The purpose of CEDHAR is to improve and to develop knowledge of all four key dimensions of digital history. These four dimensions are digital methods, digital archives, digital history communication, and new digital sources. Although focused on digital history, these core principles apply to digital humanities more broadly, and this feed (and the resources and […]
The Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication (DISC) Librarian is responsible for providing leadership in library digital collections and platforms, scholarly communication, and open access. The individual is responsible for managing and promoting the use of our institutional repository (IR) and coordinating associated services. They collaborate with library leadership and staff to iteratively develop and implement […]
Editors’ Summary: In Funerary Spectacle: Applied Digital Humanities in the Roman Forum (California Classical Studies, 2026), Christopher J. Johanson (UCLA) combines three-dimensional reconstructions of the Roman Forum with traditional philological analysis to reconstruct the funeral of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (160 BCE) across its three stages: procession, eulogy, and gladiatorial games. By applying both close […]
In advance of ACH 2026, we’ll be piloting a pre-conference virtual workshop series offering low-cost opportunities for teaching and learning on digital humanities topics that matter to the community. Note: workshops will be taught in English. See full post.
Editors’ Summary: The Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE), led by the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, is conducting a worldwide census to identify digital archives and datasets held by humanitarian organizations at risk due to cuts in international development funding. The census aims to establish an evidentiary foundation for coordinated preservation action, and […]
Editors’ Summary: Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser present Version 2.0 of the Shakespeare and Company Project data sets, a major update to the structured datasets documenting Sylvia Beach’s legendary Paris bookshop and lending library (1919–1962). The update significantly expands demographic data on lending library members—from roughly 600 to nearly 1,800 identified individuals—and introduces two […]
Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities is an interactive and searchable map of digital and public humanities projects related to Black history & culture. The goals of this project are threefold: This project arose out of a desire to make Black digital and public humanities projects more visible to other practitioners and the public. […]
In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. This includes not only journal articles and ebooks, but also primary sources and archival documents, which researchers increasingly expect to find online in searchable, digital formats. In turn, cultural heritage institutions […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a release of a new dataset in Shakespeare studies, a reflective post on the changes AI has brought to programming, and a study that applies digital methodologies to the study of ancient Rome. […]
Editors’ Summary: Paul Taylor, professor of health informatics at UCL, reflects on his lifelong relationship with programming and the rapid displacement of software engineers by AI coding tools. Drawing on personal experience using Claude Code and the fictional Mythos model, he traces how AI has moved from writing code snippets to autonomously developing, testing, and […]
