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Highlighted Feed: CEDHAR Center for Digital History Aarhus
The purpose of CEDHAR is to improve and to develop knowledge of all four key dimensions of digital history. These four dimensions are digital methods, digital archives, digital history communication, and new digital sources. Although focused on digital history, these core principles apply to digital humanities more broadly, and this feed (and the resources and…
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Job Announcement: Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communications Librarian at Macalester College
The Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication (DISC) Librarian is responsible for providing leadership in library digital collections and platforms, scholarly communication, and open access. The individual is responsible for managing and promoting the use of our institutional repository (IR) and coordinating associated services. They collaborate with library leadership and staff to iteratively develop and implement…
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Report: Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives
In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. This includes not only journal articles and ebooks, but also primary sources and archival documents, which researchers increasingly expect to find online in searchable, digital formats. In turn, cultural heritage institutions…
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Project: Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities
Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities is an interactive and searchable map of digital and public humanities projects related to Black history & culture. The goals of this project are threefold: This project arose out of a desire to make Black digital and public humanities projects more visible to other practitioners and the public. …
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Opportunity: Humanitarian Archive Emergency Census
Editors’ Summary: The Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE), led by the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, is conducting a worldwide census to identify digital archives and datasets held by humanitarian organizations at risk due to cuts in international development funding. The census aims to establish an evidentiary foundation for coordinated preservation action, and…
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Editors’ Choice: Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets, Version 2.0
Editors’ Summary: Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser present Version 2.0 of the Shakespeare and Company Project data sets, a major update to the structured datasets documenting Sylvia Beach’s legendary Paris bookshop and lending library (1919–1962). The update significantly expands demographic data on lending library members—from roughly 600 to nearly 1,800 identified individuals—and introduces two…
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Editors’ Choice: Funerary Spectacle: Applied Digital Humanities in the Roman Forum
Editors’ Summary: In Funerary Spectacle: Applied Digital Humanities in the Roman Forum (California Classical Studies, 2026), Christopher J. Johanson (UCLA) combines three-dimensional reconstructions of the Roman Forum with traditional philological analysis to reconstruct the funeral of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (160 BCE) across its three stages: procession, eulogy, and gladiatorial games. By applying both close…
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Event Announcement: Escuela de otoño 2026
Editors’ summary: This post announces the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) 2026 Autumn School, a five-session online intensive course running October 26–30 aimed at introducing participants to the theoretical, methodological, and practical foundations of Digital Humanities research. The course is notable for its deliberate centering of non-hegemonic and situated perspectives, particularly those emerging from Latin…
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DHNow Newsletter, May 20, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a release of a new dataset in Shakespeare studies, a reflective post on the changes AI has brought to programming, and a study that applies digital methodologies to the study of ancient Rome.…
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Event Announcement: ACH Pre-Conference Workshops
In advance of ACH 2026, we’ll be piloting a pre-conference virtual workshop series offering low-cost opportunities for teaching and learning on digital humanities topics that matter to the community. Note: workshops will be taught in English. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: The advance of vibe coding
Editors’ Summary: Paul Taylor, professor of health informatics at UCL, reflects on his lifelong relationship with programming and the rapid displacement of software engineers by AI coding tools. Drawing on personal experience using Claude Code and the fictional Mythos model, he traces how AI has moved from writing code snippets to autonomously developing, testing, and…
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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,…