Editors’ Summary: This post reports on the authors’ experience during their placement in the Senate House MakerSpace, University of London in April and May 2026. They focused on the 3D digitization and documentation of antiquities held by the Hellenic and Roman Library at the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS). This post discusses applying computational methods […]
To combat recent censorship of national parks in the United States, we have pulled on the resources of the library world to tap into the deep public affection for the National Parks and preserve these targeted materials. We brought together librarians and public historians with data and geospatial experts to create Save Our Signs (SOS), […]
Editors’ Summary: This paper, focusing on the Round Table meetings in Poland during the late 1980s, meetings that hoped to address political challenges in Communist Poland. Using network analysis, the authors present the considerations behind creating network data visualizations. The metadata that the authors consider, such as affiliations, personal biography, and others, are especially helpful […]
Editors’ Summary: This discussion paper provides multiple perspectives on data curation. It considers not just the work done in academia but also in community organizations, such as Cultural Heritage Institutions. The paper also provides data management recommendations and future questions. Specifically, the authors emphasize the importance of strong and consistent dataset documentation. This paper will […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Zhihui Zou and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editors. Our Editors’ Choices this week include a discussion of the methodologies in the field of AI in education, a critique of the implementations of AI in higher education, and a demonstration of an AI methodology for […]
The Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is the peer-reviewed open-access journal of the Digital Humanities Association of South Africa. DHASA is an important network for digital humanities scholars in Southern Africa. DHASA members come from a wide variety of fields in the humanities, social sciences, and computer sciences. The DHASA […]
Editors’ Summary: This post shares the launch of the Source Library project earlier this month. Source Library, founded by Derek Lomas, digitizes Renaissance-era books originally written in Latin or other languages, translates them using AI translation tools, and presents them for free on their website. This project combines OCR and machine translation to increase accessibility […]
Editors’ Summary: The Australian National Corpus (AusNC) was a discovery service that collated and provided access to examples of Australian English text, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual materials. The service was managed by Griffith University beginning 2012 until mid-2023 when the site was decommissioned. From 2023, AusNC data was made available as individual collections (listed below) […]
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa. Digital Humanities (DH) has evolved from an early emphasis on digitisation, text encoding, and computational assistance into a reflexive field concerned with […]
Editors’ Summary: This article reviews the FORCE2026 conference held earlier this month at Singapore Management University. The conference focused on how to improve scholarly communications to encourage scholarly collaborations. A key component of the conference was engagement with DataCite, an organization, like Crossref, that provides persistent identifiers for research publications. This article recounts how various […]
