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DHNow Newsletter, May 13, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a two-part post using text analysis to better understand the emotional language of Fatimid Geniza petitions and a post that considers the scholarly utility of ‘vintage LLMs’ such as Talkie-1930. We have also included conferences, job announcements, reports, projects…
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Highlighted Feed: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) News
SHARP News is a free, open-access online publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). SHARP is a global scholarly society focused on the histories of material texts. While this sometimes means “book history,” the purview of SHARP is much broader, including the digital transformation of current publishing, the roles…
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Job Announcement: Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication Specialist at Boston College
The Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Specialist (the Specialist) supports the creation, curation, and long-term preservation of digital projects and collections. The incumbent builds digital collections, collects and promotes the Law School’s intellectual output, develops websites and applications for the Library and the Law School, and works with the Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Librarian…
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Project: Enslaved Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles, 1760s-1860s
The information in the dataset is extracted from newspapers across the region of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles, for the purpose of this dataset, begin with the Virgin Islands, extend south to Barbados, Grenada, and Tobago, and circle west towards Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (see fig. 1). Researchers knowledgeable about Caribbean history will recognize…
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Tool: TALL (Text Analysis for ALL)
TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for Natural Language Processing, enabling researchers without extensive programming skills to perform sophisticated text analyses through an intuitive graphical interface. TALL integrates state-of-the-art NLP techniques — tokenization, lemmatization, Part-of-Speech tagging,…
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Conference: The AI-BRIDGES Symposium: Bridging Institutions, Open Knowledge, and AI
Institutional data is rich, carefully curated and of immense public value, yet it remains difficult to share, connect and reuse at scale. Open knowledge platforms like Wikidata have shown what’s possible when data is structured and collaboratively maintained, but contributing to them remains hard. At the same time, AI-based platforms are rapidly reshaping how knowledge…
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Report: Frankencitations Ravage the Academic Countryside
An interview with an academic who has seen their impact up close and personal. Ben Williamson of the University of Edinburgh has been tracking the phenomenon because of a very personal experience with Frankencitations. I asked him some questions about what’s going on and what he thinks we should do about it. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: Are “Vintage LLMs” the start of a new humanistic field?
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author discusses the rise of a new field called ‘Historical Language Models’ or ‘Vintage LLMs.’ The largest such model to date, Talkie-1930, was released to the public on April 27. He argues that language models should be seen as historical texts themselves, and history is inherent to what LLMs…
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Editors’ Choice: The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions
Editors’ Summary: This two-part selection seeks to better understand and categorize the expressions found in the Fatimid Geniza petitions, a rich primary source for historians of the Mediterranean in the 10th century. The study asks: how are emotional registers distributed across the formal parts of Fatimid petitions? Part one provides context and outlines the methodology…
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Conference: Fourth IJCAI Workshop on Computational Fair Division
The Fourth IJCAI Workshop on Computational Fair Division will be co-located with IJCAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany, 15.08.26 – 17.08.26. It will be a full-day workshop. See full post.
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Report: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history. The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at risk—in digital form—of…
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Report: Mapping the U.S. AI Policy Landscape
We are building a comprehensive map of the individuals and groups with the potential to shape AI policy in the United States. The goal is to produce a structured, shareable, and dynamic resource that identifies who is working on what, where the gaps are, and which partnerships might form across ideological and organizational lines. The…
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Job Announcement: Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies
The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Digital Studies program. The fellowship is open to scholars from all…
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Job Announcement: Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities Job Details
The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki invite applications for the position of research fellow (university researcher) or postdoctoral researcher in the area of trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities for a fixed term period 1 January 2027 – 31 December 2030. The Faculty of Humanities and…
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DHNow Newsletter, May 6, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a post calling for historians to make use of emerging technologies and embrace larger scale arguments. We have also included conferences, job announcements, reports, and tools, including a tool for reimagining remote research.