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DHNow Newsletter, December 3, 2025
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Abirlal Mukherjee, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice selections are concerned with text analysis. The first Editors’ Choice is an article that discusses how large language models have improved handwritten character recognition. Handwritten text has long been the biggest…
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CFP: DH2026 “Engagement”
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026. Our theme, “Engagement,” highlights our commitment to fostering meaningful connections—both among diverse communities and between humans and emerging technologies. It emphasizes vibrancy in community interactions and critical reflection…
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Resource: Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts | Zine Bakery
A 20-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Amanda Wyatt Visconti and Shane Lin. “Absolute Unit”: An entity exceedingly pleasing to the eye & soul by virtue of unusual-for-its-kind square or stocky dimensions. Absolute Units are exemplars of: stability! solidity! abundance! confidence! A model for insisting we deserve at-homeness in our world. A righteous & unbothered…
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Job Announcement: Online Resources Librarian at Drexel University
Reporting to the Manager of Library Information and Technology Services, the Librarian manages the Acquisitions program which provides access to the Libraries’ owned and licensed resources. This program is responsible for the ordering and processing of electronic resources for the Drexel University Libraries, including some tools and services to manage them. The Librarian also oversees…
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Announcement: DH Benelux 2026
We’re pleased to announce that the 13th edition of the DH Benelux Conference will take place in Maastricht at Maastricht University. The annual DH Benelux Conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects. We’re excited…
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Editors’ Choice: Crowdsourcing Science Memory Before the Web: 1932, 1969, & Today
In April 1969, Physics Today published a photograph of the American Physical Society’s 1932 banquet at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City. The striking group portrait, dense with faces, was paired with an open call to readers: How many diners can you name and locate? This was more than just a photo caption challenge. It…
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Editors’ Choice: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Handwritten Text Recognition
Traditional machine learning models for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) rely on supervised training, requiring extensive manual annotations, and often produce errors due to the separation between layout and text processing. In contrast, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer a general approach to recognizing diverse handwriting styles without the need for model-specific training. The study benchmarks…
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Report: Open Data Editor in Action: Interrogating Data for Investigative Journalism in Mexico
For investigative journalists, data is a source to be questioned, a witness to be interrogated. In Mexico, the agency Data Crítica uses data to uncover critical public health stories. Their challenge is not just analysing data, but first assessing its reliability. They have integrated the Open Data Editor into the core of their methodology, using…
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Editors’ Choice: Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic diversity, particularly from the Global South, for a predominantly Anglophone student body. How do I invite students to critically examine the Anglophone bias underlying much of DH theory and practice without necessarily depending on the…
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DHNow Newsletter, November 26, 2025
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice are focused on questions of digital space and place. The first Editors’ Choice is a blog post about a crowdsourcing project to georeference a collection of digitized maps. Georeferencing allows historical…
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Job Announcement: American Museum of Natural History Portal | Digital Media Asset Manager
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition. The Communications department is seeking a full-time Digital Media…
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Job Announcement: Digitization Coordinator – Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
The Digitization Specialist undertakes digitization projects for Chester Fritz Library and its patrons, producing high-quality digital versions of analog documents and materials. They will manage the day-to-day tasks necessary to accomplish these projects, including gathering the materials to digitize, planning and executing the digitization process, training and supervising student workers performing digitization tasks, tracking progress…
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Report: Version Control as a Mindset: Lessons From Collaborative Digital Making
In this post, I want to reflect on what version control has come to mean for me, especially through my experiences working on two collaborative digital projects: Reframing Collections: From Geographic Generalizations to Cultural Context and Mapping East Lansing Memories. Both projects have been meaningful in completely different ways, but together they have reshaped how…
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Resource: Universal Viewer
The Universal Viewer (UV) is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your content with the world. The UV software can also play audio and video files, display 3D files, PDFs and more. You can try it for yourself at universalviewer.io. You can see the Universal Viewer displaying different types…
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Resource: DE-BIAS project: decoding antisemitic cliches in cultural heritage collections | Europeana PRO
The DE-BIAS tool, developed as a part of the DE-BIAS project, aims to create and detect a vocabulary of problematic language in the metadata of cultural heritage institutions. Researcher Inna Kizhner shares the work undertaken to identify and flag antisemitic language in cultural heritage collections. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient
Scholars have provided various perspectives on how Europe historically perceived the Orient, such as Said (1978) with his ground-breaking work Orientalism, as well as Ballaster (2005) and Osterhammel (2018). Moreover, despite this enormous literature on Orientalism, most studies remain limited to specific, well-known texts such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Baktır 2014; Lowe 1991). Additionally,…