Editors’ Summary: This post provides a helpful guide for using GitHub Pages to quickly deploy a static website. Because its service is free, GitHub Pages is a wonderful tool for researchers to build their personal and professional websites. GitHub Pages uses Jekyll, a static web generator, but this post shows users how to use 11ty, […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a consideration of the tensions between historical place names and named entity recognition, a study comparing novels discussing public housing with lived experiences, and a discussion and guide for creating static sites using […]
The Kelmscott Chaucer Online allows you to explore what is widely considered to be the most beautiful book ever produced. The website contains all 87 wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, as well as the 18 frames, 14 borders, and 26 decorative words designed by William Morris for their final project together published in 1896. This […]
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and the Technical Council. The following positions are vacant and up for election: The elections will take place via online voting closing prior to the 2026 virtual Members’ Meeting in August. See full post.
Editors’ Summary: This post addresses the potential value of examining co-occurrences between different types of named entities, in particular locations and people. Limiting analysis to spatial entities misses an opportunity to reflect how historical figures interacted with them. By integrating NER with co-occurrence analysis, this post shows how we can reach more meaningful NER results […]
The purpose of CEDHAR is to improve and to develop knowledge of all four key dimensions of digital history. These four dimensions are digital methods, digital archives, digital history communication, and new digital sources. Although focused on digital history, these core principles apply to digital humanities more broadly, and this feed (and the resources and […]
In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. This includes not only journal articles and ebooks, but also primary sources and archival documents, which researchers increasingly expect to find online in searchable, digital formats. In turn, cultural heritage institutions […]
Editors’ Summary: Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser present Version 2.0 of the Shakespeare and Company Project data sets, a major update to the structured datasets documenting Sylvia Beach’s legendary Paris bookshop and lending library (1919–1962). The update significantly expands demographic data on lending library members—from roughly 600 to nearly 1,800 identified individuals—and introduces two […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a release of a new dataset in Shakespeare studies, a reflective post on the changes AI has brought to programming, and a study that applies digital methodologies to the study of ancient Rome. […]
Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities is an interactive and searchable map of digital and public humanities projects related to Black history & culture. The goals of this project are threefold: This project arose out of a desire to make Black digital and public humanities projects more visible to other practitioners and the public. […]
