Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now a regular topic of conversation in archives. Managers and stakeholders are asking whether AI can speed up description, identify sensitive content, or provide new forms of access. This document offers practical guidance on how to prepare archival collections for AI in ways that remain true to archival principles and ethical […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author grapples with the tension between open access and AI bot scraping. The second selection also considers AI, specifically theorizing on the rise of AI bot social media accounts. Our third selection […]
Extracting Keywords from Crowdsourced Collections was a Digital Scholarship @ Oxford (DiSc) Research Development Grant-funded project based in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. Using the Their Finest Hour Online Archive, a digital collection of 2,000+ records and 26,000+ files related to the Second World War, as a case study, this project […]
The Digital Archivist will play a key role in growing the BDA Team’s capacity and capability toacquire, preserve and provide access to born digital archival material that is a record ofcontemporary Irish life. Core tasks will include pre-acquisition assessment, rights-management, collection analysis, processing, arranging and description. The role will involvedirect engagement with donors and creators […]
Editor’s Summary: This article argues that user experience (UX) practices are crucial yet often under-utilized and overlooked in digital humanities (DH) projects because conventional UX methods don’t align well with the complexity of humanities content. To address this challenge, the authors introduce a set of ten UX heuristics aimed at improving accessibility and audience engagement. […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author considers the growing problem of zombie citations, or fake citations constructed by generative AI. The second selection attempts to chronicle the origins of the field of digital archaeology. Our third selection […]
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data for a fixed-term period of 36 months, starting in May 2026. This position is based at the Multimodality Research Group in the Department of Languages and funded by […]
Factum Foundation collaborated on the PhD thesis carried out by Ana Carrasco Huertas at the University of Granada, co-supervised by Víctor Medina (University of Granada) and Carlos Bayod Lucini (Factum Foundation). The research was defended on 30 January 2026 and focuses on the study, digitisation, and virtual reconstruction of three groups of decorative architectural surfaces […]
Editors’ Summary: This post attempts to provide a history of the origins of digital archaeology, with the author acknowledging the relative lack of attention given to the field’s past. He notes similar challenges in pinning down precise origins for the field of digital humanities. The author highlights scholarship from throughout the twentieth century to determine […]
June 15, 2026 – June 16, 2026 | University of Luxembourg The Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around Artificial Intelligence in the historical disciplines. Generative AI has emerged as a transformative tool in historical research, serving as a method to answer historical questions, a means to streamline historians’ workflows, or […]
