This is a write-up of a talk I gave at CESTA on January 29, 2026, with an epilogue covering the last few weeks. The talk wasn’t recorded, and since I wrote this up later, it’s less off-the-cuff and probably a bit better than the original. As we confront this moment of great institutional and societal […]
The Electronic Literature Organization has opened its nomination form for the 2026 ELO Awards, with a nomination deadline of March 9, 2026, at midnight CET (Central European Time). The winners of the ELO 2026 awards will be announced at the 2026 ELO (Un)Supervised Conference, hosted virtually by the University of Central Florida in July. See […]
Editor’s Summary: The question of scale is something that has been troubling many humanities disciplines even before the popularization of computational technologies. In the field of DH, we often perceive that there is an additional layer of abstraction between the researcher and subject because of the digital “screen” and scale of analysis that our technological […]
Editors’ Summary: This series of articles comparing the user experience in DuckDuckGo and Google goes beyond a purely UX analysis. Seeing how these two search engines play in an academic or teacher’s work, we get to see how certain search engines, like Google, are more than just “search engines.” As mentioned, Google also controls our […]
I want to share an interesting pattern – get claude code on the web (or any other autonomous agent + sandbox) to do R&D on a coding question. Based on these blog posts – https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/pydantic-monty/ and https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/async-code-research/. I wanted to learn about WASM and Pyodide as I don’t know much about these technologies. I asked […]
Over eighteen days, from 19 January to 6 February, working in dialogue with Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s large language model running in their Claude Code development environment, I developed a web application for annotating and analysing source code. The reason for developing this was the result of working with a group of colleagues attempting to […]
Digital Humanities Awards are a set of annual awards where the public is able to nominate resources for the recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community. The resources are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. The weeding out by the nominations committee is solely based on the criteria of “Is […]
Editors’ Summary: This paper studies a common tool for researchers to share their quantitative or data sources: the data repository run usually by university libraries. These repositories allow users to download datasets that researchers have curated. This paper provides a helpful glimpse into the user identity and persona of researchers working with data repositories. They […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice considers the experience of data repositories from the perspective of researchers who have deposited datasets. The second selection also discusses user experience, specifically comparing the experience using Google and DuckDuckGo. Our third selection interrogates […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites proposals to host the Digital Humanities Conference in 2029. Digital Humanities (DH) is ADHO’s annual international conference. ADHO’s constituent organizations are the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) the Canadian Society […]
