Report: Software Freedom as Civic Care
A discussion on how the Free Software movement is foundational to care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance. See full post.
Author: Audrey Tang, Caroline Green
Project: Kelmscott Chaucer Online | William Morris
The Kelmscott Chaucer Online allows you to explore what is widely considered to be the most beautiful book ever produced. The website contains all 87 wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, as well as the 18 frames, 14 borders, and 26 decorative words designed by William Morris for their final project together published in 1896. This […]
Editors’ Choice: From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
Editors’ Summary: This post addresses the potential value of examining co-occurrences between different types of named entities, in particular locations and people. Limiting analysis to spatial entities misses an opportunity to reflect how historical figures interacted with them. By integrating NER with co-occurrence analysis, this post shows how we can reach more meaningful NER results […]
Editors’ Choice: automated deploy with build-ghpages
Editors’ Summary: This post provides a helpful guide for using GitHub Pages to quickly deploy a static website. Because its service is free, GitHub Pages is a wonderful tool for researchers to build their personal and professional websites. GitHub Pages uses Jekyll, a static web generator, but this post shows users how to use 11ty, […]
Opportunity: Nominations for TEI-C Elections
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and the Technical Council. The following positions are vacant and up for election: The elections will take place via online voting closing prior to the 2026 virtual Members’ Meeting in August. See full post.
Editors’ Choice: Mapping Public Housing in Literature
Editors’ Summary: This paper presents an insightful approach of using creative writing/literature (fictional depictions) in collaboration with real life. The topic studied here is public housing; the researchers compiled novels focusing on public housing (usually in cities) with social science analysis of current public housing residents. Some important references for readers are how the authors […]
DHNow Newsletter, May 27, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a consideration of the tensions between historical place names and named entity recognition, a study comparing novels discussing public housing with lived experiences, and a discussion and guide for creating static sites using […]
Event Announcement: Pre-Conference Events – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
DH2026 offers a range of pre-conference events on Monday, July 27 and Tuesday, July 28, including Mini-Conferences, Workshops, and SIG Meetings. All pre-conference events are free of charge and open to registered participants. See full post.
Event Announcement: Announcing the Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 in Barcelona
We at the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) are thrilled to announce today that the Call for Proposals of the inaugural “Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 – Shaping the Open Transition” is now open until 5 July 2026. The Symposium is the flagship initiative of our new Open Technology Research initiative, together with our partners […]
Highlighted Feed: Red Humanidades Digitales
RedHD is an initiative to foster and support the formalization of Digital Humanities in Central and South America. Their objectives are to promote and strengthen communication among digital humanists in the region; the training of human resources; the development of documentation and best practices; the promotion of Digital Humanities projects; and the dissemination of events, […]