Report: Global Digital Humanities Symposium
A collection of videos of the presentations from the 2026 Global Digital Humanities Symposium, held from April 13–April 17, 2026. See full collection.
Author: Colleen Nugent
Resource: Old Toronto: Historical Itinerary Planner
A tool for explorers, travellers, and anyone curious about the city that once was — connecting Toronto’s living streets to more than 37,000 archival photographs spanning over two centuries, from the City of Toronto Archives and the Toronto Public Library. See full post.
Editors’ Choice: Decoding and Encoding Welsh Manuscript Culture: Scribes, Scripts and TEI
Editors’ Summary: This article highlights the process of turning the Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, c.800–c.1800 into a TEI dataset. The authors demonstrate how the process of encoding the print manuscript, and of converting any print volume to a TEI dataset, involves close reading of the material. The Repertory, originally published in 2022, is […]
CFP: 3rd Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms
Motivated by growing interest in the similarities between problems in learning and social choice, SCaLA-26 aims to bring together researchers across these domains to highlight the benefits of collaboration. Recent work has explored theoretical bounds on the learnability of common voting rules alongside experimental evaluation of these bounds, has shown how neural networks can improve […]
DHNow Newsletter, April 15, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an excellent overview of corpus building that is a useful pedagogical resource, and also a post that considers the dichotomy of breadth and depth as approaches to digital humanities professional development. We have also included CFPs, reports, and […]
DHNow Newsletter, April 8, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week address misconceptions surrounding ADA Title II, consider the theoretical frameworks that undergird mapping practices in DH, and highlights a new mobile tool for visualizing archival documents using AR. We also have multiple CFPs, […]
Editors’ Choice: Introducing Booksnake: A Scholarly App for Transforming Existing Digitized Archival Materials into Life-Size Virtual Objects for Embodied Interaction in Physical Space, using IIIF and Augmented Reality
Editors’ Summary: This paper introduces a new mobile app named “Booksnake” that takes a unique approach toward using immersive technology in the humanities. It allows users to display archival materials virtually through projecting a piece of archival document to the user’s surrounding environment via a phone camera. The authors both present theoretical engagement on how […]
Editors’ Choice: Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material | Open Maps Meeting
Editors’ Summary: This working paper from the Open Maps Meeting in 2024 showcases the various methodologies and research frameworks adopted by projects involving GIS, spatial mapping, and other technologies. The paper points out that “the digital turn has fostered a spatial one,” which is an important reminder for the DH community to critically engage with […]
Resource: Wyrm – Citation Network Explorer
Recently, I’ve had a number of students wrestling with the challenges of scoping a field, pulling together a literature review, and trying to determine how different pieces might be in conversation with each other. I used to sometimes sit students down with Ed Summer’s old ‘Etudier’ package which was great; but Google Scholar doesn’t really […]
Resource: Data Visualization with Textiles
This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles. I have taught a class by that name at Stanford every spring since 2023. It began as a funder mandate: in exchange for internal grant money to pay for student staff and supplies, we were encouraged to offer […]