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Job Announcement: Digital Scholarship and Data Management Librarian at University of Missouri–Columbia
The University of Missouri Libraries seek to hire a librarian to serve as the Digital Scholarship and Data Management Librarian. This position designs and delivers services to faculty and students that support scholarly research involving the use of digital platforms, analytic and computational software, and visualization tools for the purpose of research analysis, access, or…
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Editors’ Choice: I Always Wanted to Be a Media Theorist Who Wrote with a Telegraph Key
Editors’ Summary: Steve Tomasula’s I Always Wanted to Be a Media Theorist Who Wrote with a Telegraph Key is a thought-provoking exploration of how digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and networked systems are reshaping literature, identity, and human consciousness. Drawing on the scholarship of Joseph Tabbi, Tomasula argues that storytelling is moving beyond individual, character-driven narratives…
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CFP: Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities
We invite chapter proposals for a new Open Access edited volume, Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities, currently being developed as a book proposal for UCL Press. This volume asks: under what conditions does Digital Humanities flourish, and under what conditions does it struggle to take root, survive, or be recognised? Rather than mapping DH…
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DHNow Newsletter, August 5, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Mehul Desai and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editors. Our Editors’ Choice selections this week include a discussion of how the internet and AI have reshaped literature and the act of writing, and a six-part series that defines the digital humanities before providing practical suggestions…
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Weekly Highlight: Digital Library of the Caribbean: A Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library
Digital Library of the Caribbean has over one hundred partners and over forty associate partners, who are based in the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. dLOC posts updates on their news page. This multi-institutional library is a rich resource that provides users free and open access to Caribbean cultural, historical, scientific and research…
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Project: Enslaved Texas: Tracing Forced Migration into Texas
An interactive visualization tracing enslaved people forcibly migrated from U.S. states into Texas between 1800 and 1870 — reconstructed from the voter registration records of 1867–1870, in which more than 50,000 of the 140,073 Texans who registered are identified as freedmen. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities Part 1: What Are the Digital Humanities?
Editors’ Summary: This six-part series by Adam DJ Brett on the digital humanities seeks to provide a starting point for newcomers to DH, practical approaches to undertaking digital humanities, and an argument for the importance of data preservation and resilience. Part one asks what the digital humanities are. The second part surveys tools for dissertation…
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Resource: How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe…
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Project: THANADOS
THANADOS is a Digital Humanities web portal for archaeologically and anthropologically investigated burials and their digital dissemination. It is a platform for hosting any thematically relevant datasets that the authors want to offer as Open Data in a standardised form. The basic dataset consists of the results of the THANADOS project Several other projects that…
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CFP: Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026
We are inviting graduate students and early career researchers who are applying new digital methodologies to the humanities, and related fields, to share that research at the Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026 in Oxford on Wednesday 18 November 2026. See full post.
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Resource: Mozilla Data Collective
Editors’ Summary: On July 30, the Mozilla Data Collective launched Compensated Data Sets: responsibly sourced data where data providers retain control over pricing and licensing terms, helping advance a more transparent and sustainable approach to data sharing grounded in human agency and fair value exchange. See full post.
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Report: Context Laundering and the Human Bottleneck in AI Research
Editors’ Summary: In “Context Laundering and the Human Bottleneck in AI Research,” Alex Reid examines a recent arXiv preprint showing that AI research agents can be poisoned through user-generated content on platforms like Reddit and Wikipedia. Reid draws two rhetorical implications: first, AI “launders” the questionable rhetorical contexts of such content, presenting it in an…
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Resource: Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy
Editors’ Summary: In “Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy,” a Spanish-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Douglas McRae shows researchers how to start a Tropy project to manage digital images of their primary sources. Addressing the overload historians face when accumulating hundreds of archival photographs, McRae presents Tropy—a free, open-source tool developed by the Roy…
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Report: 3D Digitisation Guidelines translated into multiple languages by EUreka3D-XR
Editors’ Summary: In “3D Digitisation Guidelines translated into multiple languages by EUreka3D-XR,” published on Digital Meets Culture, the EUreka3D-XR project announces that its 3D Digitisation Guidelines: Steps to Success is now available in Catalan, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, and Spanish. Aimed at cultural heritage professionals digitising collections in three dimensions, the guidelines simplify the standards…
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Editors’ Choice: Making Marx More Readable: A Minimal Computing Approach to a Community-Driven Edition of Capital Vol. 1
Editors’ Summary: In “Making Marx More Readable: A Minimal Computing Approach to a Community-Driven Edition of Capital Vol. 1,” published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Steven Gotzler and Avery Wiscomb present MARXdown, a minimal digital reading edition of Marx’s Capital Vol. 1, as a retrospective case study in applying minimal computing principles to community-driven DH projects.…
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Editors’ Choice: The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI
Editors’ Summary: In “The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI,” published on Active History, Jacob Polay, Chloë Farr, and Jessica Jack critique talkie, a language model trained exclusively on pre-1931 English-language print sources and marketed as both a forecasting experiment and a chatbot “from 1930.” The authors argue that…