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Editor’s Choice: A Conversation with the Authors of The AI Con @ SJSU
For their South Bay book launch of The AI Con, Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna joined us in conversation with Rhonda Holberton, Digital Media Arts & Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at SJSU. In THE AI CON: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We…
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Resource: Femiber
Interested in how women were portrayed in medieval chronicles of the Iberian Peninsula? Look no further! This open-access website provides structured information on every woman mentioned in the anonymous Crónica de Castilla (ca. 1300, Castile-León). The database was generated within the “FEMIber” project, which uses digital humanities methods to study Spanish and Portuguese medieval historiography…
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Announcement: Reimagining cultural heritage in 3D and XR
A Hybrid Capacity Building Event in Brussels by EUreka3D-XR. EUreka3D-XR is focused on transforming cultural contents such 2D or 3D into extended reality scenarios. At the same time, the European cultural heritage sector is facing the 3D digitisation and the reuse of 3D models. On 26 September 2025, the EUreka3D-XR capacity building event will explore…
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Announcement: Zotero for Android
We’re excited to announce the release of Zotero for Android, the best way to work with your Zotero library on an Android device. Zotero for Android lets you work with your Zotero data no matter where you are. See full post.
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Conference: Visualizing as a Form of Collective Care
This year at VISAP—a mini conference and exhibition exploring the intersection of data visualization, art, and science—we’re asking what it means to approach visualization not just as a practice of analysis and synthesis, but as a form of collective care. How do we design visualizations that not only represent, but also actively protect, nurture, and…
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Resource: Freedom and Constraint: Writing Daily
Rebecca Foote recently invited me to be a part of an ACH panel on publishing in digital humanities along with Jojo Karlin and Nat McGartland. My reflections on the conversation have led to a range of posts that you can find here. I recently wrote about the importance of public writing as a muscle. Exercising…
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Editors’ Choice: Prompt Anxiety
The phantasmagorias of space to which the flaneur devotes himself find a counterpart in the phantasmagorias of time to which the gambler is addicted. Gambling converts time into a narcotic (Benjamin 1999: 12). The disruption that Benjamin identified in the gambling halls finds unexpected resonance in today’s computational interfaces. The rise of “prompt engineering” as…
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Resource: Machine Learning & Close Reading Resources
Scholarship on Machine Learning/AI and Close Reading culled by Scott Newstok from his Close Reading Archive. Scott Newstok shared this list with Alan Liu on May 18, 2025, with permission to share publicly. See full post.
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Resource: American Trade with Revolutionary Haiti: A Dataset for Public Use
What follows is an introduction to that greater mass of information, and an invitation to others to take a look and use it. With lots of help, and trial and error, I’ve learned a bit about how to use ArcGIS software, and have crafted a story map that, I hope, introduces the data that I…
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Report: Medieval Institute 3D Modeling Workshop
This spring, the Digital Medieval Studies Institute, a full day of programming on digital scholarly methods for medievalists and pre-modernists, was hosted by Harvard and BC’s McMullen Museum. Several of the workshops were hosted on BC’s campus, including the session on photogrammetry led by Antonio LoPiano. This session took place within the Ricci Institute for…
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Report: Trans + History Week Edit-a-thon
On 9th May 2025, Wikimedia UK proudly collaborated with WMLGBT+ and the National Library of Wales on a Trans + History Week Edit-a-thon hosted by Cardiff Central Library. The aim was to celebrate the contributions of Trans people here in Wales by improving the coverage of notable Trans people and events on different Wikipedia projects.…
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Conference: DH2026 is in Daejeon, South Korea
The Digital Humanities 2026 (DH2026) Conference will take place in Daejeon, South Korea, from Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31, 2026, under the theme “Engagement”. The event will be hosted by the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) in collaboration with Daejeon Metropolitan City. We look forward to sharing more details soon, including the…
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Editors’ Choice: Volunteers Leverage OCR to Transcribe Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Library of Congress launched the By the People crowdsourced transcription program in 2018. Since then, we have invited anyone to volunteer by transcribing Library of Congress digital collections through our online platform, Concordia. Completed transcriptions go back into Library of Congress digital collections on loc.gov to make them keyword searchable and improve accessibility. We…
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Editors’ Choice: DHQ Special Issue–Digital Sankofa: Understanding the Past and Futures of Black Digital Humanities
The journey to conceptualizing this special issue started in a summer seminar organized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Since 2004, through its postdoctoral fellowship program, CLIR has recruited, trained, and established cohorts of talented researchers steeped in the materials and methods of their disciplines for work in libraries and cultural organizations.…
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Job: Product Manager, Scholarly eBooks (4 Years) at The New York Public Library
Reporting to the Director of Product, Scholarly eBooks, the Product Manager will support the NYPL’s institutional goal to increase the availability of digital content. The Scholarly eBooks initiative seeks to develop more equitable service to those researchers who may not be able to come in person to our reading rooms in New York City. We…
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Job: Digital Library Analyst at College of Charleston
The Digital Library Analyst plays a crucial role in supporting the operations of the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) and other Library web properties and initiatives. Reporting to the Digital Services Coordinator, this position collaborates with the Digital Projects Librarian and LCDL partners to digitize, describe, and publish collections that enhance research on the Lowcountry region…