This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Samya Brata Roy, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice calls for the need to reconsider digital knowledge through the perspective of decolonial data narratives and oral history practices. The second selection considers the empowering possibilities of vibe-coding small scale digital history projects. […]
Create a compact offline Wikipedia archive as a ZIM file for any region in the world – perfect for hiking, expeditions or areas without network coverage. See full post.
Cambridge’s GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, garden and museums) house millions of objects from across the globe, representing an unparalleled repository of cultural and natural history. However, challenges such as analogue formats, handwritten records, fragmented objects, multilingual sources and complex surfaces make much of this data difficult to access. To address these challenges, the AI […]
I recently traveled to Kenya for a journalism and AI conference. While I was there, I really wanted to meet with Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association. Data Labeling is a huge job in Kenya. Data labelers are the people who train AI, and who also work on ensuring the […]
The Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer I position to teach sections of three introductory courses. For more information about our courses, please check here: https://lsa.umich.edu/computingfor/undergraduates/course-offerings.html This is a non-tenure track position. […]
The workshop (April 20 – April 21) is organised as part of the LUSTRE/GLOW initiative, led by Professor Lise Jaillant and supported by Loughborough University, in collaboration with The National Archives and the UK Cabinet Office. Building on the earlier LUSTRE project, GLOW brings together researchers, government professionals, colleagues from across the GLAM sectors, and […]
Editor’s Summary: This post provides a detailed explanation of how transformers work. Transformers in this context refers to a tool for sequence transduction (converting one sequence of symbols to another) an essential tool for natural language processing. The author provides a step by step discussion of how transformers work in terms of language, including many […]
Editors’ Summary: This post considers how generative AI has broken down the barrier to entry for doing digital history. The author argues that while AI is bad at doing history, it can enable historians to do good digital history. He acknowledges that in some instances code generated by AI immediately becomes technical debt, especially for […]
The Electronic Literature Organization invites expressions of interest from individuals and institutions interested in hosting the ELO Conference & Media Arts Show in 2027 and/or 2028. The ELO Conference is the centerpiece of our organization’s annual activities, bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners of electronic literature from around the world. The conference encompasses an academic […]
Editors’ Summary: This article re-emphasizes a sense of Humanities criticality in DH from the perspective of Oral History and how that becomes even more crucial in the Global South. The author highlights the construction of an oral history archive on Partition. This position leans heavily on the works of Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, who redirects focus from […]
