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CFP: Humanities and Social Sciences from the Perspective of Digital Humanities
The fourth annual Humanities and Social Sciences from the Perspective of Digital Humanities conference will take place on 5–6 November 2026 at the Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc. As in previous years, we are preparing an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the field of digital humanities, not only in literary studies…
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DHNow Newsletter, May 27, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a consideration of the tensions between historical place names and named entity recognition, a study comparing novels discussing public housing with lived experiences, and a discussion and guide for creating static sites using…
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Project: Kelmscott Chaucer Online | William Morris
The Kelmscott Chaucer Online allows you to explore what is widely considered to be the most beautiful book ever produced. The website contains all 87 wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, as well as the 18 frames, 14 borders, and 26 decorative words designed by William Morris for their final project together published in 1896. This…
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Opportunity: Nominations for TEI-C Elections
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and the Technical Council. The following positions are vacant and up for election: The elections will take place via online voting closing prior to the 2026 virtual Members’ Meeting in August. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: automated deploy with build-ghpages
Editors’ Summary: This post provides a helpful guide for using GitHub Pages to quickly deploy a static website. Because its service is free, GitHub Pages is a wonderful tool for researchers to build their personal and professional websites. GitHub Pages uses Jekyll, a static web generator, but this post shows users how to use 11ty,…
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Highlighted Feed: Red Humanidades Digitales
RedHD is an initiative to foster and support the formalization of Digital Humanities in Central and South America. Their objectives are to promote and strengthen communication among digital humanists in the region; the training of human resources; the development of documentation and best practices; the promotion of Digital Humanities projects; and the dissemination of events,…
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Report: Software Freedom as Civic Care
A discussion on how the Free Software movement is foundational to care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance. See full post.
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Event Announcement: Announcing the Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 in Barcelona
We at the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) are thrilled to announce today that the Call for Proposals of the inaugural “Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 – Shaping the Open Transition” is now open until 5 July 2026. The Symposium is the flagship initiative of our new Open Technology Research initiative, together with our partners…
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Editors’ Choice: From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
Editors’ Summary: This post addresses the potential value of examining co-occurrences between different types of named entities, in particular locations and people. Limiting analysis to spatial entities misses an opportunity to reflect how historical figures interacted with them. By integrating NER with co-occurrence analysis, this post shows how we can reach more meaningful NER results…
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Highlighted Feed: CEDHAR Center for Digital History Aarhus
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…
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Report: Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives
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…
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Project: Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities
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. …
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Opportunity: Humanitarian Archive Emergency Census
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…
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Job Announcement: Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communications Librarian at Macalester College
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…
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Event Announcement: Escuela de otoño 2026
Editors’ summary: This post announces the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) 2026 Autumn School, a five-session online intensive course running October 26–30 aimed at introducing participants to the theoretical, methodological, and practical foundations of Digital Humanities research. The course is notable for its deliberate centering of non-hegemonic and situated perspectives, particularly those emerging from Latin…
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Event Announcement: ACH Pre-Conference Workshops
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.