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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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, […]
