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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Editors’ Summary: This post considers the relationship between AI and book history. According to Cordell, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs and the language model systems’ outputs. This post proposes the skeuomorph as a key heuristic for book historical scholarship and […]
