Category: Editors’ Choice

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: 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 […]

Editors’ Summary: In “Making Marx More Readable: A Minimal Computing Approach to a Community-Driven Edition of Capital Vol. 1,” published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Steven Gotzler and Avery Wiscomb present MARXdown, a minimal digital reading edition of Marx’s Capital Vol. 1, as a retrospective case study in applying minimal computing principles to community-driven DH projects. […]

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 […]