Category: Editors’ Choice

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Editors’ Summary: In this paper, River Rain and Houda Lamqaddam consider how recommender systems can be reframed as speculative tools for humanistic inquiry rather than commercial personalization. By demonstrating how a fine-tuned computer vision pipeline maps visual similarities across 2,341 animated films, they highlight how algorithmic proximity can trace artistic influence and macro-level aesthetic shifts. […]