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Editors’ Choice: Decoding and Encoding Welsh Manuscript Culture: Scribes, Scripts and TEI
Editors’ Summary: This article highlights the process of turning the Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, c.800–c.1800 into a TEI dataset. The authors demonstrate how the process of encoding the print manuscript, and of converting any print volume to a TEI dataset, involves close reading of the material. The Repertory, originally published in 2022, is…
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Event Announcement: Register for ACH 2026
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2026, a virtual conference, from June 24-26, 2026. Registration is open from April 15, 2026, through June 17, 2026. See full post.
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DHNow Newsletter, April 22, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an overview of a new DH tool that allows you to compare outputs from different LLMs, and an article that overviews the process of turning a collection of Welsh manuscripts into a TEI dataset. We have also included CFPs,…
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Resource: (In)Visible Architects of Freedom Digital Archive
This database designed for students and educators highlights primary sources about the growth of the Black American community in Lënapehòkink, now called Philadelphia, from the 1600s to the 1800s. It includes petitions, newspaper articles, letters, objects, friendship albums, and more. See full post.
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Report: Global Digital Humanities Symposium
A collection of videos of the presentations from the 2026 Global Digital Humanities Symposium, held from April 13–April 17, 2026. See full collection.
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Resource: Old Toronto: Historical Itinerary Planner
A tool for explorers, travellers, and anyone curious about the city that once was — connecting Toronto’s living streets to more than 37,000 archival photographs spanning over two centuries, from the City of Toronto Archives and the Toronto Public Library. See full post.
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Job Announcement: Writer at Our World in Data
We are looking for an experienced writer. The ideal candidate already writes single-authored pieces regularly and publicly for a non-specialist audience, builds arguments based on data and research, and has the range to cover many of the topics we work on. This is a senior role: the person we hire will work closely with Hannah…
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Editors’ Choice: LLMBench: A Comparative Close Reading Workbench For Large Language Models
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author provides a detailed overview of the functions of the new tool, LLMbench. Berry points to Google PAIR’s LLM Comparator as a useful tool for side-by-side evaluation of models from the perspective of model developers, but the tool lacked the ability to do comparative close reading. LLMbench is a…
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CFP: 3rd Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms
Motivated by growing interest in the similarities between problems in learning and social choice, SCaLA-26 aims to bring together researchers across these domains to highlight the benefits of collaboration. Recent work has explored theoretical bounds on the learnability of common voting rules alongside experimental evaluation of these bounds, has shown how neural networks can improve…
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Report: Digital Humanities 2025: Book of Abstracts
The call for papers was launched on the 20th of September 2024, with submissions accepted until the 8th of December 2024 (after an extended deadline). It was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese thanks to the collaboration of several colleagues from the Program Committee and the Local Organizing Committee. The motto “Building…
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CFP: Digitorium Conference
Deadline: June 15 In 2026, Digitorium is focused on the theme of Preserve. As Digital Humanists, we engage in so many levels of preservation, and we want to make space to explore and document that work. Digital Humanities is a field committed to uncovering and preserving culture and society that is hidden. Sometimes hidden means…
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Resource: DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI
This workshop guides humanities scholars through the emerging landscape of agentic coding—building functional tools and applications through collaboration with AI, rather than writing code from scratch. We begin with Claude Artifacts for rapid prototyping and Claude Code Web for browser-based development, then transition to the Claude Code CLI for the remainder of the week. Participants…
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Editors’ Choice: Breath in DH
Editors’ Summary: This post responds to a Scholars’ Lab post (“Breadth and Depth, a Self-Centered Dialectic”) that discussed breadth and depth as two approaches to digital humanities professional development. This framing places DH careers on two axes, one where the expectation is to know little about a lot of things and the other where the…
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DHNow Newsletter, April 15, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an excellent overview of corpus building that is a useful pedagogical resource, and also a post that considers the dichotomy of breadth and depth as approaches to digital humanities professional development. We have also included CFPs, reports, and…
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Resource: Timeline of African American Music
The Timeline of African American Music represents decades of scholarship conducted and led by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby, a pioneer in the study of African American music, as well as the contributions of numerous scholars. From the earliest folk traditions to present-day popular music, the timeline is a detailed view of the evolution of African…
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CFP: Human-AI Co-Creativity @ ICML 2026
Recent advances in large generative models have turned AI agents into everyday companions. Millions of people now rely on them across domains from design and communication to science and education. These advances offer unprecedented opportunities to support people in open-ended domains by providing a medium for brainstorming ideas, exploring design choices, and thereby improving their…