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DHNow Newsletter, October 14, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Yuchun Zhang, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and…
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Resource: The continuous critical edition: publish to the rhythm of the encoding
This French-language lesson shows how to implement a critical “continuous” edition of a TEI corpus, define an ODD, generate a RELAX NG scheme, complete the validation with Schematron and produce outputs (text/HTML/Markdown) via XSLT 2.0. The example is based on the correspondence of Filippo Cavriana. See full post.
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Weekly Highlight: Programmable Mutter
Our take: Programmable Mutter, written by Henry Farrell, Johns Hopkins Professor, is a personal blog that considers AI and technology from a social science perspective, as well as pieces about politics. For readers of DHNow, this blog is a useful resource for current discussions of large language models and computational social science. See source.
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Resource: Digital Roofs: an iDAI.field Configuration and Guideline
This dataset was created within the framework of the Digital Roofs project (2020–2025), a research initiative of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The project focuses on the development and evaluation of methods and technologies for the high-quality digital documentation and publication of large quantities of archaeological roof tile finds. Ancient roof tiles, particularly from Greek…
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Editors’ Choice: Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan
Our take: In this post, Brian Wong brings overlooked local archives into conversation through AI-assisted transcription, historical geocoding, and interactive mapping. By tracing the spatial relationships between banks and factories in Kyoto, Wong identifies patterns of wartime financial mobilisation, including newly established Shiga Bank branches located near munitions manufacturers. The post demonstrates how digital methods…
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Tool: Z-Profile
Z-Profile is a new tool aimed at helping researchers create their own sites, manage their online identity, and share their publications. Z-Profile gets data from a specially-prepared Zotero collection, does of bit of processing, then generates a static website using Zola. The site includes biographical details and a list of your publications. Once your site…
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Report: The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report: Running to stay in place
The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report is out. This is the third annual analysis of where and how funding flows (or doesn’t) to the infrastructure that underpins research and scholarly communication. Some of the disruptions over the last two years have been very loud, with budget cuts and policy shifts across the globe. Herein,…
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Editors’ Choice: The (Im)possibility of Autonomous Feminist Infrastructures
Our take: Can a digital infrastructure ever be truly autonomous from the systems it seeks to challenge? In this article, Cécile Chevalier, Irene Fubara-Manuel, and Sharon Webb explore this question through an experiment in building a feminist server using Raspberry Pi computers. From hardware shortages to institutional dependencies and barriers to technical knowledge, their experience…
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Event Announcement: Talking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship – SCARLA
Are you a current or future librarian against AI? Do you want to learn how to advocate for AI refusal in professional environments and job interviews when faced with opposition? Are you curious about finding and creating resources and communities that oppose big tech’s influence on the information environment? Let’s talk about it! Join SCARLA,…
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Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Media Industries and AI
The Department of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Media Industries and AI. We seek a scholar whose research and teaching examines artificial intelligence as a media industry phenomenon, including its infrastructures, labor, political economy, regulation, and cultural, artistic, and social implications. We welcome…
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Editors’ Choice: The Slow Formation of Durable Software
Our take: In this post, Dan Cohen reflects on the early development of Zotero and details this history. He focuses on “Zotero’s pre-history, what it took to conceive, design, and build the 1.0 release.” He emphasizes the slow pace of development as one reason for the durability of the tool. This slow development and emphasis…
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DHNow Newsletter, October 7, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and…
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Weekly Highlight: Digital Library Federation
Our take: The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of academic and public libraries, museums, and related institutions. Their in-person meetings and year-round working groups provide opportunities for DLF members to collaborate and get stuff done. Meanwhile, DLF staff and…
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Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
The Department of Humanities at San José State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities or Humanities, with an expertise that lies at the intersection of critical science and technology studies with the humanities. We seek a teacher-scholar whose research, pedagogy, and community engagement examine the social and cultural roles, implications,…
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Job Announcement: Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist at University of Virginia
The University of Virginia Library seeks a Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist to join the Digital Humanities Center (DHC) as part of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). IATH is an internationally recognized humanities research unit dedicated to advancing digital scholarship at the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. The DHC serves…
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CFP: DH2027
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2027, to be held at the University of Galway, Ireland, from June 28 to July 3, 2027. For DH2027, we invite the community to think about creativity in this broad sense. What does creativity mean when humanistic work is increasingly carried out…