Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Humanitarian Archive Emergency Census

Editors’ Summary: The Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE), led by the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, is conducting a worldwide census to identify digital archives and datasets held by humanitarian organizations at risk due to cuts in international development funding. The census aims to establish an evidentiary foundation for coordinated preservation action, and […]

Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, May 20, 2026

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. […]

News, Reports

Report: Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives

In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.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' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets, Version 2.0

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 […]

Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, May 13, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a two-part post using text analysis to better understand the emotional language of Fatimid Geniza petitions and a post that considers the scholarly utility of ‘vintage LLMs’ such as Talkie-1930. We have also included conferences, job announcements, reports, projects […]

Announcements

Highlighted Feed: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) News

SHARP News is a free, open-access online publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). SHARP is a global scholarly society focused on the histories of material texts. While this sometimes means “book history,” the purview of SHARP is much broader, including the digital transformation of current publishing, the roles […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication Specialist at Boston College

The Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Specialist (the Specialist) supports the creation, curation, and long-term preservation of digital projects and collections. The incumbent builds digital collections, collects and promotes the Law School’s intellectual output, develops websites and applications for the Library and the Law School, and works with the Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Librarian […]

News, Projects, Resources

Project: Enslaved Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles, 1760s-1860s

The information in the dataset is extracted from newspapers across the region of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles, for the purpose of this dataset, begin with the Virgin Islands, extend south to Barbados, Grenada, and Tobago, and circle west towards Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (see fig. 1). Researchers knowledgeable about Caribbean history will recognize […]

News, Resources, Tools

Tool: TALL (Text Analysis for ALL)

TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for Natural Language Processing, enabling researchers without extensive programming skills to perform sophisticated text analyses through an intuitive graphical interface. TALL integrates state-of-the-art NLP techniques — tokenization, lemmatization, Part-of-Speech tagging, […]