This database designed for students and educators highlights primary sources about the growth of the Black American community in Lënapehòkink, now called Philadelphia, from the 1600s to the 1800s. It includes petitions, newspaper articles, letters, objects, friendship albums, and more. See full post.
A tool for explorers, travellers, and anyone curious about the city that once was — connecting Toronto’s living streets to more than 37,000 archival photographs spanning over two centuries, from the City of Toronto Archives and the Toronto Public Library. See full post.
Editors’ Summary: This article highlights the process of turning the Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, c.800–c.1800 into a TEI dataset. The authors demonstrate how the process of encoding the print manuscript, and of converting any print volume to a TEI dataset, involves close reading of the material. The Repertory, originally published in 2022, is […]
A collection of videos of the presentations from the 2026 Global Digital Humanities Symposium, held from April 13–April 17, 2026. See full collection.
We are looking for an experienced writer. The ideal candidate already writes single-authored pieces regularly and publicly for a non-specialist audience, builds arguments based on data and research, and has the range to cover many of the topics we work on. This is a senior role: the person we hire will work closely with Hannah […]
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2026, a virtual conference, from June 24-26, 2026. Registration is open from April 15, 2026, through June 17, 2026. See full post.
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author provides a detailed overview of the functions of the new tool, LLMbench. Berry points to Google PAIR’s LLM Comparator as a useful tool for side-by-side evaluation of models from the perspective of model developers, but the tool lacked the ability to do comparative close reading. LLMbench is a […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an overview of a new DH tool that allows you to compare outputs from different LLMs, and an article that overviews the process of turning a collection of Welsh manuscripts into a TEI dataset. We have also included CFPs, […]
Motivated by growing interest in the similarities between problems in learning and social choice, SCaLA-26 aims to bring together researchers across these domains to highlight the benefits of collaboration. Recent work has explored theoretical bounds on the learnability of common voting rules alongside experimental evaluation of these bounds, has shown how neural networks can improve […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an excellent overview of corpus building that is a useful pedagogical resource, and also a post that considers the dichotomy of breadth and depth as approaches to digital humanities professional development. We have also included CFPs, reports, and […]
