward plugin.