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DHNow Newsletter, February 4, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abi Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the author considers the growing problem of zombie citations, or fake citations constructed by generative AI. The second selection attempts to chronicle the origins of the field of digital archaeology. Our third selection…
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Job Announcement: Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data Job Details
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data for a fixed-term period of 36 months, starting in May 2026. This position is based at the Multimodality Research Group in the Department of Languages and funded by…
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Report: PhD Research on Digital Heritage Preservation: from Roman Castulo to the Alhambra
Factum Foundation collaborated on the PhD thesis carried out by Ana Carrasco Huertas at the University of Granada, co-supervised by Víctor Medina (University of Granada) and Carlos Bayod Lucini (Factum Foundation). The research was defended on 30 January 2026 and focuses on the study, digitisation, and virtual reconstruction of three groups of decorative architectural surfaces…
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Editors’ Choice: A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology
Editors’ Summary: This post attempts to provide a history of the origins of digital archaeology, with the author acknowledging the relative lack of attention given to the field’s past. He notes similar challenges in pinning down precise origins for the field of digital humanities. The author highlights scholarship from throughout the twentieth century to determine…
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CFP: AI through History, History through AI
June 15, 2026 – June 16, 2026 | University of Luxembourg The Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around Artificial Intelligence in the historical disciplines. Generative AI has emerged as a transformative tool in historical research, serving as a method to answer historical questions, a means to streamline historians’ workflows, or…
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Editors’ Choice: Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation | code acts in education
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author considers the growing problem of ‘zombie citations’, or citations that may have been “hallucinated” or constructed by generative AI. He uses an example of a reference to an article that he never wrote, and traces the citations of it through Google Scholar. Williamson demonstrates how the non-existent paper…
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Report: British Library boss: We’re still healing emotionally from 2023 hack
Jeremy Silver had been enjoying his retirement when he was asked to take the helm of the beleaguered British Library three months ago. Silver, a tech entrepreneur and investor, had been a trustee of the library since 2019. He had a front-row seat for its crippling by the hacking group Rhysida in October 2023, which…
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CFP: ELO 2026 (Un)Supervised Conference
The next Electronic Literature Organization conference, ELO 2026, will be held online. This year’s event will continue ELO’s tradition of bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners of electronic literature from around the world. For preliminary details and updates, visit the conference site: https://anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/. The theme of ELOnline 2026 is (Un)Supervised. One interpretation of this might…
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Announcement: New ‘Create Impactful Infographics’ seminars for 2026
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives Learn how to approach data-visualisation and infographic creation from an editorial ‘conceptual’ point of view, rather than a data POV. May be useful if you are:› Translating written reports, research & messaging into visual graphics› Wanting to understand data journalism and story-telling with data› A words…
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Editors’ Choice: Designing for discovery: using web maps in the digital humanities
Editors’ Summary: This article examines how common web-mapping tools such as Google Maps, Leaflet and OpenStreetMap are used in the Digital Humanities, arguing that their default design choices shape interpretation and should be chosen intentionally. The author distinguishes between maps used for visual analysis (revealing spatial patterns) and those used for discovery (serving as gateways…
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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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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…