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DHNow Newsletter, June 3, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a discussion of the possibilities of coding with AI and a case study on large-scale quantitative analysis of rhyme and meter in poetry. We have also included many CFPs, reports, and resources, including…
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Highlighted Feed: The Digital Shift
The Digital Shift, written by Rosalyn Metz, explores how technology is transforming libraries, cultural heritage, and higher education. For readers of DHNow, this blog is an important resource for current discussions and debates on the role of the digital within libraries and higher education. See feed.
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CFP: 2027 International Digital Curation Conference
We are delighted to announce that the call for submissions for the 21st International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC27) is now open! The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal between 9-12 February 2027. The main theme of the conference is, FAIR DO’s: Centering People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects. The FAIR principles…
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CFP: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy. Though AI-based approaches to the digital humanities have been a part of the field for decades, recent years have seen an explosion of methodologies utilizing AI, and of critical discussion concerning the…
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Report: Building Open Infrastructure That Lasts: A Spotlight on Digital Scholar
In a landscape where open source infrastructure routinely outlasts the funding that created it, the Corporation for Digital Scholarship (also known as Digital Scholar) has spent more than 15 years exploring a different path. Built around flagship tools used by millions of researchers worldwide, and now extending that experience to help other projects find their…
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Resource: PoeTree Poetry corpora in 11 languages
PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in 11 languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish). Each corpus has been deduplicated, enriched with Universal Dependencies, provided with additional metadata and converted into a unified JSON structure. See full post.
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Report: Resurrecting Networks: On Eulogies, Dead Tech, and Fifteen Years of Open Government
On Friday 22 May, Internet Archive Europe’s Amsterdam space hosted two very different events that, in retrospect, belonged together: A Funeral for the Networks We Lost and Fifteen Years of Open Government. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: Detecting Rhyme and Meter in Hungarian Poetry: From Algorithms to Web Tools and Research
Editors’ Summary: This article uses two case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of newly developed algorithms designed to detect rhyme within the ELTE Poetry Corpus, which includes the complete works of 53 canonical Hungarian poets. The author used this rhyme pattern detecting algorithm to generate a rhyming dictionary of Hungarian poetry, as well as an…
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CFP: Interactive Digital Narratives: Creativity, Theory, and Emerging Practices
This Special Issue positions Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) as a coherent, critically urgent, and future-facing interdisciplinary research field, bringing into sustained dialogue scholarship and practice across electronic literature, digital arts, performance studies, Human-Computer Interaction, AI and creativity research, game studies, and computational design. While these domains have historically advanced interactive narrative innovation in parallel, this…
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Editors’ Choice: Critical Code Sudies with AI: conversing with LLMs about code | AI & SOCIETY
Editors’ Summary: This article explores how LLMs can assist Critical Code Studies by making code more accessible as a cultural and interpretive object. Using Apollo 11 source code as a case study, Marino and Douglass highlight AI’s potential as a conversational partner for code interpretation while cautioning that hallucinations and misleading readings remain serious risks.…
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Opportunity: Nominations for TEI-C Elections
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and the Technical Council. The following positions are vacant and up for election: The elections will take place via online voting closing prior to the 2026 virtual Members’ Meeting in August. See full post.
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Highlighted Feed: Red Humanidades Digitales
RedHD is an initiative to foster and support the formalization of Digital Humanities in Central and South America. Their objectives are to promote and strengthen communication among digital humanists in the region; the training of human resources; the development of documentation and best practices; the promotion of Digital Humanities projects; and the dissemination of events,…
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Editors’ Choice: From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
Editors’ Summary: This post addresses the potential value of examining co-occurrences between different types of named entities, in particular locations and people. Limiting analysis to spatial entities misses an opportunity to reflect how historical figures interacted with them. By integrating NER with co-occurrence analysis, this post shows how we can reach more meaningful NER results…
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Editors’ Choice: Mapping Public Housing in Literature
Editors’ Summary: This paper presents an insightful approach of using creative writing/literature (fictional depictions) in collaboration with real life. The topic studied here is public housing; the researchers compiled novels focusing on public housing (usually in cities) with social science analysis of current public housing residents. Some important references for readers are how the authors…
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Project: Kelmscott Chaucer Online | William Morris
The Kelmscott Chaucer Online allows you to explore what is widely considered to be the most beautiful book ever produced. The website contains all 87 wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, as well as the 18 frames, 14 borders, and 26 decorative words designed by William Morris for their final project together published in 1896. This…
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DHNow Newsletter, May 27, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a consideration of the tensions between historical place names and named entity recognition, a study comparing novels discussing public housing with lived experiences, and a discussion and guide for creating static sites using…