This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Abirlal Mukherjee, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice selections are concerned with text analysis. The first Editors’ Choice is an article that discusses how large language models have improved handwritten character recognition. Handwritten text has long been the biggest […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026. Our theme, “Engagement,” highlights our commitment to fostering meaningful connections—both among diverse communities and between humans and emerging technologies. It emphasizes vibrancy in community interactions and critical reflection […]
A 20-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Amanda Wyatt Visconti and Shane Lin. “Absolute Unit”: An entity exceedingly pleasing to the eye & soul by virtue of unusual-for-its-kind square or stocky dimensions. Absolute Units are exemplars of: stability! solidity! abundance! confidence! A model for insisting we deserve at-homeness in our world. A righteous & unbothered […]
Reporting to the Manager of Library Information and Technology Services, the Librarian manages the Acquisitions program which provides access to the Libraries’ owned and licensed resources. This program is responsible for the ordering and processing of electronic resources for the Drexel University Libraries, including some tools and services to manage them. The Librarian also oversees […]
We’re pleased to announce that the 13th edition of the DH Benelux Conference will take place in Maastricht at Maastricht University. The annual DH Benelux Conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects. We’re excited […]
In April 1969, Physics Today published a photograph of the American Physical Society’s 1932 banquet at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City. The striking group portrait, dense with faces, was paired with an open call to readers: How many diners can you name and locate? This was more than just a photo caption challenge. It […]
Traditional machine learning models for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) rely on supervised training, requiring extensive manual annotations, and often produce errors due to the separation between layout and text processing. In contrast, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer a general approach to recognizing diverse handwriting styles without the need for model-specific training. The study benchmarks […]
For investigative journalists, data is a source to be questioned, a witness to be interrogated. In Mexico, the agency Data Crítica uses data to uncover critical public health stories. Their challenge is not just analysing data, but first assessing its reliability. They have integrated the Open Data Editor into the core of their methodology, using […]
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic diversity, particularly from the Global South, for a predominantly Anglophone student body. How do I invite students to critically examine the Anglophone bias underlying much of DH theory and practice without necessarily depending on the […]
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 […]
