This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Yuchun Zhang, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and […]
This French-language lesson shows how to implement a critical “continuous” edition of a TEI corpus, define an ODD, generate a RELAX NG scheme, complete the validation with Schematron and produce outputs (text/HTML/Markdown) via XSLT 2.0. The example is based on the correspondence of Filippo Cavriana. See full post.
The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report is out. This is the third annual analysis of where and how funding flows (or doesn’t) to the infrastructure that underpins research and scholarly communication. Some of the disruptions over the last two years have been very loud, with budget cuts and policy shifts across the globe. Herein, […]
Z-Profile is a new tool aimed at helping researchers create their own sites, manage their online identity, and share their publications. Z-Profile gets data from a specially-prepared Zotero collection, does of bit of processing, then generates a static website using Zola. The site includes biographical details and a list of your publications. Once your site […]
This dataset was created within the framework of the Digital Roofs project (2020–2025), a research initiative of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The project focuses on the development and evaluation of methods and technologies for the high-quality digital documentation and publication of large quantities of archaeological roof tile finds. Ancient roof tiles, particularly from Greek […]
The Department of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Media Industries and AI. We seek a scholar whose research and teaching examines artificial intelligence as a media industry phenomenon, including its infrastructures, labor, political economy, regulation, and cultural, artistic, and social implications. We welcome […]
Are you a current or future librarian against AI? Do you want to learn how to advocate for AI refusal in professional environments and job interviews when faced with opposition? Are you curious about finding and creating resources and communities that oppose big tech’s influence on the information environment? Let’s talk about it! Join SCARLA, […]
Our take: Programmable Mutter, written by Henry Farrell, Johns Hopkins Professor, is a personal blog that considers AI and technology from a social science perspective, as well as pieces about politics. For readers of DHNow, this blog is a useful resource for current discussions of large language models and computational social science. See source.
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for historians to build their own digital tools instead of relying on existing tools, and a short introduction to topic modelling. We have also included job announcements, CFPs, projects, and […]
Our take: The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of academic and public libraries, museums, and related institutions. Their in-person meetings and year-round working groups provide opportunities for DLF members to collaborate and get stuff done. Meanwhile, DLF staff and […]
