A 2-Day Research and Edit Event for the Visualizing Caribbean Literature Database. The database catalogs more than 4000 titles by 500 authors in over 50 languages since 1800. Join us to review and improve the database and to create Wikipedia pages for our unknown and unseen literary greats! On November 7 and 8, both in-person […]
This position supports the MNHS digital collections across the LRC Division by leading work to manage and maintain the materials for long-term access and use in alignment with the institution’s vision and strategic framework for sustainable digital preservation. Tasks include: Carry out activities as lead for the digital preservation program in collaboration with the department […]
I set out to write my own Wretched-style game. My first attempt was based on the Franklin Expedition, and how the demise of those men is captured in Inuit oral tradition. I wrote my card prompts, I thought about how the game might end, I imagined what their colonial mindset when confronted with survival and […]
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous posts on OCR/HTR, particularly our launch of the first public Syriac HTR model on Transkribus: From Vienna to the World…) into the realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Today’s post explores a powerful new possibility: […]
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has created both opportunities and challenges for assessment design and academic integrity. The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS), developed by Perkins, Furze, Roe, and MacVaugh, provides a practical framework to guide educators in making purposeful, evidence-based decisions about appropriate AI use in assessments. Rather than treating AI as a threat to be […]
This review of Claire Warwick’s Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001: A World Elsewhere (2024) praises the monograph’s unique value to the digital humanities as a comprehensive reconstruction of 1990s attitudes and practices regarding cyberspace. Warwick’s justification for her hybrid methodology, which combines history, analysis, thick description, and autoethnography, is discussed, as well as […]
This week’s issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our Editors’ Choice posts both consider aspects of AI, one from a research perspective and the other pedagogical. Our first Editors’ Choice selection tackles the difficulties generative AI has created for academic integrity and assessment […]
Throughout the month of October, Internet Archive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived and available for use in the Wayback Machine! Together with more than 1,300 libraries, we’ve helped preserve a living record of the web for future generations. To mark this once-in-a-generation achievement, we’re inviting all libraries to join the […]
See full post. I recently started working at the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU). When I was preparing for my move to the post, I began exploring some of the tools that the organization has developed. One in particular surprised me, the Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan. As the name […]
Archives are special. As a home of our collective memory, The National Archives (TNA) plays a unique role. We hold records of events of national and international importance as well as documents that speak to our everyday lives, over the last one thousand years. Our web archives are unparalleled in their quality and richness and […]
