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Job Announcement: AI & Machine Learning Developer at University of Pennsylvania
The Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS) team at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is looking for an AI & Machine Learning (Al/ML) Developer. The University’s Strategic Plan, “In Principle & Practice,” articulates a desire to lead on the great challenges and opportunities of our time using cutting-edge approaches and interdisciplinary thinking. A key challenge…
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Report: Meeting the Moment: K4BL’s Fourth Annual Summer Workshop
Keywords for Black Louisiana, a collective of researchers committed to researching, teaching, and stewarding the history of enslaved and free people of African descent of the Gulf Coast and African diaspora broadly, hosted its fourth Black History in Louisiana summer workshop. This year felt special and important—like an affirmation against enclosure, against fascism, against empire.…
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Announcement: Applications For The 2026-2027 Praxis Fellowship Cohort Now Open
Applications are now open for Praxis Fellowships to be held during the 2026-2027 academic year. The Praxis Program is a unique and well-known training program in the international digital humanities, offered by the UVa Library’s Scholars’ Lab. This fellowship supports a team of University of Virginia PhD students each year as they explore various aspects…
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Report: Open Data and ODE in Bangladesh: Students and Researchers Step into a New World of Openness
Bangladesh still isn’t very friendly to data. Researchers and journalists often don’t have access to the information they need. Many decisions in government, research, and daily life are made based on instincts, not facts. Even when national data is available, it’s often locked inside printed reports or non-editable PDF files. That means they can’t be…
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Report: The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
This past year, the Center for Digital Humanities celebrated its tenth anniversary with the theme “Humanities for AI.” Through this series of events, projects, and conversations, we explored how humanistic values and approaches are crucial to developing, using, and interpreting the field of AI. As part of this initiative, we were thrilled to welcome award-winning…
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Editors’ Choice: Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
It’s been five months since Alison Gopnik, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself wrote to argue that we should not think of Large Language Models (LLMs) as “intelligent, autonomous agents” paving the way to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), but as cultural and social technologies. In the interim, these models have certainly improved on various metrics.…
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Editors’ Choice: Advancing Américo Paredes with Twenty-First Century DH Tools: Mapping George Washington Gómez with ArcGIS StoryMaps
In the summer of 2023, I was fortunate to participate in a double dose of Digital Humanities learning. I signed up for a three-day workshop Manos a la obra organized by the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, and I was the recipient of a Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium Mellon grant/fellowship. A result of this rewarding…
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Job Announcement: Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH)
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) is currently recruiting for an Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.The appointment may be made at either Associate Professor (Grade 10) or Professor (Grade 11) level. Applications are welcome at both of these levels, and the eventual grade of appointment will be commensurate…
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CFP: CFP Ten-Year Anniversary Issue: Reflections on a Decade of Seeing the Forest and the Trees
The Journal of Cultural Analytics was founded a decade ago to advance original arguments about studying culture at scale. In this special issue, we intend to take stock of our progress in this endeavor as well as to open up new perspectives for future research. What have we learned from exploring the relationship between the…
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Report: Constellate: An Experiment and Retrospective
When we set out in 2019 to build Constellate, our goal was to create a sustainable platform that would provide text analysis access to content in JSTOR and Portico. By the time we sunset in 2025, that had transformed into making the power of computational analysis accessible to any curious mind, whether they were a…
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Conference: Frances E. W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward, 1825–2025 – Colored Conventions Project
How do we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-2025), the most prolific African American writer of the nineteenth century? As part of its year-long programming, the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk, joined by Penn State’s Africana Research Center, will convene an in-person symposium on the week of her…
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Editors’ Choice: How Disability Awareness Can Support Course Design Conversations
As the conversations about Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) increase as faculty start designing courses and assessments for the fall I have noticed lately a reoccuring theme in a lot of the posts – the need for flexibility. Many of the posts speak to how difficult it is to design when the technology…
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Editors’ Choice: Historic Maps, New Coordinates
In the digital age, historical maps hold a wealth of information, but unlocking their full potential for geospatial analysis and historic research often requires labor-intensive georeferencing. An innovative project the University of Texas Libraries is evolving this process through the power of machine learning. See full post.
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Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Critical Digital Studies/Practice at Macalester College
The Media and Cultural Studies Department at Macalester College seeks candidates for a position in Critical Digital Studies/Practice at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure track). We are open to a wide array of specializations within critical digital studies, including, but not limited to, the areas of gaming, interactive and immersive media such as VR…
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Editors’ Choice: A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again – Dot Porter Digital
Between 2019 and 2022, I also worked on a project called Books of Hours as Transformative Works. If you’re not familiar with the term “transformative work,” it comes out of fandom studies—think of fan fiction or fan art—where people respond emotionally and creatively to something they love. I wanted to apply this framework to Books…
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Announcement: Introducing Hugo-Bibliography
Hugo-Bibliography is a new Hugo plug-in designed to make adding citations into Hugo projects much easier. It can be added as a theme to a Hugo website to generate bibliography pages using the provided shortcodes. At this point, bibliography data needs to be available in CSL-JSON format (that for example can be exported from Zotero).…