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Resource: DHCC Project Self-Assessment Tool (v1.0)
This self-assessment tool is intended to support Digital Humanities practitioners, researchers, technicians, curators, software engineers, and related professionals seeking to embed environmental sustainability into their project design, delivery, and reporting. In line with the EPSRC AREA framework for responsible research and innovation, the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition recommends using the tool to reflect on how…
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Editors’ Choice: Breath in DH
Editors’ Summary: This post responds to a Scholars’ Lab post (“Breadth and Depth, a Self-Centered Dialectic”) that discussed breadth and depth as two approaches to digital humanities professional development. This framing places DH careers on two axes, one where the expectation is to know little about a lot of things and the other where the…
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Report: Digital Humanities 2025: Book of Abstracts
The call for papers was launched on the 20th of September 2024, with submissions accepted until the 8th of December 2024 (after an extended deadline). It was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese thanks to the collaboration of several colleagues from the Program Committee and the Local Organizing Committee. The motto “Building…
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CFP: Human-AI Co-Creativity @ ICML 2026
Recent advances in large generative models have turned AI agents into everyday companions. Millions of people now rely on them across domains from design and communication to science and education. These advances offer unprecedented opportunities to support people in open-ended domains by providing a medium for brainstorming ideas, exploring design choices, and thereby improving their…
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Resource: Timeline of African American Music
The Timeline of African American Music represents decades of scholarship conducted and led by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby, a pioneer in the study of African American music, as well as the contributions of numerous scholars. From the earliest folk traditions to present-day popular music, the timeline is a detailed view of the evolution of African…
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Editors’ Choice: Forming Your Corpus
Editors’ Summary: This post from the Data-Sitters Club provides a helpful orientation to corpus building for newcomers to DH. This is a part of their spinoff series: Data-Sitters Little TL;DR, where they offer key ideas and takeaways for people interested in digital humanities. The post details the legality of using text as data under Fair…
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CFP: Digitorium Conference
Deadline: June 15 In 2026, Digitorium is focused on the theme of Preserve. As Digital Humanists, we engage in so many levels of preservation, and we want to make space to explore and document that work. Digital Humanities is a field committed to uncovering and preserving culture and society that is hidden. Sometimes hidden means…
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Resource: DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI
This workshop guides humanities scholars through the emerging landscape of agentic coding—building functional tools and applications through collaboration with AI, rather than writing code from scratch. We begin with Claude Artifacts for rapid prototyping and Claude Code Web for browser-based development, then transition to the Claude Code CLI for the remainder of the week. Participants…
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DHNow Newsletter, April 15, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an excellent overview of corpus building that is a useful pedagogical resource, and also a post that considers the dichotomy of breadth and depth as approaches to digital humanities professional development. We have also included CFPs, reports, and…
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DHNow Newsletter, April 8, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week address misconceptions surrounding ADA Title II, consider the theoretical frameworks that undergird mapping practices in DH, and highlights a new mobile tool for visualizing archival documents using AR. We also have multiple CFPs,…
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Editors’ Choice: Introducing Booksnake: A Scholarly App for Transforming Existing Digitized Archival Materials into Life-Size Virtual Objects for Embodied Interaction in Physical Space, using IIIF and Augmented Reality
Editors’ Summary: This paper introduces a new mobile app named “Booksnake” that takes a unique approach toward using immersive technology in the humanities. It allows users to display archival materials virtually through projecting a piece of archival document to the user’s surrounding environment via a phone camera. The authors both present theoretical engagement on how…
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Editors’ Choice: Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material | Open Maps Meeting
Editors’ Summary: This working paper from the Open Maps Meeting in 2024 showcases the various methodologies and research frameworks adopted by projects involving GIS, spatial mapping, and other technologies. The paper points out that “the digital turn has fostered a spatial one,” which is an important reminder for the DH community to critically engage with…
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Resource: Wyrm – Citation Network Explorer
Recently, I’ve had a number of students wrestling with the challenges of scoping a field, pulling together a literature review, and trying to determine how different pieces might be in conversation with each other. I used to sometimes sit students down with Ed Summer’s old ‘Etudier’ package which was great; but Google Scholar doesn’t really…
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Resource: Data Visualization with Textiles
This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles. I have taught a class by that name at Stanford every spring since 2023. It began as a funder mandate: in exchange for internal grant money to pay for student staff and supplies, we were encouraged to offer…
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Report: Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding
The results of vibe coding have been far from what early enthusiasts promised. Well-known software developer Armin Ronacher powerfully described some of the issues with AI coding agents. “When [I first got] hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and…
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CFP: L. DENNIS SHAPIRO AND SUSAN R. SHAPIRO DIGITAL HISTORY SEMINAR
The Shapiro Digital History Seminar at the MHS will introduce audiences to the inner workings of in-progress projects that depend on digital methods, such as the translation of analog primary sources to a digital format, the use of computational tools for research and analysis of historical data, and the creation of “publications” in any form…