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CFP: Black Information Futures Symposium (February 21-23, 2026) – CALMA – Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives
The Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) at the University of Washington Information School invites proposals for participation in the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, to be held on February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. The Black Information Futures Symposium seeks to create an expansive, interdisciplinary space for archivists, librarians, cultural heritage…
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Editors’ Choice: Linguistic Tools in Musical Stylometry
In this paper, we investigate the applicability of linguistic stylometry methods to authorship attribution in music. We compare the use of delta methods involving the the analysis of token frequencies with static embeddings generated by distributional semantic models (Word2Vec and Doc2Vec) for the stylometry analysis of music using a symbolic representation. For this purpose, a…
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Editors’ Choice: There’s no excuse for journals to require formatting
Disha suggests using formatting as a screening tool only serves as a barrier to wider participation in academic publishing. Formatting rules for academic journals have been a pain point for academics for decades [Note. a discussion and potential solution for these issues raised on this blog in 2017]. A 2019 study also found that researchers…
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Job Announcement: Newspaper Digitization Project Manager at Stanford University
Stanford Libraries is seeking a full-time Newspaper Digitization Project Manager to join the Directors Office for a fixed term position, potentially to September 2031. Working closely with Collection Development managers, International and Area Studies Curators, East Asia Library Bibliographers and staff, Technical Services managers, Facilities staff, Digital Production Group managers, Hoover Institution Archives and Library…
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Announcement: HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2026 | ARDC
The Summer School aims to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS), and Indigenous fields of study. Participants will collaborate in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts. Over 2 days, participants will be involved…
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Report: Q&A: In the AI age, why are the humanities still relevant?
A growing number of college students across the country are shunning the liberal arts in favor of majors in business, engineering, health and science. Some might be chasing higher salaries, while others see the nation’s rapid shift to AI technology as a forecast of the job market they’ll enter. At the University of Virginia over…
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CFP: EADH Conference 2026 – “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders” | EADH – The European Association for Digital Humanities
The EADH 2026 conference will take place from 15 to 19 September 2026 at Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), and is co-organized by the Digital Humanities Lab of the Jagiellonian University and the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Under the theme “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”, the event invites…
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Editors’ Choice: The Joyful Chaos of the Early Web: A Conversation with Creator Audrey Witters
Audrey Witters remembers the creativity of the early web. When she was launching her career in the mid-1990s, being online was more about exploring and having fun than figuring out how to make a return on investment. Witters said if you were curious about someone’s web page, you could simply click to see their code…
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DHNow in Review: 2025
Digital Humanities Now will be taking a break from December 24 until January 7, but before we go, we’d like to take the time to review 2025. DHNow was relaunched this year, after a four-year hiatus, from its new home in Northeastern University Library! The relaunched DHNow is generously supported by Digital Scholar. This relaunch…
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CFP: Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 – SADiLaR
The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a…
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Editors’ Choice: Seeing Old Science
AI’s writing ability has gotten all the attention in campus discussions. But AI’s ability to see is just as big a deal. In my series on vibe coding, for example, I noted that AI’s killer feature is its ability to see what’s on your screen (via a screenshot or direct browser access through something like…
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CFP: LACDH Symposium – Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium
The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and the Transborder DH Center and Consortium (TBDH) at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) will host the fourth annual Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium from September 8-10, 2026, in person at UT San Antonio. The symposium…
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Editors’ Choice: Recent Experiments in Teaching with and about AI
This fall I facilitated a reading group for the book Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT by Dan Levy and Angela Pérez Albertos. I like that the book is so incredibly practical, with dozens of examples how instructors and students use generative AI to support teaching and learning. The authors are keenly aware that AI use can…
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CFP: Programming Historian Call for Proposals (English edition)
The English edition of Programming Historian seeks proposals for new original lessons or translations to be considered for publication in 2026. Submissions Open: 15 November 2025Submissions Close: 15 February 2026A Programming Historian lesson is a learn-by-doing resource that empowers readers to develop new, practical knowledge of a computational method or digital tool. Our aim is…
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Editors’ Choice: Mind the Language Gap in Digital Humanities: LLM-Aided Translation of SKOS Thesauri
We introduce WOKIE, an open-source, modular, and ready-to-use pipeline for the automated translation of SKOS thesauri. This work addresses a critical need in the Digital Humanities (DH), where language diversity can limit access, reuse, and semantic interoperability of knowledge resources. WOKIE combines external translation services with targeted refinement using Large Language Models (LLMs), balancing translation…
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Resource: Textcavator renewed: new name, new upload feature, and new corpora
I-Analyzer is now called Textcavator, a name that better reflects the flagship tool of the CDH Research Software Lab (RSLab). In addition to the new name, the RSLab is introducing an upload feature for adding your own datasets, as well as several new corpora. The Centre for Digital Humanities spoke with scientific developer Luka van…