This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice considers the experience of data repositories from the perspective of researchers who have deposited datasets. The second selection also discusses user experience, specifically comparing the experience using Google and DuckDuckGo. Our third selection interrogates […]
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 position serves as a Supervisory Librarian in the Digital Collections Workflow Section (DCW), Digital Collections Management & Services Division (DCMS), Digital Services Directorate (DSD), Discovery & Preservation Services (DPS) within the Library Collections and Services Group (LCSG) at the Library of Congress (LOC). The Supervisory Librarian reports directly to the Section Head and is […]
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 […]
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. […]
Editors’ Summary: This selection grapples with the difficulties of maintaining open access in the era of AI. The author identifies four ways that generative AI has affected open access resources: the intellectual harvest of cultural heritage, the infrastructure tax, the harvesting of physical collections, and the erosion of trust. She focuses on the erosion of […]
Editors’ Summary: This post considers the growing phenomenon of what the author deems ‘stateful AI agents’ on social media. In this context, stateful means that the systems are not frozen, or the AI’s state can change. The rise of Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, has brought more media attention to the practice, […]
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 […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites proposals to host the Digital Humanities Conference in 2029. Digital Humanities (DH) is ADHO’s annual international conference. ADHO’s constituent organizations are the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) the Canadian Society […]
