This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Yuchun Zhang, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article reflecting on the Equal Earth projection and if there is still a need for a default map projection at all. We have also included announcements, projects, reports, and tools, including a […]
Our take: This personal blog details experimentations with LaTeX code (packages, classes, templates, and snippets). For readers of DHNow, this blog seeks to demystify the Digital Humanities and digital tools for Humanists, as well as discussions of LaTeX. The blog provides tutorials and theoretical discussions of the state of the Digital Humanities. See source.
This report is a call to action. Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate […]
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is pleased to announce its pilot Regional Events Series. These one-day workshops, which will be open to all, aim to foster and facilitate new connections and collaborations between digital arts & humanities researchers and practitioners at a regional level. The pilot series will consist of 5 events that will run […]
Human-AI interaction for digital humanities and cultural heritage. A full-day workshop bringing HCI and AI researchers together with the people who keep the world’s memory: the digital humanities and the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums). See full post.
The Lexos Python library reproduces and extends most of the text analysis tools in the Lexos web app. Lexos is designed to implement many common text analysis procedures and create workflows in a way that saves the user having to re-invent the wheel or figure out how to combine multiple Python packages to achieve a […]
Advances in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning have informed new methodologies in the humanities for over a decade, but the uptake of AI models for visual analysis in art history has been piecemeal, and recent discourses have been dominated by computer scientists. This presentation explores some of the tensions, challenges, and possibilities that […]
An open-source photographic showcase and browser lab for regularized RGB decorrelation stretch. It includes a searchable database of 675 photographs, including 177 textiles, a 91-target painted-surface guide, and an open community photo collection. The public source repository contains the portable app and processing tools. See full post.
Our take: Following the United Nations’ recent vote in support of the Equal Earth projection, this article looks beyond the question of which map is more “accurate”, but to ask what map projections actually do. He traces Mercator from early modern navigation and nineteenth-century education to its continued dominance in digital mapping, showing how a […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay arguing for the importance of crowdsourcing and participatory projects for GLAM work and an article assessing how effective automated quality assurance is for web archives. We have also included announcements, reports, resources, and tools, including a zine […]
