News, Reports

Report: Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

The results of vibe coding have been far from what early enthusiasts promised. Well-known software developer Armin Ronacher powerfully described some of the issues with AI coding agents. “When [I first got] hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: AI in Historical Perspectives

The AHR calls for proposals for essays that frame AI not as a contemporary technology to be used or rejected but instead as a historical and historiographic phenomenon to be contextualized, interrogated, and reinterpreted. Our goal is to reframe AI within existing historiographies of labor, empire, economy, culture, science, and human agency, and in doing […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Japanese Association for Digital Humanities 2026

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) is pleased to announce its 15th annual conference, to be held at Kyushu University on September 11-13, 2026. Digital data do not exist in isolation. They come to life only within specific contexts of use, interpretation, infrastructure, and care. Following Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt, this conference […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: ADA Title II Urban Legends: Sorting Fact from Fiction About the 2024 Updates

Editors’ Summary: This post by the Digital Library Federation addresses misconceptions or inaccurate statements regarding ADA Title II, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disabilities in government programs. Ensuring accessibility is an important topic in Digital Humanities, but many people might not be familiar with the exact steps to implement more inclusive and accessible […]

News, Reports

Report: Bridging Language and Technology: Advancing NLP Skills at the University of Zululand

The University of Zululand recently played host to a dynamic and impactful two-day Corpus Creation and Linguistic Text Processing Tools Workshop, held at its KwaDlangezwa campus on 17–18 March 2026. Facilitated by SADiLaR’s Project Manager and Unisa Node, Ms Marissa Griesel, under the ESCALATOR programme, the workshop brought together Computer Science students and academic staff […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: DARIAH Digital Arts and Humanities Training and Summer School Small Grants Call 2026 

DARIAH invites applications for small grants supporting in-person summer schools and intensive training events in the Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) that will take place in 2026. This programme aims to strengthen training opportunities, expand digital skills in the arts and humanities, and support collaboration across research, education, and cultural heritage communities. See full post.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Information Literacy in Academic Libraries: A Global Scientometric Analysis (2020–2025)”

Editors’ Summary: This paper uses scientometrics to analyze how AI has been incorporated into university libraries and services to provide information literacy. The authors examine over 1,600 papers or research published between 2020 and 2025. This paper is a helpful overview for academics, especially librarians, to track the different directions and methods that other scholars […]

Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, April 1, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week outline best practices and standards for presentations, using a case study of transitioning between dynamic and static presentation formats, the process of developing an AI-assisted workflow for extracting very large corpora from the […]