The Summer School aims to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS), and Indigenous fields of study. Participants will collaborate in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts. Over 2 days, participants will be involved […]
The Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) at the University of Washington Information School invites proposals for participation in the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, to be held on February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. The Black Information Futures Symposium seeks to create an expansive, interdisciplinary space for archivists, librarians, cultural heritage […]
A growing number of college students across the country are shunning the liberal arts in favor of majors in business, engineering, health and science. Some might be chasing higher salaries, while others see the nation’s rapid shift to AI technology as a forecast of the job market they’ll enter. At the University of Virginia over […]
Disha suggests using formatting as a screening tool only serves as a barrier to wider participation in academic publishing. Formatting rules for academic journals have been a pain point for academics for decades [Note. a discussion and potential solution for these issues raised on this blog in 2017]. A 2019 study also found that researchers […]
Audrey Witters remembers the creativity of the early web. When she was launching her career in the mid-1990s, being online was more about exploring and having fun than figuring out how to make a return on investment. Witters said if you were curious about someone’s web page, you could simply click to see their code […]
Digital Humanities Now will be taking a break from December 24 until January 7, but before we go, we’d like to take the time to review 2025. DHNow was relaunched this year, after a four-year hiatus, from its new home in Northeastern University Library! The relaunched DHNow is generously supported by Digital Scholar. This relaunch […]
The English edition of Programming Historian seeks proposals for new original lessons or translations to be considered for publication in 2026. Submissions Open: 15 November 2025Submissions Close: 15 February 2026A Programming Historian lesson is a learn-by-doing resource that empowers readers to develop new, practical knowledge of a computational method or digital tool. Our aim is […]
We introduce WOKIE, an open-source, modular, and ready-to-use pipeline for the automated translation of SKOS thesauri. This work addresses a critical need in the Digital Humanities (DH), where language diversity can limit access, reuse, and semantic interoperability of knowledge resources. WOKIE combines external translation services with targeted refinement using Large Language Models (LLMs), balancing translation […]
The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a […]
The Humanistic AI project, headed by UChicago professors Hoyt Long and Chris Kennedy, aims to identify the opportunities and challenges that generative models present across a wide range of disciplines—including literature, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, computer science and more—and to articulate a strategic vision for how the humanities, humanistic social sciences, and computer sciences can collaborate […]
