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CFP: NORA: The 3rd Workshop on KNOwledge GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay
Agents have experienced significant growth in recent years, largely due to the rapid technological advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs). Although these agents benefit from LLMs’ advanced generation proficiency, they still suffer from catastrophic forgetting and a limited context window size compared to the agents’ needs in terms of contextual information. Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are…
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Job Announcement: Research Assistants at the Transgender Media Lab
The Transgender Media Portal (TMP) is a website and database that aims to make audiovisual work by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people more available to artists, activists, researchers, instructors, and the public. In this position, you would help Carleton professor Laura Horak (Film Studies) and the Transgender Media Lab team build the…
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Editors’ Choice: Saving Tangible Media for Tomorrow: A Reflection from Natalie Nemes
Editors’ Summary: In “Saving Tangible Media for Tomorrow: A Reflection from Natalie Nemes,” published on the Library of Congress blog The Signal, 2026 Junior Fellow Natalie Nemes describes her work in the Library’s Tangible Media Project, which reformats at-risk carriers such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, and USB drives before decay, demagnetization, or equipment obsolescence…
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Resource: Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy
Editors’ Summary: In “Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy,” a Spanish-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Douglas McRae shows researchers how to start a Tropy project to manage digital images of their primary sources. Addressing the overload historians face when accumulating hundreds of archival photographs, McRae presents Tropy—a free, open-source tool developed by the Roy…
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Weekly Highlight: Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales
The Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (Argentine Association of Digital Humanities) is an open community of practice whose objective is to promote the research, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in the field of Digital Humanities, building bridges between different disciplines and lines of research. The association features publications, the podcast “Cinco preguntas a humanistas digitales,”…
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Report: Context Laundering and the Human Bottleneck in AI Research
Editors’ Summary: In “Context Laundering and the Human Bottleneck in AI Research,” Alex Reid examines a recent arXiv preprint showing that AI research agents can be poisoned through user-generated content on platforms like Reddit and Wikipedia. Reid draws two rhetorical implications: first, AI “launders” the questionable rhetorical contexts of such content, presenting it in an…
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DHNow Newsletter, July 22, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choice selections this week include a discussion of the difficulties in digitizing at-risk media, a critique of “vintage” AI models such as Talkie, and an article introducing a minimal computing approach to teaching Marx’s Capital. We have…
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Editors’ Choice: The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI
Editors’ Summary: In “The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI,” published on Active History, Jacob Polay, Chloë Farr, and Jessica Jack critique talkie, a language model trained exclusively on pre-1931 English-language print sources and marketed as both a forecasting experiment and a chatbot “from 1930.” The authors argue that…
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Report: 3D Digitisation Guidelines translated into multiple languages by EUreka3D-XR
Editors’ Summary: In “3D Digitisation Guidelines translated into multiple languages by EUreka3D-XR,” published on Digital Meets Culture, the EUreka3D-XR project announces that its 3D Digitisation Guidelines: Steps to Success is now available in Catalan, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, and Spanish. Aimed at cultural heritage professionals digitising collections in three dimensions, the guidelines simplify the standards…
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Editors’ Choice: Making Marx More Readable: A Minimal Computing Approach to a Community-Driven Edition of Capital Vol. 1
Editors’ Summary: In “Making Marx More Readable: A Minimal Computing Approach to a Community-Driven Edition of Capital Vol. 1,” published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Steven Gotzler and Avery Wiscomb present MARXdown, a minimal digital reading edition of Marx’s Capital Vol. 1, as a retrospective case study in applying minimal computing principles to community-driven DH projects.…
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DHNow Newsletter, June 15, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Welcome to the first themed issue of DHNow! Our guest editor, Zhihui Zou, has compiled an issue focused on data management and visualization. All three of our Editors’ Choice posts reflect this thematic focus, including an article highlighting best…
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Weekly Highlight: The Pudding
The Pudding is a digital publisher which produces data journalism for storytelling. Articles in the publication are visual essays which emphasize data visualizations and use fewer words than conventional journalism. The publication does not have central editorial planning, and instead invites its journalists to publish according to their interests and expertise. While not a formal…
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Opportunity: BCHDP Early Notice Survey
This survey is for prospective applicants of the British Columbia History Digitization Program grant. By filling out and submitting the following information, you signal your organization’s intent to apply for a BCHDP grant in the upcoming cycle and your interest in seeking additional support. In an effort to bolster BCHDP’s commitment to building capacity and…
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CFP: MUM 2026: 25th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
MUM 2026, the 25th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Glasgow, United Kingdaom, December 1st –4th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such…
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Report: Strengthening DataCite Infrastructure for DSpace Communities: Welcoming PCG Academia as a New Registered Service Provider
PCG Academia and DataCite are pleased to announce that PCG Academia is now a DataCite Registered Service Provider, strengthening DataCite infrastructure among DSpace communities and users. The DataCite Registered Service Providers (RSP) Program strengthens the global research ecosystem by enabling trusted partners to deliver DataCite services locally and at scale. DataCite RSPs help institutions adopt…
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Editors’ Choice: Mozilla AI at Internet Archive Europe: Owning Your AI Stack
Editors’ Summary: This post reviews a conversation between researchers from Mozilla AI and Internet Archive Europe on computing infrastructure dependency. For digital humanists, we use cloud-based systems on a daily basis, whether that is to store research data, digitized primary sources, machine learning models, etc. As seen in events like AWS’s major outage in the…