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DHNow Newsletter, March 18, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Samya Brata Roy, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice calls for the need to reconsider digital knowledge through the perspective of decolonial data narratives and oral history practices. The second selection considers the empowering possibilities of vibe-coding small scale digital history projects.…
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Resource: Waedeker: Wikipedia’s knowledge in a handy Baedeker format
Create a compact offline Wikipedia archive as a ZIM file for any region in the world – perfect for hiking, expeditions or areas without network coverage. See full post.
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Resource: AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH)
Cambridge’s GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, garden and museums) house millions of objects from across the globe, representing an unparalleled repository of cultural and natural history. However, challenges such as analogue formats, handwritten records, fragmented objects, multilingual sources and complex surfaces make much of this data difficult to access. To address these challenges, the AI…
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Report: What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI
I recently traveled to Kenya for a journalism and AI conference. While I was there, I really wanted to meet with Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association. Data Labeling is a huge job in Kenya. Data labelers are the people who train AI, and who also work on ensuring the…
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Job Announcement: Lecturer I at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer I position to teach sections of three introductory courses. For more information about our courses, please check here: https://lsa.umich.edu/computingfor/undergraduates/course-offerings.html This is a non-tenure track position.…
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Event Announcement: LUSTRE/GLOW Workshop 6: Government Records and AI
The workshop (April 20 – April 21) is organised as part of the LUSTRE/GLOW initiative, led by Professor Lise Jaillant and supported by Loughborough University, in collaboration with The National Archives and the UK Cabinet Office. Building on the earlier LUSTRE project, GLOW brings together researchers, government professionals, colleagues from across the GLAM sectors, and…
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Editors’ Choice: Transformers from Scratch
Editor’s Summary: This post provides a detailed explanation of how transformers work. Transformers in this context refers to a tool for sequence transduction (converting one sequence of symbols to another) an essential tool for natural language processing. The author provides a step by step discussion of how transformers work in terms of language, including many…
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Editors’ Choice: Vibing Digital History
Editors’ Summary: This post considers how generative AI has broken down the barrier to entry for doing digital history. The author argues that while AI is bad at doing history, it can enable historians to do good digital history. He acknowledges that in some instances code generated by AI immediately becomes technical debt, especially for…
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CFP: Call for ELO Conference Hosts 2027 & 2028
The Electronic Literature Organization invites expressions of interest from individuals and institutions interested in hosting the ELO Conference & Media Arts Show in 2027 and/or 2028. The ELO Conference is the centerpiece of our organization’s annual activities, bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners of electronic literature from around the world. The conference encompasses an academic…
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Editors’ Choice: OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital
Editors’ Summary: This article re-emphasizes a sense of Humanities criticality in DH from the perspective of Oral History and how that becomes even more crucial in the Global South. The author highlights the construction of an oral history archive on Partition. This position leans heavily on the works of Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, who redirects focus from…
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DHNow Newsletter, March 11, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Abirami Muthukumar, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice argues that the code that powers digital humanities research should be considered as an integral part of the scholarly output. The second selection highlights a project that combines interviews with geospatial data to assess…
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Editors’ Choice: Hidden Constellations
Editors’ Summary: This project combines oral history interviews, digital storytelling, and GIS to map Sapphic areas of New York City. The author begins by visualizing all of the bars in NYC, and identifying the four bars that are explicitly lesbian bars. The author encourages the reader to move beyond the idea of bars as the…
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Resource: A dh tutorial web app
A worsening problem I am having is an overall decline in basic digital literacy in my students. Since many of my classes turn on interrogating humanities materials with digital tools, or interrogating the digital from a humanities perspective (ie, DH!) this means I am spending ever more frustrating amounts of time just trying to get…
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Event Announcement: An Introduction to the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Toolkit
On March 18 at 1:00 PM EDT, eLabs will host a webinar that invites researchers to explore questions around the environmental impact of digital humanities work. The session draws on the approaches and resources developed by the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition (DHCC), a collaborative and cross-institutional initiative focused on understanding and minimizing the environmental impact…
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Resource: How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired
The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text. I started writing guides on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired people like me who have to guess what is in an image…
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Conference Announcement: Connecting Codes Conference
Connecting Codes brings together scholars, librarians, heritage professionals, technologists, and students to explore the evolving relationships between artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and information institutions, with a particular emphasis on African contexts and perspectives. The conference title reflects the work of connecting multiple kinds of “codes”: technical systems such as software, data, and AI models; cultural…