This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abirami Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice argues that the code that powers digital humanities research should be considered as an integral part of the scholarly output. The second selection highlights a project that combines interviews with geospatial data to assess […]
Editors’ Summary: This project combines oral history interviews, digital storytelling, and GIS to map Sapphic areas of New York City. The author begins by visualizing all of the bars in NYC, and identifying the four bars that are explicitly lesbian bars. The author encourages the reader to move beyond the idea of bars as the […]
The Call for Proposals for the 2026 Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI) is now open. At this year’s DPI, our goal is to continue to create a virtual space that allows participants to explore diverse approaches to digital pedagogy from a variety of perspectives, including those of undergraduate/graduate students, faculty, librarians, educational developers, and technologists. CFP […]
On March 18 at 1:00 PM EDT, eLabs will host a webinar that invites researchers to explore questions around the environmental impact of digital humanities work. The session draws on the approaches and resources developed by the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition (DHCC), a collaborative and cross-institutional initiative focused on understanding and minimizing the environmental impact […]
Connecting Codes brings together scholars, librarians, heritage professionals, technologists, and students to explore the evolving relationships between artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and information institutions, with a particular emphasis on African contexts and perspectives. The conference title reflects the work of connecting multiple kinds of “codes”: technical systems such as software, data, and AI models; cultural […]
A worsening problem I am having is an overall decline in basic digital literacy in my students. Since many of my classes turn on interrogating humanities materials with digital tools, or interrogating the digital from a humanities perspective (ie, DH!) this means I am spending ever more frustrating amounts of time just trying to get […]
A 23-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti. DIY Web Archiving shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!). Based on the 11/25/2024 virtual workshop co-sponsored […]
The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text. I started writing guides on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired people like me who have to guess what is in an image […]
The Library of Virginia seeks a Born-Digital Collections Coordinator to lead agency-wide planning and technical management of its born-digital government and manuscript records. As part of the Digital Initiatives & Web Services division, the ideal candidate will bring a collaborative and intellectually curious spirit to the development of the proper policies, procedures, technologies, and documentation […]
Editors’ Summary: This article argues that bespoke code used in digital humanities research should be treated as a core part of scholarly output rather than treated as invisible technical labor. It introduces defactoring, a method of close reading and restructuring, to reveal a project’s underlying computational narrative. The authors demonstrate this approach by unpacking the […]
