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Editors’ Choice: From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives
Editors’ Summary: Tiziana Pascuito’s “From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships” uses a case study of Arabic manuscripts to highlight the utility of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, a cultural heritage ontology that allows for dynamic networks. The author demonstrates how traditional approaches classify documents into separate compartments, such as “Astronomy.” Using an ontology based…
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Editors’ Choice: A New Tool to Measure Machine-Generated Transcript Accuracy: The Transcript Accuracy Auditor
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Douglas A. Boyd introduces an open-source tool for comparing the accuracy of machine-generated transcriptions to determine which is best suited for your project. His tool, the Transcript Accuracy Auditor, compares a machine‑generated transcript to a human‑corrected reference of the same interview and provides a score for WIP (Word Information Preserved)…
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Announcement: TEI-C Survey on Membership and Activities
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium is conducting a survey concerning membership and activities of the consortium. You do not need to be a member to answer it. The TEI Consortium is a non-profit membership organization. All income it receives goes back into the activities of the Consortium. This includes expenses such as a subvention…
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Editors’ Choice: Rewiring Digital Humanities through an Ethics of Ecological Care
Editors’ Summary: In this paper, the authors challenge the field of Digital Humanities’ current reliance on environmentally damaging digital infrastructures. They call for a fundamental transformation of the field through the adoption of an ethics of ecological care. This paper critiques DH’s complicity in extractive practices and digital techno-solutionism, and proposes a potential solution. Their…
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DHNow Newsletter, January 7, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice critiques DH for its entanglement with environmentally damaging digital infrastructures and asserts that DH is not neutral in the climate crisis. The authors propose a new framework that would reframe DH as a field in relation to the environment. The…
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Opportunity: OAH Digital History Reviews
Digital History Reviews appear quarterly in the Journal of American History, offering assessments on digital history projects that enhance and expand our understanding of and access to American history scholarship and resources. See full post.
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Resource: Responsible Datasets in Context
Understanding the social and historical context of data is essential for all responsible data work. We host datasets that are paired with rich documentation, data essays, and teaching resources, all of which draw on context and humanities perspectives and methods. We provide models for responsible data curation, documentation, story-telling, and analysis. Learn more about our…
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Announcement: Douglass Day 2026
Join us for Douglass Day 2026! Every Valentine’s Day, we invite you to a birthday party for Frederick Douglass. Although Douglass never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14th. We celebrate this date as a moment for creating Black history together. How can I get involved? See full post.
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Report: Welcome to the Public Domain in 2026
On January 1, 2026, we celebrate published works from 1930 and published sound recordings from 1925 entering the public domain! Their arrival marks another chapter in our shared cultural heritage: the freedom to breathe new life into overlooked works, remix enduring classics, and circulate the oddities we discover in thrift stores, family attics, and forgotten…
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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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…