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DHNow Newsletter, November 26, 2025
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice are focused on questions of digital space and place. The first Editors’ Choice is a blog post about a crowdsourcing project to georeference a collection of digitized maps. Georeferencing allows historical…
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Job Announcement: American Museum of Natural History Portal | Digital Media Asset Manager
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition. The Communications department is seeking a full-time Digital Media…
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Job Announcement: Digitization Coordinator – Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
The Digitization Specialist undertakes digitization projects for Chester Fritz Library and its patrons, producing high-quality digital versions of analog documents and materials. They will manage the day-to-day tasks necessary to accomplish these projects, including gathering the materials to digitize, planning and executing the digitization process, training and supervising student workers performing digitization tasks, tracking progress…
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Report: Version Control as a Mindset: Lessons From Collaborative Digital Making
In this post, I want to reflect on what version control has come to mean for me, especially through my experiences working on two collaborative digital projects: Reframing Collections: From Geographic Generalizations to Cultural Context and Mapping East Lansing Memories. Both projects have been meaningful in completely different ways, but together they have reshaped how…
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Resource: Universal Viewer
The Universal Viewer (UV) is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your content with the world. The UV software can also play audio and video files, display 3D files, PDFs and more. You can try it for yourself at universalviewer.io. You can see the Universal Viewer displaying different types…
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Resource: DE-BIAS project: decoding antisemitic cliches in cultural heritage collections | Europeana PRO
The DE-BIAS tool, developed as a part of the DE-BIAS project, aims to create and detect a vocabulary of problematic language in the metadata of cultural heritage institutions. Researcher Inna Kizhner shares the work undertaken to identify and flag antisemitic language in cultural heritage collections. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient
Scholars have provided various perspectives on how Europe historically perceived the Orient, such as Said (1978) with his ground-breaking work Orientalism, as well as Ballaster (2005) and Osterhammel (2018). Moreover, despite this enormous literature on Orientalism, most studies remain limited to specific, well-known texts such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Baktır 2014; Lowe 1991). Additionally,…
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Editors’ Choice: Turning the SLV’s maps into data with Allmaps and some GLAM plumbing
[My project is] turning all the State Library of Victoria’s digitised maps into data. I’ve just created a workflow that uses AllMaps and IIIF to georeference the SLV’s digitised maps. There’s some technical details below, but the idea is pretty simple. A userscript links the SLV image viewer to Allmaps – so you just click…
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Editors’ Choice: Meet the Archives Fellow Enriching the Historical Record of Women in the Physical Sciences
In July 2025, AIP started an initiative to improve the documentation and contributions of women in the physical sciences. With the help of the Henry Luce Foundation, the project is underway and I will be working as the newly minted Archives Fellow. As the fellow, I am tasked with improving the historical record of women…
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Resource: Tutankamun Spatial Archive: Anatomy of an Excavation
The Tutankhamun (TAA) Archive is the most significant collection held by the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford. It preserves the complete archaeological records of Howard Carter and his team’s ten-year excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, including maps, plans, object cards, drawings, journals, diaries, notes, correspondence, and Harry Burton’s iconic photographs. Today the…
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Report: The Digital Humanities Tech Symposium Proceedings are Published!
We are pleased to announce that the proceedings from the Digital Humanities Tech Symposium 2025 have been published! The Digital Humanities Tech Symposium was a one-day workshop organized by DHTech and held at the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) 2025 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. These proceedings are the first-ever official publication from a DHTech…
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Job Announcement: Information Technology Manager at Boston Athenaeum
The Information Technology Manager oversees the small but dynamic Information Technology Department that manages and maintains the Athenæum’s computers, networks, servers, and cloud-based systems. The Information Technology Manager also keeps abreast of new technologies and implements those to ensure better and more secure systems. Reporting to the Director of Business Operations & Augusta Thomas Director…
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Announcement: Looking Back on Our Shared Digital History: “The Web We’ve Built” Mini-Doc
To help people connect with the Internet Archive’s celebration of 1 trillion web pages preserved, they have created “The Web We’ve Built,” a cinematic reflection on how humanity came together to build, shape, and now safeguard the web. From the crackle of a dial-up modem to the galaxy of pages preserved in the Wayback Machine, the film traces our shared…
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Editors’ Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton
Meredith Martin, Professor of English and CDH Faculty Director, and Wouter Haverals, CDH Postdoctoral Research Associate, have published a pre-print revealing a striking pattern: both humans and AI systems show strong bias based on perceived authorship rather than actual content quality. The researchers built a dataset of stylistic rewrites inspired by Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in…
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Editors’ Choice: Data Visualization & Affective Computing. Design That Manipulates Emotions or Design That Helps Reflect on Emotions?
Emotions are complex. They are not feelings nor are they desires. I’ll define emotions as a biopsychological process that happens inside the body and is an information-processing tool. I heard emotions being opposed to rationality—by some coincidence, pretty often in a sexist logic. But it’s quite the opposite, and emotions matter in effective decision-making. The…
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Editors’ Choice: The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines
For the past several months, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around why AI-writing loves lists. Here is what I mean by lists, as a human might write them: My favorite fruits are concord grapes, ruby red plums, raspberries, nectarines, and mangos…AI writing does something similar—sorta, kinda, almost, somewhat—to this but it doesn’t feel…