This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice are focused on questions of digital space and place. The first Editors’ Choice is a blog post about a crowdsourcing project to georeference a collection of digitized maps. Georeferencing allows historical […]
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition. The Communications department is seeking a full-time Digital Media […]
The Digitization Specialist undertakes digitization projects for Chester Fritz Library and its patrons, producing high-quality digital versions of analog documents and materials. They will manage the day-to-day tasks necessary to accomplish these projects, including gathering the materials to digitize, planning and executing the digitization process, training and supervising student workers performing digitization tasks, tracking progress […]
In this post, I want to reflect on what version control has come to mean for me, especially through my experiences working on two collaborative digital projects: Reframing Collections: From Geographic Generalizations to Cultural Context and Mapping East Lansing Memories. Both projects have been meaningful in completely different ways, but together they have reshaped how […]
The Universal Viewer (UV) is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your content with the world. The UV software can also play audio and video files, display 3D files, PDFs and more. You can try it for yourself at universalviewer.io. You can see the Universal Viewer displaying different types […]
The DE-BIAS tool, developed as a part of the DE-BIAS project, aims to create and detect a vocabulary of problematic language in the metadata of cultural heritage institutions. Researcher Inna Kizhner shares the work undertaken to identify and flag antisemitic language in cultural heritage collections. See full post.
Scholars have provided various perspectives on how Europe historically perceived the Orient, such as Said (1978) with his ground-breaking work Orientalism, as well as Ballaster (2005) and Osterhammel (2018). Moreover, despite this enormous literature on Orientalism, most studies remain limited to specific, well-known texts such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Baktır 2014; Lowe 1991). Additionally, […]
[My project is] turning all the State Library of Victoria’s digitised maps into data. I’ve just created a workflow that uses AllMaps and IIIF to georeference the SLV’s digitised maps. There’s some technical details below, but the idea is pretty simple. A userscript links the SLV image viewer to Allmaps – so you just click […]
In July 2025, AIP started an initiative to improve the documentation and contributions of women in the physical sciences. With the help of the Henry Luce Foundation, the project is underway and I will be working as the newly minted Archives Fellow. As the fellow, I am tasked with improving the historical record of women […]
The Tutankhamun (TAA) Archive is the most significant collection held by the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford. It preserves the complete archaeological records of Howard Carter and his team’s ten-year excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, including maps, plans, object cards, drawings, journals, diaries, notes, correspondence, and Harry Burton’s iconic photographs. Today the […]
