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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…
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DHNow Newsletter, November 19, 2025
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Lívia Clarete, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first Editors’ Choice is a pre-print that claims both humans and AI systems demonstrate a preference for human-created content, regardless of actual quality. AI systems are seemingly reflecting cultural assumptions that devalue machine creativity, underscoring…
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Resource: DPC Global ‘Bit List’ of Digital Materials – Digital Preservation Coalition
The DPC’s Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Materials—or the Bit List—is a powerful call to action from the global digital preservation community. The report is reviewed and updated every two years, and highlights the digital content most at risk of being lost, based on real-world conditions and expert insight. By clearly identifying both the…
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Job Announcement: Repository Developer at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Join the UW-Madison Libraries Software Development Group as a Repository Developer. As a member of the Software Development Group, this role contributes to the growth and sustainability of the repository ecosystem that underpins the Libraries’ MINDS@UW service, Research Data Services, Digital Collections Center, and digital preservation efforts—all in support of digital curation and scholarly work.…
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Resource: Online Teaching Resources on Shinto
I have taught an introductory English-language course to religions in Japan for several years making use of available online resources. The course provides both home and exchange students with a cursory overview of religions in Japan, their history, and their present status, and presents some wider issues related to the study of religions in Japan.…
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Resource: The Future of the Essay in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has fundamentally disrupted one of higher education’s most enduring pedagogical tools: the essay. For centuries, the essay has served as both a means of learning and a method of assessment, asking students to demonstrate research skills, critical thinking, argument construction, and disciplinary knowledge through extended written work. The arrival of tools…
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Report: AI Literacy in Higher Education
When we launched the third cohort for the Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula project in September, we wanted to learn about the fast evolving AI literacy landscape in higher education. In our first workshop in October, we began to see a clear pattern: across institutions types and sizes, AI literacy development in higher education…
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Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Archivist at University of Southern Mississippi
The Digital Humanities (DH) Archivist provides strategic leadership for the Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub, the Mississippi Digital Library (MDL), and University Libraries’ digital initiatives. This position directs large-scale digitization and digital preservation projects, develops statewide metadata and preservation policies, and advances external funding opportunities through grant leadership. The DH Archivist supervises staff and student workers,…
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Job Announcement: Digital Project Archivist at California State University, Los Angeles
The Project Archivist is a grant-funded, term-limited position responsible for the comprehensive digitization and accessibility of the Compton Communicative Arts Academy Collection (approximately 4,791 photographic materials) housed in the Cal State LA Special Collections and Archives. The archivist will ensure the long-term preservation of both the physical and digital collection, create high-quality metadata for discovery,…
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Editors’ Choice: Data rescue for World Digital Preservation Day 2025
The project is Safeguarding Research & Culture…The concept is simple: download public datasets that are at risk of being lost, and replicate them as widely as possible to make them hard to destroy, though obviously there’s a lot of complexity buried in that statement. When the Trump administration first took power, there were a lot…