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DHNow Newsletter, June 15, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Welcome to the first themed issue of DHNow! Our guest editor, Zhihui Zou, has compiled an issue focused on data management and visualization. All three of our Editors’ Choice posts reflect this thematic focus, including an article highlighting best…
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Weekly Highlight: The Pudding
The Pudding is a digital publisher which produces data journalism for storytelling. Articles in the publication are visual essays which emphasize data visualizations and use fewer words than conventional journalism. The publication does not have central editorial planning, and instead invites its journalists to publish according to their interests and expertise. While not a formal…
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Opportunity: BCHDP Early Notice Survey
This survey is for prospective applicants of the British Columbia History Digitization Program grant. By filling out and submitting the following information, you signal your organization’s intent to apply for a BCHDP grant in the upcoming cycle and your interest in seeking additional support. In an effort to bolster BCHDP’s commitment to building capacity and…
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CFP: MUM 2026: 25th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
MUM 2026, the 25th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held in Glasgow, United Kingdaom, December 1st –4th. MUM is an interdisciplinary forum for advances in research of mobile and ubiquitous multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners discuss challenges and achievements in this field from diverse perspectives, such…
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Report: Strengthening DataCite Infrastructure for DSpace Communities: Welcoming PCG Academia as a New Registered Service Provider
PCG Academia and DataCite are pleased to announce that PCG Academia is now a DataCite Registered Service Provider, strengthening DataCite infrastructure among DSpace communities and users. The DataCite Registered Service Providers (RSP) Program strengthens the global research ecosystem by enabling trusted partners to deliver DataCite services locally and at scale. DataCite RSPs help institutions adopt…
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Editors’ Choice: Mozilla AI at Internet Archive Europe: Owning Your AI Stack
Editors’ Summary: This post reviews a conversation between researchers from Mozilla AI and Internet Archive Europe on computing infrastructure dependency. For digital humanists, we use cloud-based systems on a daily basis, whether that is to store research data, digitized primary sources, machine learning models, etc. As seen in events like AWS’s major outage in the…
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Report: Digitizing Antiquities: A 3D Photogrammetry Placement at the Institute of Classical Studies
Editors’ Summary: This post reports on the authors’ experience during their placement in the Senate House MakerSpace, University of London in April and May 2026. They focused on the 3D digitization and documentation of antiquities held by the Hellenic and Roman Library at the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS). This post discusses applying computational methods…
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Report: Save Our Signs: Preserving Censored Histories in America’s Largest Outdoor Classroom
To combat recent censorship of national parks in the United States, we have pulled on the resources of the library world to tap into the deep public affection for the National Parks and preserve these targeted materials. We brought together librarians and public historians with data and geospatial experts to create Save Our Signs (SOS),…
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Editors’ Choice: Pre-revolution network connections of the 1989 Polish Round Table participants
Editors’ Summary: This paper, focusing on the Round Table meetings in Poland during the late 1980s, meetings that hoped to address political challenges in Communist Poland. Using network analysis, the authors present the considerations behind creating network data visualizations. The metadata that the authors consider, such as affiliations, personal biography, and others, are especially helpful…
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Editors’ Choice: Dataset Context(ualisation) in Documentation: Best Practices, Recommendations and Open Questions | Journal of Open Humanities Data
Editors’ Summary: This discussion paper provides multiple perspectives on data curation. It considers not just the work done in academia but also in community organizations, such as Cultural Heritage Institutions. The paper also provides data management recommendations and future questions. Specifically, the authors emphasize the importance of strong and consistent dataset documentation. This paper will…
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Editors’ Choice: Most of the Renaissance Has Never Been Read. Source Library Is Opening It.
Editors’ Summary: This post shares the launch of the Source Library project earlier this month. Source Library, founded by Derek Lomas, digitizes Renaissance-era books originally written in Latin or other languages, translates them using AI translation tools, and presents them for free on their website. This project combines OCR and machine translation to increase accessibility…
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Report: To Go Far, Go Together: Lessons from FORCE2026 and DataCite Connect Singapore
Editors’ Summary: This article reviews the FORCE2026 conference held earlier this month at Singapore Management University. The conference focused on how to improve scholarly communications to encourage scholarly collaborations. A key component of the conference was engagement with DataCite, an organization, like Crossref, that provides persistent identifiers for research publications. This article recounts how various…
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CFP: Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa. Digital Humanities (DH) has evolved from an early emphasis on digitisation, text encoding, and computational assistance into a reflexive field concerned with…
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CFP: DHQ institutional host and Editor in Chief
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). The new Editor in Chief will serve for a five-year renewable term. Collaborative multi-editor and multi-institution arrangements are welcome. See full post.
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Editors’ Choice: Conversations about conversational code: on the collaborative critical code studies reading of ELIZA
Editors’ Summary: In “Conversations about conversational code,” Mark C. Marino and colleagues revisit Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA through the recovered original source code, showing how close, collaborative code reading can reshape software history. Based on four years of interdisciplinary work, the article uncovers discrepancies between Weizenbaum’s published accounts and the actual MAD-SLIP implementation, including undocumented features,…
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Tool: Australian National Corpus
Editors’ Summary: The Australian National Corpus (AusNC) was a discovery service that collated and provided access to examples of Australian English text, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual materials. The service was managed by Griffith University beginning 2012 until mid-2023 when the site was decommissioned. From 2023, AusNC data was made available as individual collections (listed below)…