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DHNow Newsletter, January 28, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Samya Brata Roy, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author encourages debates over large language models (LLMs) to move past the question of their ability “to think.” The second selection considers the experience of incarcerated students in order to develop…
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CFP: 5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Potsdam 2026
The conference will take place as a hybrid event. Presentations and participation are possible both on site and virtually. Call for Papers: https://jcls.io/site/cfp/ Call for Posters: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2026/poster-call/ Dates: May 28-29, 2026 Venue: Potsdam See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: Unreasonable Effectiveness
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Salvaggio considers how a lot of current scholarship on LLMs is fixated on proving that they are conducting something “akin to thought.” He discusses a recent paper that tested the ability of LLMs to make sense of ‘Jabberwocky’ language in which most or all content words have been randomly replaced…
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Report: Fantastic Futures 2025: highlights and resources
In December, hundreds of library, museum, archive and research staff gathered in the British Library’s Knowledge Centre to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage. The 250 international participants onsite at the British Library Knowledge Centre, 3-5 December 2025 included dozens of presenters who delivered 16 workshops, 19 posters and…
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Resource: Florence University launches digital library showcasing rare historical materials
The University of Florence has unveiled Impronte Digitali (“Digital Imprints”), a new digital library designed to preserve and make accessible rare historical materials held in its libraries. The platform, developed by the University Library System, offers online access to more than 200,000 images representing around 4,000 digital objects. These are organized into 15 documentary collections,…
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Resource: The ZineArranger by Nash High
Arrange multi-page PDF files into a printable zine layout! Supports the following zine formats: Half Size, Quarter Size, Eighth Size / Minizine, 1/16th / Micro-Mini, 1/24th, 1/32nd, 1/36th, 1/48th, and 1/64th. With options for: Portrait/Landscape orientation, Single/Double sided printing (for Mini’s & Quarter Size), Side/Top fold (for Mini’s & Quarter Size), and Paper size (US…
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CFP: FILE – Electronic Language International Festival 2026
FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is now accepting project submissions and invites artists, researchers, creators, and developers to participate in its next edition. An international reference in the fields of art, technology, and innovation, FILE will take place in São Paulo from August 18 to October 11, 2026 at the FIESP Cultural Center, bringing…
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Editors’ Choice: Validity and Verifiability: Toward a Hybrid Framework for Evaluating Digital Humanities in India
Editors’ Summary: This article examines how DH scholarship in India is often undervalued because traditional systems value print-based research over digital, collaborative or public-facing work. Digital Curation, Metadata Creation, Multilingual Platform building are serious forms of intellectual labour that get overlooked in University Grants Commission frameworks. Within global debates of DH and local realities, this…
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Editors’ Choice: Digital Literacy Strategies to Prepare Incarcerated Students for Education and Work
Editors’ Summary: Here it is argued that digital literacy is not a luxury for incarcerated students but it is a basic requirement for meaningful education, employment, and social reintegration after release. In a world where applying for jobs, accessing services and learning is increasingly dependent on the digital, people in prisons are often left at…
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Announcement: A Faster Release Cycle for Zotero
Zotero 8, which we announced today, is a huge release, representing more than a year of development. It brings together a large number of new features, improvements, and internal changes that have been in progress for quite some time. Going forward, we’ll be changing how we manage Zotero releases, with the goal of getting stable…
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CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower
Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower emerges from this critical juncture in the humanities, where the decline in tenure-track positions and the rise of part-time and contingent roles necessitate explorations of the extensive career paths that are both meaningful and viable for DH scholars. Synthesizing recent advice-oriented monographs such as Katina Rogers’s Putting…
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Editors’ Choice: Marimo Notebooks
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Zach Butler highlights features of Marimo Notebooks, and demonstrates how Marimo is an improvement over Jupyter Notebooks. He points out how difficult Jupyter notebooks are to track by git, making version control and collaboration difficult. Unlike Jupyter notebooks, Marimo notebooks are actual Python files. The interface of the notebook opens…
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Resource: Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning
For some time, I’ve been gathering tools and activities to help me [introduce students to the mechanics of machine learning with neural nets]. (Things come and go so fast on the web that I have to do it every year!) It’s always a challenge to find high-quality tools, especially since they’re buried in layers and…
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DHNow Newsletter, January 21, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our first Editors’ Choice provides an assessment of Marimo Notebooks, a new tool similar to Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab. The second selection is a case study of agentic coding for text analysis of newspapers, highlighting the continued difficulty of OCR on newspapers. Our…