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Author: Tiziana Pasciuto

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives

Editors’ Summary: Tiziana Pascuito’s “From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships” uses a case study of Arabic manuscripts to highlight the utility of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, a cultural heritage ontology that allows for dynamic networks. The author demonstrates how traditional approaches classify documents into separate compartments, such as “Astronomy.” Using an ontology based […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Douglass Day 2026

Join us for Douglass Day 2026! Every Valentine’s Day, we invite you to a birthday party for Frederick Douglass. Although Douglass never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14th. We celebrate this date as a moment for creating Black history together. How can I get involved? See full post.

Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, January 7, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice critiques DH for its entanglement with environmentally damaging digital infrastructures and asserts that DH is not neutral in the climate crisis. The authors propose a new framework that would reframe DH as a field in relation to the environment. The […]

News, Reports

Report: Welcome to the Public Domain in 2026

On January 1, 2026, we celebrate published works from 1930 and published sound recordings from 1925 entering the public domain! Their arrival marks another chapter in our shared cultural heritage: the freedom to breathe new life into overlooked works, remix enduring classics, and circulate the oddities we discover in thrift stores, family attics, and forgotten […]

News, Resources

Resource: Responsible Datasets in Context

Understanding the social and historical context of data is essential for all responsible data work. We host datasets that are paired with rich documentation, data essays, and teaching resources, all of which draw on context and humanities perspectives and methods. We provide models for responsible data curation, documentation, story-telling, and analysis. Learn more about our […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: TEI-C Survey on Membership and Activities

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium is conducting a survey concerning membership and activities of the consortium. You do not need to be a member to answer it. The TEI Consortium is a non-profit membership organization. All income it receives goes back into the activities of the Consortium. This includes expenses such as a subvention […]

News, Reports

Report: Q&A: In the AI age, why are the humanities still relevant?

A growing number of college students across the country are shunning the liberal arts in favor of majors in business, engineering, health and science. Some might be chasing higher salaries, while others see the nation’s rapid shift to AI technology as a forecast of the job market they’ll enter. At the University of Virginia over […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Black Information Futures Symposium (February 21-23, 2026) – CALMA – Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives

The Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) at the University of Washington Information School invites proposals for participation in the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, to be held on February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. The Black Information Futures Symposium seeks to create an expansive, interdisciplinary space for archivists, librarians, cultural heritage […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2026 | ARDC

The Summer School aims to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS), and Indigenous fields of study. Participants will collaborate in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts. Over 2 days, participants will be involved […]

By: ARDC