The Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool (MaRMAT) is an open-source application created by librarians at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library to help metadata practitioners flag various terms and phrases within metadata records using pre-curated and custom lexicons. MaRMAT is schema agnostic and supports library and museum professionals in assessing metadata for harmful, outdated, and […]
This lesson demonstrates how to prepare a geographically accurate historical battle scene in the free and open source computer game 0̸ A.D. You will learn to use a multisensory, interactive environment for teaching or learning ancient history and pre-modern languages. See full post.
For their South Bay book launch of The AI Con, Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna joined us in conversation with Rhonda Holberton, Digital Media Arts & Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at SJSU. In THE AI CON: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We […]
Interested in how women were portrayed in medieval chronicles of the Iberian Peninsula? Look no further! This open-access website provides structured information on every woman mentioned in the anonymous Crónica de Castilla (ca. 1300, Castile-León). The database was generated within the “FEMIber” project, which uses digital humanities methods to study Spanish and Portuguese medieval historiography […]
by Laura Crossley – December 12, 2017 Digital Humanities Now will be taking a break until January 9, but before we go, we’d like to take the time to wrap up 2017. This November marked nine years of publication for Digital Humanities Now. Through the work of our dedicated staff and our generous community of volunteer editors, DHNow continues to build a new model […]
by Amanda Regan – December 20, 2016 Digital Humanities Now is on hiatus until January 10, and as we close out another successful year, we want to take some time to reflect on 2016. After eight years of publication, Digital Humanities Now remains a community-curated publication that is driven by a group of dedicated staff members and […]
by Joshua Catalano – April 27, 2016 Are you viewing an interesting digital humanities project, blog post, conference call, or job posting that you would like to nominate to DHNow? If you’ve been an editor-at-large, you can always use the Nominate This bookmarklet tool! (If you haven’t been an editor-at-large, now’s the time. Sign up […]
by Amanda Regan – April 20, 2016 As the spring semester draws to a close, we’re issuing the call for volunteers to help us choose the pieces that we feature on Digital Humanities Now over the summer. Editors-at-Large see all the work and announcements published each week on the more than 400 websites that Digital […]
by Amanda Morton – February 23, 2016 We’re rolling out the new user registration/Editor-at-Large user management plugin (developed by one of our managing editors, Amanda Regan) this week. This post will serve as an introduction to its new features, and a brief instruction manual for both new users and existing Editors-at-Large. We welcome any feedback you might […]
by Amanda Regan – December 17, 2015 As a warm winter holiday descends on us here at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, we’re once again compelled to take a look back at the year and the accomplishments of Digital Humanities Now. November marked our seventh year of publication and what started as […]
