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  • Editors’ Choice: The Cost of Open by Default in the AI Era

    Editors’ Summary: This selection grapples with the difficulties of maintaining open access in the era of AI. The author identifies four ways that generative AI has affected open access resources: the intellectual harvest of cultural heritage, the infrastructure tax, the harvesting of physical collections, and the erosion of trust. She focuses on the erosion of…

  • Job Announcement: Supervisory Digital Collections Specialist at Library of Congress

    The position serves as a Supervisory Librarian in the Digital Collections Workflow Section (DCW), Digital Collections Management & Services Division (DCMS), Digital Services Directorate (DSD), Discovery & Preservation Services (DPS) within the Library Collections and Services Group (LCSG) at the Library of Congress (LOC). The Supervisory Librarian reports directly to the Section Head and is…

  • Editors’ Choice: The marionette theater of AI

    Editors’ Summary: This post considers the growing phenomenon of what the author deems ‘stateful AI agents’ on social media. In this context, stateful means that the systems are not frozen, or the AI’s state can change. The rise of Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, has brought more media attention to the practice,…

  • Resource: AI Preparedness Guidelines for Archivists

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now a regular topic of conversation in archives. Managers and stakeholders are asking whether AI can speed up description, identify sensitive content, or provide new forms of access. This document offers practical guidance on how to prepare archival collections for AI in ways that remain true to archival principles and ethical…

  • Resource: Extracting Keywords from Crowdsourced Collections Project

    Extracting Keywords from Crowdsourced Collections was a Digital Scholarship @ Oxford (DiSc) Research Development Grant-funded project based in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. Using the Their Finest Hour Online Archive, a digital collection of 2,000+ records and 26,000+ files related to the Second World War, as a case study, this project…

  • Editors’ Choice: User Experience (UX) Heuristics for the Digital Humanities

    Editor’s Summary: This article argues that user experience (UX) practices are crucial yet often under-utilized and overlooked in digital humanities (DH) projects because conventional UX methods don’t align well with the complexity of humanities content. To address this challenge, the authors introduce a set of ten UX heuristics aimed at improving accessibility and audience engagement.…

  • DHNow Newsletter, February 11, 2026

    This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author grapples with the tension between open access and AI bot scraping. The second selection also considers AI, specifically theorizing on the rise of AI bot social media accounts. Our third selection…

  • Job Announcement: Digital Archivist at National Library of Ireland

    The Digital Archivist will play a key role in growing the BDA Team’s capacity and capability toacquire, preserve and provide access to born digital archival material that is a record ofcontemporary Irish life. Core tasks will include pre-acquisition assessment, rights-management, collection analysis, processing, arranging and description. The role will involvedirect engagement with donors and creators…

  • Opportunity: Call for Hosts, DH2029

    The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites proposals to host the Digital Humanities Conference in 2029. Digital Humanities (DH) is ADHO’s annual international conference. ADHO’s constituent organizations are the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) the Canadian Society…

  • DHNow Newsletter, February 4, 2026

    This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author considers the growing problem of zombie citations, or fake citations constructed by generative AI. The second selection attempts to chronicle the origins of the field of digital archaeology. Our third selection…

  • Job Announcement: Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data Job Details

    The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data for a fixed-term period of 36 months, starting in May 2026. This position is based at the Multimodality Research Group in the Department of Languages and funded by…

  • Report: PhD Research on Digital Heritage Preservation: from Roman Castulo to the Alhambra

    Factum Foundation collaborated on the PhD thesis carried out by Ana Carrasco Huertas at the University of Granada, co-supervised by Víctor Medina (University of Granada) and Carlos Bayod Lucini (Factum Foundation). The research was defended on 30 January 2026 and focuses on the study, digitisation, and virtual reconstruction of three groups of decorative architectural surfaces…

  • Editors’ Choice: A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology

    Editors’ Summary: This post attempts to provide a history of the origins of digital archaeology, with the author acknowledging the relative lack of attention given to the field’s past. He notes similar challenges in pinning down precise origins for the field of digital humanities. The author highlights scholarship from throughout the twentieth century to determine…

  • CFP: AI through History, History through AI

    June 15, 2026 – June 16, 2026 | University of Luxembourg The Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around Artificial Intelligence in the historical disciplines. Generative AI has emerged as a transformative tool in historical research, serving as a method to answer historical questions, a means to streamline historians’ workflows, or…

  • Editors’ Choice: Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation | code acts in education

    Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author considers the growing problem of ‘zombie citations’, or citations that may have been “hallucinated” or constructed by generative AI. He uses an example of a reference to an article that he never wrote, and traces the citations of it through Google Scholar. Williamson demonstrates how the non-existent paper…

  • Report: British Library boss: We’re still healing emotionally from 2023 hack

    Jeremy Silver had been enjoying his retirement when he was asked to take the helm of the beleaguered British Library three months ago. Silver, a tech entrepreneur and investor, had been a trustee of the library since 2019. He had a front-row seat for its crippling by the hacking group Rhysida in October 2023, which…

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