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 […]
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 […]
Editors’ Summary: The process of preserving websites is complicated and time consuming. One essential step, Quality Assurance, involves assessing how well a website was preserved and the best method for doing this is to manually compare the archived version to the live version. The Library of Congress has over 13,000 URLs archived, making QA very […]
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 […]
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 […]
Editors’ Summary: This post includes a podcast episode and an accompanying essay summarizing the conversation. The conversation is focused on the way the media reports about AI and its own so-called agency. The recent headlines about an OpenAI model “hacking” another AI company, Hugging Face, is an example of the rhetorical strategy. The author notes […]
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author discusses the known issues with vibe coding from a pedagogical perspective, namely the lack of understanding of the code. He proposes to switch the roles when vibe coding and have the AI review code that is human written. The essay considers the potential benefits and challenges of this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
