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  • DHNow Newsletter, August 12, 2026

    This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article about digital humanities in the Global South that proposes a more inclusive framework for computational humanities and an article that considers ethical AI use in GLAM institutions. We have also included…

  • Editors’ Choice: Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South: Infrastructures, Analytics, and Epistemic Justice

    Editors’ Summary: This introduction to the Journal of Cultural Analytics special issue redefines what cultural analytics means from the perspective of the Global South. Rather than viewing digital humanities as the application of computational tools to ready-made datasets, the authors argue that building archives, designing metadata, negotiating community governance, and preserving Indigenous knowledge are themselves…

  • Report: Career Paths – Stories of Metadata Librarians

    Out of all tracks in librarianship, becoming a metadata librarian is not a very common one. This blog post features eight professionals working in the US, reflecting on their paths towards becoming metadata librarians, primarily working with digital object metadata records. Most of us work at a university library or other large institutions with rich…

  • Report: Conference Musings on ACH and DH 2026

    The summer conference season is over, and this year marked a return for me to both the international DH conference (held in Daejeon, South Korea for 2026) and the ACH conference (held, as usual, anywhere you are / virtually). They’re always different experiences, but the distinction felt particularly acute this year. See full post.

  • CFP: MAMG @ MAMO (Oxford) 2027 – The Middle Ages in Modern Games

    The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester is pleased to sponsor The Middle Ages in Modern Games strand at the Middle Ages in the Modern World, 22 to 24 June 2027. While we will consider any papers relating to the Middle Ages in modern games, we are particularly interested in…

  • Editors’ Choice: Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives

    Editors’ Summary: This article argues that human-in-the-loop AI can be beneficial to GLAM institutions. Based on fifteen semi-structured interviews with professionals across GLAM institutions in the UK and continental Europe, the article considers current practice around sensitivity review, metadata enrichment, and collaboration with source communities. The authors outline a framework for AI adoption combining SafeSearch-style…

  • Job Announcement: Head of Operations at Open Book Collective

    The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation. Working closely with the Managing Director, you will ensure that our operations are efficient, our team is supported, and our projects and grants are well managed. See full post.

  • Job Announcement: Professor of Computational Literary Studies with a Focus on the Intersection of Research and Research Infrastructure at Universität Tübingen

    The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a position as a Professor (W2) of Computational Literary Studies with a focus on the intersection of research and research infrastructure (m/f/d) to commence as soon as possible in an employment relationship. Employment will take place in collaboration with the DLA (German Literature…

  • Weekly Highlight: Digital Humanities Monthly

    Digital Humanities Monthly is a Japanese-language monthly email magazine published by the International Institute for Digital Humanities. Each month they publish the ‘Monthly Report on Humanities and Information Studies’, which introduces various research that can be positioned as human informatics, with up-and-coming experts from Japan and the world. The magazine contains original research, reports on…

  • Resource: Mozilla Data Collective

    Editors’ Summary: On July 30, the Mozilla Data Collective launched Compensated Data Sets: responsibly sourced data where data providers retain control over pricing and licensing terms, helping advance a more transparent and sustainable approach to data sharing grounded in human agency and fair value exchange. See full post.

  • Weekly Highlight: Digital Library of the Caribbean: A Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library

    Digital Library of the Caribbean has over one hundred partners and over forty associate partners, who are based in the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. dLOC posts updates on their news page. This multi-institutional library is a rich resource that provides users free and open access to Caribbean cultural, historical, scientific and research…

  • CFP: Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities

    We invite chapter proposals for a new Open Access edited volume, Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities, currently being developed as a book proposal for UCL Press. This volume asks: under what conditions does Digital Humanities flourish, and under what conditions does it struggle to take root, survive, or be recognised? Rather than mapping DH…

  • Project: THANADOS

    THANADOS is a Digital Humanities web portal for archaeologically and anthropologically investigated burials and their digital dissemination. It is a platform for hosting any thematically relevant datasets that the authors want to offer as Open Data in a standardised form. The basic dataset consists of the results of the THANADOS project Several other projects that…

  • Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities Part 1: What Are the Digital Humanities?

    Editors’ Summary: This six-part series by Adam DJ Brett on the digital humanities seeks to provide a starting point for newcomers to DH, practical approaches to undertaking digital humanities, and an argument for the importance of data preservation and resilience. Part one asks what the digital humanities are. The second part surveys tools for dissertation…

  • CFP: Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026

    We are inviting graduate students and early career researchers who are applying new digital methodologies to the humanities, and related fields, to share that research at the Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference 2026 in Oxford on Wednesday 18 November 2026. See full post.

  • Editors’ Choice: I Always Wanted to Be a Media Theorist Who Wrote with a Telegraph Key

    Editors’ Summary: Steve Tomasula’s I Always Wanted to Be a Media Theorist Who Wrote with a Telegraph Key is a thought-provoking exploration of how digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and networked systems are reshaping literature, identity, and human consciousness. Drawing on the scholarship of Joseph Tabbi, Tomasula argues that storytelling is moving beyond individual, character-driven narratives…

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