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Report: Train the Trainer 2025: Building confidence, community, and inclusion
Wikimedia UK’s flagship Train the Trainer (TtT) course returned in summer 2025, bringing together volunteers from across the UK and around the world to develop the skills needed to deliver Wikipedia editing events in their own communities. Designed to build confidence and strengthen diversity, this year’s programme welcomed 23 participants from eight countries, including many…
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Job Announcement: Metadata Operations Specialist at Columbia University
Reporting to the Department Head, the Metadata Operations Specialist provides operational support in cataloging and metadata management within the Collections Acquisition & Metadata Services department for the grant-funded Anticaste Archives Project. This role is responsible for creating, processing, and maintaining metadata for digital objects (e.g., documents, images, and videos) to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance…
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Event Announcement: Hidden Caribbean Figures – A 2-Day Workshop
A 2-Day Research and Edit Event for the Visualizing Caribbean Literature Database. The database catalogs more than 4000 titles by 500 authors in over 50 languages since 1800. Join us to review and improve the database and to create Wikipedia pages for our unknown and unseen literary greats! On November 7 and 8, both in-person…
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Job Announcement: Digitization Supervisor, Collections at Minnesota Historical Society
This position supports the MNHS digital collections across the LRC Division by leading work to manage and maintain the materials for long-term access and use in alignment with the institution’s vision and strategic framework for sustainable digital preservation. Tasks include: Carry out activities as lead for the digital preservation program in collaboration with the department…
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Resource: A Wretched Generator
I set out to write my own Wretched-style game. My first attempt was based on the Franklin Expedition, and how the demise of those men is captured in Inuit oral tradition. I wrote my card prompts, I thought about how the game might end, I imagined what their colonial mindset when confronted with survival and…
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Editors’ Choice: Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous posts on OCR/HTR, particularly our launch of the first public Syriac HTR model on Transkribus: From Vienna to the World…) into the realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Today’s post explores a powerful new possibility:…
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Editors’ Choice: Applying the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS): A Step-by-Step Guide for auditing and updating assessment tasks
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has created both opportunities and challenges for assessment design and academic integrity. The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS), developed by Perkins, Furze, Roe, and MacVaugh, provides a practical framework to guide educators in making purposeful, evidence-based decisions about appropriate AI use in assessments. Rather than treating AI as a threat to be…
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Resource: It’s Time to Historicize DH: A Review of Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001: A World Elsewhere
This review of Claire Warwick’s Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001: A World Elsewhere (2024) praises the monograph’s unique value to the digital humanities as a comprehensive reconstruction of 1990s attitudes and practices regarding cyberspace. Warwick’s justification for her hybrid methodology, which combines history, analysis, thick description, and autoethnography, is discussed, as well as…
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DHNow Newsletter, October 29, 2025
This week’s issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our Editors’ Choice posts both consider aspects of AI, one from a research perspective and the other pedagogical. Our first Editors’ Choice selection tackles the difficulties generative AI has created for academic integrity and assessment…
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Announcement: Internet Archive Celebration and Invitation
Throughout the month of October, Internet Archive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived and available for use in the Wayback Machine! Together with more than 1,300 libraries, we’ve helped preserve a living record of the web for future generations. To mark this once-in-a-generation achievement, we’re inviting all libraries to join the…
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Resource: The Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan: A Brief (Re-?)Introduction
See full post. I recently started working at the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU). When I was preparing for my move to the post, I began exploring some of the tools that the organization has developed. One in particular surprised me, the Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan. As the name…
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Resource: Digital Accessibility Framework Town Halls
Accessible Community recently released the Digital Accessibility Framework for public review. This project aims to expand our collective understanding of the requirements for accessible digital content, considering the impact of emerging technologies and engaging with broad user groups to predict their full impact. A complex project like this needs wide engagement in order to get…
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Job Announcement: Web Archiving Data Analyst and Crawl Engineer at National Archives
Archives are special. As a home of our collective memory, The National Archives (TNA) plays a unique role. We hold records of events of national and international importance as well as documents that speak to our everyday lives, over the last one thousand years. Our web archives are unparalleled in their quality and richness and…
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Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Librarian at University of Kansas
The Digital Humanities Librarian collaborates with faculty, staff, and students on the use of digital humanities (DH) scholarship, tools, and methods. Duties will include project consulting and development, working with course instructors to incorporate DH into the classroom, and providing training for faculty, staff, and students in digital humanities tools and methods. The position requires…
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Resource: Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
Over the past few years, the development of excellent self-paced tutorials and training materials for undertaking digital scholarship and data science in libraries have proliferated online. For library professionals who are relatively new to this area however, it can be hard to know where to begin! Without knowing a little bit about the context of…
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Editors’ Choice: Seeing Formalism or Formal Viewing: Computational Formalism for the Analysis of Visual Media Forms and Contexts
An ongoing debate is the epistemological stakes of computational methods in humanistic inquiry. What kind of evidence is a word embedding or face detection and what can it tell us? How do we account for nuances across cultural, temporal, and geographical frames when engaging in pattern recognition and identifying outliers? To what degree does the…