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DHNow Newsletter, September 16, 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 reflecting on the Equal Earth projection and if there is still a need for a default map projection at all. We have also included announcements, projects, reports, and tools, including a…
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Weekly Highlight: LaTeX Ninja’ing and the Digital Humanities
Our take: This personal blog details experimentations with LaTeX code (packages, classes, templates, and snippets). For readers of DHNow, this blog seeks to demystify the Digital Humanities and digital tools for Humanists, as well as discussions of LaTeX. The blog provides tutorials and theoretical discussions of the state of the Digital Humanities. See source.
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Tool: The Lexos Python Library
The Lexos Python library reproduces and extends most of the text analysis tools in the Lexos web app. Lexos is designed to implement many common text analysis procedures and create workflows in a way that saves the user having to re-invent the wheel or figure out how to combine multiple Python packages to achieve a…
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Event Announcement: Computational Methods and Curious Looking: Integrating AI into Art History
Advances in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning have informed new methodologies in the humanities for over a decade, but the uptake of AI models for visual analysis in art history has been piecemeal, and recent discourses have been dominated by computer scientists. This presentation explores some of the tensions, challenges, and possibilities that…
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Project: Color Study: Look a little closer
An open-source photographic showcase and browser lab for regularized RGB decorrelation stretch. It includes a searchable database of 675 photographs, including 177 textiles, a 91-target painted-surface guide, and an open community photo collection. The public source repository contains the portable app and processing tools. See full post.
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Conference: Past Meets Future 2026
Human-AI interaction for digital humanities and cultural heritage. A full-day workshop bringing HCI and AI researchers together with the people who keep the world’s memory: the digital humanities and the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums). See full post.
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Event Annoucement: UK-Ireland Regional Events Series
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is pleased to announce its pilot Regional Events Series. These one-day workshops, which will be open to all, aim to foster and facilitate new connections and collaborations between digital arts & humanities researchers and practitioners at a regional level. The pilot series will consist of 5 events that will run…
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Report: AI and Education
This report is a call to action. Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate…
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Editors’ Choice: Projecting emotions: Mercator and Equal Earth
Our take: Following the United Nations’ recent vote in support of the Equal Earth projection, this article looks beyond the question of which map is more “accurate”, but to ask what map projections actually do. He traces Mercator from early modern navigation and nineteenth-century education to its continued dominance in digital mapping, showing how a…
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DHNow Newsletter, September 9, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay arguing for the importance of crowdsourcing and participatory projects for GLAM work and an article assessing how effective automated quality assurance is for web archives. We have also included announcements, reports, resources, and tools, including a zine…
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Weekly Highlight: Nightingale: The Journal of the Data Visualization Society
Nightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society (DVS). It features high-quality articles covering many of the applications of data visualization—including history, sports, how-to, best practices, and any other aspect or implementation of visual information design we find compelling. The journal covers everything from personal stories to exploratory research to interviews with community thought…
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Review: Palestinian Oral History Archive
The Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA) is a searchable digital platform hosting approximately 1,000 hours of testimonials from the first generation of Palestinian refugees who fled Palestine during Nakba (“the catastrophe”). The primary focus of the archive is centred on the personal narratives surrounding the Nakba, and life accounts in the pre-1948 Palestinian era. The…
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Editors’ Choice: A Generalized Framework for Participatory Transcription: Lessons, Challenges, and Interdisciplinary Impact from the Zooniverse Platform
Editors’ Summary: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of participatory transcription for GLAM work through a case study of Zooniverse. Zooniverse is a platform for crowdsourcing data, including transcription. This article provides a framework of four common challenges in the creation, design, and execution of these projects. The authors identified variety, units of…
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Project: Neruda Archives
Neruda Archives is an independent cultural archive dedicated to historical letters, documents and traces of correspondence, mainly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The physical originals are privately held, while selected records and research materials are made publicly accessible. See full post.
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Resource: DIY Web Archiving
A 23-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti. DIY Web Archiving shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!). Based on the 11/25/2024 virtual workshop co-sponsored…
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Tool: OCR on the Hub
Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes. See full post.