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DHNow on break!
The DHNow team is taking vacation this week, and will return next Wednesday September 9!
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Announcement: DARIAH-CH Training Series 2026–2027: Building Digital Skills for the Arts and Humanities
DARIAH-CH and its national partners are pleased to announce the DARIAH-CH Training Series 2026–2027, a new programme of online training sessions designed to introduce researchers to the methods, tools, and good practices that are shaping digital scholarship in the arts and humanities. The series is aimed primarily at early-career researchers, doctoral candidates, master’s students, and…
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Editors’ Choice: AI in the Archive: Saving Time by Turning Photos into Structured Metadata
Editors’ Summary: This post details a workflow to use AI to assist with archival research. The author, a PhD candidate in history, discusses returning from a trip to the archives with hundreds of cell phone images of documents and struggling to organize them. He describes his method of using Zotero and Claude to organize these…
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Conference: AI and History Conference 2026
The AI and History Conference 2026, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University, is a practitioner-focused convening for historians at all career stages who are working with, teaching, or trying to evaluate AI and computational methods in their research and institutions. This event is anchored squarely in historical practice: its organizing questions are what AI…
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Report: From language patterns to digital possibilities: Tanja Gaustad’s Journey in computational linguistics
Across South Africa, women in science and research are helping shape a more inclusive digital future, one in which our languages, knowledge and communities are represented. Their contributions may take many forms, but together they are helping ensure that technological progress leaves no language behind. For Tanja Gaustad, a fascination with language patterns sparked a…
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DHNow Newsletter, August 26, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay describing an AI-assisted workflow for organizing archival images and an article discussing the tensions between incorporating AI into the classroom and maintaining traditional standards. We have also included CFPs, announcements, reports, resources, and tools, including a French-language…
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Tool: CB-Essay
CB-Essay is a platform for publishing long-form, multi-modal essays and monographs. Built on CollectionBuilder, the framework features longform content (connected essays, books, etc.) in front, with CollectionBuilder in the back supporting media embeds and customizations. See full post.
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Announcement: Zotero 10
We’re excited to announce Zotero 10, which adds a host of powerful new features for searching and managing your library, a major improvement to Read Aloud, and a new Reading Mode for PDFs. See full post.
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Resource: Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine
Editors’ Summary: In “Enrichir ses données avec le processus de réconciliation d’OpenRefine,” a French-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Pascal Martinolli provides a tutorial on using OpenRefine to enrich a set of research data with other linked data from external sources such as Wikidata. OpenRefine can be used for a process called “reconciliation” or “alignment”…
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Weekly Highlight: HD Lab
HD LAB is a research space in Digital Humanities in Argentina that combines the organizational and collaborative model of a laboratory with the Humanities. Their projects are intended for multiple audiences, inside and outside academia, understanding Digital Humanities through Minimal Computing and the principles of Open Science. They offer courses on digital humanities methods, a…
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Report: Connections, ideas and renewed hope: reflections from Wikimania Paris 2026
From 21–25 July 2026, Wikimedians from around the world gathered in Paris for Wikimania 2026, the annual conference celebrating the people, projects and communities behind the Wikimedia movement. This year, we supported our largest-ever contingent of staff, trustees and volunteers to attend. For some, it was their first experience while for others, it was an…
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Editors’ Choice: No More Muddling Through
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author reflects on the current state of higher education pedagogy as LLMs become increasingly able to replicate the research process. In his words: “The automation of the research process and the resulting loss of the human skills those processes embody poses an existential threat to universities.” He notes how…
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CFP: Fall 2026 Issue of The Undergraduate Journal of Digital Humanities
The Undergraduate Journal of Digital Humanities (UJDH) seeks to promote undergraduate research and learning in the digital humanities as the field is becoming increasingly important in academia and the world. Article submissions for the Fall 2026 edition of UJDH are due on Thursday, October 1st at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. See full post.
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Job Announcement: PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation at University of Bergen
The University of Bergen are seeking a motivated and academically strong candidate for a PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation at the Center for Digital Narrative, which is part of the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, commencing January 1st, 2027, or as agreed upon. The position is for a fixed-term period of…
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Tool: WACZ to PDF
A WACZ is a good container for a web crawl. It plays back easily in open-source replay software like Browsertrix and ReplayWebPage. But it’s not always the most convenient format for a non-archivist who wants to read, annotate, print or file away a set of their articles. I worked with Claude to write a small…
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Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Storytelling and Digital Media Job Details at Maastricht University
We are opening an Assistant Professor position in Storytelling and Digital Media. We are looking for a colleague with a background in literary or media studies whose research explores how storytelling is shaped by digital media and technologies, examining emerging narrative forms such as immersive media, data visualization, games, social media, and other digital platforms.…