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Announcements, News

Event Announcement: #DPClinic October – Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good – Digital Preservation Coalition

Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good (CACASG) is a collaborative project of the University of Illinois, African archivists, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), and Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev).  The project seeks to foster the preservation of African knowledge and cultural heritage, developing memory practices that enable local organizations and communities to tell their […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: DLFteach Toolkit, Volume 5 – Digital Pedagogy in Music & Sound Studies | Anna E. Kijas

The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Working Group invites proposals for practical, adaptable teaching materials that use digital methods in music and sound contexts which will be published as part of the #DLFteach Toolkit. We welcome contributions from faculty, instructors, librarians, archivists, technologists, and community educators across musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, composition, performance, sound art, podcasting, and […]

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CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: Data Ethics for Historical Research

The use of data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data science techniques are becoming increasingly pervasive in daily life and research activities, attracting many scholars to adopt them in historically oriented research with promising results. However, neither data nor computational techniques are neutral tools. Historical archives and datasets are themselves the products of selective curation reflecting […]

News, Resources

Resource: Decoding Hidden Heritages

Navigate the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. Using advanced AI text recognition techniques, much of this material has been transcribed and made searchable for the first time. Many of the tales are categorised by Aarne–Thompson (AT) […]

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Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Freelance Researchers: Safe Adoption of AI — Careful Industries

Careful Industries has received funding from Lloyd’s Register Foundation to conduct a foresight review on the safe adoption of AI. We are seeking freelance researchers to conduct literature searches on the impact of AI on worker safety, infrastructural safety, and environmental safety. We welcome expressions of interest for either one of the individual topics or […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: JSTOR Labs Software Engineer (Full-stack)

ITHAKA is looking for a Software Engineer to join the JSTOR Labs team. As Software Engineer, you will have a pivotal role in building the Transfer Explorer pilot application. The Transfer Explorer is a collaboration between Ithaka S+R and JSTOR Labs which aims to make it easy for students, school administrators, and advisors to see […]

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Event Announcement: Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland

On October 21, 2025 the Institute of Historical Research is holding a remote event as part of the Digital History Event Series. Bronagh McShane (Trinity College Dublin) will present their paper “Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland.” All welcome- this event is free to attend, but […]

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Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Leo Transcription Grants: apply for up to 100,000 free credits – Leo

We’re offering up to 100,000 free credits for students, academics, and archives to use Leo, our AI-powered transcription and document management platform Leo is a web app designed for historians, archivists, and other researchers working with handwritten manuscripts and printed text in Latin scripts (including English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, German, etc.) from the later medieval […]

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CFP: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches

Digital Humanities Quarterly invites authors to submit abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). Though AI-based approaches to the digital humanities have been a part of the field for decades, recent years have seen an explosion of methodologies utilizing AI. Some methods show great promise, providing new modes of […]

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