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Interview: Where Are the Hypertexts Now? Mark Bernstein on Storyspace, Eastgate, AI, and the Future of Electronic Literature

Mark Bernstein is a visionary in hypertext and electronic publishing. He founded Eastgate Systems, the first publisher of electronic literature, in 1982, to advance nonlinear, intertwingled storytelling and thought through creating tools, publishing non-linear works, authoring peer-reviewed scholarly articles, fostering discourse, and much more. In this interview, Mark Bernstein reflects on hypertext, electronic literature, Storyspace, […]

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Resource: Management of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Metadata

Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) often have specialized workflows and metadata management requirements due to factors such as varied ingest methods and inconsistent source metadata. This blog post features descriptions of ETD metadata management from three institutions in the United States, outlining the systems, tools, and workflows used to process and provide access to ETDs […]

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Video: How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, but also consistently alter the intended meaning. First, we conduct a human user study to understand how people actually interact […]

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Job Announcement: Assistant/Associate Professor, History of Artificial Intelligence at Rice University

The Department of History in the School of Humanities and Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas, seeks applicants for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in the history of artificial intelligence, broadly conceived. A PhD or equivalent degree in History or a closely related field is required by the time of appointment. The area […]

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Job Announcement: Special Collections Metadata Librarian at University of Rochester

Under the direction of the Metadata Operations Librarian, the Special Collections Metadata Librarian leads the creation of bibliographic descriptions for materials in all formats, including books, maps, broadsides, audiovisual materials, continuing resources, and manuscripts with an emphasis on materials acquired or held by Rare Books & Special Collections and Preservation (RBSCP) at the River Campus […]

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Weekly Highlight: The Digital Orientalist

Our take: This source is an online magazine, published from Tsukuba, Japan, that highlights digital scholarship on African, Asian, and Middle Eastern spaces and histories. The magazine is run by a team of scholars, librarians, and students, and features many contributors. They describe their use of the term ‘Orientalist’ as follows: “we are making a […]

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DHNow Newsletter, September 23, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Mehulkumar Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article arguing for the DH community to adopt an agenda on generative AI and a paper on the current state of DH in Africa. We have also included announcements, projects, reports, and […]

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DHNow Newsletter, September 16, 2026

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 reflecting on the Equal Earth projection and if there is still a need for a default map projection at all. We have also included announcements, projects, reports, and tools, including a […]

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Weekly Highlight: LaTeX Ninja’ing and the Digital Humanities

Our take: This personal blog details experimentations with LaTeX code (packages, classes, templates, and snippets). For readers of DHNow, this blog seeks to demystify the Digital Humanities and digital tools for Humanists, as well as discussions of LaTeX. The blog provides tutorials and theoretical discussions of the state of the Digital Humanities.  See source.

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Event Annoucement: UK-Ireland Regional Events Series

The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is pleased to announce its pilot Regional Events Series. These one-day workshops, which will be open to all, aim to foster and facilitate new connections and collaborations between digital arts & humanities researchers and practitioners at a regional level. The pilot series will consist of 5 events that will run […]