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Editors’ Choice: Building Tableau Dashboards for the PowerPoint Download
Editors’ Summary: This article engages with the transition between a dynamic (or dynamic-esque) software, like Tableau, to a more static presentation format, like PowerPoint. However, some of the philosophies mentioned here are transferrable to various types of presentations beyond Tableau and PowerPoint that we are familiar with in DH, including poster design and static website…
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Report: RECAP: Black Beyond Data at the CumbreAfro in Puerto Rico
This March, Black Beyond Data joined researchers, artists, activists, students, and teachers from across the African diaspora in Puerto Rico for the Cumbre Internacional de Afrodescendencia (Cumbre Afro), the International Afro-Summit. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: “How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Information Literacy in Academic Libraries: A Global Scientometric Analysis (2020–2025)”
Editors’ Summary: This paper uses scientometrics to analyze how AI has been incorporated into university libraries and services to provide information literacy. The authors examine over 1,600 papers or research published between 2020 and 2025. This paper is a helpful overview for academics, especially librarians, to track the different directions and methods that other scholars…
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Report: Bridging Language and Technology: Advancing NLP Skills at the University of Zululand
The University of Zululand recently played host to a dynamic and impactful two-day Corpus Creation and Linguistic Text Processing Tools Workshop, held at its KwaDlangezwa campus on 17–18 March 2026. Facilitated by SADiLaR’s Project Manager and Unisa Node, Ms Marissa Griesel, under the ESCALATOR programme, the workshop brought together Computer Science students and academic staff…
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DHNow Newsletter, April 1, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week outline best practices and standards for presentations, using a case study of transitioning between dynamic and static presentation formats, the process of developing an AI-assisted workflow for extracting very large corpora from the…
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Editors’ Choice: Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study
Editors’ Summary: This article articulates an AI-assisted workflow in developing a Python script to collect information at scale from the Internet Archive (IA) via IA’s API. IA is a large online container of websites, print materials, audios, newspapers, and others. The author correctly identifies a need to share more information about how users could interact…
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Announcement: When a Monument Talks: A Groundbreaking Digital Revival of Saint Neophytos From Digital Twin to Memory Twin in Cyprus
This upcoming project in Cyprus uses 3D technology to recreate the Enkleistra of Saint Neophytos and the figure of Saint Neophytos. By extending the idea of a “digital twin” to a “memory twin,” this project will provide important insight on how we should not view digitization as just a way of copying what’s in reality…
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CFP: DARIAH Digital Arts and Humanities Training and Summer School Small Grants Call 2026
DARIAH invites applications for small grants supporting in-person summer schools and intensive training events in the Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) that will take place in 2026. This programme aims to strengthen training opportunities, expand digital skills in the arts and humanities, and support collaboration across research, education, and cultural heritage communities. See full post.
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CFP: Applications open for the 2026 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History
The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History is sponsored jointly by the AHA and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University (GMU). It was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007), the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at GMU,…
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DHNow Newsletter, March 25, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. This week’s issue features an Editors’ Choice posts that explores the potential of AI for digital blackface. The second selection considers the growing trend on social media of accounts depicting the likenesses of Black women through AI-generated characters. We have also included multiple useful…
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Editors’ Choice: AI Blackface: Profiting on racist depictions at scale
Editors’ Summary: This post details the investigation into social media accounts that depict Black women through AI-generated characters in order to identify solutions to this quickly-growing problem. The joint investigation identified over 100 social media accounts running out of 34 different countries. These accounts all used entirely AI-generated media, depicted Black women, and were sexual…
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CFP: ILiADS Call for Proposals 2026
The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes project proposals and liaison applications for the eleventh Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Vassar College Libraries in Poughkeepsie, New York, will be held in person July 26-31, 2026. This year ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment both for collaborative project teams and for individuals.…
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Job Announcement: Call for Predoctoral Fellowships at the International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities (IMPRS-MDH)
The International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities (IMPRS-MDH) is a new doctoral school jointly established by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (BHMPI) in Rome and the Faculty of Art and Social Sciences (PhF) of the University of Zurich (UZH), funded by the Max Planck Society (MPG) for…
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Report: Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it…
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Report: What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: March 2026
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates to our digital collections and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights. See full post.
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Resource: Layered Memories: Histories in One Square Block
So much of our nation’s contentious history is hidden in plain sight. Consider, for instance, how we routinely pass by houses, buildings, and sites whose complex and controversial histories we are unaware of. The Layered Memories: History in One Square Block project excavates these everyday histories by using what I call lieux de souvenir analysis.…