In December, hundreds of library, museum, archive and research staff gathered in the British Library’s Knowledge Centre to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage. The 250 international participants onsite at the British Library Knowledge Centre, 3-5 December 2025 included dozens of presenters who delivered 16 workshops, 19 posters and […]
The University of Florence has unveiled Impronte Digitali (“Digital Imprints”), a new digital library designed to preserve and make accessible rare historical materials held in its libraries. The platform, developed by the University Library System, offers online access to more than 200,000 images representing around 4,000 digital objects. These are organized into 15 documentary collections, […]
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FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is now accepting project submissions and invites artists, researchers, creators, and developers to participate in its next edition. An international reference in the fields of art, technology, and innovation, FILE will take place in São Paulo from August 18 to October 11, 2026 at the FIESP Cultural Center, bringing […]
Editors’ Summary: This article examines how DH scholarship in India is often undervalued because traditional systems value print-based research over digital, collaborative or public-facing work. Digital Curation, Metadata Creation, Multilingual Platform building are serious forms of intellectual labour that get overlooked in University Grants Commission frameworks. Within global debates of DH and local realities, this […]
Editors’ Summary: Here it is argued that digital literacy is not a luxury for incarcerated students but it is a basic requirement for meaningful education, employment, and social reintegration after release. In a world where applying for jobs, accessing services and learning is increasingly dependent on the digital, people in prisons are often left at […]
Zotero 8, which we announced today, is a huge release, representing more than a year of development. It brings together a large number of new features, improvements, and internal changes that have been in progress for quite some time. Going forward, we’ll be changing how we manage Zotero releases, with the goal of getting stable […]
Editors’ Summary: This post uses data visualizations to analyze the way that musical motifs are used by musicals to further the storytelling. For the purpose of the study, the author defines motifs as melodic motifs that are sung. She demonstrates how musicals rely on motifs to create structure and meaning , especially when there is […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice provides an assessment of Marimo Notebooks, a new tool similar to Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab. The second selection is a case study of agentic coding for text analysis of newspapers, highlighting the continued difficulty of OCR on newspapers. Our […]
The event ‘Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy in a Polycrisis Context’ was successfully held on 6th March 2025 in Imo State, bringing together child rights, teachers, advocates, policymakers, data analysts, church leaders and community leaders. The event which started at 10am focused on how open data can drive evidence-based advocacy for vulnerable children facing […]
