This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a discussion of the possibilities of coding with AI and a case study on large-scale quantitative analysis of rhyme and meter in poetry. We have also included many CFPs, reports, and resources, including […]
The Digital Shift, written by Rosalyn Metz, explores how technology is transforming libraries, cultural heritage, and higher education. For readers of DHNow, this blog is an important resource for current discussions and debates on the role of the digital within libraries and higher education. See feed.
We are delighted to announce that the call for submissions for the 21st International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC27) is now open! The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal between 9-12 February 2027. The main theme of the conference is, FAIR DO’s: Centering People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects. The FAIR principles […]
Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy. Though AI-based approaches to the digital humanities have been a part of the field for decades, recent years have seen an explosion of methodologies utilizing AI, and of critical discussion concerning the […]
In a landscape where open source infrastructure routinely outlasts the funding that created it, the Corporation for Digital Scholarship (also known as Digital Scholar) has spent more than 15 years exploring a different path. Built around flagship tools used by millions of researchers worldwide, and now extending that experience to help other projects find their […]
PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in 11 languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish). Each corpus has been deduplicated, enriched with Universal Dependencies, provided with additional metadata and converted into a unified JSON structure. See full post.
On Friday 22 May, Internet Archive Europe’s Amsterdam space hosted two very different events that, in retrospect, belonged together: A Funeral for the Networks We Lost and Fifteen Years of Open Government. See full post.
Editors’ Summary: This article uses two case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of newly developed algorithms designed to detect rhyme within the ELTE Poetry Corpus, which includes the complete works of 53 canonical Hungarian poets. The author used this rhyme pattern detecting algorithm to generate a rhyming dictionary of Hungarian poetry, as well as an […]
RedHD is an initiative to foster and support the formalization of Digital Humanities in Central and South America. Their objectives are to promote and strengthen communication among digital humanists in the region; the training of human resources; the development of documentation and best practices; the promotion of Digital Humanities projects; and the dissemination of events, […]
DH2026 offers a range of pre-conference events on Monday, July 27 and Tuesday, July 28, including Mini-Conferences, Workshops, and SIG Meetings. All pre-conference events are free of charge and open to registered participants. See full post.
