The Kelmscott Chaucer Online allows you to explore what is widely considered to be the most beautiful book ever produced. The website contains all 87 wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, as well as the 18 frames, 14 borders, and 26 decorative words designed by William Morris for their final project together published in 1896. This […]
RedHD is an initiative to foster and support the formalization of Digital Humanities in Central and South America. Their objectives are to promote and strengthen communication among digital humanists in the region; the training of human resources; the development of documentation and best practices; the promotion of Digital Humanities projects; and the dissemination of events, […]
We at the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) are thrilled to announce today that the Call for Proposals of the inaugural “Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 – Shaping the Open Transition” is now open until 5 July 2026. The Symposium is the flagship initiative of our new Open Technology Research initiative, together with our partners […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a consideration of the tensions between historical place names and named entity recognition, a study comparing novels discussing public housing with lived experiences, and a discussion and guide for creating static sites using […]
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and the Technical Council. The following positions are vacant and up for election: The elections will take place via online voting closing prior to the 2026 virtual Members’ Meeting in August. See full post.
The fourth annual Humanities and Social Sciences from the Perspective of Digital Humanities conference will take place on 5–6 November 2026 at the Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc. As in previous years, we are preparing an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the field of digital humanities, not only in literary studies […]
A discussion on how the Free Software movement is foundational to care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance. See full post.
The purpose of CEDHAR is to improve and to develop knowledge of all four key dimensions of digital history. These four dimensions are digital methods, digital archives, digital history communication, and new digital sources. Although focused on digital history, these core principles apply to digital humanities more broadly, and this feed (and the resources and […]
Editors’ summary: This post announces the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) 2026 Autumn School, a five-session online intensive course running October 26–30 aimed at introducing participants to the theoretical, methodological, and practical foundations of Digital Humanities research. The course is notable for its deliberate centering of non-hegemonic and situated perspectives, particularly those emerging from Latin […]
Editors’ Summary: The Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE), led by the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, is conducting a worldwide census to identify digital archives and datasets held by humanitarian organizations at risk due to cuts in international development funding. The census aims to establish an evidentiary foundation for coordinated preservation action, and […]
